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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus | |
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| c. 3250 BC |
| | A neolithic herdsman dies high in the Alps - and is perfectly preserved in ice | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses | |
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| 976 |
| | Leopold, of the Babenberg family, becomes margrave of Austria and founds a dynasty which lasts for three centuries | |
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| c. 1020 |
| | Count Radbot builds himself a 'hawk's castle' or Habichstburg, near Zurich, from which the Habsburg dynasty takes its name | |
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| 1156 |
| | Vienna is adopted by the Babenberg rulers as the capital city of Austria | |
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