history of Austria

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Introduction
Prehistory and Roman times
Early Middle Ages
- Germanic and Slavic settlement
- Early Babenberg period
- Later Babenberg period
Late Middle Ages
- Contest for the Babenberg heritage
- Accession of the Habsburgs
- Division of the Habsburg lands
- Burgundian and Spanish marriages
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- Acquisition of Bohemia
- Advance of Protestantism
- Rudolf II and Matthias
- The Bohemian rising and the victory of the Counter-Reformation
- Struggle with Sweden and France
Austria as a great power
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Problem of the Austrian succession
- New conflicts with the Turks and the Bourbons
- Social, economic, and cultural trends in the Baroque period
From the accession of Maria Theresa to the Congress of Vienna
- War of the Austrian Succession, 1740–48
- First reforms, 1748–56
- Seven Years’ War, 1756–63
- Reforms, 1763–80
- Foreign affairs, 1763–80
- Early reign of Joseph II, 1780–85
- Late reign of Joseph II, 1785–90
- Conflicts with revolutionary France, 1790–1805
- Conflicts with Napoleonic France
The Age of Metternich, 1815–48
Revolution and counterrevolution, 1848–59
Neoabsolutist era, 1849–60
Constitutional experimentation, 1860–67
Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918
- Ausgleich of 1867
- Domestic affairs, 1867–73
- International relations: the Balkan orientation
- Domestic affairs, 1879–1908
  - Political realignment
  - Political turmoil
  - Electoral reform
- Foreign policy, 1878–1908
- Last years of peace
  - Conflicts of nationality
  - Party rivalries
  - Conflict with Serbia
- World War I
- End of the Habsburg empire
First Republic and the Anschluss
- Early postwar years
- Economic reconstruction and political strife
- Authoritarianism: Dollfuss and Schuschnigg
- Anschluss and World War II
Second Republic
- Allied occupation
- Restoration of sovereignty
- Austria in the European Union

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