He reformed Austria's armies to adopt the nation at arms principle ; in 1809, he went into the War of the Fifth Coalition with confidence and inflicted Napoleon's first major setback at Aspern-Essling, before suffering a defeat at the bloody Battle of Wagram.

It is notable that Sweden reached the final four having won only one match ( as a result of Austria's withdrawal from the first round ): the only time this has happened in a World Cup.

Liane Haid ( 16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000 ) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.

Austria's first Bundespräsident proper thus was Michael Hainisch, Karl Seitz ' immediate successor.

Moreover, the nation was still haunted by the specter of the ideological factionalism which had characterized Austria's first republic ( cf.

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

It proved popular, and came to serve unofficially as Austria's first national anthem.

After having asserted themselves in the alternative scene inside and outside Austria's borders with their first two records " amaurose pur.

Austria's newspaper stamps first appeared in 1851 ; they depicted a profile of Mercury, the Roman messenger god, and were not denominated, the color of the stamp indicating the value.

In addition to them Austria recruited Chinese international Sun Xiang, who became the first Chinese to play in Austria's Bundesliga.

The city has two airfields ( a military one which was the first airfield in Austria and a civil one owned by Diamond Aircraft ) and is the starting point of Austria's only shipping canal, the Wiener Neustaedter Kanal, which was meant to reach out to Trieste but was never finished.

Austria's first and largest Fachhochschule for business and engineering, the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, is located here.

He then went on to score the winning goal against West Germany in a game dubbed The miracle of Córdoba, which the Austrians won 3 – 2 and which was Austria's first win against West Germany for 47 years, earning Krankl legendary status in his homeland.

He was married from 1955 to Franziska Kalmar, Austria's first television presenter.

The team was involved in a failed attempt in the 1924 – 25 season to play Austria's first night game on a field lit by torches and flares, and playing with a ball covered in lime to make it more visible.

: Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.

The Nordbahn, or Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, was Austria's first steam railway company and financed by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild ( 1774-1855 ).

The cable car was opened in 1965, and opened up the Schmiedingerkees and Maurerkees glaciers, making it Austria's first glacier ski slope.

In October 2009 mayor Gerhard Skiba argued for the first time in support of a ' House of Peace ' or ' House of Responsibility ' in Hitler's Birthhouse in Austria's Newspaper Kurier.

* Austria's Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class ( 2008 )

Sun's first solo album effort, the 1992 " Dixie and Me ", on Austria's Crazy Music made its debut.

He is most well known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular Late Night Poker television series during his time living in the United Kingdom, where he defeated Austria's Jin Cai Lin in the final heads-up encounter to take the £ 60, 000 first prize.

In the latter tournament, he scored Austria's first goal in the 2 – 2 draw with Northern Ireland in Madrid.

It used a 73 metre high lattice tower and broadcast Austria's first radio station on 99. 0MHz and third radio station on 94. 8 MHz, each with 50 kW, as well as a TV station on channel 8 with 60 / 12 kW ( picture / sound ).

Napoleon Bonaparte's 23, 000 Frenchmen defeated an attack of 28, 000 Austrians under Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi, ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the Siege of Mantua.

Izvolsky, rebuffed by France and Britain in his attempt to gain support for a " Conference ", at which he hoped to initiate talks about the opening of the Straits, tried unsuccessfully to have a meeting called to deal with Austria's fait accompli.

Chancellor Dolfuss was killed in July 1934, during an attempt by Austria's National Socialist Party to topple the regime and proclaim a Nazi government under Ambassador to Rome Anton Rintelen.

In 2005, Karl von Habsburg filed an unsuccessful suit before Austria's constitutional court after a failed attempt to have former properties of the Habsburg family returned.

On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.

On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

) Others accused her of trying to sway the king to Austria's thrall, destroying long-standing traditions ( such as appointing people to posts due to friendship and not to peerage ), and of laughing at the influence of older women at the royal court.

Austria's forces peaked at about 576, 000 and had little or no naval component.

It may be thus seen as the beginning of Austrian history, and in 1919 there was the concrete idea aired by Heinrich Lammasch, who had been Imperial Austria's last prime minister, to give the young republic the name of " Norische Republik " or " Noric Republic ", because the ancient borders were similar to those of the new state which, at that time, did not wish to be considered the heir of the Habsburg monarchy but an independent, neutral and peaceful state.

In terms of Federal Assembly seats, the People's Party has consistently been the strongest or second-strongest party ; as such, it has led or at least been a partner in most Austria's federal cabinets.

In 1938, Ranshofen, which at that time had one of Austria's largest aluminium plants, was annexed to Braunau.

Even though this revision was still somewhat controversial at that point, it was part of Austria's most recent constitutional framework, giving it at least some much-needed form of democratic legitimacy, and the party chairs were afraid that lengthy discussion might provoke the Red Army then in control of Vienna to barge in.

Austria's defeat at the Battle of Königgrätz was followed by the dissolution of the German Confederation and Austria's withdrawal from Holstein, which, along with Schleswig, in turn was annexed by Prussia.

Following the war, Austria's loss of the territories was confirmed, and they were joined with the northern Netherlands as a single kingdom under the House of Orange at the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.

Concealment was practically abandoned after her return to court, and within a week of Anne of Austria's death on 20 January 1666, La Vallière appeared at Mass beside Maria Theresa.

As of November 1, 2010, " Over the Rainbow " peaked at No. 6 on the OE3 Austria charts, which largely reflect airplay on Austria's government-operated Top 40 radio network.

Southern Bukovina was a very attractive place to live in because of Austria's policy not to conscript recruits into its army from there ( service in the Austrian army at that time was for a 14-year term ).

In the last decades before 1914 a succession of governments included a number of non-German ministers and even one Polish Minister-President, but Austria's Germans dominated the political power at the imperial level until the end of the state.

For example the Bosna or Bosner ( a spiced bratwurst in a hot dog roll ) which is an integral part of the menu at Austria's typical fast-food joint, the sausage stand ( Würstelstand ).