Sources: BBC
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sells for US$236.4 million ({{Euro}}203.2 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the most expensive modern art piece. 2025-11-18
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announces a package of new anti-terrorism measures, including granting Austrian security services the ability to monitor private communications sent on messaging and social media apps and decrypt encrypted messages, and restricting the right to assembly of groups declared "hostile to democracy". 2024-08-13
Eight people in Austria and two others in Switzerland are killed by a series of avalanches. 2023-02-5
Austria reports a record 17,006 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,378,747. 2022-01-12
Austria reports a record for the second consecutive day of 15,809 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,027,274. 2021-11-19
The Austrian government announces that it will ban people who are unvaccinated and those who have not recovered from COVID-19 from entering cafes, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels, events with more than 25 people, and ski lifts beginning on 8 November due to an increase in COVID-19 cases. 2021-11-5
Austria announces the easing of its lockdown from February 8, allowing non-essential shops and schools to reopen while toughening border restrictions and implementing a curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time. 2021-02-1
Poland and Israel join Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Australia and Austria in announcing that, despite their agreement in July, they will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech on 10–11 December 2018. 2018-11-20
A sixth body is recovered in Bavaria near the Austrian border. 2016-06-3