Timeline of Mainz

Prior to 19th century

• 13 BCE - Roman fort built.
• 314 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz established.
• 406 - Battle of Mainz.
• 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 - 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 by the French Revolutionary Armies under Custine.
• 1793
• * March: Republic of Mainz established.
• * 14 April: Siege of Mainz begins.
• * 23 July: Siege ends; Republic dissolved.
• 1797 - Mainz "ceded to France by the Treaty of Campo Formio."

  19th century

• 1803 - "Hall of Antiques" exhibited.
• 1805 - established.
• 1814
• * Siege of Mainz 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.
• 1838
• * 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.
• 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 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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