Italy declares war against Austria-Hungary, but not as yet against Germany

Austria-Hungary renews its attack on Serbia, and its troops capture Belgrade

The emperor Francis Joseph dies after 66 years on the thrones of Austria and Hungary, to be succeeded by his great-nephew Charles I

Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans

The deposition of the emperor Charles I by the Austrian government brings to a formal end the empire of Austria-Hungary and more than six centuries of Habsburg rule

With the end of the Habsburg empire, German-speaking Austrians declare their own much smaller territory to be an independent republic