Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting.

* 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

Despite being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

" Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough ’ s victorious army and, like Brussels, proclaimed the Austrian candidate for the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles, as their sovereign.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

But the Austrian monarchy faced severe peril on several fronts in 1703: by June the Duke of Villars had reinforced the Elector of Bavaria on the Danube thus posing a direct threat to Vienna, while Vendôme remained at the head a large army in northern Italy opposing Guido Starhemberg's weak Imperial force.

Mussolini also mobilized a part of the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with war in the event of a German invasion of Austria to thwart the putsch.

They defeated the allied army at the Battle of Fleurus, leading to a full Allied withdrawal from the Austrian Netherlands.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.

In the east, there were decisive victories against the Russian army, the trapping and defeat of large parts of the Russian contingent at the Battle of Tannenberg, followed by huge Austrian and German successes.

The HRE army was half Polish / Lithuanian Commonwealth forces, mostly cavalry, and half Holy Roman Empire forces ( German / Austrian ), mostly infantry.

The Honvédség became a specifically Hungarian army within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, distinct from the Austrian Landwehr and the Imperial and Royal ( K. u. K.

With the Mediterranean undefended, a Russian fleet entered the Ionian Sea, while Austrian armies recaptured much of the Italian territory lost to Bonaparte in the previous war.

reports that, when the Va, pensiero chorus was sung in Milan, then belonging to the large part of Italy under Austrian domination, the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the exiled slaves ' lament for their lost homeland, demanded an encore of the piece.

Peace was settled in the Treaty of Pressburg ; the Austrian Empire lost the title of Holy Roman Emperor and the Confederation of the Rhine was created by Napoleon over former Austrian territories.

Austrian submarines of World War I ( that is, before the country lost its coastline after the war ) were also known as U-boats.

He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, but he also lost the Austrian territories in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy.

The work was commissioned by Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm during World War I. Ravel was inspired by the technical challenges of the project.

In April 1809 he fought and lost the Battle of Sacile against the Austrian army of the Archduke John, but Eugène's troops decisively won the rematch at the Battle of Raab that June.

Note that since its apogee in the 17th century, the Ottoman empire had lost Greater Hungary ( including Transylvania ) to the Austrian Empire and the whole of the region North of the Black sea and Caucasus to the Russian empire.

During the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire steadily lost territory in eastern Europe to the neighbouring Austrian and Russian empires ( which annexed Hungary and southern Russia respectively ).

In 1896 the town lost its City Rights due to a decision by the governing Austrian authorities.

Coburg neglected to press on and, uncertain of the outcome, the Austrian commander lost his nerve and fell back to Braine-l ' Alleud and Waterloo, granting the French an unexpected victory.

However, in a series of actions at Neumarkt am Wallersee, Frankenmarkt, Schwanenstadt, Vöcklabruck, Lambach and Kremsmünster during the following week, the Austrian army lost cohesion.

As the pursuing Austrian troops arrived, a mix of musketry and artillery fire concealed the surprise attack of Général de Brigade ( GdB ) François Étienne de Kellermann ’ s cavalry, which threw the Austrian pursuit into disordered flight back into Alessandria, having lost about 9, 400 killed, wounded, or captured.

As the mob of terrified cavalry stampeded past them, the exhausted Austrian infantry of the main body lost heart, provoking a wild rush to the rear.

The church, with its conspicuous stone tower, was finally lost by the Austrians towards noon, when Friant managed to push through and link up with Gudin and Puthod, forcing the three Austrian regiments to withdraw, in order to avoid being outflanked.

An Austrian countercharge from Walmoden's Austrian hussars sent the French horse reeling and recaptured the lost battery, managing to carry most of it-except two guns-to safety, before more French cavalry, this time from Lasalle's division came up against them.

Dumouriez overran the Austrian Netherlands within a month, but lost it at the Battle of Neerwinden in March.

The Russo – Swedish War of 1741 – 1743, known as the Hats ' Russian War in Sweden and the Hats ' War in Finland, which resulted in the Lesser Wrath ( Finnish: Pikkuviha, Swedish: Lilla ofreden ), or the occupation of Finland, was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War, and by French diplomacy, which sought to divert Russia's attention from supporting its long-standing ally, the Habsburg monarchy, in the War of the Austrian Succession.

# The Austrian Empire, excluding the Kingdom of Hungary, the Principality of Transylvania, and Croatia ( all of which became parts of the apostolic kingdom of Hungary within the Danubian Dual Monarchy ), the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia ( constituting parts lost to Italy in 1859-viz.

Belgium was supposedly lost to France by the Austrian Empire in 1794 and Holland from the Holy Roman Empire in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia.

The Austrian Netherlands were ultimately lost to the French Revolutionary armies, and annexed to France.

Austrian economics, 3 v. Edward Elgar.

The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgratz ( 3 July 1866 ) he held the extreme left of the Austrian position.

* EFSA GMO Panel deliberations on the Austrian report " Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603 x MON 810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice " ( Part of the minutes of the plenary meeting held on 3 – 4 December 2008, see on page 9 )

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger ( 3 February 1736 – 7 March 1809 ) was an Austrian musician who was born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.

Ludwig Alois Friedrich Ritter von Köchel (; 14 January 1800 – 3 June 1877 ) was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist and publisher.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

By November 3, the city of Milan itself had surrendered, although the Austrian governor, Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, still held the fortress.

Two days later the French withdrew to a position near Guastalla in response to Austrian maneuvers, but one detachment of nearly 3, 000 men was surrounded and captured by the advancing Austrians.

* January 3 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler ( b. 1837 )

* July 3 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism ( b. 1860 )

* July 3 – Battle of Königgratz: the Prussian army under King Wilhelm and Helmuth von Moltke defeats the Austrian army of Ludwig von Benedek, leading to a decisive Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War.

* July 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer ( d. 1924 )

* December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer ( d. 1945 )

* September 3 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer ( d. 1951 )

* February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet ( d. 1914 )

* September 3 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1930 )

* July 3 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor ( d. 2004 )

* August 3 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother to the Mozarts ( b. 1720 )

* February 3 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician ( d. 1809 )

* May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Austrian composer ( b. 1644 )

The local government had amassed debts of 1. 3 million Austrian schillings ( AS ) against cash reserves of 40, 000 AS.

The survey found that Austrian men had the highest number of sex partners of males globally with 29. 3 sexual partners on average.

Anton Webern in Stettin, October 1912 ( 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945 ) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Although Austrian farmers provide about 80 % of domestic food requirements, the agricultural contribution to gross domestic product ( GDP ) has declined since 1950 to less than 3 %.