* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

In 1772, Empress Maria Theresa commented on her preference of Italian composers over Germans like Gassmann, Salieri or Gluck.

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown.

# On 15 September 1790, to his double first cousin Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies ( 6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807 ), daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( both were grandchildren of Empress Maria Theresa and shared all of their other grandparents in common ), with whom he had twelve children, of whom only seven reached adulthood.

In the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne.

The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.

All kings elected from 1438 onwards were from among the Habsburg Archdukes of Austria ( and later Kings of Hungary and Bohemia ) until 1740, when the archduchy was inherited by a woman, Maria Theresa.

* 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.

Luxembourg was invaded by Louis XIV of France ( husband of Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV ) in 1684, an action that caused alarm among France's neighbours and resulted in the formation of the League of Augsburg in 1686.

* 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.

* 1717 – Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( d. 1780 )

* 1801 – Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia ( d. 1855 )

* 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria.

* Maria Theresa Reef

The political, administrative and economic reforms of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II improved the economic situation of the peasantry, and were well received by the emerging bourgeoisie, which was however still weak.

* 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain ( d. 1683 )

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

To the Austrian emperor he promised recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document designed to guarantee inheritance of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa, Charles ' oldest child.

The French ( and their allies ), hoping for détente and good relations with the Austrians, now also recognized the Pragmatic Sanction that would allow Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa to succeed him.

* 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1649 )

* 1752 – Maria Carolina of Austria ( d. 1814 )

Princess Maria Theresia Isabella of Austria, a noble abess with her crozier

Alfonso XII and his second wife Maria Christina of Austria, 1885.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

Cenotaph to Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen | Maria Christina of Austria in the Augustinerkirche, by Canova

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

Albert Frederick was married in 1573 to Marie Eleonore of Cleves, a daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Archduchess Maria of Austria ( 1531 – 1581 ).

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

File: Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche. JPG | Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, Vienna, Austria

File: Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche2. JPG | Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, Vienna, Austria

File: Heilige Jungfrau Maria von Zeituon Kirche4. JPG | Our Lady of Zeitoun Church, Vienna, Austria

* 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia ( d. 1816 )

* November 7 – Maria Theresia of Tuscany, Queen of Saxony ( b. 1767 )

* May 22 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist ( b. 1767 )

This was particularly evident in her relationship with her older sister, Maria Carolina: they were the two youngest girls, and shared the same governesses, first Countess Brandeis, then Countess Lerchenfeld, until 1767 ; Carolina once described her sister as someone she " loved extraordinarily ".

* John, Prince of Brazil ( 1767 – 1826 ) served as regent of Portugal for his mother Queen Maria I, who had become mentally unfit to rule, from 1799 to 1816.

*** Maria Josepha of Saxony ( 1731 – 1767 ), second wife of Louis,

The children of Charles and his second wife ; ( L-R ) Eleonora Maria Teresa of Savoy | Eleonora ; Victor Amadeus III of Savoy | Victor Amadeus ; Princess Maria Felicita of Savoy | Maria Felicita and Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy ( 1729 – 1767 ) | Maria Luisa Gabriella.

# Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy ( 1729-d. 1767 ), a nun.

His stay in the city is marked by two characteristic and important productions: the superb écorché ( 1767 ), an anatomical model which has served as a guide to all artists since his day, and the statue of Saint Bruno in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome.

* For a brief time ( 1748 – 1767 ) during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa ( reigned 1740 – 1780 ), approximately 250 to 450 soldiers from Switzerland guarded the Hofburg, the winter palace in Vienna.

Isabella died in 1763, and Maria Theresa in 1767.

After Archduchess Isabella's death on 27 November 1763, a political marriage was arranged with Maria Josepha of Bavaria ( d. 1767 ), a daughter of Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria ( the former emperor Charles VII ) and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.

Born in Lisbon in 1767, the son of Peter III of Portugal, and Queen Maria I, he was originally an infante ( prince not heir to the throne ) of Portugal, and only became heir to the throne when his older brother, José, Prince of Brazil, died in 1788, of smallpox, at the age of 27.

They had three children ; Maria ( born April 23, 1765 ) and Mary ( born August 30, 1767 ) at Mattituck before moving to Morristown, New Jersey sometime around 1770.

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

* Maria Josepha Karolina Eleonore Franziska Xaveria ( b. Dresden, 4 November 1731-d. Versailles, 13 March 1767 ); married on 9 February 1747 to Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1729 – 1765 ), son of Louis XV of France ( she was the mother of Kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X ) of France.

Princess Maria Kunigunde was the sister of the deceased Dauphine of France ( 1731 – 1767 ), mother of Louis XVI.

Maria Edgeworth ( 1767 – 1849 ) furnished a less ambiguous foundation for an Anglo-Irish literary tradition.

Although born in Oxford, Maria Edgeworth ( 1767 – 1849 ) spent most of her life in Ireland and wrote what is generally considered the first novel on an Irish theme, Castle Rackrent ( 1800 ).