Timeline of Mainz
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mainz, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
- 13/12 BC - Roman fort Mogontiacum built.
- 314 - Roman [Catholic Diocese of Mainz] established.
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- 790s - Benedictine St. Alban's Abbey active.
- 813 - Carolingian rhine bridge burns down.
- 848 - Gottschalk of Orbais convicted of heresy while in Mainz.
- 952 - Forces of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor fought forces of Liudolf, Duke of Swabia and Conrad, Duke of Lorraine in Mainz for 2 months.
- 1009 - Mainz Cathedral finished and burnt down during inauguration.
- 1160 - "Citizens revolted against archbishop Arnold of Selenhofen."
- 1163 - City wall dismantled.
- 1184 - Diet of Pentecost occurs.
- 1244 - Free City of Mainz established.
- 1314 - church built.
- 1340 - St. Stephen's Church built.
- 1370 - Public clock installed.
- 1454/5 - Johannes Gutenberg prints a Bible using movable type and a printing press; printing revolution launched.
- 1461/2 - Mainz Diocesan Feud occurs.
- 1477 - University of Mainz founded.
- 1481 - Martinsburg, Mainz built.
- 1561 - Jesuit Kurfürstliches Kolleg founded.
- 1631 - City occupied by Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1604 - Old arsenal built.
- 1644 - City occupied by French forces during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1660 - Citadel built in the Fortress of Mainz.
- 1670 - built.
- 1678 - Electoral Palace, Mainz built.
- 1689 - during the Nine Years' War.
- 1736 - Arsenal built.
- 1750 - Bassenheimer Hof built.
- 1752 - Osteiner Hof built on the.
- 1754 - established.
- 1770 - Schott Music publisher in business.
- 1781 - Altmünster Cistercian abbey dissolved.
- 1792 - October: Siege of Mainz (1792) by the French Revolutionary Armies under Adam-Philippe de Custine.
- 1793
- * March: Republic of Mainz established.
- * 14 April: Siege of Mainz (1793) begins.
- * 23 July: Siege ends; Republic dissolved.
- 1797 - Mainz "ceded to France by the Treaty of Campo Formio."
- 1798 - University of Mainz suppressed by the French.
19th century
- 1803 - "Hall of Antiques" exhibited.
- 1805 - established.
- 1814
- * Siege of Mainz (1814) defended by French forces under Charles Antoine Morand.
- * Mainz becomes part of Germany again.
- 1817 - formed.
- 1827 - founded.
- 1833 - Staatstheater Mainz built.
- 1837
- * established, the first of many.
- * Gutenberg monument erected on the Gutenbergplatz (Mainz).
- 1838
- * Mainzer Rosenmontagszug begins.
- * established.
- 1844 - founded.
- 1845 - history journal begins publication.
- 1848 - Political unrest.
- 1853 - Mainz–Ludwigshafen railway begins operating.
- 1854 - Mainzer Anzeiger newspaper in publication
- 1857 - 18 November: explodes, damaging the neighborhood.
- 1861 - Population: 41,279.
- 1862
- * South railway bridge built.
- * founded.
- 1863 - Main Railway begins operating.
- 1866 - barracks built.
- 1871 - Alzey–Mainz railway begins operating.
- 1873 - Development of begins.
- 1884 - Mainz Hauptbahnhof and Mainz Süd train stations, and built.
- 1885 - Rheinbrücke built.
- 1887 - Zollhafen opens near city.
- 1890 - Population: 72,059.
- 1899 - Rheinischer Camera-Klub founded.
20th century
- 1901 - Gutenberg Museum opens.
- 1904 - Kaiserbrücke built.
- 1905
- * 1. [FSV Mainz 05] football club formed.
- * Population: 91,124.
- 1907 - Gustav Stresemann Business School founded.
- 1908 - Kastel becomes part of Mainz.
- 1912 - built.
- 1913 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
- 1919 - Population: 107,930.
- 1927 - Theresianum Gymnasium Mainz founded.
- 1929 - Stadion am Bruchweg opens.
- 1930 - Bischofsheim becomes part of Mainz.
- 1938 - Gonsenheim becomes part of Mainz.
- 1941 - Bombing of Mainz in [World War II] begins.
- 1945
- * Bombing of Mainz in World War II ends.
- * Mainz-Amöneburg becomes part of nearby city Wiesbaden.
- 1946 - University of Mainz reactivated.
- 1947 - Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) newspaper in publication.
- 1949 - Academy of Sciences and Literature founded.
- 1951 - Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate begins meeting in the Deutschhaus Mainz.
- 1953 - Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium active.
- 1958 - Iron Tower reconstructed.
- 1961 - Wood Tower reconstructed.
- 1962 - Schierstein Bridge built.
- 1963 - erected on the Schillerplatz.
- 1964 - borough created.
- 1967 - Mittelrheinischen Landesmuseum Mainz established.
- 1968 - built.
- 1981 - Mainz begins publication.
- 1985 - Ancient discovered in Kästrich.
- 1987 - begins publication.
- 1989 - borough new circumscripted.
- 1997 - Jens Beutel becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2010
- * February: Storm.
- * New synagogue Mainz built.
- 2011 - Coface Arena opens.
- 2012 - Michael Ebling becomes mayor.
- 2013 - Population: 204,268.
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