On 19th June, 1867, the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, was executed on a hill outside Querétaro. His death was ordered by Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic.
Maximilian's death was a key event in a turbulent period of Mexican history that witnessed dramatic political upheavals, civil war, and attempts by France to exert its imperial influence over the country.
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