2015 in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Heinz Fischer
• Chancellor: Werner Faymann

  Events

January

• January 5 - An avalanche near the Rettenbach glacier in the Austrian Alps, kills two prospects for the United States ski team, Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle.

  February

• February 25 - The Austrian Parliament passes a bill, partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, that gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams.

  May

August

• Burgenland corpses discovery

  November

• Samra Kesinovic, an Austrian teenager who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is reported dead, having been beaten to death by the group after trying to escape from Raqqa. Her companion, Sabina Selimovic, was reported to have been killed in fighting in Syria in September 2014.

  December

• December 2 - Vienna swimming pool rape
• December 5 - Miss Earth 2015 took place on December 5, 2015, at Marx Halle, Vienna, Austria. Jamie Herrell of the Philippines will crown her successor at the end of the event.

  Deaths

• June 22 - Irma Schwager, Second World War resistance fighter and communist politician