Magdeburg: Timeline

805   Oldest known mention of Magdeburg

919   Henry the Fowler is elected King of the Germans at the Reichstag Reichstag (institution)

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 of Fritzlar Fritzlar

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, and quickly fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars and Slavs.

937   Magdeburg is now the capital of the Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire

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, after a Diet Diet (assembly)

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 held by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

1000   Emperor Emperor

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 Otto III makes pilgrimage from Rome Rome

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 to Aachen Aachen

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 and Gniezno Gniezno

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 (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg Regensburg

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, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno Gniezno

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. Congress of Gniezno (with Boleslaw I Chrobry) was part of pilgrimage Pilgrimage

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. In Rome Rome

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, he builds the basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.

1118   Magdeburg is almost detroyed by fire.

1546   Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg

1631   During the Thirty Years' War Thirty Years' War

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 imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.