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Timeline of Vienna

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7805982 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria.

Prior to 19th century

c. 100 – Vindobona settled.

180 – Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius dies in Vindobona.

740 - Church of St Ruprecht, the oldest church in Vienna, first built.

881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna).

1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna.

1155

Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city.

Schottenstift founded.

1160 – St.

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“Timeline of Vienna” enters the record as timeline. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Timeline, Vienna and timeline can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1030, 1155, 1160—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Timeline, Vienna and timeline.
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“Timeline of Vienna” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Timeline, Vienna and timeline provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7805982. Authority coordinates are 48.208, 16.373. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1030, 1155 and 1160.

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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of Vienna” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.