Timeline of Leipzig

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Prior to 18th century

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  • 920 AD - Emperor Henry the Fowler "built a castle here about 920." [1]
  • 1015 - Leipzig is mentioned in Thietmar's chronicle as Urbs Lipzi.[2]
  • 1082 - Leipzig sacked by forces of Vratislaus II of Bohemia.[3][4]
  • 1134 - Leipzig "came into the possession of Conrad, Margrave of Meissen".[1]
  • 1165
  • 1170 - Easter and Michaelmas fairs begin (approximate date).[1]
  • 1212 - Thomasschule zu Leipzig and Thomanerchor founded.
  • 1231 - Klosterkirche St. Pauli built.[1]
  • 1409 - University of Leipzig founded.[3][1]
  • 1420 - Fire.[3]
  • 1458 - New year's fair begins,[1] see also: Leipzig Christmas Market.
  • 1479 - Printing press in operation.[5]
  • 1485 - Treaty of Leipzig.[6]
  • 1496 - St. Thomas Church consecrated.[1]
  • 1519 - June: Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt debate John Eck.[3][1]
  • 1530 - Auerbachs Keller built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1539 - "Leipsic formally espoused the Protestant cause."[1]
  • 1542 - Leipzig Botanical Garden first established.[6]
  • 1543 - Leipzig University Library established.[1]
  • 1547
  • 1554 - Moritzbastei constructed.
  • 1555 - Alte Waage built.[7]
  • 1556 - Old City Hall built.[3]
    • 1 June 1593: Execution on the market square

    18th century

    Leipzig on the Schildbach Painting (1765)

    19th century

    Battle of the Nations
    An early train in Leipzig (1837)
    Digging the Karl Heine Canal (1884/85)
    Market Square in the 1890s

    20th century

    See also: History of Leipzig from 1933-1939
    German revolution of 1918–1919 on Augustusplatz in Leipzig
    Polish armaments seized during the invasion of Poland on display at the 1939 Leipzig Trade Fair
    • 1938
    • 1939
    • 1941 - German-ordered closure of the American Consulate.[25]
    • 1942 - 23 June: Leipzig L-IV experiment accident is the first nuclear accident in history.[55]
    • 1943
    • 1944
      • Bombing.
      • 11 May: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 250 men, mostly Polish, Russian, Czech and Ukrainian, were held there.[57]
      • 9 June: HASAG Leipzig subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 5,000 women and children, mostly Polish, Soviet, French and Jewish, were held there.[58]
      • 22 August: Leipzig-Schönau subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 500 Jewish women were held there.[59]
      • 15 November: Subcamp of Buchenwald for men established at the HASAG factory. Around 700 men, mostly Jewish, French and Italian, were held there.[60]
      • 24 November: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp dissolved. Prisoners deported to Wansleben am See and Rothenburg.[57]
    Abtnaundorf massacre site a day later, 1945
    Match GDR - Czechoslovakia in the Leipzig Zentralstadion 1957
    Leipzig in 1971
    The 1989 demonstrations in a mural of Michael Fischer-Art (2013)

    21st century

    Oranje supporters at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Leipzig
    Leipzig Book Fair 2024

    See also

    Other cities in the state of Saxony:

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