The Siege of Vienna (In Our Time)
1683 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests Andrew Wheatcroft, Claire Norton and Jeremy Black discuss the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, when the Ottoman Empire tried to capture the capital city of the Hapsburg monarchs. The ensuing tale of blood and drama helped define the boundaries of Europe. In June 1683, a man called Kara Mustafa made a journey to Vienna. That a Muslim T
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Around 1683
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)