Lower Saxony

state in North-West of Germany

13 dated entries naming Lower Saxony, drawn from 13 separate years between 718 CE and 1656 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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8th century

718The Wessex-born missionary Boniface sets out for Frisia a second time. He travels to Rome, where Pope Gregory II sends him on a mission to convert the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern-day Germany).source
737King Ongendus of the Danes reinforces the Danevirke fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein. He orders a palisade rampart built on the frontier of Saxony.source
783October – Charlemagne marries Fastrada, the 18-year-old daughter of a Frankish count named Rudolph, and makes her his queen at Worms. The probable reason behind the marriage is to solidify a Frankish alliance east of the Rhine, against the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).source

9th century

852Gandersheim Abbey in Lower Saxony (modern Germany) is founded by Duke Liudolf of Saxony.source

10th century

937Winter – Gero succeeds his brother Siegfried after his death. King Otto I appoints him as count and margrave of a vast border region around Merseburg that abuts the Wends on the River Saale (Lower Saxony).source
994June 23 – Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.source

12th century

1150The city of Rinteln is founded on the northern bank of the Weser River in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).source

13th century

1284The events giving rise to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin take place in Lower Saxony.source

14th century

1315Siegfried II, bishop of Hildesheim, provides Dassel in Lower Saxony, Germany with city rights.source
1318September 22 – Otto the Mild, becomes ruler over the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, after the death of his father Albert the Fatsource
1371February 1 – War of the Lüneburg Succession: In what is now the state of Lower Saxony in north Germany, after the Duke of Brunswick, Magnus Torquatus, attempts to claim his inheritance to rule of the Principality of Lüneburg, residents of the town of Lüneburg destroy the ducal castle that had been owned by the late Prince Wilhelm, and Brunswick relocates his residence to the town of Celle.source

15th century

1406May 22 – In Germany, troops under the command of Johann von Paderborn, Bishop of Hildesheim, use cannons to destroy the walls of Gebhardshagen Castle in Salzgitter in what is now Lower Saxony.source

17th century

1656Physician Samuel Stockhausen of the metal mining town of Goslar, Lower Saxony publishes his Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico, ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgò dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch ("Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of Litharge, Diseases caused by them and Miners' Asthma"), a pioneering study of occupational disease.source