History

• 15 BC - Drusus and Tiberius, step sons of Emperor Augustus set up a military camp on the site of the present-day city
• AD 304 - Martyr's death of St. Afra
• 955 - Battle of Lechfeld
• 1156 - First Augsburg city charter
• 1276 - Second Augsburg city charter
• 1316 - Augsburg granted Free Imperial Town status
• 1519 - Construction of the Fuggerei
• 1530 - Confessio Augustana (Augsburg Confession)
• 1555 - Religious Peace of Augsburg
• 1650 - Augsburg Festival of Peace
• 1770-72 - Johann Heinrich Schüle founds the first continental calico manufactory
• 1806 - Incorporation of the Imperial City of Augsburg in the Kingdom of Bavaria
• About 1816 - Augsburg is Bavaria's leading banking centre: Augsburg Bourse
• 1840 - Completion of the Munich-Augsburg railway line; the first train runs
• 1929 - Open-air theatre opened
• 1970 - Augsburg University founded
• 1985 - 2000th anniversary of the city, Golden Hall in the Town Hall restored