166 notable events in Austria — wars, murders and scandals. Page 1 of 2.
- Fritzl case
Aug 28, 1984–Apr 26, 2008 · Crime & justice
- Natascha Kampusch
Mar 2, 1998 · Scandal & controversy
- Mauthausen concentration camp
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dec 5, 1791 · Scandal & controversy
- Jack Unterweger
Jan 1, 1974–Jan 1, 1992 · Attack (other)
- Bleiburg repatriations
May 1945 · Massacre
- Mayerling incident
Jan 30, 1889 · Suicide & execution
- 2025 Graz school shooting
Jun 10, 2025 · Shooting
- Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch
Mar 2, 1998–Aug 23, 2006 · Kidnapping & hostage
- Anton Webern
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Aribert Heim
date unknown · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Kaprun disaster
Nov 11, 2000 · Rail accident
- Austrian Civil War
Feb 12, 1934–Feb 16, 1934 · War & armed conflict
- Martha Marek
Jan 1, 1932–Jan 1, 1937 · War & armed conflict
- 2020 Vienna attack
Nov 2, 2020 · Terrorism
- Hartheim killing centre
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
Mar 1, 1848–Nov 1848 · War & armed conflict
- 1985 Austrian diethylene glycol wine scandal
1985 · Scandal & controversy
- July Putsch
Jul 25, 1934–Jul 30, 1934 · War & armed conflict
- Death of Ludwig van Beethoven
Mar 26, 1827 · Death & funeral
- Elfriede Blauensteiner
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Franz Fuchs
Feb 4, 1995 · Terrorism
- 2025 Villach stabbing attack
Feb 15, 2025 · Shooting
- Action 14f13
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Eduard Krebsbach
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · War & armed conflict
- OPEC siege
Dec 23, 1975 · Kidnapping & hostage
- Lainz Angels of Death
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Swiss International Air Lines Flight 1885
Dec 23, 2024 · Aviation accident
- Schloss Hartheim
date unknown · Massacre
- Bombing of Vienna in World War II
Sep 4, 1942–Apr 16, 1945 · War & armed conflict
- Upper Austrian peasant war of 1626
May 1626–Dec 1626 · War & armed conflict
- Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378
Jul 12, 2000 · Aviation accident
- Dachstein hiking disaster
1954 · Disaster
- Mühlviertler Hasenjagd
Feb 1, 1945 · War & armed conflict
- Death of a mountaineer on the Grossglockner in January 2025
Jan 2025 · Death & funeral
- Haidbauer incident
Apr 1926 · Incident
- 1999 Galtür avalanche
Feb 23, 1999 · Natural disaster
- Frankenburg Dice Game
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Rafael Boban
May 1, 1945 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- July Revolt of 1927
Jul 15, 1927 · War & armed conflict
- Kurt Waldheim affair
1986 · Scandal & controversy
- Burgenland corpses discovery
Aug 1, 2015 · Crime & justice
- Thalerhof internment camp
date unknown · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 2013 European floods
May 28, 2013–Jun 5, 2013 · Natural disaster
- Ringtheater fire
Dec 8, 1881 · Fire
- 44th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Lassing mining disaster
Jul 17, 1997 · Industrial & structural disaster
- Vienna Uprising
Oct 31, 1848 · War & armed conflict
- Evo Morales grounding incident
Jul 1, 2013 · Scandal & controversy
- Great Plague of Vienna
Jan 1, 1679 · Epidemic & disease
- Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic
Apr 10, 2014 · War & armed conflict
- Massacre of Schletz
5000 BC · Massacre
- 2008 Vienna and Upper Austria quintuple murder
May 13, 2008 · Crime & justice
- Miklós Radnóti
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Vienna Gesera
1420s · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 2013 Annaberg shooting
Sep 17, 2013 · Shooting
- Kitzbühel quintuple murder
Oct 6, 2019 · Murder & homicide
- Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Kurz corruption probe
2021 · Scandal & controversy
- 2015 Graz car attack
Jun 20, 2015 · Terrorism
- Massacre at Rohoncz
Mar 24, 1945 · Murder & homicide
- Wolfgang Ott
Jan 1, 1995–Jan 1, 1996 · Murder & homicide
- 2010 Bratislava shooting
Aug 30, 2010 · Shooting
- Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern
Oct 29, 2007 · Disappearance
- Noricum scandal
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- Attempt to kill Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria (1853)
Feb 18, 1853 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Leonie W. in Vienna 2021
Jun 26, 2021 · Crime & justice
- Stiwoll double murder
Oct 29, 2017 · Murder & homicide
- British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802/6
Feb 29, 1964 · Aviation accident
- Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt
Jan 28, 1573–Feb 9, 1573 · Riot & unrest
- Vienna temple attack
May 24, 2009 · Shooting
- BVT scandal
2010s · Scandal & controversy
- Battle of Ebelsberg
May 3, 1809 · War & armed conflict
- Commerzialbank Mattersburg
date unknown
- Peter Seisenbacher
date unknown · Person
- Vienna swimming pool rape
Dec 2, 2015 · Crime & justice
- Max Gufler
Jan 1, 1946–Jan 1, 1958 · War & armed conflict
- Taylor Swift Vienna concert terror plot
Aug 8, 2024–Aug 10, 2024 · Terrorism
- 1954 Blons avalanches
Jan 11, 1954 · Natural disaster
- Deutsch Schützen massacre
Mar 29, 1945 · Massacre
- Vienna State Opera murder
Mar 12, 1963 · Murder & homicide
- Persmanhof
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Harald Sassak
Jan 1, 1970–Jan 1, 1972 · Murder & homicide
- Niklasdorf train collision
Feb 12, 2018 · Rail accident
- Eurofighter affair (Austria)
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- Carinthian Peasant Revolt
1478 · Riot & unrest
- 2017 Austrian coup d'état plot
Apr 2017 · War & armed conflict
- Tragedy of Viktring
1945 · War & armed conflict
- Slovene peasant revolt of 1515
Aug 1, 1515 · Riot & unrest
- Alfred Engleder
Jan 1, 1955–Jan 1, 1957 · Attack (other)
- Gaugefechtsstand Wien
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Schoenau ultimatum
Sep 28, 1973 · Attack (other)
- Ernst Karl
Jan 1, 1968–Jan 1, 1974 · Murder & homicide
- Phönix scandal
1936 · Scandal & controversy
- Organised mass murders of Hungarian Jews in the Rechnitz area
1945 · Murder & homicide
- Gedenkdienst
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Franz and Rosalie Schneider
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Bombing of Wiener Neustadt in World War II
1941–1945 · War & armed conflict
- 2024 Vienna triple murder
Feb 23, 2024 · Crime & justice
- Julien Torma
Feb 17, 1933 · Disappearance