Events in the year 2023 in Austria.

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Karl Nehammer

• January 10 – the Criminal Court of Vienna acquitted former Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache, citing lack of proof.^[1][2]
• January 29 – 2023 Lower Austrian state election: Incumbent Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) remains strongest with slightly less than 40%, the party's weakest result in Lower Austria yet.
• February 5 – Avalanches kill eight tourists across the Austrian Alps.^[3]
• March 5 – 2023 Carinthian state election: Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) loses 9% of votes but remains strongest party with roughly 39% of votes.
• March 17 – In Lower Austria, the ÖVP forms a coalition with the FPÖ.
• March 30 – Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walk out from the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality.^[4]
• March 31 – In Carinthia, the SPÖ renews its coalition with the ÖVP.
• April 23 – 2023 Salzburg state election: Following the election, a coalition between ÖVP and FPÖ was agreed on, the first of its kind in Salzburg.
• April 24–June 3 – 2023 Social Democratic Party of Austria leadership election: Hans Peter Doskozil initially leads in the non-binding member vote, but Andreas Babler is officially elected as new chairman during a party congress in Linz on June 3.
• May 30 – Three people are killed during a fire at a hospital in Mödling.^[5]
• June 30 – Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest newspapers still published in the world, ends its daily print after 320 years (1703).^[6][7]
• September 12 – At Salzburg Zoo, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed.^[8]
• October 11 – Police in Vienna, announce that they have banned a pro-Palestinian protest over mentions of "from the river to the sea" in invitations and the characterization of the protest as a call for violence.^[9]
• November 3 – A small plane en route from Zagreb, Croatia, crashes as it approached Salzburg, killing four people.^[10]
• November 13 – Justice Minister Alma Zadić announces the allocation of €33 million (around US$35 million) to compensate approximately 11,000 LGBT people affected by the country's historical discriminatory laws.^[11]