TIL Mexico since the conquest has had 130 heads of state and only one of them knew how to speak Nahuatl, the dominant indigenous language: Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 until his execution in 1867.

TIL Mexico since the conquest has had 130 heads of state and only one of them knew how to speak Nahuatl, the dominant indigenous language: Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 until his execution in 1867.