Timeline of Strasbourg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Ancient history[]

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• 12th century BC – Area settled by proto-Celts.
• 3rd century BC – Celts develop township.
• 12 BC – Nero Claudius Drusus establishes Argentoratum as a military fort on the western bank of the Rhine River in preparation for his planned invasion of Germania.
• 90 CE – Legio VIII Augusta stationed in Argentoratum.
• 4th century CE – Catholic diocese of Strassburg established.^[1]
• 357 – Battle of Argentoratum.
• 407 AD – Vandals, Sueves, and Alans attack the city after crossing the frozen Rhine on New Year's Eve 406 AD. Sometime later that year, the city is reclaimed by the rebel forces of the usurper Constantine III.
• 451 AD – Attila the Hun takes Argentoratum during his Gallic campaign.

Prior to 14th century[]

• 5th century – Franks in power.^[2]
• 842 – Oaths of Strasbourg.
• 923 – City acquired by the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1230 – Saint Stephen’s Church opened
• 1250 – Ponts Couverts opened
• 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen, after which the city gains Reichsfreiheit.

14th–16th centuries[]

• 1307 – Monastery of Hermits of Saint William built. Gottfried von Hagenau introduces the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg.
• 1332 – Straßburger Revolution.^[2]
• 1348 – Bubonic plague.
• 1349 – Pogrom.
• 1354 – Three Kings clock erected.^[3]
• 1362 – Fritsche Closener writes Straßburger Chronik, a history of the city.
• 1414 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor visits Strasbourg (7–14 July)^[4]
• 1415 – Paper mill established.^[5]
• 1427 – Kammerzell House built.
• 1439 – Strasbourg Cathedral finished.
• 1440s – Johannes Gutenberg develops printing technique.
• 1444 – Population: circa 20,000^[6]
• 1458 – Johannes Mentelin opens print shop (approximate date).^[7]
• 1464 – Heinrich Eggestein opens print shop (approximate date).
• 1466 – World's first spectacle specialist shop opened in Strasbourg.^[8]
• 1468 – World's first printed advertisement published in Strasbourg.^[9]
• 1483 –  [de] printer in business.^[10]
• 1518 – Dancing plague.
• 1521 – St. Thomas finished.
• 1523 – Protestant Reformation (approximate date).^[2]
• 1538 – Lutheran Gymnasium founded.
• 1552 – 19 September, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits Strasbourg.^[11]
• 1570 – Christkindelsmärik begins.
• 1574 – Astronomical clock erected, designed by Christian Herlin.
• 1585 – Neubau inaugurated
• 1588 – Grosse Metzig built.^[12]
• 1592 – Strasbourg Bishops' War breaks out over disputed election to the bishopric

17th–18th centuries[]

• 1605 – Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien newspaper in publication.^[13]
• 1619 – Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg established.
• 1621 – University founded.
• 1681 – City annexed by France.
• 1684 – Citadel built.^[2]
• 1690 – Barrage Vauban opened.
• 1697 – French annexation recognised by the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1701 – Opera house opens.
• 1725 – New Hospital completed
• 1728 – World's first school for midwives opened in Strasbourg^[14]
• 1732 –- Hôtel du grand doyenné inaugurated
• 1736 – Hôtel de Hanau built. Hôtel de Klinglin built.
• 1742
  • Palais Rohan inaugurated.
  • Place Broglie laid out.^[15]
• 1755 – Hôtel Gayot built
• 1770 – Marie-Antoinette in Strasbourg.
• 1771 – Goethe in Strasbourg.
• 1778 – Mozart in Strasbourg (10 October - 3 November). He meets with Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Andreas Silbermann, Johann Baptist Wendling, Maximilian of Zweibrücken, and others.^[16]
• 1772 – Place Kléber built.
• 1790 – City becomes part of the Bas-Rhin souveraineté.^[17]
• 1792
  • "La Marseillaise" composed by Rouget de Lisle.
  • University closed.
• 1793 – Population: 47,254.^[17]

19th century[]

The Wagner-Liszt-Cosima-Nietzsche plaque.

• 1801 – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg collection founded.
• 1805 – Napoleon in Strasbourg (also in 1806 and 1809).
• 1821 – Théâtre Municipal opens.
• 1823 – 5 December: Franz Liszt, aged 12, gives his first concert on French soil.
• 1831 – Georg Büchner in Strasbourg (until 1833)
• 1832 – Société des Amis des arts founded.^[18]
• 1836 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in Strasbourg
• 1843 – Astronomical clock erected, designed by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué.
• 1846 – Gare de Strasbourg opens.
• 1849 – Richard Wagner in Strasbourg (also in 1853 [with Liszt), 1858, and 1872 [with Cosima, and Nietzsche]).
• 1853 – Marne–Rhine Canal opens.
• 1855 – Orchestra and  [fr] founded.^[19]
• 1861 – Rhine Bridge, Kehl built.
• 1862 - Association philomathique d'Alsace et de Lorraine founded.^[20]
• 1870 – Siege of Strasbourg; art museum and city library destroyed.^[21]
• 1871 – City becomes part of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, German Empire.
• 1872
  • Bibliothek established.
  • University reopens as Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität.
  •  [de] (publisher) in business.
  • Population: 85,654.^[17]
• 1873 – Théâtre Municipal rebuilt.
• 1874 – Fort Rapp and other fortifications built.
• 1877 – Elsäßische Neueste Nachrichten begins publication.
• 1878 – Stele of Caius Largennius is discovered
• 1880 – Population: 104,471.^[22]
• 1881 – Observatory inaugurated.
• 1883 – Kunstgewerbe Museum founded.^[23]
• 1884 – Palais Universitaire built.
• 1889 – Kaiserpalast inaugurated.
• 1890 – Hohenlohe-Museum, Cabinet des estampes et des dessins collection, and Fussball Klub Straßburg founded.
• 1891 – Population: 123,500.^[17]
• 1893 – Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg building constructed.
• 1897 – St. Paul's Church built.
• 1898 – Palais de Justice built.
• 1900 – FC Frankonia 1900 Straßburg (football club) formed.

20th century[]

• 1901 – Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church restored.
• 1903 – Sängerhaus inaugurated
• 1904
  • Hôtel Brion built.
  • Sainte-Madeleine Church destroyed by fire.
• 1905 – Population: 167,678.^[24]
  • Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Romain Rolland in Strasbourg for the First Alsatian Music Festival (Premier Festival Alsacien de Musique)^[25]
• 1906 – Fußball Club Neudorf founded.
• 1907
  • Musée alsacien opens.
  • Sainte-Madeleine Church rebuilt.
• 1911 – Population: 178,891.^[26]
• 1914 – Stade de la Meinau opens.
• 1918 – Alsace returns to France.
• 1919 – Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg established.
• 1920
  • Musée historique de Strasbourg founded.
  • City designated headquarters of Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine.
• 1928
  • Aubette redecorated.
  • Strasbourg Illkirch Graffenstaden Basket formed.
• 1931
  • Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame founded.
  • Population: 181,465.^[17]
• 1935
  • Strasbourg Airport opens.
  • 8–10 June: first "International Olympics of Workers' Music and Songs" (I. Internationale Arbeiter-Musik- und Gesangs-Olympiade), featuring Hanns Eisler, and Ernst Busch.^[27][28]
• 1940 – Alsace annexed to Germany. Adolf Hitler in Strasbourg.
• 1941 – Reichsuniversität Straßburg formed.
• 1944
  • 23 November: City liberated from Germans.
  • 27 November: Charles Frey becomes mayor.^[29]
• 1945 – Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg established.
• 1947 – Parts of the municipal art collections destroyed by accidental fire in Palais Rohan.
• 1949 – Council of Europe headquartered in Strasbourg.
• 1954
  • Amis du vieux Strasbourg (historical society) founded.^[20]
  • Population: 200,921.^[17]
• 1959
  • Pierre Pflimlin becomes mayor.^[29]
  • City designated headquarters of European Court of Human Rights.
• 1965 – City designated Seat of the European Parliament.
• 1963 – La belle Strasbourgeoise bought, then the costliest painting ever purchased by a French museum.
• 1967 – Urban Community of Strasbourg established.
• 1969 – International Institute of Human Rights founded.
• 1972
  • Administration of Urban Community of Strasbourg and City of Strasbourg merged into one entity.^[30]
  • Opéra du Rhin formed.
• 1974
  • European Science Foundation established.
  • Discovery of Johann Sebastian Bach's personal copy of the printed edition of the "Goldberg Variations" with the hitherto unknown fourteen canons, BWV 1087.
• 1975 – Palais de la musique et des congrès built (twice expanded afterwards: 1989, 2015)
• 1977 – Palace of Europe built.
• 1982 – Strasbourg becomes part of the Alsace region.
• 1984 – City hosts UEFA European Football Championship.
• 1987 – Internationaux de Strasbourg tennis tournament begins.
• 1988 – Pope John Paul II addresses the European Parliament and the Council of Europe
• 1989
  • Human Frontier Science Program established.
  • City designated headquarters of Eurimages.
• 1990 – Population: 252,338.^[17]
• 1991 – École nationale d'administration relocates to Strasbourg.
• 1992
  • City designated headquarters of European Audiovisual Observatory and Eurocorps.
  • Arte television begins broadcasting.
  • Musée archéologique renovated.
• 1994 – Trams begin operating.
• 1995 – Nuits Européennes begins.
• 1998 – Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art building opens.
• 1999 – Louise Weiss building inaugurated.
• 2000
  • Étoile Noire de Strasbourg ice hockey team formed.
  • Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot

21st century[]

• 2001
  • Fabienne Keller becomes mayor.^[29]
  • 13 killed and 97 injured by a fallen Platanus tree in  [fr].^[31]
• 2005
  • Strasbourg-Ortenau eurodistrict formed.
  • Patinoire Iceberg rink and Le Vaisseau open.
• 2006 – Population: 272,975.
• 2007 – Musée Tomi Ungerer/Centre international de l'illustration opens.
• 2008
  • École européenne de Strasbourg opens.
  • Le Festival européen du film fantastique de Strasbourg begins.
  • Roland Ries becomes mayor.^[32]
• 2009 – City hosts NATO Strasbourg–Kehl summit.
• 2011 –- Population: 272,222.^[33]
• 2012 – Population: 274,394^[34]
• 2014
  • Pope Francis addresses the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
  • March:  [fr] held.
• 2015 – Population: 277,270^[35]
  • December:  [fr] held.^[33]
• 2016 – Strasbourg becomes part of the Grand Est region.
• 2018 – A jihadist attacks civilians near the Christmas market, killing five (December 11).

See also[]

• History of Strasbourg
• List of mayors of Strasbourg
• European institutions in Strasbourg
• Bishopric of Strasbourg
• Archbishop of Strasbourg
•  [fr]

Other cities in the Grand Est region:

• Timeline of Metz
• Timeline of Mulhouse
• Timeline of Nancy, France
• Timeline of Reims
• Timeline of Troyes

References[]

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Strasbourg.

• Map of Strasbourg, 1985
• Items related to Strasbourg, various dates (via Europeana).
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Coordinates: 48°35′04″N 7°44′55″E / 48.5844°N 7.7486°E / 48.5844; 7.7486