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| | 700's | Austria comes under the rule of Charlemagne the King of the Franks | |
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| | 900's | The Magyars from Hungary overrun Austria | |
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| | 955 | Otto I of Germany defeats the Magyars and Austria comes under German rule | |
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| | 962 | Otto I of Germany crowned as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire | |
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| | 976 | Otto II gives North-eastern Austria to the Babenberg family | |
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| | 1242 | The last Babenberg duke died without a male heir | |
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| | 1242 | King Ottokar of Bohemia gains control of the Austrian territory | |
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| | 1278 | Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I of the Hapsburg family defeats King Ottokar | |
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| | 1500's | The Ottoman Empire invade Austria | |
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| | 1600's | The Ottomans are defeated and driven out of the Austrian region | |
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| | 1618 | The Protestants in Bohemia revolt against the Catholic Habsburg emperor starting the Thirty Years War | |
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| | 1648 | The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Habsburgs declared Roman Catholicism as the official Austrian religion | |
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| | 1700 | The Habsburg King of Spain dies | |
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| | 1701 | 1701-1714 The War of Spanish Succession started between Austria and France Austria wins Belgium and Spain's lands in Italy | |
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| | 1700's | Late 1700s-1815: Napoleonic Wars | |
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| | 1815 | Napoleon defeated | |
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| | 1859 | Austria declares war on Sardinia and is defeated by Italian and French forces | |
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| | 1867 | The Dual-Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1918 | 3 November: World War I ended | |
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| | 1918 | 12 November: The last Habsburg Emperor was overthrown and Austria became a republic | |
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| | 1938 | German troops under Adolf Hitler seize Austrian lands and announced its union with Germany | |
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| | 1939 | September: World War 2 starts | |
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| | 1945 | August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1954 | The four major powers end their occupation of Austria | |
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| | 1955 | 1 January: Austria joins the European Union | |
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