Vienna in History

Born into the Habsburg dynasty as son of Albert I and Elizabeth of Carinthia.

Birth of Frederick III, later called Frederick the Fair, son of Albert I.

Succeeds as Duke of Austria and Styria after Albert I is murdered.

Appointed court astrologer to Frederick III.

Inherits disputed Austrian authority after Ladislaus Posthumous dies.

His death allows Frederick III to recover Austrian authority.

Captures Vienna from Frederick III during the Austrian-Hungarian war.

Heads a garrison of 17,000 defending Vienna from the Turks

Helps force the Turks to withdraw from their siege of Vienna

Helps force the Turks to withdraw from their siege of Vienna

Birth of Leopold I, 2nd son of Emperor Ferdinand III

Becomes Habsburg heir after the death of Ferdinand IV

Appointed chief privy councillor under Emperor Leopold I.

Exiled by Leopold to Carniola

Signs a secret Treaty with France for the partition of Spanish territories

Vienna is besieged by a combined force of Hungarian & Turk forces. Leopold is forced into exile in Poland

John Sobieski III rescues Vienna from the Turks & Hungarians

Junior officer in the Allied army which comes to the relief of Vienna from the Turks

Helps defeat a Turkish Army as part of an Allied army going to the relief of Vienna

Joins William III in the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV

Archduke Charles is assigned the Duchy of Milan under the First Partition Treaty.

Leopold I is not consulted before the First Partition Treaty assigns Milan to Archduke Charles.

Leopold I advances the Spanish succession claim of his son Archduke Charles after the impending extinction of the Spanish Habsburg line.

The Second Partition Treaty makes Archduke Charles the proposed heir to Spain and the Indies.

The alliance supports Austrian Habsburg claims against the Bourbon succession in Spain.

Leopold maintains his family's claim to the undivided Spanish inheritance.

Charles becomes the Habsburg candidate supported against Philip V.

Leopold's prior consent enables Frederick to assume the title King in Prussia.

Leopold authorises an Imperial campaign in northern Italy.

Eugene begins reorganising Imperial military administration.

Leopold appoints Eugene to lead the Imperial War Council.

Eugene becomes president of the Imperial War Council.

Leopold orders Imperial measures against the expanding Hungarian revolt.

Leopold concludes the alliance treaty with Victor Amadeus.

Does not accept all Utrecht terms before later settlements at Rastatt and Baden.

Does not accept all Utrecht terms before later settlements at Rastatt and Baden.

Captures the last Turkish stronghold in Hungary after a 5 week siege

Ends the Anglo-French entente. Emperor Charles VI is given support to his "pragmatic sanction" by Walpole

Appointed Commander in Chief

Appointed Commander in Chief

Succeeds as Queen of Hungary. Succeeds as Empress of Austria, the last Habsburg. Inherits the Habsburg Empire, disputed by Charles Albert, Philip V & Augustus III

Succeeds as Queen of Hungary

Maria Theresa rejected Prussian demands to cede Silesia while Frederick’s army occupied much of the province.

Joseph, the future Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, was born in Vienna to Maria Theresa and Francis Stephen.

Appointed State Chancellor

Appointed Field Marshal

Signs a mutual Defence Treaty, replacing the Anglon alliance

Appointed Military Adviser at Court

Appointed Military Adviser at Court

Performs before Empress Maria Theresa at the imperial court.

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor. Rules as co-regent with his mother with little influence until her death

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor. Rules as co-regent with his mother with little influence until her death

Composes the singspiel Bastien und Bastienne.

Writes La finta semplice during the Vienna period.

Maria Theresa seizes Galicia

Visits Vienna and absorbs new instrumental styles.

Extends religious toleration to Uniates, Orthodox, Protestants & Jews. Emancipates the serfs. Civil marriage & divorce is permitted. Capital Punishment is abolished

Attains sole rule

Breaks with Archbishop Colloredo and becomes a freelance musician in Vienna.

Allows monasteries to re-open but weakens their links with Rome

The Abduction from the Seraglio premieres at the Burgtheater.

Marries Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna.

Completes Piano Concerto No 14 in E-flat major.

Is initiated into the Viennese Masonic lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit.

Completes Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor.

Receives Mozart's dedication of the six Haydn Quartets.

Publishes six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn.

Completes Piano Concerto No 22 in E-flat major.

Completes Piano Concerto No 23 in A major.

Allows The Marriage of Figaro to be staged in Vienna.

The Marriage of Figaro premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Appointed imperial chamber composer by Emperor Joseph II.

Completes String Quintet No 4 in G minor.

Completes Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Records an English-title variant for Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Completes Symphony No 39 in E-flat major.

Completes Symphony No 40 in G minor.

Repulses the Turkish invasion of Bosnia & captures Belgrade

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Cosi fan tutte premieres at the Burgtheater.

Later completes parts of Mozart's unfinished Requiem after Mozart's death.

Completes Piano Concerto No 27 in B-flat major.

Commissions Mozart's Requiem through an intermediary.

Receives the anonymous commission for the Requiem.

Composes Die Zauberflote, known in English as The Magic Flute.

Die Zauberflote premieres at the Theater auf der Wieden.

Conducts the first performance of Die Zauberflote.

Writes the libretto and performs Papageno at the premiere of Die Zauberflote

Receives Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, written for his instrument and style.

Completes the Clarinet Concerto for Anton Stadler.

Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Dies in Vienna aged thirty five.

Petitions for support after Mozart dies with debts.

Succeeds as Emperor of Austria, 1st Austrian Emperor

Influential in secring marriage of Marie Louise to Napoleon

Appointed sas the Chief of Staff. 1st term

Appointed Chief of Staff, 1st term

Presides over the Congress of Vienna

Created hereditary Prince of the Austrian Empire

Appointed Head of Hofktiegsrat

Appointed Head of Hofktiegsrat

Appointed Chief of Staff for the SAS. 2nd term

Appointed Chief of Staff, 2nd term

Austria loses The Netherlands in the Treaty of Vienna

Austria loses The Netherlands in the Treaty of Vienna

Gains Lombardy in the Treaty of Vienna

Loses Holland in the Treaty of Vienna

Loses The Netherlands but gains Lombardy & Venetia

Composes, "The Unfinished Symphony"

Composes, "Rosamunde"

Succeeds as Emperor of Austria

Appointed Field Marshal

Begins publishing a systematic manual based on extensive autopsy observations.

Strengthens pathological anatomy as a foundation for clinical diagnosis.

Appointed Prime Minister of Austria. Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Draws up a centralized & absolutist state

Founds a Provisional Parliament

Suppresses a rebellion in Italy

Publishes the "Twelve Points", a list of radical demmands

Secures the Succession of Francis Joseph I

Vienna students & artisans protest

Forced to resign by a Vienna mob

Sends in the paramilitary police to restore order in the Diet

Forced to promise a constitution

Overthrown during protests in Vienna

Overthrown during protests in Vienna

The Hungarian Kingdom becomes a constitutional monarchy

Signs laws which abolish serfdom & makes peasants owners of the land they cultivate. Revokes the tax-free status of the nobility & ends censorship

Signs laws which abolish serfdom & makes peasants owners of the land they cultivate

Students demonstrate over the limited franchise

Students demonstrate over the limited franchise

The Court returns to Vienna

Appointed Prime Minister of Austria

The Court id forced to flee from Vienna again. Ordering troops from Vienna to Hungary provkes further demonstrations

Abdicates in favor of his nephew Francis Joseph after the revolution of 1848

Ferdinand I abdicates in favour of his nehew, Franz Josef I

Persuades Ferdinand I to abdicate

Secures the replacement of Ferdinand I by Franz Josef I

Enacts the new constitution he drew up in 1848

Crushes the rebellion in Vienna

A new constituton is written & approved but never put into practice

Enacts a new centralised & absolute Austrian constitution

Enacts a new centralised & absolute Austrian constitution

Dissolves the Austrian Reichstag

The Hungarians proclaim Hungary independent of Austria

The Hungarians proclaim Hungary independent of Austria

Appeals to Tsar Nicholas for help in putting down the Hungarian rebellion

The rebellion in Hungary is defeated & Kossuth forced into exile

Commands the Austrian army which captures Venice

Rejects a Prussian scheme of union

Prussia accepts Franzs offer to help administer the German Confederation

Revives the German Confederation

Causes Francis Joseph to abolish the 1849 constitution

Preserves centralized authority & destroys local & provincial privileges. Declares the Liberal Constitution of 1849 void

Helps draft the Vienna Note seeking a compromise between Russia and Turkey.

Presses Russia to evacuate the Danubian Principalities.

Russia rejects Allied peace conditions, the Vienna Four Points.

Authorises strong diplomatic pressure threatening Russia with Austrian intervention unless it accepts peace negotiations.

Appointed Commander of French Field Army, veteran of the Algerian wars

Supports Austrian occupation of the evacuated Danubian Principalities, increasing diplomatic pressure on Russia.

Presses Russia to accept Allied peace terms.

Demands that Russia accept Allied peace terms, including Black Sea neutralisation and territorial concessions.

Demands Russia agree Allied demands for neutralization of the Black Sea.

Russia accepts Austria's ultimatum to negotiate with the Allies.

Birth of Leopold Berchtold

In the Treaty of Vienna Denmark cedes Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg to Prussia and Austria

Appointed Prime Minister of Austria

Birth of Albrecht of Wurttemberg

Mensdorff-Pouilly submits the Schleswig-Holstein question to the Federal Diet, challenging the Gastein arrangement.

Franz Joseph supports the Federal Diet vote to mobilize against Prussia.

Benedek is relieved of northern command after the defeat at Königgrätz.

Franz Joseph accepts the cession of Venetia through France under the Treaty of Vienna.

The Treaty of Vienna transfers Venetia from Austria through France to Italy.

Forced to resign after defeat in the Seven Weeks War

Francis-Joseph accepts an invitation to Berlin

Connects thermodynamic entropy with the number of microscopic states.

Expresses entropy statistically through the formula later engraved on his tomb.

Formulates the fourth-power relationship between temperature and radiated energy.

Establishes a quantitative law governing thermal radiation from hot bodies.

Otto Neurath is born in Vienna.

The future Vienna Circle philosopher is born in Austria.

Develops a rare-earth gas mantle producing intense white light.

Greatly improves the efficiency and brightness of gas illumination.

Advances analytical chemistry of the difficult rare-earth elements.

Separates didymium into the elements neodymium and praseodymium.

Appointed Lecturer in neuropathology at the University of Vienna

Born in Wiener Neustadt

Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Causes the collapse of the Government

Publishes clinical studies linking symptoms with repressed experiences.

Develops therapeutic methods based on recalling and discussing traumatic memories.

Appointed Mayor of Vienna

Fails to place the Czeck language on a par with German in Bohemia & Moravia

Provides the basis for safer blood transfusion between compatible patients.

Argues that everyday mistakes can reveal unconscious mental processes.

Explains that human blood separates into distinct compatibility groups.

Publishes an analysis of errors, forgetting and accidental speech.

Explores the relationship between electromagnetic energy and mass before relativity.

Calculates that radiation confined in a cavity contributes effective inertia.

Defines a concept that becomes central to immunology and clinical medicine.

Develops the caloric test for examining the inner-ear balance system.

Introduces the term allergy for altered immune reactivity.

Creates a diagnostic method for assessing vestibular function and neurological disease.

Appointed Chief-of General Staff, 1st term

Develops an early framework for understanding inferiority and adaptive striving.

Appointed Party Leader of the Christian Socialist Party

Publishes a theory connecting perceived physical weakness with psychological compensation.

Appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 99th Imperial & Royal Infantry Regiment

Begins developing individual psychology as a distinct therapeutic school.

Forms an independent society after separating from Freuds circle.

Marries Zita, Princess of Bourbon & Parma

Resigns after his proposal to attack Italy

Birth of Bruno Kreisky

Appointed Chief-of General Staff, 2nd term

Emigrates to Cambridge to study with Bertrand Russell

Lenin is released as an "enemy of tsarism" & escorted in a train to Switzerland

Appointed Head of the war ministrys naval section

Supports Albania to block Serbian access to the Adriatic.

Views Serbian gains as a threat to Austria-Hungary.

Leads the Austrian Army during the Brusilov Offensive

Appointed Commander of the Austrian Army

Appointed Commander of the Austrian Army

Appointed Commander of the First Army on the Eastern Front

Appointed Commander of the First Army on the Eastern Front

Appointed Commander of the First Army on the Eastern Front

Appointed Commander of the First Army on the Eastern Front

Austrian forces are to advance into Poland, link with the Germans & advance eastwards

Appointed Regimental Adjutant in the 99th Imperial & Royal Infantry Regiment

Appointed Regimental Adjutant in the 99th Imperial & Royal Infantry Regiment

Balkan War tensions shape Austria's response to Serbia.

Assassinated by Garrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia

Death of Ferdinand, assassinated by Garrilo Princip, member of Young Bosnia. Assassinated by Garrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia

Mobilizes Austria against Serbia in July, convinced of a quick victory

Tries to find a dilpomatic solution to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Sends a declaration of war to Serbia after they refuse Berchtolds ultimatum. Sends a declaration of war to Serbia after it refuses Berchtolds ultimatum

Sends a declaration of war to Serbia after it refuses Berchtolds ultimatum

Battles of Limanowa, in which Austrian forces save their lines and prevent Russia attacking Vienna

Suuports the German Bug Offensive

Leads the Austrian Army into Galicia during the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive

Appointed Commander of the First Army

Appointed Commander of the First Army

Appointed Field Marshal

Founds the German Jewish monthly, "Der Jude"

Provides mathematics later fundamental to computed tomography and image reconstruction.

Treats neurosyphilis patients by inducing controlled malaria fever.

Introduces a transform reconstructing functions from their line integrals.

Establishes fever therapy for general paralysis before antibiotic treatment existed.

Writes a letter of peace to the Allies

Refuses to break off relations with the USA

Dismissed by the new Emperor Charles I

Appointed Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff

Appointed Chief of Staff

Holds a secret peace meeting

Writes a 2nd letter of peace

Austria-Hungary halts its main offensive, signalling serious military exhaustion late in the war.

Suspends the main offensive

Thirring works with Lense on the dragging of inertial frames predicted by general relativity

Lense calculates relativistic frame dragging effects caused by rotating masses

Leads the Austrian Army & occupies the Ukraine

The failure of this offensive leads to the Armys disintegration

Appointed Member of State Council

Appointed Field Marshal

Appointed Field Marshal

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 1st term

Dismissed for not co-operating with the Germans in the Ukraine

Hotzendorf is dismissed

Appointed Field Marshal, receives the Field Marshals batton

Appointed Field Marshal, receives the Field Marshals batton

Asks Diaz for an Armistice

Adler helps form a new National Assembly to establish a republican Austria

Adler helps form a new National Assembly to establish a republican Austria

Resigns because of his disagreement with Allied War objectives

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 2nd term

Appointed Member of National Council

Renner resign & the socialists leave power, except in Vienna

Chosen to head a coalition Government with the support of the Christian Social Party and the Pan-Germans. Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 1st term

Establishes decomposition of a signed measure into positive and negative regions.

Provides a foundational theorem in modern measure theory.

Proclaims himself Charles VI of Hungary but fails to secure the throne

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 1st term

Develops a general theory for defining dimension in topological spaces.

Appointed Governor of Vienna

Advances rigorous classification of spaces beyond ordinary geometry.

Challenges orthodox psychoanalysis by emphasizing early separation anxiety.

Publishes a theory assigning major psychological importance to birth separation.

Given a state funeral

Death of Conrad Franz Freiherr von Hotzendorf

Publishes a systematic treatment of soil mechanics based on effective stress.

Establishes modern geotechnical engineering as a quantitative discipline.

Appointed Major in the General Staff Academy

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 2nd term

Describes the recursive geometric object now called the Menger sponge.

Creates an important example in topology and later fractal geometry.

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 2nd term

Establishes completeness for the standard proof system of first-order logic.

Proves that every logically valid first-order formula is formally derivable.

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed rofessor of Religion at the University of Frankfurt

Appointed Vice Chancellor

Anticipates a major form of memory used in early computers.

Patents a rotating magnetic drum for storing digital information.

Appointed Member of Austrian Nazi Party

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed Colonel in the General Staff Academy

Suppresses a Socialist revolt & rules by decree

Appointed Vice Chancellor

Suspends Parliament & assumes dictatorial powers to prevent the Nazis coming to power

Suspends Parliament & assumes dictatorial powers to prevent the Nazis coming to power

Dolfuss bans the Nazi Party in Austria

Arrested & imprisoned for 5 years for attempting to assassinate Chancellor Dollfuss

Dertil attemps to assassinate Chancellor Dollfuss as he leaves the Parliament building

Dertil attemps to assassinate Chancellor Dollfuss as he leaves the Parliament building

Arrested following a socialist rebellion

Arrested during the coup

All political parties, except for the Fatherland Front, are banned. Allied with Horthy in Hungary & Mussolini in Italy, proclaims a fascist Constitution

Allied with Horthy in Hungary & Mussolini in Italy, proclaims a fascist Constitution

Arrested following a socialist rebellion

Arrested during the coup

All political parties, except for the Fatherland Front, are banned

Appointed Member of Federal Economic Council

The 1st day of 5 days of civil war. Orders the Austrian army to attack socialist housing estates in Vienna

All political parties are banned except for the "Fatherland Front"

All political parties are banned except for the "Fatherland Front"

Crushes a socialist rebellion

Assassinated after opposing anschluss with Germany

Assassinated by Nazis in the Austrian Chancellery during a failed coup

Takes part in a Nazi led coup against the Austrian Government & assassinated Dolfuss

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, succeeds Dolfuss who was assassinated by the Nazis

Assassinated by Nazis in the Austrian Chancellery during a failed coup

Takes part in a Nazi led coup against the Austrian Government & assassinated Dolfuss. Takes part in a Nazi led coup against the Austrian Government

Death of Engelbert Dollfuss

Strengthens ego psychology and the psychoanalytic study of children.

Abolishes the Heimwehr

Appointed State Councilor

Publishes a systematic account of psychological defence mechanisms.

Appointed Lieutenant Colonel

Arrested after the German occupation of Austria

Appointed Chief of Staff in the XVII Army Corps after the Anschluss with Germany

The Vienna system becomes a model for later Nazi offices.

Resigns after Austria is incorporated into the German Reich

Arrested after the German occupation of Austria

Develops centralized procedures for forced Jewish emigration.

Austria recognizes the Franco Government in Spain

Hitler promises to defend all Germans outside the Reich

Forced to lift the Austrian Nazi Party ban. Forced to amnesty Nazis in Austria & appoints Seyss-Inquart in the Cabinet

Miklas refuses to honor Hitler's ultimatum but capitulates under threat of invasion

Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna meets with Hitler and then directs all Catholic clergy and laity to "unconditionally support the great German State and the Fuhrer"

Schuschigg is forced by Hitler to agree an amnesty for imprisoned Austrian Nazis

Austria announces an amnesty including those convicted of the murder of Dolfuss

Austria announces a Nazi amnesty, including those convicted of the murder of Dolfuss

Leads a raid on the Vienna Jewish community offices.

The raid follows Germany's annexation of Austria.

Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence

Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence

Rail traffic between is halted & German troops are massed on the frontier. Hitler threatens to invade Austria. Forced to drop the plebiscite on union with Germany

Faced by German occupation agrees with President Miklas to call off the plebiscite. A referendum to decide union with Germany is canceled after an ultimatum from Hitler

Forced to resign by Hitler & have himself replaced by Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor

Appointed Chancellor

The office centralizes coercive procedures for Jewish emigration.

Opens the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.

Appointed Commander of the Luftflotte Four in Poland & the Balkans

Joins in the invasion of Poland after the XVII Army Corps is transferred to Silesia

Appointed Head of the IVA 4B Nazi Burueau which deals with "Jewish affairs"

Appointed Head of the IVA 4B Nazi Burueau which deals with "Jewish affairs"

Appointed Commander of the Luftflotte Four in Poland & the Balkans

Appointed Commander of the 52nd Infantry Division

Appointed Commander of the 52nd Infantry Division

Appointed Commander of the 14th Infantry Division for the invasion of France

Appointed Commander of the 14th Infantry Division for the invasion of France

Participates from the beginning of operation Barbarossa

Participates from the beginning of operation Barbarossa

Crosses into Russia

Crosses into Russia

Drives Soviet Divisions back to the Dnieper

Drives Soviet Divisions back to the Dnieper

Awarded the Kinights Cross of the Iron Cross

Appointed Commander in Chief, South East

Appointed Commander in Chief, South East

Appointed Commander of the XXXV Corps

Provides evidence that element 85 exists naturally in trace quantities.

Co-detects naturally occurring astatine in uranium decay products.

Publishes a clinical description of children with distinctive social and behavioral patterns.

Documents a developmental profile later associated with the autism spectrum.

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

Uses a Vatican passport in the name of Ricardo Klement to escape to Argentina

Awarded the swords to the oak leaf by Adolf Hitler

Appointed Commander of the Army Group North

Appointed Commander of the Army Group North

Appointed Supreme Commander of Courland

Appointed Supreme Commander of Courland

Appointed Commander Army Group South by Hitler in the Fuhrer Bunker

Appointed Commander Army Group South by Hitler in the Fuhrer Bunker

Appointed Commander Army Group South by Hitler in the Fuhrer Bunker

Appointed Commander Army Group South by Hitler in the Fuhrer Bunker

Russia establishes a provisional coaltion Government with Renner as Prime Minister

Appointed Chancellor of Austria by the Soviet forces

A large German force passes into American rather than Soviet custody at the end of the European war.

Surrenders 600,000 troops to the Americans rather than the Russians

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Connects concentration-camp experience with his meaning-centered psychological approach.

Defines meaning-centered psychotherapy as an approach to psychological suffering.

Publishes reflections on survival, suffering and the search for meaning.

Publishes a clinical presentation of logotherapy and existential analysis.

Parliament passes an act nationalizing industries seized by Russia in Austria

Death of Alexander Lohr, executed for war crimes

Hanged by a Yugoslav court for war crimes

A Commuinist party coup fails

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

The FPO is founded as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents (VdU), which had been founded seven years earlier. The first FPO party leader is Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi Minister of Agriculture and SS officer, he had been asked by OVP Chancellor Julius Raab to take over the movement rather than let it be led by a more socialist-leaning group. Appointed Chairman of the FPO

The first FPO party leader is Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi Minister of Agriculture and SS officer, he had been asked by OVP Chancellor Julius Raab to take over the movement rather than let it be led by a more socialist-leaning group

The OVP and the FPO wrun a joint candidate for the 1957 presidential election but lose, Reinthaller is replaced as leader in 1958 by Friedrich Peter (also a former SS officer), who leads the party through the 1960s and 1970s and moves it towards the political centre

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

The OVP and the FPO wrun a joint candidate for the 1957 presidential election but lose, Reinthaller is replaced as leader in 1958 by Friedrich Peter (also a former SS officer), who leads the party through the 1960s and 1970s and moves it towards the political centre

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chairman of the FPO

Israeli agents kidnap Eichman in Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurian announces that Eichmann has been arrested

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Hanged for war crimes at Ramle

Hanged for war crimes at Ramle

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chairman of the FPO

Appointed Chairman of the FPO

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

Kreisky resigns & is replaced by Sinowatz

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 1st term

Appointed joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

Appointed joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed Joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 2nd term

Appointed joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed joint Party Leader of the Green Party

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Speaker of the Federal Party

Appointed Chairwoman of the LIF

Appointed Speaker of the Federal Party

Vranitzky presides over Austria's first day as an EU member following implementation of the Corfu accession treaty.

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Appointed Speaker of the Federal Party

Resigns as Finance Minister

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

Appointed Speaker of the Federal Party

Resigns from office

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed Chairman of the SPO

Appointed Chairman of the FPO

Appointed Chancellor of Austria

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Faces coalition collapse after the Ibiza affair.

Becomes Austria's first female Chancellor.

Austria begins strict measures against COVID-19.

Austria wins Eurovision with Wasted Love.