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788 Start of the period covered in Adam of Bremen's history of the archbishopry of Hamburg.
845 Viking
s also sack Hamburg and Melun.
1284 The German
city of Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.
1831 Cholera
in Hamburg.
1892 Cholera
in Hamburg, Germany
1927 Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
1938 The Neuengamme
concentration camp near Hamburg.
1940 World War II: In response to Germany
leveling Coventry
two days before, the Royal Air Force
begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents died from Allied attacks).
1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British
and Canadian
aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans
by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British
bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German
civilians.
1945 World War II: Liberation of the concentration camp Neuengamme
near Hamburg by the British army.
1962 Heavy storms flood Germany
's North Sea
coast, mainly around Hamburg; more than 300 people die, thousands lose their homes.
1962 Spiegel scandal
- German police occupy ''Der Spiegel
'' offices in Hamburg.
1972 Three out of six bombs explode in the Springer Press
building in Hamburg, Germany
- 17 are injured. The Red Army Faction
claims responsibility.
1998 Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails between Hannover and Hamburg, Germany
, causing 101 deaths.
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