History

• About 1000 BC Celtic fortification on the Marienberg.
• About AD 650 Franconian ducal seat.
• 704 First documentary evidence of Würzburg.
• 706 Consecration of the church on the Marienberg.
• 742 Bishopric of Würzburg founded.
• 788 Work starts on the first cathedral.
• 1156 Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa with Beatrix of Burgundy.
• 1168 Frederick Barbarossa confirms the Duchy of Franconia.
• 1525 Würzburg takes the peasants' side during the Peasants' War.
• 1582 Julius-Maximilian University founded.
• 1631 Würzburg conquered by Gustav Adolf of Sweden.
• 1720 Foundation stone of the Residence laid.
• 1802 Secularisation of the Hochstift, the central administration of the bishopric.
• 1814 Würzburg incorporated into Bavaria.
• 1867 The city fortifications are dismantled and replaced by the Ringpark.
• 1895 X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
• March 1945 90 percent of the city is destroyed by bombing.
• 1970 Reconstruction of the Old Town virtually complete.
• 1985 Congress Centre opened.
• 1990 Bavarian Garden Show.
• 1991 Opening of the ICE high-speed section between Würzburg and Hanover.
• 2002 Opening of the "Museum im Kulturspeicher" art museum.
• 2004 1300th anniversary of the founding of Würzburg.