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The oldest traces of human habitation in Austria, more than 250,000 years ago, were found in the Repolust Cave at Badl, near Peggau in the Graz-Umgebung district of Styria. These include stone tools, bone tools, and pottery fragments together with mammalian remains.
Two years earlier, [46] the Empire of Austria was founded. From 1792 to 1801, the Austrians had suffered 754,700 casualties. [ 47 ] In 1814, Austria was part of the Allied forces that invaded France and brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars .
The Austrian Empire, [a] officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
He was succeeded as duke of Austria by his young son Albert II the Magnanimous of Germany, with his cousin William the Courteous acting as regent. 1406: 15 July: William the Courteous died without heirs. He was succeeded in Upper Austria by Leopold the Fat and in Carinthia, Styria and Carniola by another brother, Ernest the Iron, Duke of Austria.
Austria: 12 November 1918: Declaration of the Republic of German-Austria: 17 September 1156: Privilegium Minus: Sovereignty from Duchy of Bavaria as a Duchy of the Holy Roman Empire: 14 December 1921: City of Sopron, and 8 other towns moved to Hungary after plebiscite: 11 August 1804: Proclamation of the Austrian Empire: 27 April 1945
This is a list of years in Austria. See also the timeline of Austrian history. For only articles about years in Austria that have been written, see Category: ...
The First Austrian Republic (German: Erste Österreichische Republik), officially the Republic of Austria, was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 September 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I which ended the Habsburg rump state of Republic of German-Austria—and ended with the establishment of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria based ...
The unification of the various territories of Austria outside of the March of Austria proper (i.e. parts of Bavaria, Swabia and Carinthia) was a gradual process of feudal politics during the High and Late Middle Ages, at first in the Archduchy of Austria under the House of Babenberg during the 12th to 13th centuries, and under the House of ...