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Prince Franz, 1st Duke of Teck

Osijek, 28 Aug 1837 – White Lodge, 21 Jan 1900

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Facts and their sources

  • Born28 Aug 1837, Osijekor 27 Aug 1837Records disagree1 source
  • Titlepresidentnot verified1 source
  • Died21 Jan 1900, White Lodgenot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 28 Aug 1837

    Born in Osijek

  2. 1867–1874

    2 children are born

  3. 21 Jan 1900

    Dies in White Lodge, aged 62

Family

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Partner

Children · 2

During his lifetime

He lived through 8 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Osijek.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1830s · Prince is born in Osijek

In the news1835

First steam engine arrives in 1835

In 1835, the first steam engine in Croatia was installed in Rijeka, marking a slow and early start to technological modernization.

Getting around

Railways transformed journey times between cities

Between 1832 and the advent of the railway, a trip between Liverpool and Manchester by road coach took four hours; the railway reduced this to one and three-quarter hours.

Around the world1832

Cholera spreads around the world

A cholera pandemic from India reached Europe and the Americas; cities learned the hard way about clean water and sewers.

Daily life

Daily water collection labor

Water was carried by women in wooden containers (30-50 liters) from distant wells or ponds to the home.

What people wore

Dinaric region traditional attire

In the Dinaric region, men wore narrow-legged woolen trousers and three-layered jackets, sometimes decorated with metal plates called toke for festive occasions, and wore shallow red caps. Women wore long, straight-cut shirts with colorful geometric embroidery on the chest and sleeves, and woolen aprons.

Music

Silent dances and bowed instruments in Croatia

In the Dinaric highland region, the nijemo kolo, or Silent Circle Dance, was a typical dance performed in large steps and leaps without any musical accompaniment. Conversely, in the Adriatic zone, rural dances like the linđo were performed to the sound of the lijerica, a three-stringed bowed instrument.

At the table

Tea viewed as medicine, not drink

While coffee was popular, tea was widely considered by the local population in Croatia primarily as a medicinal drink rather than a pleasant daily beverage. Guests offered tea in elite homes would politely sip a spoonful or two out of courtesy, while internally questioning why healthy people would consume such a remedy.