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962 |
Otto I of Germany crowned as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire |
976 |
Otto II gives North-eastern Austria to the Babenberg family |
1242 |
The last Babenberg duke died without a male heir |
1242 |
King Ottokar of Bohemia gains control of the Austrian territory |
1278 |
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I of the Hapsburg family defeats King Ottokar |
1500's |
The Ottoman Empire invade Austria |
1600's |
The Ottomans are defeated and driven out of the Austrian region |
1618 |
The Protestants in Bohemia revolt against the Catholic Habsburg emperor starting the Thirty Years War |
1648 |
The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Habsburgs declared Roman Catholicism as the official Austrian religion |
1700 |
The Habsburg King of Spain dies |
1701 |
1701-1714 The War of Spanish Succession started between Austria and France |
1700's |
Late 1700s-1815: Napoleonic Wars |
1815 |
Napoleon defeated |
1859 |
Austria declares war on Sardinia and is defeated by Italian and French forces |
1867 |
The Dual-Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established |
1914 |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated and this event started World War I. Austria joined Germany in fighting the Allies |
1918 |
3 November: World War I ended |
1918 |
12 November: The last Habsburg Emperor was overthrown and Austria became a republic |
1938 |
German troops under Adolf Hitler seize Austrian lands and announced its union with Germany |
1939 |
September: World War 2starts |
1945 |
August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1954 |
The Allies of World War II defeat Germany and as a result of World War II Austrian territory is divided into American, British, French, and Soviet Zones |
1954 |
The four major powers end their occupation of Austria |
1955 |
1 January: Austria joins the European Union |
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