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Magdeburg

Otto I's residence and archbishopric, source of the Magdeburg Law — and the city all but annihilated in 1631.

Dated events and their evidence

• 929 CE mainstream
  Otto I grants the town to his wife Edith as dower source
• 968 CE mainstream
  archbishopric founded at the synod of Ravenna source
• 1035 CE mainstream
  trade patent seeds the Magdeburg Law, copied across eastern Europe source
• 1631 CE mainstream
  Tilly's troops sack the city; ~20,000 killed source
• 1654 CE mainstream
  Otto von Guericke's Magdeburg hemispheres demonstrate the vacuum source

Where

52.1317° N, 11.6392° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_rights
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Magdeburg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres

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