Short History of Hamburg
Hamburg Chronicle:
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ca. 800 |
The Hammaburg fortress is built on the banks of the Alster |
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1189 |
Charter from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa permitting toll-free trade on the Elbe and at sea |
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1321 |
Hamburg joins the Hanseatic League |
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1401 |
Pirate captain Klaus Störtebeker is executed in Hamburg |
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1558 |
Founding of the Hamburg Stock Exchange |
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1618 |
Hamburg becomes “Imperial Free City” |
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1664 |
Hamburg is first free port in Northern Europe |
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1731 |
731 First merchant ship from China reaches the port of Hamburg |
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1815 |
Accedes to the German Federation |
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1842 |
Great Fire destroys one-third of the city |
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From 1850 |
More than 5 million people from Europe emigrate via the port of Hamburg to the USA by 1939 |
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1888 |
Customs union with the German Empire via the building of the free port and the Speicherstadt warehouse district |
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1892 |
Large-scale cholera epidemic |
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1910 |
Population exceeds 1 million |
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1937 |
Greater Hamburg region is formed, including Altona, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, Wandsbek and other districts |
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1943 |
Air raids during World War II destroy more than half of the city, leading to more than 55,000 deaths |
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1952 |
New Hamburg constitution |
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1955/57 |
1955/57 Joint trilateral state planning by Hamburg – Lower Saxony – Schleswig-Holstein |
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1962 |
Hamburg hit by catastrophic flood |
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1974 |
Football World Cup matches in Hamburg |
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1975 |
Opening of the new Elbe tunnel |
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1992 |
Hamburg Metropolitan Region is formed |
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1996 |
International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea opens |
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2001 |
Building of new HafenCity Hamburg district starts |
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2006 |
FIFA Football World Cup 2006 in Hamburg |
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2007 |
World Future Council |
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2007 |
2007 Live Earth Concert in Hamburg |
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2008 |
First Hamburg Cruise Days |
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2008 |
German Unification Day in Hamburg |
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2011 |
Hamburg European Green Capital |
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2013 |
2013 International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg 2013 |
