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| 1787 |
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| Code of Criminal Law did away with capital punishment, replacing it with life imprisonment at hard labor. | 1 |
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| 1791 |
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| A compromise declared Hungary a separate country subject to the same succession as other Habsburg lands. | 2 |
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| 1794 |
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| Jacobins discovered in Austria-Hungary. Many arrested, imprisoned, and executed. | 3 |
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| 1795 |
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| Government began to curtail service exemptions in the military. | 4 |
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| 1797, Oct. 17 |
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| Peace of Campo Formio ended conflict between Austria and France (See Oct. 17). Despite its inability to maintain hostilities, Austria continued to oppose France. | 5 |
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| 1801 |
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| Government centralization began with the creation of a Conference Ministry. | 6 |
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| 1804 |
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| Francis II assumed title emperor of Austria and then abdicated (Aug. 6, 1806) as Holy Roman Emperor and thus ended the Holy Roman Empire. | 7 |
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| 1808–9 |
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| Austria created a national militia. | 8 |
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| 1811 |
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| The codification of law begun under Joseph II promulgated. | 9 |
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| 1813 |
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| Separate Ministry of Finance appointed. (See The Habsburg Monarchy) | 10 |
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