Mannheim
city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
7 dated entries naming Mannheim, drawn from 6 separate years between 1817 CE and 1888 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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19th century
- 1817June 12 – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.source
- 1818January 12 – The Dandy horse (Laufmaschine bicycle) is patented by Karl Drais in Mannheim.source
- 1819March 23 – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.source
- 1865April 21 – German chemicals producer BASF moves its headquarters and factories from Mannheim, to the Hemshof District of Ludwigshafen.source
- 1865April 6 – German chemicals producer Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (BASF) is founded in Mannheim.source
- 1885Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in Mannheim (Germany), regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year).source
- 1888August 5 – Bertha Benz arrives in Pforzheim having driven 40 mi km from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Carl Benz, thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the automobile.source