Timeline of Mainz

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mainz, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

 * 13/12 BC - Roman fort Mogontiacum built.
 * 314 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz established (approximate date).
 * 406 - Battle of Mainz (406).
 * 790s - Benedictine St. Alban's Abbey active (approximate date).
 * 813 - Carolingian rhine bridge (Mainz) (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 - Freie Stadt Mainz established.
 * 1314 - Dominikanerkloster Mainz church built.
 * 1340 - St. Stephen's Church built.
 * 1370 - Public clock installed (approximate date).
 * 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 (castle) built.
 * 1561 - Jesuit Kurfürstliches Kolleg (school) 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 - Churfürstlich Mayntzische Academie nützlicher Wissenschaften (scholarly society) established.
 * 1770 - Schott Music publisher in business.
 * 1781 - Altmünster Cistercian abbey dissolved.
 * 1792 - October: Siege of Mainz (1792) by the French Revolutionary Armies under Adam-Philippe de Custine.
 * 1793
 * March: Republic of Mainz established.
 * 14 April: Siege of Mainz (1793) begins.
 * 23 July: Siege ends; Republic dissolved.
 * 1797 - Mainz "ceded to France by the Treaty of Campo Formio."
 * 1798 - University of Mainz suppressed by the French.

19th century

 * 1803 - "Hall of Antiques" exhibited.
 * 1805 - (library) established.
 * 1814
 * Siege of Mainz (1814) defended by French forces under Charles Antoine Morand.
 * Mainz becomes part of Germany again.
 * 1817 - (sport club) formed.
 * 1827 - (bank) founded.
 * 1833 - Staatstheater Mainz built.
 * 1837
 * (carnival society) established, the first of many.(de)
 * Gutenberg monument(de) erected on the Gutenbergplatz (Mainz).
 * 1838
 * (parade) begins.
 * (another carnival society) established.
 * 1844 - (historical society) founded.
 * 1845 -  history journal begins publication.
 * 1848 - Political unrest.
 * 1853 - Mainz–Ludwigshafen railway begins operating.
 * 1854 - Mainzer Anzeiger newspaper in publication (founded in 1850 as an advertisement paper)
 * 1857 - 18 November: explodes, damaging the  neighborhood.
 * 1861 - Population: 41,279.
 * 1862
 * South railway bridge built.
 * founded.
 * 1863 - Main Railway (Frankfurt-Mainz) begins operating.
 * 1866 - barracks built (approximate date).
 * 1871 - Alzey–Mainz railway begins operating.
 * 1873 - Development of begins.
 * 1884 - Mainz Hauptbahnhof and Mainz Süd train stations, and built.
 * 1885 - Rheinbrücke (bridge) built.
 * 1887 - Zollhafen (port) opens near city.
 * 1890 - Population: 72,059.
 * 1899 - Rheinischer Camera-Klub founded.

20th century

 * 1901 - Gutenberg Museum opens.
 * 1904 - Kaiserbrücke (railway bridge) built.
 * 1905
 * 1. FSV Mainz 05 football club formed.
 * Population: 91,124.
 * 1907 - Gustav Stresemann Business School founded.
 * 1908 - Kastel becomes part of Mainz.
 * 1912 - (synagogue) built.
 * 1913 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
 * 1919 - Population: 107,930.
 * 1927 - Theresianum Gymnasium Mainz (school) founded.
 * 1929 - Stadion am Bruchweg (stadium) 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 (Mainz) 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 (school) 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 (journal) begins publication.
 * 1985 - Ancient discovered in Kästrich.
 * 1987 -  (newspaper) 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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