Chronology of the Austro-Hungarian empire

The Empire Austro-Hungarian was a political entity which gathered, in the center of Europe, the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Austria and the Hungary, under the authority of the emperor of Austria. It was dissolved after the First World War.

Below the chronology of the events which marked the history of the Central Europe and of the empire for this period:

19th century (1867 - 1900)

February 1867: Beginning of the negotiations to manage an agreement on the formation of a State joining together the Austria and the Hungary.
June 8th 1867: Crowning of François-Joseph I {{er}} and of the empress Sissi, like kings de Hongrie.
October 8th - December 22nd 1867: Ratification of the agreement with the Hungary, known under the name of compromised Austro-Hungarian ; Suppression of the liberal laws on the rights of the Citizen S (suppression approved by the Emperor)
June 13rd - July 13rd 1878: Congress of Berlin to examine the question of the Othoman province of Bosnia-Herzégovine, and to obtain that this one passes under administration of the empire Austro-Hungarian.
September 22nd - October 15th 1879: Alliance of the Austria-Hungary and the Germany.
May 20th 1882: The Italy joined Alliance.
December 30th 1888 - January 1st 1889: First congress of the party of the social democrats with Hainfeld. Victor Adler succeeds in reconciling the radical and moderate groups.
January 30th 1889: The Archduke Rodolphe of Austria, wire of the emperor, and its mistress Marie Vetsera are found died in a house of the small town of Mayerling.
May 1st 1890: First festival from May of the social democrats with Vienna.
August 11th 1892: Putting into circulation of the Crown of Gold like Currency.
December 4th 1892: Foundation of the association of the Christian-social workers of Vienna, on proposal of Leopold Kunschak.
May 7th 1896: Installation of the Vote censitaire.
April 5th 1897: Crisis of Badeni following a violent policy of blocking on behalf of the minister-president Kasimir Badeni in connection with a decree on the language, envisaging a bilingualism of the institutions in Bohemia and Moravie.
April 8th 1897: Karl Lueger becomes mayor of Vienna.
September 10th 1898: Assassination of the empress of Austria Sissi.

Beginning of the 20th century: the pre-war period (1900 - 1914)

1903 : While the crisis of dualism shakes the Austria-Hungary, the Croatian politicians Ante Trumbic and Frano Supilo launch the policy of the “ Nouveau course ”: instead of continuing to rest on the Austria vis-a-vis the Hungary, the Croatian opposition engages of the consultations with the Magyar opposition and the Serb parties in Croatia.
October 3rd 1905: The majority of the Croatian political parties signs the Résolution of Rijeka , proposing with the Hungarian a political support against Vienna, but while requiring, n the other hand, the Hungarian support for the political reunification of all the Croatian countries.
January 24th 1907: Installation of the Vote for all for all the old Man S of more than 24 years, but in the Austrian part only.
14 - May 25th 1907: First elections in Austria.
October 8th 1907: New compromised with Hungary.
October 5th 1908: Annexation of the Bosnia-Herzégovine.
March 13rd 1912: The Serbia and the Bulgaria form an alliance against Austria-Hungary.
1913 : In Croatia, the coalition croato - Serb (HSK) again gains the elections by obtaining 48 seats out of 86.

First World War: 1914 - 1918)

June 28th 1914: Assassination of the Archduke François-Ferdinand, heir to the crown, and its wife Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg, born Chotek, with Sarajevo, by the Serb student bosnien Gavrilo Princip (see Assassination of Sarajevo).
July 28th 1914: The declaration of war of Austria-Hungary in Serbia causes the First World War.
March 8th 1915: Austria-Hungary declares itself ready to yield the area of Thirty (today northern of Italy).
April 26th 1915: secrecy enters the the United Kingdom, the France, the Russia and Italy: Italy joined the powers of the Agreement in exchange of what it obtains the areas of Trieste and of Thirty.
October 21st 1916: The Socialist Friedrich Adler, friend of Einstein and heir to a honourable family of Austrian Socialists, assassinates the minister-president Stürgkh in Vienna,

November 21st 1916: In full war, the emperor François-Joseph dies in his sixty-eighth year of reign.
March 24th 1917: The Charles emperor sends a letter to his brother-in-law Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, asking him to make it follow to the French president Raymond Poincaré (with an aim of obtaining separate peaces).
April 6th 1917: Entry in war of the the United States on the side of the Agreement.
May 9th 1917: Second letter with Sixtus.
May 30th 1917: Convocation of the Reichsrat deferred since 1914.
July 14th 1917: The Loi of the full powerss on the saving in war gives to the government the right to control by decree (without passing through the Parliament) for the questions of economic policy. This law is the base of the authoritative government of Engelbert Dollfuss (1933) and officially only in 1946 will be removed.
August 18th 1917: Charles decides to transform the death sentence of Friedrich Adler into a eighteen years sorrow of imprisonment.
December 7th 1917: The United States declares the war in Austria-Hungary.
January 8th 1918: Program peace of the US president Wilson in fourteen points.
April 2nd 1918: Speech of the Foreign Minister the count Ottokar von Czernin after which the president of the French Council Georges Clémenceau wishes to begin secret peace negotiations with Austria-Hungary.

Divert and falls of the empire (fine 1918)

October 16th 1918: An imperial writing envisages to make Cisleithanie a federation of national States but it cannot prevent any more the tendencies of dissolution of Monarchy.
October 21st 1918: The provisional National Assembly of Deutschösterreich ( German Austria , name wanted by Austria independent of 1918 but refused by the winners of the war) seat in the buildings of the regional assembly of Low-Austria with the German-speaking deputies of Cisleithanie.
October 26th 1918: Charles sends a telegram to the German emperor Guillaume II announcing the end of Alliance to him.
October 28th 1918: The Czechoslovakian republic is proclaimed.
October 29th 1918:

the collapse of the armies of the Empire starts.
During a historical meeting, the Croatian Parliament unanimously votes the suspension of all the bonds between the Royaume of Croatia, Slavonie and Dalmatie, on the one hand, and the Royaume of Hungary and the Empire of Austria, on the other hand. By this Parliamentary legal instrument, Croatia becomes again an independent State under the terms of the right of State Croatian, joined soon, under the terms of the principle of national unit, by all the other countries and southernmost Slavic areas of the ex- Austria-Hungary.

October 30th 1918:

the Chancellor Karl Renner form the provisional government; suppression of a provisional constitution for the Deutschösterreich .
the Slovak representatives affirm, by the “ Déclaration of Saint Martin's day ”, the right of the Slovak people to lay out of itself like its wish of a common future with the Czech . 200 politicians brought together in the buildings of the Tatra bank, create the Slovak National council, directed by Matus Dula. The Slovak nation is recognized there like integral part of the Czechoslovakia.

October 31st 1918:

Hungary separates from Austria.
Proclamation of the Republic of Banat to Timisoara: following the exercise of the right to self-determination of the majority of the population of the Rumanian provinces, the Transylvania, the Banat, the north of the Boucovine and the Bessarabia will join the kingdom of Romania, to form the Grande Romania , completing the formation of the unit Rumanian national State, by the will freely expressed in representative assemblies.

November 1st 1918: Release of Friedrich Adler. Secession of Hungary.
November 3rd 1918: Armistice between Austria-Hungary and the powers of the Agreement.
November 7th 1918: Proclamation of the Polish Republic with Lublin.
November 11th 1918: Declaration of the Charles emperor who gives up the businesses of the State of Deutschösterreich and recognizes any decision as for the form of the new State.
November 12th 1918: The provisional assembly proclaims the republic of Deutschösterreich .
November 13rd 1918: Signature with Belgrade of a convention of application of the armistice with Hungary. It is the end of the Crown of Saint-Etienne.
November 16th 1918: Proclamation of the Hungarian Republic.
February 1st 1918: The areas of the south of the empire are linked in Serbia and the Montenegro and form the Kingdom of Serb, Croatian and Slovenien.
December 5th 1918: The National Assembly of Carinthie (southern of current Austria) decides the resistance armed against the Yugoslav troops which approach.
December 16th 1918: The Czech conquer Liberec, capital of German Bohemia.
December 18th 1918: The Czech conquer Opava, capital of the province of the Sudètes.
December 24th 1918: Unification of the Transylvania to the Romania.

Dismemberment of the empire and peace treaties (1919 - 1920)

After the fall of the Empire, the introduction of a new mode is done gradually:

January 18th 1919: Opening of the Conference of Peace to Paris.
February 16th 1919: Election of the constituent National Assembly, from which results a coalition thesocial ones and social democrats.
February 27th - March 2nd 1919: The secretary with the foreign affairs Otto Bauer and the German Minister for the foreign affairs, Borckdorff-Rantzau lead to Berlin secret negotiations for an annexation of Austria by the Germany.
March 12th 1919: The National Assembly declares the German Austria like component of L the German republic .
March 21st: In Hungary, after the fusion of the Communist Parties and social democrat, Béla Kun seizes the power and proclaims the République of the Councils on the model of the Soviet S Russian.
23 - March 24th 1919: Escape of the emperor Charles I {{er}} and of its Swiss family in .
April 3rd 1919: Abolition of the nobility by the Anti-Habsbourg Law. Abolition of the Capital punishment.
April 17th - June 15th 1919: Communist riots and coup attempt of state to Vienna.
April 24th 1919: The US president decides for an annexation of the Tirol of the South by Italy.
May 11th 1919: Referendum in Vorarlberg: 80,8% of the population decide for an annexation by the Suisse.
June 2nd 1919: Beginning of the peace negotiations of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.
June 7th 1919: The National Assembly disallows the proposal for a peace treaty.
September 10th 1919: Signature of, change of the name in Republic of Austria , prohibition of fastening in Germany (article 88), fastening of the Tirol of the South in Italy. The Parliament accepts while protesting.
November 21st 1919: The official name of Austria becomes République of Austria .
June 4th 1920: Signature of the Treated of Trianon with the Hungary, which loses territories in favor of the Czechoslovakia, of the Romania, the Yugoslavia and the Austria.
July 16th 1920: The treaty of Saint-Germain is ratified and between thus into force.
October 1st 1920: The Parliament ratifies the federal constitution of the Republic of Austria.
October 10th 1920: Referendum in Carinthie: 60% of the population decide to remain Austrian; formal annexation of the Tirol of the South.
October 16th 1920: Thesocial ones become the first political clout of the country after the legislative elections.
December 9th 1920: Michael Hainisch (without party) is elected first federal president of the Republic of Austria.
December 15th 1920: Austria between with the Company of the Nations (SDN).

External bond

Chart of Europe in 1900 on which Double-Monarchy

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