Persons, places and events

Explore people, events, objects and locations connected with Habsburg history and learn more about their historical context.

The architects Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1916) and Hermann Helmer (1849–1919) had built almost 50 theatres across the...

Location Vienna – The Volkstheater

14. Sep 1889

Opened in 1748, the ‘Royal Theatre beside the Palace’ performed a repertoire of Italian operas, French dramas,...

Location Vienna – The Burgtheater

14. Oct 1888

In 1765 Maria Josepha of Bavaria, a granddaughter of Joseph I, married Joseph II, who became emperor and co-regent with...

Person Josepha of Bavaria

* 1739, † 1767

The Crown of St Wenceslas (Czech: Svatováclavská koruna) is the crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia and named...

Item The Crown of St Wenceslas

1526–1918

Built around 1720 in the game-rich wetland forests bordering the Danube, this Baroque hunting lodge was a favourite...

Location Schloss Eckartsau

1918

The death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916 after a reign of sixty-eight years marked the symbolic end of the Monarchy...

1918

The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne at Sarajevo brought the long-standing political tensions to the...

Event World War I, 1914–1918

28. Jul 1914–12. Nov 1918

The Imperial-Royal Court Suppliers were allowed to display the ‘Highest Coat of Arms’ on their businesses and to...

1908

The first small-wheeled bicycle produced in Austria was probably the model made by Johann Puch in Graz in 1890....

1890

At the Congress of Berlin in 1878 representatives of the major European powers and the Ottoman Empire met to share...

1878

13 May 1888 saw the unveiling of a large monument situated between the two Court Museums as part of the Ringstrasse...

Item The Maria Theresa Monument

1874–13. May 1888

On Black Friday, 9 May 1873, triggered by uncontrolled speculation, there was a massive fall in the value of shares...

1873

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