Austria - Music, Art, Theater

Table of Contents

• • Relief

  • Drainage

  • Climate

  • Plant and animal life
• • Ethnic groups

  • Languages

  • Religion

  • Settlement patterns

  • Demographic trends
• • Agriculture and forestry

  • Resources and power

  • Manufacturing

  • Finance

  • Trade

  • Services

  • Labour and taxation

  • Transportation and telecommunications
• • Constitutional framework

  • Local government

  • Justice

  • Political process

  • Security

  • Health and welfare

  • Education
• • Cultural milieu

  • Daily life and social customs

  • The arts

  • Cultural institutions

  • Sports and recreation

  • Media and publishing
• • 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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