With the success of campaigns in Spain and France, Muslims made headway into Switzerland, but nothing that lasted beyond the Middle Ages. Austria came to the forefront of Muslim-Christian theaters of war during the height of the Ottoman power. Soon after the latter's fall, a reverse of roles occurred as the Austrians came in control of a large Muslim population in Bosnia.
| 906 | Muslims occupy Piedmont, Liguria, and parts of Switzerland. Soon Grenoble, Frejus, Marseilles, and Nice will fall to them. |
| 911 | Muslims colonize the Alpine Passes. |
| 942 | Muslims occupy Mount Jupiter (Great St. Bernard). |
| 952 | Muslims control all of Switzerland. Evidence of Muslim presence in Switzerland, France, and Italy exists in names of many locations: Monte Moro (Moor) on the Switzerland-Italian border; Mont de Maures in southern France; Pontresina (Pons Saracenorum), a town on the Bernina Pass road; Almagell (Al-Mahall, the place) a village near Mont Moro; Allalin (ala al-Ain, to the source), a mountain near the head of the Saas Valley. |
| 1529 | The forces of Suleiman the Magnificent besiege Vienna, Austria. Due to the weather the siege is lifted; this day is celebrated by the Austrians as Deliverance Day. It is also a benchmark of Muslim expansion into Europe. |
| 1532 | Suleiman leads an unsuccessful renewed invasion of Austria. |
| 1600 | The journey of Uruch Beg and the Persian ambassador Husayn Ali Beg takes them to Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Prague, and throughout Italy including Rome. |
| 1665 | The Ottoman embassy of Kara Mehmed Pasha arrives in Vienna to fulfill diplomatic obligations. |
| 1683 | Under the Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa, the second siege of Vienna fails after intervention of the Polish army. This loss is a huge blow to the prestige of the dynasty. Culinary history enters a new phase after this battle. Coffee enters mainstream Austria after the beans are recovered from the Ottoman camps; the legend arises that the bakers saved Vienna, who upon hearing the noise of the Ottoman miners, alerted the Austrian defense. They commemorated the event by baking crescent buns, or croissants. Kara Mustafa will be executed by strangulation for this loss on Christmas day by order of the Sultan. The gruesome relic fell into the hands of Austrians and was later put on display at Vienna's Historisches Museum where over three hundred years after the failed siege, it was still exhibited. |
| 1687 | The Ottomans lose a battle of Mochas to the Austrians. |
| 1688 | The Austrians capture Belgrade from the Turks. |
| 1699 | Christian powers and Ottomans sign the Treaty of Karlowitz.The latter loses much territory and begins a retreat of power. The Habsburgs, based in Vienna, gain most of Hungary; the Ottomans lose the rest of Hungary with other territory in a 1718 treaty. Karlowitz is often designated as a documented decline of Ottoman power due to lack of expansionist activity following the treaty. |
| 1713 | War breaks out again between Ottomans and Austria and Venice |
| 1718 | Ottomans sign the treaty of Passarowitz with Austrians and Venetians. |
| 1719 | Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha becomes the first Ottoman official to send envoys to the more prestigious European capitals, including Vienna this year. Other envoys will be sent to Paris and Moscow within the next three years. |
| 1754 | Lord Keith, tenth Earl Marischal of Scotland, becomes governor of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. With him is his entourage known as the little horde of Tartars: Ermetulla the Turkish Lady, daughter of a janissary who entered Keith's company as a young girl after the Battle of Ochakov (1737) and is said to have lived until the age of one hundred; Stepan the Tibetan, kin of the Grand Lama of Tibet; Ibraham (Ibrahim) the Kalmuck; and Mocha, a black servant. |
| 1781 | Russian monarch Catherine II signs a treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. This treaty outlines a division of the Ottoman Empire and a rebirth of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1809 | Napoleon's Mamluk regiment participates in the French victory against the Austrians at the Battle of Wagram. |
| 1867 | The Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz visits Western Europe with his son and two nephews (including the future sultans Murad V and Abdulhamid II). This will be the first time an Ottoman sultan visits a non-Muslim country outside a wartime condition. His tour includes visiting Emperor Francis Joseph in Vienna. |
| 1873 | Vienna hosts a Universal Exposition. Much like the world's fairs in Paris, this one features an Ottoman display, an Egyptian display, and other Muslim exhibitions. Persia's shah Nasiruddin visits this exposition. This year he also takes a trip to Moscow and London for diplomatic purposes. |
| 1878 | The dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary will have a large Muslim population after obtaining the formerly Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina. Soon there will be a resident mufti and laws regarding religious recognition will be enacted. |
| 1883 | Translation into German of a Hanafi code of Islamic family law takes place in Vienna. Prompting for this translation came when the Austrian courts had to recognize Islamic family law within its courts for Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| 1892 | Khedive Abbas II begins his reign in Egypt. This nationalist leader received schooling in Switzerland and Vienna. |
| 1917 | Ahmed Bey Zogolli, the future King Zog of Albania, will be detained in Vienna until 1918. Here Zogolli will become well versed in many aspects of Western culture. |
| 1962 | In Austria, Austrian Muslims of Bosnian origin establish the Moslemischer Sozialdienst, or the Muslim Social Service. |
| 1979 | The main mosque and Islamic Center at Vienna opens. |
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