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
Highlights
Tourist-Information
Rathausplatz
86150 Augsburg
Phone +49 (0) 821 50207-0
Fax + 49 (0) 821 50207-45
www.augsburg-tourismus.de
tourismus@regio-augsburg.de
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