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Austria. 400BC Celts. 15BC Rome. 5-7C Huns, Avars ravage. 6C Slovenes settle 8C Charlemagne. 9C Magyar. 955 Otto I...962 HRE. 976 Babenberg(E). 1278 Hapsburg. 1453 Archduchy. 1804 Austrian Empire. 1867 Ausgleich. 1918 Republic. 1938 Germany. 1945 Republic. 1955 Independence from Allies.
Austria-Hungary. 1867-1918 Dual monarchy. Ausgleich.
Austrian Empire. 1804-67. Slowly disintegrating last remnant of Holy Roman Empire.
Austrian State Treaty, 1955. Ended Allied occupation of Austria.
Austrian Succession, War. 1740-48. Jenkins Ear and King George’s Wars. Maria Theresa recognized. Francis I becomes Holy Roman Emperor. Prussian power shown. Aix-la-Chapelle Treaty. Silesian War.
Austro-Prussian War. 1866. Austria excluded from German Confederation. Austrian influence in Italy ended. Dual Monarchy.
Austro-Turkish War. 1682-99. Siege of Vienna. Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I drives Turks from Hungary.
Auto-da-fé. (Act of Faith). 1481-1850. Sentencing ceremony of Inquisition.
Autobahn. German road system begun by Hitler to reduce unemployment, 1934.
Autumn Harvest Uprising. 1927. Failed Chinese peasant revolt led by Mao.
Avalon. Elysium of Arthurian legend.
Avars. 6-8C. Nomadic Caucasus tribe defeated by Charlemagne.
Averescu, Alexandru. 1859-1938. Romanian General and Prime Minister. Suppressed 1907 peasant revolt.
Avernus. Crater lake, believed by Romans to be Hell’s entrance.
Averroës, Ibn Rushd. 1126-98. Arab philosopher: eternity of creation, universal shared consciousness.
Avicenna, Ali ibn-Sina. 980-1037. Arab physician, philosopher: Canon of Medicine.
Avignon Papacy. 1309-77. Popes from Clement V based in Avignon, France. Great Schism.
Avignon School. 14-15C. Style of painting influenced by Sienese and Flemish painters during papal residence.
Avila Camacho, Manuel. 1897-1955. Mexican President 1940-46. Befriended US, rallied Latin America vs Axis.
Avogadro, Amadeo. 1776-1856. PV=nRT. Number of molecules in a given quantity of gas 1811.
Awami League. 1954-71. For Bangladesh independence. Rahman.
Axis Pact. 1936-45. German-Italian Agreement, 1936. Cooperative alliance maintained through WWII. Allied with Spain, 1939; Japan, 1936. Yugoslavia 1941. Tripartite Pact.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Ayer, Alfred. 1910-89. British Logical Positivist. Foundation of Empirical Knowledge. Language, Truth and Logic 1936.