Black Forest

mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany

6 dated entries naming Black Forest, drawn from 6 separate years between 74 CE and 1805 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

74The Black Forest region is reattached to the Roman Empire.source

2nd century

187Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest.source

3rd century

260Gallienus evacuates the fortifications (limes) in the Agri Decumates (Germania Superior), covering the Black Forest area in the face of invading Alamanni.source

4th century

360The Alamanni raid Raetia (Switzerland), but are pushed back behind the Rhine by Julian, into the Black Forest.source

18th century

1738Black Forest clockmaker Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks.source

19th century

1805August 27 – Napoleon orders the Grande Armée ("The Great Army") of some 165,000 men to march to the Rhine River to deal with the Austrian and Russian threats on the frontier. The French army is organized into seven corps and is supported by 36–40 cannons each. Napoleon orders Marshal Joachim Murat with his I Cavalry Corps (some 20,000 men), to make feint attacks through the Black Forest in south-west Germany.source