List of wars involving Austria
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This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Austria.
- Victory
- Defeat
- Another result
- Ongoing
| Date | Name of Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
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| 170 | Battle of Carnuntum | Roman Empire | Germanic victory | |
| 10/12 August 943 | Battle of Wels (part of Hungarian invasions of Europe) | East Francia | Principality of Hungary | Bavarian–Carantanian victory |
Margraviate of Austria (976–1156)
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| 976 | 978 | War of the Three Henries (976–978) | .svg){kind=small} Holy Roman Empire
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 Duchy of Bavaria
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Bavarian defeat
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| 1015 | 1015 | Bolesław I's first invasion of the Austria | Holy Roman Empire
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 Duchy of Poland
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Victory
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| 1017 | 1017 | Bolesław I's second invasion of the Austria | Holy Roman Empire
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Duchy of Poland
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Victory
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| 1030 | 1031 | Conrad II's invasion of Hungary | Holy Roman Empire
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Defeat |
| 1040 | 1041 | Henry III's invasion of Bohemia | Holy Roman Empire
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 Duchy of Bohemia
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Victory |
| 1042 | 1044 | Henry III's invasion of Hungary | Holy Roman Empire Peter Orseolo's Hungary
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Samuel Aba's Hungary
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Victory
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| 29 June 1073 | 27 October 1075 | Saxon Rebellion | Holy Roman Empire
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 Duchy of Saxony
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Victory
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| 12 May 1082 | 12 May 1082 | Battle of Mailberg | Duchy of Bohemia
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| 11 September 1146 | 11 September 1146 | Battle of the Fischa | Duchy of Bavaria
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Kingdom of Hungary
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Defeat |
| 1147 | 1149 | Second Crusade | Crusaders:
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Seljuq Sultanate |
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Duchy of Austria (1156–1453)
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Archduchy of Austria (1453–1804)
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Austrian Empire (1804–1867)
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918)
[edit]| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding the Austro-Hungarian Empire) | Outcome | Emperor | Casualties | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||||
| 19 June 1875 | 20 October 1878 | Great Eastern Crisis |  Russia
Supported by: |
 Ottoman Empire
Supported by: |
Victory | 7,447 casualties | |
| 1879 | 1880 | Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah | Ottoman Empire
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| 14 November 1885 | 28 November 1885 | Serbo-Bulgarian War |  Serbia
Support: |
 Bulgaria
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Defeat | Francis Joseph I (1867–1916), Charles I of Austria (1916–1918) | |
| January 1897 | October 1898 | Cretan Revolt of 1897-1898 | .svg){kind=small} Cretan revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece
International Squadron: |
Ottoman Empire
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Victory
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| 2 November 1899 | 7 September 1901 | Boxer Rebellion | Eight-Nation Alliance:
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 Righteous Harmony Society |
Victory | Unknown but very light casualties | |
| 28 July 1914 | 3 November 1918 | World War I | Central Powers
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Allies:
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Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. | 1,200,000 to 1,494,200 deaths | |
Republic of German-Austria (1918–1919)
[edit]| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding German-Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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| 23 November 1918 | 31 July 1919 | Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia |  State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification)
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Ceasefire
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Karl Renner | 1,000 casualties | |
First Austrian Republic (1919–1934)
[edit]| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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| 28 August 1921 | 13 October 1921 | Uprising in West Hungary |  Austria.svg){kind=small} Hungary
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 Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers
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Defeat, Sopron and its area remained in Hungary. | Johannes Schober | 12 killed |
| 12 February 1934 | 15 February 1934 | Austrian Civil War |  Fatherland Front
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 SDAPÖ
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Government victory
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Engelbert Dollfuß | Thousands of casualties |
Federal State of Austria (1934–1938)
[edit]| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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| 25 July 1934 | 30 July 1934 | July Putsch | VF
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 Schutzstaffel (SS)
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Government victory
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† Engelbert Dollfuß (assassinated), Kurt Schuschnigg after the assassination | 200+ killed on both sides (including Engelbert Dollfuß) |
Ostmark Reichsgau of Nazi Germany
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See also
[edit]- History of Austria
- Austrian Armed Forces
- Military history of Austria
- Category:Wars involving the Holy Roman Empire
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Adolf Hitler
References
[edit]- ^ Péter Torbágyi (2008). Magyar kivándorlás Latin–Amerikába az első világháború előtt (PDF) (in Hungarian). Szeged: University of Szeged. p. 42. ISBN 978-963-482-937-9. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ^ Richard Leroy Hill (1995). A Black corps d'élite: an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863–1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history. East Lansing, US: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870133398.
- ^ Walter Klinger (2008). Für Kaiser Max nach Mexiko – Das Österreichische Freiwilligenkorps in Mexiko 1864/67 (in German). Munich: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3640141920. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ^ Sondhaus, Lawrence (1994). The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism. Purdue University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9781557530349.
- ^ Sondhaus 1994, p. 132.
- ^ McTiernan, Mick (2014). A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete. 1897-1898. King's College London. p. 36.
- ^ Holland, Robert, and Diana Markides, The British and the Hellenes: Struggles For Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1850–1960, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-924996-1, p. 92.