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| 1995, Oct. 12 |
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| The ruling government coalition in Austria collapsed because of its inability to agree on a budget for 1996. The Parliament dissolved pending general elections. | 1 |
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| 1997, Jan. 18 |
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| Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky stepped down, declaring his successor to be finance minister Viktor Klima of the Social Democratic Party. | 2 |
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| 1998, Sept. 29 |
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| Austria discussed returning the hundreds of art objects that had been stolen by the Nazi regime from their former, primarily Jewish, owners. | 3 |
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| 1999, Jan. 1 |
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| Austria joined ten other European nations in the implementation of a single European currency, the euro. The other countries launching euro use were Belgium, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. | 4 |
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| Aug. 25 |
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| In Vienna, Austrian police arrested Gen. Momir Talic, a Bosnian Serb military leader wanted by the UN for war crimes. | 5 |
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| Oct. 3 |
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| In a general election during which the Social Democrats won only one-third of the votes, the right-wing anti-immigration Freedom Party upset traditional Austrian politics by tying for second place with the Center-Right People's Party. Shocking the European political establishment, this election marked the strongest popular support for a Far-Right Western European party since the end of World II. Wolfgang Schuessel of the conservative People's Party became chancellor. | 6 |
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