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Hamburg

Charlemagne's marsh castle grown into Germany's great port; co-founder of the Hanse, twice burned to the ground.

Dated events and their evidence

• 808 CE disputed
  Hammaburg castle raised on Charlemagne's order (date approximate) source
• 834 CE mainstream
  becomes a bishopric under Ansgar source
• 1241 CE mainstream
  alliance with Lübeck — the founding moment of the Hanseatic League source
• 1842 CE mainstream
  Great Fire burns a quarter of the inner city; 20,000 homeless source
• 1943 CE mainstream
  Operation Gomorrah firestorm kills at least 42,600 civilians source
• 2015 CE mainstream
  UNESCO: Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel source

Where

53.5500° N, 10.0000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_fire_of_Hamburg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speicherstadt

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