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| 1665 | Auersperg, Johann Weikhart Furst |  |
| Vienna Appointed Chief Privy Councilor |
| 1668 | Auersperg, Johann Weikhart Furst |  |
| Vienna Exiled by Leopold to Carniola |
| Vienna Signs a secret Treaty with France for the partition of Spanish territories |
| 21st Sep Vienna Signs a secret Treaty with France for the partition of Spanish territories |
| 1742 | Kaunnitz |  |
| Turin Appointed Ambassador to Italy |
| 1744 | Charles of Lorraine |  |
| Appointed Governor General of the Austrian Netherlands |
| 1750 | Kaunnitz |  |
| Paris Appointed Ambassador to France |
| 1753 | Kaunnitz |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| Vienna Appointed State Chancellor |
| 1756 | Kauntitz, Kauntitz |  |
| Vienna Signs a mutual Defense Treaty, replacing the Anglo-Austrian alliance |
| 1772 | Kaunnitz |  |
| Represents Austria in the 1st Partition of Poland |
| 1773 | Metternich |  |
| 15th May Birth of Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich |
| 1780 | Joseph II |  |
| Vienna Capital Punishment is abolished |
| Vienna Civil marriage & divorce is permitted |
| Vienna Emancipates the serfs |
| Vienna Extends religious toleration to Uniates, Orthodox, Protestants & Jews |
| 1784 | Joseph II |  |
| Oct River Scheldte Breaks off relations with Holland when 2 Austrian boats are fired on in the Sheldt |
| 1797 | Metternich |  |
| Rastadt Appointed Member of the Congress of Rastadt |
| 1801 | Metternich |  |
| Saxony Appointed Envoy to Saxony |
| 1803 | Metternich |  |
| Berlin Appointed Ambassador to Prussia |
| 1806 | Metternich |  |
| Paris Appointed Ambassador to France |
| 1809 | Metternich |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1810 | Metternich |  |
| Vienna Influential in secring marriage of Marie Louis e to Napoleon |
| 1813 | Metternich |  |
| Vienna Created hereditary Prince of the Austrian Empire |
| 1828 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| Baden Baden Appointed Ambassador to Baden |
| 1838 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| Wurttemburg Appointed Ambassador to Wuerttemburg |
| 1838 | Schwarzenburg, Felix zu |  |
| Appointed Minister of Sardinia |
| 1844 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| Piedmont Appointed Ambassador to Piedmont |
| 1848 | Bach, Alexander Freiherr von |  |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1848 | Bruck, Karl Ludwig von |  |
| Appointed Minister of Commerce |
| 1848 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| Moscow Appointed Ambassador to Russia |
| 1848 | Ferdinand I |  |
| Vienna Founds a Provisional Parliament |
| 11th April Vienna Revokes the tax-free status of the nobility & ends censorship |
| 11th April Vienna Signs laws which abolish serfdom & makes peasants owners of the land they cultivate |
| 11th April Vienna The Hungarian Kingdom becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 1848 | Schwarzenburg, Felix zu |  |
| Vienna Appointed Chancellor of Austria |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| Appointed Minister of Two Sicilies |
| Vienna Draws up a centralized & absolutist state |
| Vienna Secures the Succession of Francis Joseph I |
| Oct Vienna Appointed Prime Minister of Austria |
| 2nd Dec Vienna Persuades Ferdinand I to abdicate |
| 2nd Dec Vienna Secures the replacement of Ferdinand I by Franz Josef I |
| 1849 | Bach, Alexander Freiherr von |  |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1849 | Franz Josef I |  |
| 9th Sep Teplitz Meets Frederick William & offers joint administration of the German Confederation |
| 30th Sep Vienna Prussia accepts Franz's offer to help administer the German Confederation |
| 1849 | Schmerling, Anto von |  |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1849 | Schwarzenburg, Felix zu |  |
| Vienna Enacts the new constitution he drew up in 1848 |
| 7th Mar Vienna Dissolves the Austrian Reichstag |
| 27th Aug Vienna Rejects a Prussian scheme of union |
| 1850 | Franz Josef I |  |
| Franz Josef I rules as an absolute monarch for the next 10 yrs |
| 1850 | Schwarzenburg, Felix zu |  |
| Glatz Asks for the Tsar's permission to annex Glatz, lost to Prussia in 1742, but is refused |
| Bavaria Concludes an alliance with the King of Bavaria |
| Wurttemburg Concludes an alliance with the King of Wurttemberg |
| Frederick William refuses to abandon his constitution |
| Warsaw Prussia accepts Austrian parity in Germany in exchange for reactionary policies |
| Vienna Revives the German Confederation |
| Rhineland Tells the French he is will surrender Rhenish Prussia to France for support in Germany |
| Warsaw Visits Tsar Nicholas to obtain a free hand against Prussia |
| 27th Nov Schwarzenburg & Manteuffel meet to discuss peace terms |
| 1851 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| London Appointed Ambassador to Britain |
| 1851 | Franz Josef I |  |
| Vienna Preserves centralized authority & destroys local & provincial privileges |
| 1851 | Schwarzenburg, Felix zu |  |
| Vienna Causes Francis Joseph to abolish the 1849 constitution |
| Nicholas I warns Austria cannot expect Russian support if France goes to war |
| Prussia will defend Austria if it accepts Prussia within the German Confederation |
| Jan Dresden Prussia refuses to allow all of Austria into the German Confederation |
| 1852 | Buol Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1855 | Bruck, Karl Ludwig von |  |
| Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1859 | Bach, Alexander Freiherr von |  |
| Resigns after Austria's defeat to France & Italy |
| 1859 | Metternich, Furst Richard |  |
| Paris Appointed Ambassador to France |
| 1860 | Belcredi, Richard Graf |  |
| Silesia Appointed Governor of Silesia |
| 1860 | Franz Josef I |  |
| Agrees to co-operate with the Diets in the crown lands & central Reichsrat |
| 1860 | Schmerling, Anto von |  |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1861 | Auersperg, Carlos Furst |  |
| Defends the Constitution against feudal reaction & champions Imperial unity |
| 1864 | Belcredi, Richard Graf |  |
| Prague Appointed Imperial Representitive |
| 1865 | Belcredi, Richard Graf |  |
| Appointed Minister of State |
| Vienna Appointed Prime Minister of Austria |
| 1865 | Schmerling, Anto von |  |
| Appointed President of the Austrian Supreme Court |
| 1867 | Auersperg, Carlos Furst |  |
| Appointed President of Austria |
| 1867 | Belcredi, Richard Graf |  |
| Vienna Forced to resign after defeat in the Seven Weeks War |
| 1869 | Bach, Alexander Freiherr von |  |
| Appointed Minister to the Vatican |
| 1871 | Beust |  |
| Salzburg Meets Bismarck to discuss an alliance with Germany |
| 1872 | Andrassy |  |
| Vienna Francis -Joseph accepts an invitation to Berlin |
| 1873 | Franz Josef I |  |
| 2nd April Reform of the Franchise in favour of Germans |
| 1873 | Schonerer, Georg von |  |
| Elected Member of the Reichsrat |
| 1879 | Haymerle, Heinrich Karl von |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1881 | Belcredi, Richard Graf |  |
| Appointed President of the Administritive Court |
| 1881 | Haymerle, Heinrich Karl von |  |
| Vienna Concludes an alliance with Serbia, the Serbian Compact |
| St Petersburg Concludes the Dreikaiserbund alliance with Germany & Russia |
| 1888 | Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von |  |
| Galicia Appointed Governor of Galicia |
| 1891 | Steinbach, Emil |  |
| Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1893 | Steinbach, Emil |  |
| Vienna Causes the collapse of the government |
| 1895 | Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von |  |
| Appointed Minister President of Austria |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Austria, the Austrian half of the dual monarchy |
| 1897 | Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von |  |
| 28th Nov Vienna Fails to place the Czeck language on a par with German in Bohemia & Moravia |
| 1897 | Schonerer, Georg von |  |
| Elected Member of the Reichsrat |
| 1899 | Aehrenthal, Graf Alois Lexa von |  |
| St Petersburg Appointed Ambassador in St Petersburg |
| 1900 | Korber, Ernst von |  |
| 10th Jan Appointed to resolve conflicts between Germans & Czechs in Austria |
| 1902 | Figl, Leopold |  |
| Birth of Leopold Figl |
| 1904 | Steinbach, Emil |  |
| Appointed President of the Supreme Court of Justice |
| 1906 | Aehrenthal, Graf Alois Lexa von |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1908 | Sturgkh, Karl von |  |
| Appointed Minister of Education |
| 1910 | Seitz, Karl |  |
| Appointed President of the Nationalrat |
| 1911 | Auffenberg, Moritz |  |
| Appointed Minister of War |
| 1911 | Sturgkh, Karl von |  |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Austria |
| 1912 | Aehrenthal, Graf Alois Lexa von |  |
| Death of Graf Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal |
| 1912 | Berchtold |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| Gives support to Lenin in return for his support for Ukrainian nationalism |
| 19th Aug Vienna Lenin is released as an "enemy of tsarism" & escorted in a train to Switzerland |
| 1912 | Czernin, Ottokar |  |
| Appointed Member of the Upper Chamber, life member |
| 1913 | Czernin, Ottokar |  |
| Appointed Minister to Romania |
| 1916 | Czernin, Ottokar |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1916 | Sturgkh, Karl von |  |
| 21st Oct Assassination of Karl von Sturgkh |
| 21st Oct Death of Karl von Sturgkh, assassinated |
| 1918 | Adler, Viktor |  |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| Appointed Member of the Austr-German Council of State |
| 31st Oct Vienna Adler helps form a new National Assembly to establish a republican Austria |
| 11th Nov Death of Viktor Adler |
| 1918 | Lammasch, Heinrich |  |
| 25th Oct Appointed Minister of President of Austria |
| 11th Nov Vienna Resigns because of his disagreement with Allied War objectives |
| 1918 | Renner, Karl |  |
| 12th Mar Vienna Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 1st term |
| 1918 | Schobar, Johan |  |
| Appointed President of Austria, 1st term |
| 1918 | Seipel, Ignaz |  |
| Appointed Minister of Social Welfare |
| 1918 | Seitz, Karl |  |
| Vienna Appointed Member of the State Council |
| Appointed President of the Provisional National Assembly |
| 1918 | Waldheim, Kurt |  |
| Birth of Kurt Waldheim |
| 1919 | Renner, Karl |  |
| Vienna Appointed |