By the Treaty of Ilbersheim, signed 7 November 1704, Bavaria was placed under Austrian military rule, allowing the Habsburgs to utilise its resources for the rest of the conflict.

It was dubbed the " Little German " solution, since it excluded the Austrian territories and the Habsburgs.

Britain had 5 or 6 million, Spain had 8 million, and the Austrian Habsburgs had around 8 million.

During the 16th century, the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs were the dominant power in Europe.

In 1699, Transylvania became a territory of the Habsburgs ' Austrian empire, following the Austrian victory over the Turks.

France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted to check the power of the Austrian Habsburgs in western Europe, as did the Kingdom of Prussia ; whilst in the East, Saxony and Russia mobilized to support the eventual Polish victor.

Two dynasties claimed the Spanish throne: the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs, both closely related to Charles and to his father, Philip IV.

In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles's Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand's Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1706, the French were defeated in Ramillies and Turin and were forced to yield northern Italy to the Austrian Habsburgs.

After the Burgundian regime in the Low Countries ( 1363 – 1477 ), the Southern Netherlands ( whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) as well as the northern provinces ( whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands ) had dynastic links with the Austrian Habsburgs and then with Spain and the Austrian Habsburgs together.

Later, as a consequence of revolt in 1567, the southern provinces became subject to Spain ( 1579 ), then to the Austrian Habsburgs ( 1713 ), to France ( 1795 ), and finally in 1815 to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Belgian and Luxemburgian territories ( except the Bishopric of Liège ) were transferred to the Austrian Habsburgs ( 1713 – 1794 ) after the War of the Spanish Succession when the French Bourbon Dynasty inherited Spain at the price of abandoning many Spanish possessions.

Other powers, particularly the Austrian Habsburgs, who had the next closest claims, objected to such a vast increase in French power.

In the Treaty of Utrecht, signed on 11 April 1713, Philip was recognized as king of Spain but his renunciation of succession rights to France was affirmed and, of the Spanish Empire's other European territories, Sicily was ceded to Savoy, and the Spanish Netherlands, Milan and Naples were alloted to the Austrian Habsburgs.

In 1718, after a brief rule of the Austrian Habsburgs, Cagliari and Sardinia came under the House of Savoy.

Celje became part of the Habsburgs ' Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

A state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Austrian Circle and a duchy in the hereditary possession of the Habsburgs, later part of the Austrian Empire and of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land from 1849, when it was also subdivided into Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola, and Inner Carniola, until 1918.

As a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the area was successively ruled by Bavarian, Frankish and local nobility, and eventually by the Austrian Habsburgs almost continuously from 1335 to 1918, though beset by many raids from the Ottomans and rebellions by local residents against Habsburg rule from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

At the time, the struggle for Italian unification was perceived to be waged primarily against the Austrian Empire and the Habsburgs, since they directly controlled the predominantly Italian-speaking northeastern part of present-day Italy and were, together, the most powerful force against unification.

As one of the most famous living Austrian composers, Schmidt was well-known to Hitler and received this commission after the Anschluss.

Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 ( shared with his ideological nemesis, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek ); Bertil Ohlin received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 ( shared with British economist James Meade ).

In 2005 an Austrian journalist revealed that Fritz Edlinger's GÖAB had received $ 100, 000 from an Iraqi front company as well as donations from Austrian companies soliciting business in Iraq.

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.

In 1592 Sigismund married the Austrian archduchess Anna of Austria ( 1573 – 1598 ) Anna Habsburzanka and after his father's death the same year, he received permission from the Sejm to accept the Swedish throne.

In 1564 Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria received the rulership over Tirol and other Further Austrian possessions administrated from Innsbruck up to the 18th century.

On 19 July 2005, Licio Gelli, the grand master of the Propaganda Due or P2 masonic lodge, received a notification – required by Italian law – informing him that he was formally under investigation on charges of ordering the murder of Calvi along with Giuseppe Calò, Ernesto Diotallevi, Flavio Carboni and Carboni's Austrian ex-girlfriend, Manuela Kleinszig.

News of the relationship was not received well by the French and the Austrian public.

In 1805 Württemberg took up arms on the side of France, and by the Treaty of Pressburg in December 1805 the elector received as reward various Austrian possessions in Swabia and other lands in the area ( Vorderösterreich ).

Although his speech received an ovation, the Habsburgs were once again distanced from the popular opinion of the Austrian people, as demonstrated in public protest, media criticism and disapproval voiced by Austrian politicians.

France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792, and preparations to invade the Southern Netherlands ( known at that time as the Austrian Netherlands, and in the future as Belgium ), were begun ; Lafayette received command of one of the three armies, at Metz.

On 12 September 1792, a Prussian military escort received the men from their Austrian guards.

Towards 11: 00, Bessières received his orders, which provided for an immediate attack at the weak point of the enemy line, the seam between Austrian III Korps and the Reserve Korps, where only Feldmarshalleutnant Prochaska's thinly-spread division was covering the wide position between Süssenbrunn and Aderklaa.

A number of these works received their world premiere performance in June 2002 at a Carl Czerny Music Festival mounted by the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, under the artistic direction of the Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti.

After being repeatedly remodelled, the text received its present classical form from the Austrian Benedictine, P. Weissenhofer.

The son of a distinguished general, Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, he had received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Karl Ritter von Frisch ForMemRS ( 20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982 ) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

In 1792, as one of the most distinguished of the emperor's generals, he received the command of the Austrian contingent in army of the duke of Brunswick, and at Croix-sous-Bois his corps inflicted a reverse on the troops of the French Revolution.

He then marched into Luxembourg, but soon received orders to switch to the Rhine, for in 1648 Bavaria had returned to her Austrian alliance and had taken up arms again.

In early July Schwarzenberg, having received a request from Wellington and Blücher, ordered Wrede to act as the Austrian vanguard and advance on Paris and by 5 July the main body of Wrede's IV Corps had reached Châlons.

Gage received promotion to captain in 1743, and saw action in the War of the Austrian Succession with British forces in Flanders, where he served as aide-de-camp to the Earl of Albemarle in the Battle of Fontenoy.

In 1925 the duo received an offer from the New York theatrical producer Morris Gest and went to the United States where they performed together on the Keith / Albee and Orpheum vaudeville circuits in which they accompanied a ballet troupe run by the Austrian ballerina Albertina Rasch.