{"slug": "lower-austria", "label": "Lower Austria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Austria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42497", "qid": "Q42497", "description": "federated state of Austria", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [619, 1590], "span_label": ["619 CE", "1590 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "moravia", "label": "Moravia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "duchy-of-bavaria", "label": "Duchy of Bavaria", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pannonian-avars", "label": "Pannonian Avars", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slovakia", "label": "Slovakia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elbe", "label": "Elbe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slavic-peoples", "label": "Slavic peoples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "margraviate-of-austria", "label": "Margraviate of Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "conrad-iii-of-germany", "label": "Conrad III of Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lothair-iii-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Avars attack the outskirts of Constantinople. Numerous Slavic tribes rebel against Avar overlordship; they carve out their own sovereign territory in Moravia and Lower Austria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 623, "year_label": "623 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected king of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria. A string of victories over the Avars proves his utilitas (usefulness) to his subjects, and he secures the throne to establish his own kingdom, which stretches from the upper Elbe to the Danube.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364763007#Europe", "title": "623", "revid": 1364763007, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 996, "year_label": "996 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Otto III grants the Bavarian bishopric of Freising 30 \"royal hides\" of land (about 800 hectares, or 2,000 acres - 800 hectares is 2,000 acres) in Neuhofen an der Ybbs (Lower Austria). A document (the oldest known) marks the first use of the name Ostarrîchi, meaning \"Eastern Realm\" (Austria in Old High German).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365261051#Europe", "title": "996", "revid": 1365261051, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1082, "year_label": "1082 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – Battle of Mailberg: Duke Vratislaus II of Bohemia invades Austria with an army of 8,000 men (supported by mercenaries from Moravia and Bavaria). He defeats the forces under Margrave Leopold II (\"the Fair\") near Mailberg. The northern region of Lower Austria is devastated from pillage and famine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070113#Europe", "title": "1082", "revid": 1267070113, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1143, "year_label": "1143 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Spring – King Conrad III gives Bavaria to his half-brother Henry II (\"Jasomirgott\"). His wife, Gertrude (daughter of the late Emperor Lothair III) dies in childbirth at Klosterneuburg Monastery in Lower Austria on April 18.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337864253#Europe", "title": "1143", "revid": 1337864253, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1486, "year_label": "1486 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – In Austria, the siege of Wiener Neustadt by the Kingdom of Hungary begins and will last for more than a year and a half before the city is surrendered to Hungary and is renamed Biencújhely. As part of the terms of peace, Austria cedes much of the territory of Lower Austria to the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369024065#January–March", "title": "1486", "revid": 1369024065, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1590, "year_label": "1590 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 15", "text": "September 15 – The estimated 6.0 magnitude Neulengbach earthquake causes significant damage and some loss of life, in Lower Austria and Vienna; the effects are felt as far as Bohemia and Silesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369164716#July–September", "title": "1590", "revid": 1369164716, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}