Timeline of Basel

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Basel, Switzerland.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 11th century

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  • 5th century BC – Celts settle in the area
  • 150 BC – Rauraci Celtic tribe founds a settlement (located on the northwestern outskirts of the present city)
  • 58 BC
    • Rauraci together with Helvetii try to emigrate to Gaul, but are defeated at the Battle of Bibracte by Julius Caesar and sent back to their homeland
    • Returning Rauraci build a fortified settlement, called oppidum (located in today's Basel Cathedral hill)
  • c. 44 BC – Augusta Raurica is founded by the Romans
  • c. 15 BC – Successful colonization of the area supported by the Augustus's conquest of the central Alps
  • By the 2nd century AD
    • Has become a prosperous commercial trading centre and the capital of a local Roman province
    • Population reaches approximately twenty thousand people
  • 250 AD - Powerful earthquake damages a large part of the city
  • c. 260 AD - Alemanni tribes and/or marauding Roman troops destroy Augusta Raurica
  • c. 300 AD
    • Following the loss of the Limes Germanicus and the right bank of the Rhine River, the Roman army builds a castra (fort) named Castrum Rauracense near the old site of Augusta Raurica. It was intended to serve as the headquarters of the legio I Martia and to protect a ford over the Rhine.
  • 4th century AD
    • The fort grows in importance because it commands a bridge that lies along the road from Gaul to the Danube River
    • Emperors Constantius II and Julian assemble their armies at the Castrum Rauracense before marching to battle against the Alemanni.[1]
    • Church is built near Castrum Rauracense
    • The fort and neighboring church become the seat of a bishop, with the bishop first being mentioned in 346.[1]
  • 374 AD - The town named Basilea or Basilia in Latin (from Ancient Greek Basileia, Βασιλεια meaning kingship) is documented[2]
  • c. 400 AD - Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Roman troops withdraw from Castrum Rauracense and Basilea, the Germanic Alemanni settled in
  • 7th century AD - The bishop moves to Basel and the settlement at Castrum Rauracense declines in importance
  • 740 - Catholic diocese of Basel active (approximate date).[3]
  • 752 AD - A village called Augusta was first mentioned
  • 894 AD - East Francian King Arnulf grants the church in Kaiseraugst (Castrum Rauracense) to his vassal, Anno; the church was then granted to the Abbey of St Gall and then later to the Basel Münster
  • 917 AD – The Magyars destroyed Basel,[4] and later burnt down the monasteries of St Gallen and Rheinau[5]
  • 999 AD – Rudolph III of Burgundy donates the Moutier-Grandval Abbey and all its possessions (540 square miles of lands) to Bishop Adalbero II,[6][7] establishing the Prince-Bishopric of Basel as a secular territory

11th-18th centuries

19th century

20th century

21st century

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See also

Other cities in Switzerland

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kaiseraugst in Roman Times in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. ↑ The Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Incorporated 1999, p. 308
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  4. ↑ Overall 1870.
  5. ↑ http://www.swissworld.org/en/history/alamans_to_the_holy_roman_empire/foreign_invasions/
  6. ↑ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993, p. 659
  7. ↑ Wood, 285–286, 313
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  9. ↑ Haydn 1910.
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  16. ↑ Britannica 1910.
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This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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  • Wood, Susan, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West, 2006, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198206976, 9780198206972, google books

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