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Year |
Event
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805 |
Magdeburg is mentioned for the first time in a document, the "Diedenhofer Kapitular"
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937 |
The Mauritius monastery is founded by Otto I
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962 |
Coronation of Otto I. in Rome to become German Emperor
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965 |
Otto I. confirms the trade, customs and coin minting privileges on Magdeburg
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968 |
The archbishopric of Magdeburg is founded
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1017/1018 |
The Monastery "Of our Blessed Lady" is founded
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1188 |
Archbishop Wichmann von SEEburg confers the Town Charter privilege on Magdeburg
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1209-1520 |
The Gothic Cathedral is built
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1240 |
The Magdeburg Horseman, the first free-standing statue in German speaking Europe
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1296 |
Magdeburg becomes a member of the Hanseatic League
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1524 |
Martin Luther preaches in St. John's church, and adoption of the Reformation by the town of Magdeburg
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1525 |
The first municipal library is opened |
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1631 |
Magdeburg is conquered and destroyed by imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War
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1646 |
Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) becomes Mayor of Magdeburg
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1648 |
The Treaty of Westphalia is concluded
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1666 |
By contact, Magdeburg falls to the Brandenburg Electorate. Magdeburg is developed into a Prussian fortress
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1681 |
The composer Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg
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1685 |
Huguenot refugees (the Edict of Potsdam) are settled here
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1691-1698 |
Teh barque-style town hall is being built
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1806-1814 |
Napoleonic troops are stationed in Magdeburg
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1807-1813 |
Magdeburg belongs to the Kingdom of Westphalia
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1815 |
Magdeburg - Capital city of the Saxon province in Prussia
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1819 |
The town gets its first municipal water supply system in the form of a Piping network
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1838 |
The Magdeburg steamship company establishes the Buckau maschine factory
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1839 |
The first railway line betwen Magdeburg and Schönebeck is opened
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1877 |
First horse-drawn trams in Magdeburg
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1886 |
The inner trade harbour is built
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1899 |
Electric trams in Magdeburg
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1908 |
Hans Grade, a Pioneer in the art of aviation, takes off for the first German motor-driven flight on the Cracau village green
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1938 |
The Rothensee ship lift is put into service
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1945 |
Magdeburg is destroyed during World War Two by allied air raids
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1951 |
Beginning of the reconstruction of the destroyed city
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1953 |
The College of Heavy Maschinery Construction is set up from the Magdeburg School of Maschine Construction which had a long tradition; since 1987: University of Technology "Otto von Guericke"
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1954 |
The Medical Academy is established
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1972 |
Teacher Training College, developed from the Teacher Training Institute, established in 1951
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1974 |
The suburban railway is placed into service
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1975 |
The "Magdeburger Ring", the urban motorway is completed
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1990 |
Magdeburg becomes the capital city of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt
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