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The 30,000-year-old Venus of Galgenberg (aka Dancing Fanny) and the 25,000-year-old buxom
beauty the Venus of Willendorf are crafted - both are now in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum.
3300 BC
The Neolithic 'Ötzi' dies and is mummified in a glacier in the Ötztal. He's found in 1991; several
Austrian and Italian women ask to be impregnated with his frozen sperm.
800-400 BC
The Iron Age Hallstatt-Kultur (Hallstatt Culture) develops in southern Salzkammergut, where set-
tlers work salt mines. Around 450 BC Celts arrive in the region and build on this flourishing culture.
15 BC-AD 600
Romans establish relations with Celts and Nordic tribes. Roman occupation begins in the provinces
of Rhaetia, Noricum and Pannonia. Slavic, Germanic and other tribes later overrun the territories.
AD 8
Vindobona, the forerunner of Vienna's Innere Stadt, becomes part of the Roman province of Panno-
nia.
795
Charlemagne creates a buffer region in the Danube Valley, later dubbed Ostmark (Eastern March) by
the Nazis; this shores up the eastern edge of his empire.
976 & 996
The Babenbergs are entrusted with the Ostmark in 976 and administer it as margraves; in 996 this
appears for the first time in a document as Ostarrîchi.
1137
Vienna is first documented as a city in the Treaty of Mautern between the Babenbergs and the Bish-
ops of Passau.
1156
As consolation for relinquishing Bavaria, Austria becomes a duchy (Privilegium Minus) and the
Babenberg ruler Heinrich Jasomirgott (1107-77) becomes Austria's first duke, residing in Vienna.
1192
