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The Second Mexican Empire (Spanish: Segundo Imperio mexicano; French: Second Empire mexicain), officially known as the Mexican Empire (Spanish: Imperio Mexicano), was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico by Mexican monarchists with the support of the Second French Empire.
Maximilian I (Spanish: Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena; German: Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
The fifty departments of the Mexican Empire. The departments of the Second Mexican Empire were the administrative divisions that the nation was organized into during the short rule of Emperor Maximilian I. He commissioned Mexican scholar Manuel Orozco y Berra to draw boundaries based on geography of Mexico.
The Cabinet of Maximilian I of Mexico was formed by the holders of the Ministries of State of Mexico appointed by Emperor Maximilian I during the Second Mexican Empire, from 10 April 1864 to 15 May 1867. [1]
The Second Mexican Empire was established when the U.S. was engaged in its civil war (1861–65), and with its end could give material support to Juárez's republican forces. With Napoleon III's withdrawal of French forces in 1866-67, the Empire collapsed in 1867.
The Aguascalientes Department was one of the fifty departments of the Second Mexican Empire, and was administered by the prefect Francisco R. de Esparza. [2] The population of the department in the year 1865 was 433,151, meaning that it was the fourth-most populous department behind Puebla (3rd), Valle de México (2nd), and Guanajuato (1st). [3]
[citation needed] It was his friendship with Eugénie de Montijo, the Spanish-born wife of Napoleon III, that allowed him to lobby for French support of establishing a Mexican monarchy, [2] an effort which ultimately culminated in the Second French intervention in Mexico, and the establishment Second Mexican Empire.
The Arizona Department (1865—1867) was a department of the Second Mexican Empire, located in the present-day state of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico. It was established by an imperial decree on March 3, 1865, which specified: [1] Department of Arizona. Confined on the north with the United States. To the east and the south by the Department of ...