| Description | Event | Year |
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| 1. This severely inbred and handicapped king of Spain died, thus making the Spanish Habsburg dynasty extinct and starting the War of the Spanish Succession | |
| 2. There were three pretenders jockeying for the Spanish throne. The first, a Bavarian prince, was the first choice, but died en route to Barcelona | |
| 3. The second, an Austrian archduke, was forced to abandon the idea when his brother suddenly died, leaving him to inherit the Holy Roman Empire | |
| 4. The last, the grandson of the French king Louis XIV, finally won the right to the throne as long as he first abdicated his claim to the French throne | |
| 5. This peace treaty was signed to end the War of the Spanish Succession | |
| 6.#3, lacking a male heir, issued this decree in order to allow for a woman to inherit the throne | |
| 7. Prince Eugene, an Italian aristocrat serving the Habsburgs, reversed some of the military gains made by the Turks in previous centuries in what is now known as: | |
| 8. This daughter of #3 inherited the Holy Roman Empire, sparking the War of the Austrian Succession | |
| 9. The most significant event of the war was the loss of this historically Habsburg duchy in Poland... | |
| 10. ...to the rival nation of Prussia, ruled by this lifetime enemy of #8: | |
| 11. Prince Kaunitz, an advisor of #8, sparked a diplomatic revolution with this suggestion that the Holy Roman Empire should forge an alliance with its traditional enemy, France | |
| 12. The territorial and hegemonial conflicts between Austria and Prussia again resulted in violence by contributing to the outbreak of this war | |
| 13. Another short-lived Austro-Prussian conflict ended with the Peace of Teschen: | |
| 14. This son of #8 inherited the throne from his older brother, Joseph II, in time to see the French Revolution begin and his sister Marie Antoinette beheaded | |
| 15.This successor of #14 was forced to abdicate the throne after his coaltion was defeated by Napoleon, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire and beginning the Austrian Empire | |
| 16. An uprising of Tyrolean peasants protested the occupation of their land during #15's War of the Fifth Coalition against Napoleon. Their leader was: | |
| 17. The second time Napoleon conquered Vienna, he dictated peace, sealing the deal by marrying this daughter of #15 | |
| 18. This conference of ambassadors met to attempt to work out the problems presented by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars | |
| 19. Napoleon was defeated at this famous battle by the Austro-Prussian Seventh Coalition | |
| 20. The 'Holy Alliance' was established between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and was headed by this Austrian statesman | |
| | Description | Event | Year |
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| 21. The 'Concert of Europe', combined with increasing surveillance and censorship of the populace, was given this derisive nickname after #20 | |
| 22. This weak and severely epileptic son of #15 succeeded the throne, but was largely incapable and so the government was steered by #20 | |
| 23. Demand for an end to #21 and for popular representation exploded in Vienna in this uprising named for the year in which it began | |
| 24. This uprising, simultaneous with #23, was militarily subdued with the help of Russia | |
| 25. This document, though only in effect for a few weeks, is acknowledged as the beginning of constitutionalism in Austria | |
| 26. This Parliament-like government institution opened for the first time in Vienna, marking the beginning of political parties | |
| 27.#22, in the face of the events of #23, was convinced to abdicate in favor of his nephew, a neo-absolutist: | |
| 28. Austria lost its close ties to Russia when the former offended the latter in its neutrality against Britain and France during this war | |
| 29. Austria lost its traditional lands in Italy when the kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont allied with Napoleon III of France in this Italian unification movement | |
| 30. This war, which lasted only seven weeks, established Prussia as the dominant German-speaking power | |
| 31. The above various military defeats led to pressure for greater autonomy for Hungary. This treaty created the Dual Monarchy, or Austria-Hungary | |
| 32. This war, sparked from a conflict over a vacant Spanish throne, resulted in the completion of German unification under Prussia | |
| 33.The demonetization of silver and a serious of Viennese bank failures led to this economic downturn, which was largely blamed on capitalists and Jews | |
| 34. This conference was convened between ambassadors of the great powers to reorganize the countries of the Balkans | |
| 35. Austria-Hungary and Germany made this formal agreement in case of an attack on either party by Russia, as part of Otto von Bismarck's plan to prevent war | |
| 36. These unpopular ordinances were passed in an attempt to ease etho-linguistic tension in Bohemia; they required that all civil servants be fluent in both German and Czech | |
| 37. This coup d'etat took place in Serbia, replacing a friendly government with fiercely pan-Slavic and anti-Austrian one | |
| 38. Though it had been occupying this ethnically diverse and unstable region since #34, Austria finally formally annexed it, further angering Serbia | |
| 39. This heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary... | |
| 40...was shot in Sarajevo by this Bosnian Serb student, igniting WWI | |
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