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Austrian History Timeline (Part 3)

Austria: Vienna

Today in Austrian History

Events in Austrian History

Events 401 - 479 of 479

  • 1938-11-10 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris
  • 1938-11-11 German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
  • 1941-07-26 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
  • 1941-10-15 First mass deportation of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews to Eastern Europe for "resettlement" in labor camps
  • 1942-10-10 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
  • 1944-08-17 Soviet troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
  • 1944-10-06 Canadians free Austria

Auschwitz Begins Evacuation

1945-01-17 Nazis begin evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp to other camps in Austria and Germany as the Red Army advanced across Poland

  • 1945-03-30 USSR invades Austria
  • 1945-04-13 WWII: Russian Red Army occupies Vienna, Austria
  • 1945-04-27 2nd Republic of Austria forms
  • 1945-05-02 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria
  • 1945-05-05 Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria liberated by US forces from 41st Reconnaissance Squadron

Surrender of Pierre Laval

1945-07-31 Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria

  • 1945-12-19 Austrian Republic re-establishes
  • 1953-04-02 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
  • 1954-01-11 Two ton locomotive swept into ravine by an avalanche in Austria, killing 10
  • 1954-01-12 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
  • 1955-05-15 Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence
  • 1955-07-27 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
  • 1955-08-25 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
  • 1955-09-21 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
  • 1955-10-25 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
  • 1955-12-14 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain
  • 1957-05-05 Adolf Schärf (67) is elected President of Austria
  • 1961-04-11 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns

Summit of Interest

1961-06-04 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria

  • 1963-06-26 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
  • 1964-02-25 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
  • 1965-05-23 Franz Jonas elected President of Austria
  • 1968-03-02 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
  • 1970-03-01 Kreisky's Social Democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
  • 1970-04-20 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria

Waldheim's Appointment Ratified

1971-12-22 UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General

  • 1972-02-04 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
  • 1973-09-28 Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train
  • 1982-07-31 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
  • 1983-04-24 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
  • 1983-05-24 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor of Austria
  • 1984-04-21 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
  • 1986-06-08 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
  • 1987-04-27 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
  • 1989-08-19 1st crack in the Iron Curtain when Hungary opens its borders to Austria for a pan-European picnic for a few hours
  • 1991-05-27 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
  • 1991-06-21 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia
  • 1992-06-08 Thomas Klestil succeeds Kurt Waldheim as president of Austria
  • 1992-07-08 Thomas Klestil installed as President of Austria
  • 1994-03-13 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
  • 1994-09-18 Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
  • 1994-10-06 -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
  • 1994-10-09 Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
  • 1995-01-01 Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
  • 1999-02-23 An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31
  • 2004-02-19 Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal of Austria, is awarded an honorary British knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
  • 2009-05-15 Eurostat report that Austria, Belgium, and Romania have all entered recession in the first quarter of 2009
  • 2012-02-17 Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau (31), buried under an avalanche while skiing in Lech, Austria; suffers oxygen deprivation and lapses into a terminal coma
  • 2013-01-20 Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
  • 2013-01-21 41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria
  • 2016-05-22 Independent Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer by just 31,000 votes to become President in Austrian elections
  • 2016-12-04 Austria elects liberal independent Alexander Van der Bellen as President, after original vote in May annulled
  • 2016-12-09 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe wins 7th consecutive title convincingly beating US, 11-3; MVP: Albin Ouschan (Austria)

Election of Interest

2017-10-15 Austrian legislative elections: Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) win most seats (62), led by Sebastian Kurz (31)

  • 2017-12-05 Austrian courts rule in favour of same-sex marriage from 2019
  • 2017-12-18 Austria swears in new coalition government with Sebastian Kurz aged 31 of the People's Party made Chancellor

Summit of Interest

2018-09-20 EU leaders, including Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron, criticize Theresa May's Brexit plan at a summit in Salzburg, Austria

  • 2018-10-23 Microplastics found in human stools for the first time by Austrian scientists
  • 2019-01-01 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria
  • 2019-05-21 Austria's far-right Freedom Party resigns from the ruling coalition after two of their ministers are sacked for offering government contracts for political influence in a video
  • 2019-05-27 Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz removed from office after a no-confidence vote in parliament, Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger appointed interim chancellor
  • 2019-05-30 Austria appoints its first female chancellor Brigitte Bierle to head caretaker government after fall of the coalition government
  • 2019-09-29 In Austrian general election, conservative People's Party led by Sebastian Kurz the leading party with 37.5% of the vote
  • 2019-10-10 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Austrian Peter Handke
  • 2020-04-14 Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
  • 2020-09-10 Austrian British researcher Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough prize for mathematics worth $3 million for work on stochastic analysis
  • 2021-11-19 Austria becomes the first country to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory (from 1 Feb) as it announces its fourth lockdown [1]
  • 2022-02-03 Austria brings into force its vaccine mandate for all, first country in Europe to do so
  • 2023-06-27 Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's last completed portrait “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) sells for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London - most expensive artwork sold at a European auction [1]
  • 2023-06-30 Vienna Austria based newspaper Wiener Zeitung final print edition headline reads "320 years, 12 presidents, 10 emperors, 2 republics, 1 newspaper” as they become an on-line only entity