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Mannheim

The grid city of the Palatinate electors, where both the bicycle and the automobile were first ridden.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1607 CE mainstream
  city charter from Frederick IV; the Quadrate grid begun source
• 1720 CE mainstream
  electoral capital moves here from Heidelberg source
• 1817 CE mainstream
  Karl Drais rides the first bicycle source
• 1886 CE mainstream
  Carl Benz drives the first automobile through the streets source

Where

49.4878° N, 8.4661° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen

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