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Leipzig

Trade-fair and music city; Bach's workplace, Napoleon's defeat, and the peaceful revolution of 1989.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1015 CE mainstream
  first documented as urbs Libzi by Thietmar of Merseburg source
• 1165 CE mainstream
  city and market privileges from Otto the Rich source
• 1409 CE mainstream
  University of Leipzig founded source
• 1723 CE mainstream
  J.S. Bach becomes cantor at St. Thomas source
• 1813 CE mainstream
  Battle of the Nations: Napoleon defeated source
• 1989 CE mainstream
  Monday demonstrations spark the peaceful revolution source

Where

51.3400° N, 12.3750° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig

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