Celebrated her proxy marriage to Louis-Auguste, future Louis XVI, in Vienna.
On April 19, 1770, Marie Antoinette married Louis-Auguste, future Louis XVI, through a proxy ceremony held in Vienna. This strategic union, orchestrated between Austria and France, was designed to strengthen political alliances. The proxy marriage, a customary practice for royal arrangements across long distances, set the stage for Antoinette's future as the Dauphine, and later Queen, of France.