{"slug": "strasbourg", "label": "Strasbourg", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6602", "qid": "Q6602", "description": "capital and largest city of Grand Est, located in the historical region of Alsace", "entries": 23, "years": 23, "span": [-11, 1992], "span_label": ["12 BCE", "1992 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "reims", "label": "Reims", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "metz", "label": "Metz", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-francia", "label": "West Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-the-bald", "label": "Charles the Bald", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-the-german", "label": "Louis the German", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lothair-i", "label": "Lothair I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -11, "year_label": "12 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "First official mention of Argentoratum, the city known in modern times as Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372852966#Roman_Empire", "title": "12 BC", "revid": 1372852966, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 357, "year_label": "357 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum), driving the barbarians back behind the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331328193#Roman_Empire", "title": "357", "revid": 1331328193, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Attila's forces invade Gaul and sack Metz. The major cities of Strasbourg, Worms, Mainz, Trier, Cologne, Reims, Tournai, Cambrai, Amiens and Beauvais are destroyed by the Huns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Egidius, bishop of Reims, is tried at Metz before a council of bishops for a conspiracy against King Childebert II; he is found guilty and exiled to Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Religion", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 678, "year_label": "678 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arbogast, bishop of Strasbourg", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352010309#Deaths", "title": "678", "revid": 1352010309, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 842, "year_label": "842 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Oaths of Strasbourg: King Louis the German, ruler of East Francia, and his half-brother Charles the Bald, ruler of West Francia, meet with their armies at Strasbourg. They agree to swear allegiance (recorded in vernacular languages) to each other, and to support each other against their brother Lothair I (nominal emperor of all the Frankish kingdoms and the Holy Roman Empire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256465#Europe", "title": "842", "revid": 1350256465, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1250, "year_label": "1250 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Ponts Couverts fortified bridges of Strasbourg (in modern-day France) are completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360895476#Europe", "title": "1250", "revid": 1360895476, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1262, "year_label": "1262 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – Battle of Hausbergen: The bourgeois of Strasbourg defeat a German army of knights (some 5,000 men) under Bishop Walter of Geroldseck. Strasbourg becomes an imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275696322#Europe", "title": "1262", "revid": 1275696322, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1396, "year_label": "1396 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 30", "text": "April 30 – Thousands of Christian crusaders from France depart from Dijon and march to Strasbourg, then sail on the Danube river to join forces with King Sigismund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360576293#April–June", "title": "1396", "revid": 1360576293, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1518, "year_label": "1518 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – Dancing plague of 1518: A case of dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg as a woman identified as \"Frau Troffea\" begins constant dancing that lasts for six days, after which fellow residents begin to join in. According to some historians, several people die from constant dancing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362000593#July–September", "title": "1518", "revid": 1362000593, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1530, "year_label": "1530 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – The Tetrapolitan Confession, a Protestant confession of faith, is submitted jointly to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on behalf of the southern German cities of Konstanz, Lindau, Memmingen and Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366794362#July–September", "title": "1530", "revid": 1366794362, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The first issue of Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg (Holy Roman Empire), generally regarded as the world's first newspaper, is published. De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is also published this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#October–December", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Johannes Valentinus Andreae claims to be the author of Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 published in Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1664, "year_label": "1664 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Kronenbourg Brewery (Brasseries Kronenbourg) is founded in Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372648278#April–June", "title": "1664", "revid": 1372648278, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – The Battle of Entzheim takes place in France with 35,000 Holy Roman Empire troops and 22,000 French defenders during the Franco-Dutch War, with the forces fighting near Entzheim south of Strasbourg. While the battle is inconclusive, the outnumbered French win a strategic victory by keeping the Germans from entering French territory. Most of the former battlefield now lies beneath the Strasbourg International Airport.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#October–December", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – France annexes the city of Strasbourg (German: Strassburg), previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#July–September", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Barrage Vauban, a defensive work in the city of Strasbourg (in modern-day France), is completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#Date_unknown", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20–March 10 – War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Kehl – French forces under the command of the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#January–March", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – The civil marriage of King Louis XV of France and Princess Maria Leszczyńska of Poland is held at Strasbourg. The King is not present, and his cousin, the Duke of Orléans, serves as his proxy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#July–September", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1770, "year_label": "1770 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. September – Johann Gottfried Herder meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Strasbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310921#July–_September", "title": "1770", "revid": 1368310921, "section": "Events › July– September"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "In Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, the much studied stele of the Roman legionary Caius Largennius is discovered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365252865#Date_unknown", "title": "1878", "revid": 1365252865, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#June", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes in the Vosges Mountains near Barr, France, while circling to land at Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board. Facing tough competition from French high-speed TGV trains, Air Inter had encouraged its pilots to fly at high speeds at low altitudes, and had not installed ground proximity warning systems on its airliners because such systems generated too many nuisance alarms during high-speed, low-altitude flight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#January", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › January"}}]}