Portal:Rhineland-Palatinate/Events

855:              Division of Lothair's empire in Prüm - 1122:             Concordat of Worms between Pope and Emperor - 1193/94: Richard Lionheart imprisoned at Trifels Castle - 1298:             Battle of Göllheim - 1338:             Declaration of Rhense - 1347:             Grenzau Feud - 1440:             Letterpress printing - 1521:             Diet of Worms - 1523:             Death of the knight, Francis of Sickingen - 1525:             Peasants’ War - 1688–97: War of the Palatine Succession - 1709:             Mass exodus - 1797:             Battle of Neuwied - 1797/98–1815: French occupation of west bank of the Rhine - 1814: Joseph Görres publishes the Rhenish Merkur newspaper in Koblenz - 1817–76: Canalization of the Upper Rhine - 1824:             The first Rhine steamer - 1832:             Hambach Festival - 1919–30: Rhineland occupied by the French - 1921:             Explosion in the BASF factory causing 565 deaths - 1923/24: Rhenish Republic and autonomy of the Palatinate - 1929:             Rhine frozen across - 1930:             Bridge disaster in Koblenz - 1933–45: Nazi era - 1941–1945:    Bombing of Mainz in World War II - 1943–1945:    Air raid on Koblenz - 1945–49: French Zone of Occupation - 1946:             Foundation of Rhineland-Palatinate - 1948:             Koblenz Decrees - Explosion at BASF causing 207 deaths - Railway accident in the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel - 1949:             Explosion at Prüm - 1954:             Explosion at Niederstedem - 1957:             Beginning of the controversial restoration of Speyer Cathedral - 1964–1969:    Waldeck Castle Festival - 1967:             PAL colour TV - 1971/72: Accidents during building of the South Bridge, Koblenz, cause 19 deaths - 1982:             Großniedesheim air crash - 1988:             Ramstein air show disaster causing  70 deaths - Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant has to be taken out of operation - 1989:             Maxdorf air crash - 1990:             Air crash at Ramstein causing 13 deaths - 1991:             Change of minister-president from CDU to SPD - 1993/94: Rhine floods - 2002:             Opening of the ICE line from Frankfurt to Cologne with stop at Montabaur - 2003:             Night-time temperature record during the 100-year summer - 2009:             Evacuation of Klemmhof in Neustadt (Weinstr.) - 2010:             Cyclone Xynthia disrupts rail services over large areas of Rhineland-Palatinate 2011:             Federal Horticultural Show 2011 - Evacuation in Koblenz on 4 December 2011