Dashed left edge = started before January 1889 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond January 1889
Events in January 1889 1
1858 – 1889Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1858-1889)Died 30 January 1889, aged 30Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Rudolf died in an apparent murder-suicide with his young mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his hunting lodge in Mayerling. The scandal, known as the Mayerling incident, altered the Habsburg succession and passed the heirship to his uncle Franz Ferdinand.