Habsburg Capital · event 9 of 11

1857

The walls come down. Franz Joseph orders the fortifications demolished and the Ringstrasse laid out, lined with the institutions of a liberal empire: opera, museums, parliament, university, city hall.

The Habsburg Capital era

  1. 1683
  2. 1713
  3. 1740
  4. 1762
  5. 1766
  6. 1805 and 1809
  7. 1814–15
  8. 1848
  9. 1857
  10. 1869
  11. 1873

See the full timeline or read the history of Vienna.