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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.
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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
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1420
Brewers in Bavaria about this time discovered a way to brew beer in the winter beginning the lager revolution.
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1425 Aug 25
Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escaped from jail.
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1434 Mar 1
Jacoba of Bavaria married Frank van Borselen.
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1450 Oct 5
Jews were expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.
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1498 Jun 21
Jews were expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian.
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1503
A War of Succession broke out between Albert IV of Bavaria and Rupert of the Palatinate (a state of the Holy Roman Empire).
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1516 Apr 23
Bavarian Dukes Wilhelm IV and his brother Ludwig X enacted the Reinheitsgebot law (purity law). It required that beer be made from malt, hops, water and nothing else. Yeast was added to the list later.
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1551
Persecution of the Jews became widespread in Bavaria.
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1553
Bavaria outlawed summer-made beer because wintertime brews had outstripped them in quality. In 2011 a yeast from Patagonia, Saccharomyces eubayanus, was identified as being 99.5% identical to the non-ale half of the lager yeast genome. It was believed that over time Saccharomyces eubayanus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybridized to form Saccharomyces pastorianus, used by lager brewers today.
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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.
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1726 Feb 26
Maximilian II, M. Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, governor of Netherlands, died.
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1741 May 8
France and Bavaria signed the Covenant of Nymphenburg.
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1794
The Royal Bayreuth porcelain factory was founded in Bavaria. The factory stamped this date on dishes made after 1900.
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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.
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1819 Aug 26
Albert "Bertie" von Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (d.1861), husband of queen Victoria, was born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Bavaria.
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1832 May 7
The Treaty of London protocol was signed between Bavaria and the protecting Powers. It basically dealt with the way in which the Regency of Bavaria was to be managed until Otto of Bavaria reached his majority. Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier and Otto as king.
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1838
1995
The Tirschenreuth Porcelain Factory operated in Tirschenreuth, Bavaria, during this period. In 1927 it was acquired by the L. Hutschenreuther Co.
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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.
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1863
Ludvig II (18) became king of Bavaria after his father died.
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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.
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1867 May 14
Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19), was born.
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1868
Ludvig II of Bavaria began the construction of his castle at Neuschwanstein.
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1871
The German states became a nation. Germany went on to adopt the mark as its common currency.
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1873
Ludvig II of Bavaria began the construction of his palace at Linderhof.
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1880
Bavaria and Prussia introduced Spellingreform. Chancellor Bismarck threatened civil servants with increased fines if the new system was used.
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1885
The 70-room Herrenchiemsee Castle of Ludvig II was built on an island in Lake Chiemsee.
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1885
Bavaria issued measures aimed at controlling Gypsies and gathering information about them.
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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."
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1993
In Germany Edmund Stoiber was elected premier of Bavaria. He announced his resignation in 2007.
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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.
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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.
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2015 Nov 12
German police found the bodies of 8 babies in an apartment in Wallenfels, Bavaria. A woman (45) was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of four of her newborn babies. On July 20, 2016, the Coburg state court sentenced the woman, whose name was not released, to 14 years in prison.
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2018 Jun 1
In Germany a controversial decree requiring Christian crucifixes to be put up at entrances of most public buildings in Bavaria came into force, sparking accusations of identity politics ahead of elections in the state.
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