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EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF CHARLES VON HÜGEL.
1796 (April 25.) Born at Ratisbon.
1805 Upon the capitulation of Ulm (Oct. 20, 1805), Charles’ father, the Concommissarius of the Reichstag, with his family and the staff of the Chancellory, flies from Ratisbon and remains in Vienna till after the signing of the Peace of Pressburg, Dec. 25, 1805.
1806 After the affairs of the Reichstag had been finally closed, the Hügels permanently remove to Vienna.
" –1807 (Winter and Spring.) Charles, with his elder brother Clemens and their tutor, is taken by his father on an extended tour through Italy.
1810 (––– –––.) Enters at Heidelberg, as law student.
1811 (––– –––.) Joins the Austrian Army and takes part in the war of liberation.
1814 (March–July.) Is sent with General von Teigentesch on a diplomatic mission representing the great powers, which negotiates King Christian Frederick’s renunciation of the Norwegian crown, and the union of Norway and Sweden under Charles XIII of Sweden, who was succeeded, in 1818, by Charles (John) XIV (Field-Marshal Bernadotte, made Crown Prince of Sweden in 1812).
1815 (July.) Enters Paris with the troops of the allied Sovereigns.
1817-1818 Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia.
1819 (––– –––.) Returns south, and joins, as Captain, the 5th Regiment of Austrian Hussars ('The Prince Regent of England's Own'), which he accompanies to Italy and the South of France, when at Tarascon and at Arles he acts as Commandant de Place.
1821 Is attached to the Neapolitan Expedition (the outcome of the Congress of Laibach, held in January and February of this year) which restores the absolute power of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies.
1824 Retires from the Army and returns to Vienna.
1825 (August 30.) Charles’ father, Baron Johann Aloys Joseph, dies at Hietzing near Vienna, aged seventy-one.
