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| | | Austrian Empire timeline |
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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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| 1273 |
| | The period without a German king, known as the Great Interregnum, ends with the election of a Habsburg prince, Rudolf I | |
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| 1278 |
| | At Dürnkrut Rudolf I defeats and kills Otakar II, his rival for Austria - thus bringing the Austrian territories into the Habsburg domain | |
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| 1291 |
| | The Swiss forest districts of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden sign an Everlasting League (in the Rütli meadow) to resist Habsburg domination | |
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