Salzburg

city in Austria, eponymous capital city of the federal state of Salzburg

16 dated entries naming Salzburg, drawn from 16 separate years between 45 CE and 1944 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

45Juvavum (modern Salzburg) is awarded the status of a Roman municipium.source

7th century

660Rupert, bishop of Salzburg (approximate date)source
696St. Peter's Abbey is founded by Rupert, bishop of Worms, at Salzburg (modern Austria).source

8th century

710March 27 – Rupert, bishop of Salzburgsource
714Rupert, bishop of Salzburg, founds Nonnberg Abbey in modern-day Austria.source
719Duke Grimoald becomes sole ruler of Bavaria, after the deaths of his brothers Theodbert, Theobald, and Tassilo II. He reunites the duchy after a civil war, and makes his capital Salzburg (approximate date).source

15th century

1492Stiegl brewery first recorded in Salzburg.source
1495The oldest extant cable railway, the Reisszug, is created by order of the Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach shortly after his election on July 7, 1495. The railway is used for the manual pulling of a wheeled cart up an incline, to provide goods for the Hohensalzburg Fortress, at Salzburg in Austria.source

17th century

1669July 16 – A rockfall from the Mönchsberg mountain above Salzburg in Austria kills 230 people as tons of the mountainside fall onto a neighborhood on a street, the Gstättengasse.source

18th century

1734January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America.source
1756January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, to Anna Maria and Leopold Mozart.source
1766November 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg, after the Mozart family grand tour of Europe.source
1775Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes his five violin concertos in Salzburg at about this date.source
1776July 21 – Mozart's Serenade No. 7 (the "Haffner") is first performed in Salzburg, Austria.source
1783October 17 – Mozart's Great Mass is first performed, in Salzburg, Austria.source

20th century

1944October 16 – WWII: American bombing of Salzburg destroys the dome of the city's cathedral and most of a Mozart family home.source