Timeline of Augsburg

Timeline of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.

Prior to 16th century

14 BCE – Roman colony established.
5th century CE – Settlement sacked by Huns.
6th century CE - Catholic Diocese of Augsburg established.
778 – Simpert becomes Bishop of Augsburg.
788 – Town sacked by forces of Charlemagne.
923 – Ulrich becomes Bishop of Augsburg.
952 – Diet of Augsburg active.
989 – Perlachturm built.
1065 – Augsburg Cathedral consecrated.
1251 – Dominican Monastery of St. Katharine active.
1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free Imperial City.
1300 – Barfüsserkirche founded.
1321 – St. Anna-Kirche founded.
1364 – Three Moors Inn in business.
1370 - Public clock installed.
1407 - Paper mill established.
1431 – Augsburg Cathedral remodeled.
1468 - Burkhard Zingg writes Augsburger Chronik, a history of the city.
1472 – Printing press in operation.
1487 - Fuggers Bank established.
1493 – Artist Hans Holbein the Elder active.
1500 – Church of St. Ulrich and St. Afra built.

16th century

1502 – Catholic Holy Cross Church built.
1509 – Fortunatus published.
1515 – Dominikaner-Kirche built.
1517 - St. Anne's Church, Augsburg built.
1518 - Fire engine built.
1523 – Fuggerei residential area developed.
1530 – Lutheran Confession of Augsburg introduced.
1534 – Augsburg Protestant Cemetery established.
1537
* Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg founded.
* Augsburg joins the Schmalkaldic League.
1540 – Augsburger Börse established.
1546 – Maximilian Museum and Rotes Tor built.
1573 - Sugar refinery begins operating.
1577 – St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey active.
1582 – St. Salvator Jesuit school founded.
1594 – Augustusbrunnen created for Maximiliansstrasse.
1599 – Herkulesbrunnen created for Maximiliansstrasse.

17th century

1607 – Augsburger Zeughaus built.
1609 - Metzg built.
1612 – Engravers Lucas Kilian and Wolfgang Kilian in business.
1620 – Augsburg Town Hall built.
1631 - Augsburg Art Cabinet sent to Sweden as a gift.
1632 – Swedish Empire occupation begins.
1635
* Swedish occupation ends.
* Population: 16,432.
1650 – Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest begins.

18th century

1703 – Town besieged by Bavarian forces.
1712 – Academy of painting founded.
1765 – Gignoux-Haus built.
1770
* Ballroom built in the Schaezlerpalais.
* Schülesche Kattunfabrik in business
1782 – Dollische bookseller in business.
1786 - Hot-air balloon flight of Joseph Maximilian Freiherr von Lütgendorf.

19th century

1805 – 10 October: French in power.
1806
* 4 March: Augsburg becomes part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
* Population: 26,200.
1810 – Allgemeine Zeitung in publication.
1817 – Augsburg becomes an administrative capital of the Oberdonaukreis.
1825 – Chapel built in Protestant Cemetery.
1833 – Holbein-Gymnasium established.
1837 – Town becomes administrative capital for the Swabia and Neuburg district.
1840
* Sander'sche Maschinenfabrik in business.
* Cotton mill established.
1846 – Augsburg Hauptbahnhof opens.
1847
* Augsburg Morellstraße station opens.
* Turnverein Augsburg formed.
1854 – Maximilian Museum founded.
1858 - Population: 43,616.
1870 – Konigl. Industrieschule established.
1875 – Paar Valley Railway begins operating.
1876 – Der Volkswille newspaper in publication.
1878
* Stadttheater Augsburg built.
* Augsburger Eislaufverein formed.
1885
* Stadtarchiv Augsburg building established.
* Population: 65,905.
1898 – Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg and Augsburg-Oberhausen Acetylene Factory in business.
1900 – Population: 89,109.

20th century

1903 – TSV Schwaben Augsburg formed.
1905 - Population: 94,923.
1907 – FC Augsburg formed.
1910
* Landsberg Prison established in vicinity of Augsburg.
* Population: 102,487.
1911 – Oberhausen becomes part of Augsburg.
1917 - Augsburg Synagogue built.
1919 - Population: 154,555.
1920 – Stadtbücherei Augsburg founded.
1924 – Augsburger Kajak Verein formed.
1926 – Messerschmitt in business.
1930 - 8 September: Hitler gives speech, German federal election, 1930.
1933 – Gau Swabia established.
1937
* Augsburg Zoo opens.
* Mozarthaus established.
1938
* Messerschmitt aircraft manufactory in business.
* Ice skating rink opens.
1942 – 17 April: Bombing by Allied forces.
1944 – 25–26 February: Bombing by Allied forces.
1945 – Schwäbische Landeszeitung newspaper begins publication.
1948
* Weltbild in business.
* Augsburger Puppenkiste opens.
1951
* Rosenaustadion opens.
* Town art collections installed in the Schaezlerpalais.
1954 - Fürst Fugger Privatbank established.
1956 – United States military 11th Airborne Division stationed in Augsburg.
1961 - Population: 208,659.
1969 – Part of Göggingen becomes part of Augsburg.
1970 – University of Augsburg founded.
1971
* Augsburg Eiskanal opens.
* Augsburg University of Applied Sciences founded.
1972
* Inningen becomes part of Augsburg.
* Kongresshalle opens.
* Dorint Hotel Tower built.
1977
* Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle opens.
* Romanistentheater founded.
1989 – Sparkassen-Planetarium opens.
1996
* Kulturhaus Abraxas active.
* S’ensemble Theater founded.
1998 – Brechthaus opens.

21st century

2009 – building opens.
2012 – Population: 272,699.

in English

;published in the 17th-19th century

Lewis, "The Roman Antiquities of Augsburg and Ratisbon", in volume xlviii, Archæological Journal,.

;published in the 20th century
;published in the 21st century
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in German

Werner, Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg,.