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Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the Rhine River...
Timeline of Events
1647
3.14.1647
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1880
8.14.1880
Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1945
3.6.1945
Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1964
6.11.1964
World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1977
9.5.1977
Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
2009
3.3.2009
The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.