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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Austria with the correct year: In ______, Austria formed a dual monarchy with Hungary: the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Austria with the correct year: In ______, Austrian-born Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, which was supported by a large majority of Austrians.
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Austria with the correct year: Ten years after the Second World War Austria again became an independent republic as the Second Austrian Republic in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Habsburg Monarchy with the correct year: In ______, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage.
  5. Complete the sentence about House of Habsburg with the correct year: In ______, Count Radbot's seventh-generation descendant, Rudolph, was elected King of the Romans.
  6. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Following the ______ reforms, the Austrian and Hungarian states were co-equal in power.
  7. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of…
  8. Complete the sentence about Holy Roman Empire with the correct year: By around ______, contemporary sources often referred to it simply as "Germany", reflecting its identification as a specifically Ge…
  9. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Maria Theresa started her 40-year reign when her father, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, died on 20 October ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of ______ and spent his entire reign securing it through interna…
  11. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was bor…
  12. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Leopold Clement of Lorraine was first considered to be the appropriate suitor, and he was supposed to visit Vienna and meet the Archduc…
  13. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: In ______, he betrothed her to Charles of Spain and her sister, Maria Anna, to Philip of Spain.
  14. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: The couple were married on 12 February ______ at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
  15. Complete the sentence about Franz Joseph I of Austria with the correct year: In ______, he married his first cousin Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, with whom he had four children: Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf…
  16. Complete the sentence about Franz Joseph I of Austria with the correct year: After ruling his domains for almost 68 years, Franz Joseph died in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Austria with the correct year: Charles succeeded to the thrones in November ______ following the death of his grand-uncle, Franz Joseph.
  18. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Austria with the correct year: Following the Armistice of 11 November ______, Charles "renounced any participation" in government affairs, but did not abdicate…
  19. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Austria with the correct year: Charles was exiled for a second time to the Portuguese island of Madeira, where he soon fell ill and died of respiratory failure…
  20. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Austria with the correct year: Charles was born on 17 August ______, in the Castle of Persenbeug, in Lower Austria.
  21. Complete the sentence about Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: By the Treaty of Karlowitz, Leopold recovered almost all of the Kingdom of Hungary, which had fallen under Turkish powe…
  22. Complete the sentence about Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Born on 9 June ______ in Vienna, Leopold received the traditional program of education in the liberal arts, history, li…
  23. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: In ______, he was elected King of the Romans, ending decades of imperial vacancy and division.
  24. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: Rudolf died in ______, leaving a legacy of restored stability and dynastic ambition within the Holy Roman Empire.
  25. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: Rudolf was born on 1 May ______ at Limburgh Castle near Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in the Breisgau region of present-day southwestern…
  26. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: The Habsburgs derive their name from Habichtsburg Castle near Brugg in Aargau, which was probably built by Guntram the Rich in __…
  27. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: Rudolf's father Albrecht IV joined the Barons' Crusade in the summer of ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Rudolf I of Germany with the correct year: When news of his death arrived in ______, Rudolf assumed sole rule of the main Habsburg line.
  29. Complete the sentence about Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Maximilian expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in ______ to Mary, Duchess o…
  30. Complete the sentence about Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Frederick did not allow him to participate in the ______ war against Burgundy, though and placed him under the care…
  31. Complete the sentence about Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: After his father's death in ______, he inherited the Habsburg Netherlands in the Low Countries.
  32. Complete the sentence about Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, he became King of Spain as co-monarch of Castile and Aragon with his mother.
  33. Complete the sentence about Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: At the death of his paternal grandfather Maximilian in ______, he inherited the Austrian hereditary lands and was elect…
  34. Complete the sentence about Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Crowned King of Germany in Aachen, Charles sided with Pope Leo X and declared Martin Luther an outlaw at the Diet of Wo…
  35. Complete the sentence about Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Rome was sacked by an army of Charles's mutinous soldiers.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Ferdinand was born in ______ in Alcalá de Henares, Castile, the second son of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Casti…
  37. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: After the death of his father in ______, his maternal grandfather, Ferdinand II of Aragon, assumed guardianship of th…
  38. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, after Isabella's death, King Ferdinand established for the younger Ferdinand a household with 62 servants…
  39. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Ferdinand was sent to Flanders following his brother Charles's arrival in Castile as newly a…
  40. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: According to the terms set at the First Congress of Vienna in ______, Ferdinand married Anne Jagiellonica, daughter o…
  41. Complete the sentence about Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Leopold became Holy Roman Emperor in ______ but died two years later, and Francis succeeded him.
  42. Complete the sentence about Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, after Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine, Francis abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor, which in ef…
  43. Complete the sentence about Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Francis turned against Napoleon and finally defeated him in the War of the Sixth Coalition, forcing the Fre…
  44. Complete the sentence about Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Francis died in ______ at the age of 67 and was succeeded by his son, Ferdinand I of Austria.
  45. Complete the sentence about Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: After the death of Joseph II in ______, Francis's father became Emperor.
  46. Complete the sentence about Klemens von Metternich with the correct year: Born into the House of Metternich in ______ as the son of a diplomat, Metternich received a good education at the universities…
  47. Complete the sentence about Klemens von Metternich with the correct year: For his service to the Austrian Empire, he was given the title of Prince in October ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Klemens von Metternich with the correct year: Having outlived his generation of politicians, Metternich died at the age of 86 in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The immediate background was Napoleonic France's defeat and surrender in May ______, which brought an end to 23 years of nearly co…
  50. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The Congress's agreement was signed nine days before Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The Treaty of Chaumont in ______ had reaffirmed decisions that had been made already and that would be ratified by the more import…
  52. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: After eliminating an Austrian army during the Ulm campaign, French forces seized Vienna in November ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: The Confederation rendered the Holy Roman Empire virtually useless, so Francis dissolved the Holy Roman Empire in ______, but re…
  54. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: Prussian worries about the growing French influence in Central Europe led to the War of the Fourth Coalition in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: Europe had been in turmoil since the start of the French Revolutionary Wars in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: In ______, after five years of war, the French Republic broke up the First Coalition, an alliance of Austria, Prussia, Great Bri…
  57. Complete the sentence about Battle of Austerlitz with the correct year: In March ______, France and Britain agreed to end hostilities under the Treaty of Amiens.
  58. Complete the sentence about Battle of Aspern-Essling with the correct year: On 10 April ______, Austrian troops under Archduke Charles had crossed the border into Bavaria, a French client state; thus…
  59. Complete the sentence about Battle of Wagram with the correct year: In ______, the French military presence in the Confederation of the Rhine was diminished as Napoleon transferred a number of soldier…
  60. Complete the sentence about Battle of Wagram with the correct year: Recovering from his initial surprise, Napoleon beat the Austrian forces and occupied Vienna at the beginning of May ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August ______ near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary.
  62. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The aftermath saw the partition of Hungary between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom in _…
  63. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: In ______, the weakened and old King Vladislaus II faced a major peasant rebellion led by György Dózsa, which was ruthlessly crushed…
  64. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After the Dózsa Rebellion, the brutal suppression of the peasants greatly aided the ______ Turkish invasion as the Hungarians were n…
  65. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After Suleiman I came to power in Constantinople in ______, the High Porte made the Hungarians at least one and possibly two offers…
  66. Complete the sentence about Siege of Vienna with the correct year: The ______ siege of Vienna was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, par…
  67. Complete the sentence about Siege of Vienna with the correct year: The siege ultimately lasted just over two weeks, from 27 September to 15 October ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Siege of Vienna with the correct year: The siege came in the aftermath of the ______ Battle of Mohács, which had resulted in the death of Louis II, King of Hungary and the…
  69. Complete the sentence about Siege of Vienna with the correct year: Thus Hungary became divided into three zones: Royal Hungary, Ottoman Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania, an arrangement whi…
  70. Complete the sentence about Siege of Vienna with the correct year: Suleiman launched his campaign on 10 May ______ and faced numerous obstacles from the onset.
  71. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vienna with the correct year: The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September ______ after the city had been besieged by the Ot…
  72. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vienna with the correct year: The Siege of Szigetvár in ______ blocked the advance of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent towards Vienna and stopped the Ottoman advan…
  73. Complete the sentence about Thirty Years' War with the correct year: The war began in ______, when the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II was replaced as king of Bohemia by the Protestant Frederick V of th…
  74. Complete the sentence about War of the Austrian Succession with the correct year: Fighting began when Prussia occupied the wealthy Austrian province of Silesia in December ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about War of the Austrian Succession with the correct year: The immediate cause of the war was the death of Emperor Charles VI in ______ and the inheritance of the Habsburg monar…
  76. Complete the sentence about War of the Austrian Succession with the correct year: After Maria Theresa was born in ______, Charles's internal and external policy was dominated by ensuring her successio…
  77. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Spain became a French ally in ______, unsuccessfully invading Portugal, and losing Havana and Manila to Britain.
  78. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Although these were returned under the Treaty of Paris in ______, France lost its possessions in North America, while Britain establ…
  79. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: The conflict in Europe centred on Austrian attempts to recover Silesia, and ended with the Treaty of Hubertusburg in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Led by George Washington, they ambushed a small French force at Jumonville Glen on 28 May ______ killing ten, including commander Jo…
  81. Complete the sentence about Austro-Prussian War with the correct year: In March ______, Austria reinforced its troops along its frontier with Prussia.
  82. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas with the correct year: Conflict over organized religion was pervasive in pre-______ Europe.
  83. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas with the correct year: In ______, potato blight arrived in Belgium from North America, thus starting the Hungry Forties.
  84. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas with the correct year: In ______ there had been an uprising of Polish nobility in Austrian Galicia, which was only countered when…
  85. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 with the correct year: Thus Hungarian society widely considered the compromise as a betrayal of the vital Hungarian interests and the ac…
  86. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 with the correct year: In ______, Hungary was defeated and partially conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
  87. Complete the sentence about Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand with the correct year: The assassins and key members of the clandestine network were tried in Sarajevo in October ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: Black Hand members were arrested and tried before a Serbian court in Salonika in ______ on charg…
  89. Complete the sentence about Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: Franz Ferdinand held significant influence over the military, and in ______, he was appointed inspector general o…
  90. Complete the sentence about Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: On 28 June ______, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by the 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip…
  91. Complete the sentence about Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: In ______, when he was eleven years old, his cousin Francis V, Duke of Modena, died, naming Franz Ferdinand his h…
  92. Complete the sentence about Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: In ______, Ferdinand's cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide at his hunting lodge in Mayerling.
  93. Complete the sentence about Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: When Karl Ludwig died of typhoid fever in ______, Franz Ferdinand became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hunga…
  94. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: In ______, she had the palace Achilleion, named after the Greek hero Achilles, built on the Greek island of Corfu.
  95. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: While travelling in Geneva in ______, Elisabeth was fatally stabbed in the heart by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Luc…
  96. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie was born on 24 December ______ in the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich, Bavaria.
  97. Complete the sentence about First Austrian Republic with the correct year: After ______, Austria's government was dominated by the anti-Anschluss Christian Social Party, which retained close ties with…
  98. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with the correct year: With the Armistice of Villa Giusti on 3 November ______, the fate of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was sealed.
  99. Complete the sentence with the correct year: An Austrian Constitutional Assembly election was held on 16 February ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Austrian Civil War with the correct year: After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in October ______, the Republic of Austria formed as a parliamentary democracy.

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