Kassel: All Data
Kassel is a city in Germany. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Kassel: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
962 AD
Mentioned in Event: Incoronation of Otto I
1264 AD
Mentioned in Event: Peace of Langsdorf
1277 AD
Capital of Landgraviate of Hesse
1568 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of Hesse
1568 AD
Capital of Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
1757 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Invasion (German Theatre of the Seven Years' War)
1758 AD
Mentioned in Event: Counteroffensive against the French invasion of Germany
1761 AD
Mentioned in: First Siege of Cassel, part of Seven Years' War
1803 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1803 AD
Capital of Electorate of Hesse
1807 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Westphalia
1808 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1813 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Sixth Coalition
1866 AD
Mentioned in Event: Peace Treaties (Austro-Prussian War)
1870 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Hessen-Nassau, part of Kingdom of Prussia
1871 AD
Mentioned in Event: Unification of Germany (1871)
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Republic proclamation in Germany
1934 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Gau of Kurhessen, part of Nazi Germany
1945 AD
Mentioned in Event: Allied occupation of Germany
1945 AD
Mentioned in Event: Western Allied invasion of Germany
1949 AD
Mentioned in Event: End of World War II in Europe