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150Mil BC Upper Jurassic
Lithographic Limestone of Bavaria and south-east France has fossils
of Compsognathus. It was a small, meat-eating, coelurosaur dinosaur.
it had three toes on long hind legs and two fingers and was the size
of a domestic hen.
(TE-JB, p.58)
745 Some 200,000 Slovenians,
settled in a pocket of the eastern slopes of the Alps, were
threatened by the Avars and the Bavarians. For safety they adopted
Christianity and accepted the protection of the Frankish emperor
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-5)
1425 Aug 25, Countess Jacoba of
Bavaria escaped from jail.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1434 Mar 1, Jacoba of Bavaria
married Frank van Borselen.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1450 Oct 5, Jews were expelled
from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1498 Jun 21, Jews were expelled
from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1503 A War of Succession broke
out between Albert IV of Bavaria and Rupert of the Palatinate (a
state of the Holy Roman Empire).
(TL-MB, p.8)
1516 In Bavaria, Germany, the
Reinheitsgebot law was enacted. It required that beer be made from
malt, hops, yeast, water and nothing else.
(WSJ, 5/27/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/15/04, p.A2)
1551 Persecution of the Jews
became widespread in Bavaria.
(TL-MB, p.18)
1647 Mar 14, The 1647 Treaty of
Ulm was reached between the French and the Bavarians during the
Thirty Years’ War. In negotiations with the French, Maximilian I of
Bavaria abandoned his alliance with the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand
III through the Treaty of Ulm. In 1648 Bavaria returned to the side
of the emperor.
(HNQ, 11/7/98)
1726 Feb 26, Maximilian II, M.
Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, governor of Netherlands, died.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1741 May 8, France and Bavaria
signed the Covenant of Nymphenburg.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1794 The Royal Bayreuth
porcelain factory was founded in Bavaria. The factory stamped this
date on dishes made after 1900.
(SFC,11/5/97, Z1 p.3)
1810 Oct 12, Bavarian Crown
Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to
Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. In honor of the
wedding a horse race took place at the Theresienwiese (the Theresien
meadow). The decision to repeat the horse races in subsequent years
gave rise to the tradition of the Oktoberfest.
(www.ofest.com/history.html)
1819 Aug 26, Albert "Bertie"
von Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (d.1861), husband of queen Victoria, was born
at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Bavaria.
(WUD, 1994,
p.34)(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
1845 Aug 25, Ludwig II
(d.1886), King of Bavaria (1864-86), was born at Nymphenburg. He was
also called the "Mad King" for his extravagant castles.
(HN, 1/7/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00,
p.T4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria)
1863 Ludwig II (1845-1886)
became king of Bavaria after his father died.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T5)
1864 Lehmann Bernheimer opened
a shop in Bavaria for textiles and oriental carpets before expanding
to include Italian Renaissance furniture, French antiques,
tapestries, porcelain and other objets d’art. In 2002 rth generation
Konrad O. Bernheimer acquired the internationally renowned gallery
Colnaghi, thus uniting two long-standing and distinguished art
dealerships. Founded in 1760, Colnaghi soon received royal patronage
and established itself as the premier dealership for prints.
(Econ, 6/19/10, p.86)(http://tinyurl.com/28d6tnh)
1867 May 14, Kurt Eisner,
German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19), was born.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1868 Ludwig II (1845-1886) of
Bavaria began the construction of his fairy-tale-style castle at
Neuschwanstein.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T5)
1871 The German states became a
nation. Germany went on to adopt the mark as its common currency.
(WSJ, 1/15/96, p. A-10)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1873 Ludwig II of Bavaria began
the construction of his palace at Linderhof.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T5)
1880 Bavaria and Prussia
introduced Spellingreform. Chancellor Bismarck threatened civil
servants with increased fines if the new system was used.
(Econ, 8/21/04, p.45)
1885 The 70-room Herrenchiemsee
Castle of Ludwig II of Bavaria was built on an island in Lake
Chiemsee.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T4)
1885 Bavaria issued measures
aimed at controlling Gypsies and gathering information about them.
(WSJ, 1/19/00, p.A20)
1886 Jun 13, King Ludwig II
(40), King of Bavaria, drowned in Lake Starnberg. Bavarian leaders
had conspired to remove Ludvig II from office and got a doctor, who
never saw him, to declare him insane. He was captured and taken to a
mansion on Lake Starnberg where he was found floating dead with his
doctor. In 1996 Greg King authored "The Mad King."
(AP, 6/13/97)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T5)
1930 Mar 11, Silvio Gesell
(b.1862), German merchant and theoretical economist, died. He was an
ethical vegetarian, considered himself a world citizen and believed
Earth should belong to all people, regardless of race, gender,
class, wealth, religion. Based on his theories the Bavarian
coalmining village of Schwanenkirchen created an alternative
currency in 1931 called the wara, which obligated its holder to pay
a tax. This encouraged all users of the currency to get rid of it as
soon as possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell)(Econ, 1/24/09, p.81)
2003 Bavaria originated a local
currency called the chiemgauer, named after the region where it
originated. The currency was created to lose value every month and
could be renewed for a sticker costing 2% of its value, which
encouraged quick spending.
(Econ, 1/24/09, p.81)
2009 Apr 7, A man opened fire
at a courthouse in Bavaria, killing his sister-in-law and injuring
two other people. He then shot himself dead. The incident appeared
to stem from a long-running inheritance dispute.
(AP, 4/7/09)
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