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  Austrian Empire timeline
     
976
 
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Leopold, of the Babenberg family, becomes margrave of Austria and founds a dynasty which lasts for three centuries      
c. 1020
 
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Count Radbot builds himself a 'hawk's castle' or Habichstburg, near Zurich, from which the Habsburg dynasty takes its name       
1156
 
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Vienna is adopted by the Babenberg rulers as the capital city of Austria       
1273
 
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The period without a German king, known as the Great Interregnum, ends with the election of a Habsburg prince, Rudolf I       
1278
 
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At Dürnkrut Rudolf I defeats and kills Otakar II, his rival for Austria - thus bringing the Austrian territories into the Habsburg domain       
1291
 
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The Swiss forest districts of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden sign an Everlasting League (in the Rütli meadow) to resist Habsburg domination