1. Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty.

2. The Habsburg dynasty ruled in Austria from 1278 to 1918.

3. He writes of the Habsburg monarchs: "They steadily over-extended themselves in the course of repeated conflicts and became militarily top-heavy for their weakening economic base.

4. There were five chief sources of Habsburg finance, and several smaller ones.

5. Frederick IV, the Habsburg king of Germany, was crowned Holy Roman emperor as Frederick III in 1452, and Habsburgs continued to hold that title until 1806.

6. It later came under the Habsburg influence and became part of Austria-Hungary.

7. The wave hit Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, forcing the great power broker Metternich to resign.

8. The Hofburg in Vienna, residence for centuries of the Habsburg emperors, burnt on 27 November.

9. This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess.

10. He was a Protestant mercenary from Moravia who foresaw Habsburg victory and joined up on the side of the emperor.

11. Nonetheless, that was not how the other princes and states viewed mighty agglomeration of Habsburg power.

12. According to the Xinhua News Agency Xinhua last emperor of Austria-Hungary, the eldest son of Otto von Habsburg who died earlier this month, is scheduled for 16 buried in Vienna, Austria.

13. Austria - Hungary enters an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg - ruled empire dissolves.

14. Since 1633 the Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the Habsburg dynasty, hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and their descendants.sentencedict.com

15. It was these spiraling costs of war which exposed the real weakness of the Habsburg system.

16. By elimination , then, the Netherlands was the only area in which Habsburg losses might be out.

17. It was in 1816 that Salzburg – in its capacity as a new crown land – became part of Habsburg Austria.

18. 1713 - With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa.