{"slug": "magdeburg", "label": "Magdeburg", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1733", "qid": "Q1733", "description": "capital city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt", "entries": 19, "years": 18, "span": [805, 2024], "span_label": ["805 CE", "2024 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "east-germany", "label": "East Germany", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aachen", "label": "Aachen", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "regensburg", "label": "Regensburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bolesaw-i-the-brave", "label": "Bolesław I the Brave", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "meissen", "label": "Meissen", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thirty-years-war", "label": "Thirty Years' War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slavs", "label": "Slavs", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 805, "year_label": "805 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first known mention of Magdeburg (Saxony-Anhalt), founded by Charlemagne, is made.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361734873#Europe", "title": "805", "revid": 1361734873, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 919, "year_label": "919 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. He recognizes the stem duchies (uniting them in a German confederation) and all their sovereign privileges. Two of the four most influential duchies, Bavaria and Swabia, do not accept his rule. Henry fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509579#Europe", "title": "919", "revid": 1341509579, "section": "Events › By Place › Europe"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Magdeburg becomes the capital of the East Frankish Kingdom, after a Diet held by King Otto I (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Europe", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 967, "year_label": "967 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Otto I completes and dedicates a new cathedral at Magdeburg in Saxony. Like other imperial churches of the period, it includes a westwork – a structure attached to the entrance wall and outfitted with galleries. Otto makes Magdeburg a base for missionary efforts to convert the Slavs to the east. The patron saint of the city is Mauritius, who, as a military leader fighting for Christianity against pagan armies, shares affinities with Otto himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919490#Religion", "title": "967", "revid": 1364919490, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 968, "year_label": "968 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Otto I founds the Archbishopric of Magdeburg at the synod of Ravenna. He appoints Adalbert as the archbishop of Magdeburg. The archbishopric under Adalbert includes the bishoprics of Brandenburg and Havelberg — as well as the newly erected sees of Meissen, Merseburg and Naumburg-Zeitz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919231#Religion", "title": "968", "revid": 1364919231, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Otto II has the three insurrectionists punished at Magdeburg. Henry II is stripped of all his possessions and imprisoned in the custody of Bishop Folcmar of Utrecht. The other two: Henry III (the Younger) loses his duchy to Otto I and Henry I, bishop of Augsburg, is arrested and imprisoned in Werden Abbey (Germany).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#Europe", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1000, "year_label": "1000 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In continental Europe, the Holy Roman Empire established itself as the most powerful state. The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III made a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno. The Congress of Gniezno (with Bolesław I the Brave) was part of his pilgrimage. In Rome, he built the basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373370885#Christendom", "title": "AD 1000", "revid": 1373370885, "section": "Events › Christendom"}}, {"year": 1023, "year_label": "1023 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 21", "text": "October 21 – Gero, archbishop of Magdeburg", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213204#Deaths", "title": "1023", "revid": 1342213204, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1118, "year_label": "1118 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Magdeburg is almost destroyed by fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365269195#Germany", "title": "1118", "revid": 1365269195, "section": "Events › By place › Germany"}}, {"year": 1237, "year_label": "1237 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Cölln, twin city of the later built Alt-Berlin, is founded on the Fischerinsel. The town becomes a trade center, which is linked with Magdeburg and Frankfurt an der Oder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300110077#Cities_and_Towns", "title": "1237", "revid": 1300110077, "section": "Events › By topic › Cities and Towns"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#Date_unknown", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1631, "year_label": "1631 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – The siege of the Protestant German city of Magdeburg by the Catholic League begins and lasts for more than two months before the city falls and the inhabitants are massacred.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356869091#January–March", "title": "1631", "revid": 1356869091, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1631, "year_label": "1631 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – Thirty Years' War: After a two-month siege, the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor, under the command of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly sacks the Protestant German city of Magdeburg, and massacres over 20,000 inhabitants. Shocked by the massacre, many Protestant states in the Holy Roman Empire decide to ally with Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and support his ongoing invasion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356869091#April–June", "title": "1631", "revid": 1356869091, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1685, "year_label": "1685 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 (October 29 O.S.) – The Edict of Potsdam is issued by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg in response to France's Edict of Fontainebleau, welcoming the Protestant Huguenots of France to resettle in eastern Germany in Brandenburg. The French Colony of Magdeburg is established on December 1 in Saxony as a community separate from Magdeburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369485499#October–December", "title": "1685", "revid": 1369485499, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot is performed for the first time, in Magdeburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342504#January–March", "title": "1836", "revid": 1368342504, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April", "text": "Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in Magdeburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#April", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 6", "text": "July 6 – Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany, kills 94 people, mostly children.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#July", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center in Magdeburg, East Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#April", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – Six people are killed, while over 300 are injured, after a car is driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#December", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › December"}}]}