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Sunday, August 1, 2021

Basic timeline of Luxembourg

This post is a basic timeline of Luxembourg. There are 28 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (35,000 years ago)
• Celtic tribes (600 BC - 100 AD)
• La Tene culture (450 - 1st century BC)
• Rome annexes Luxembourg (53 BC)
• Roman Gallia Belgica (22 BC - 5th century AD)
• German Frank invasion (4th century AD)
• Middle Francia (843 - 855 AD)
• Lotharingia (855 - 959 AD)
• Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Lorraine (959 - 1766 AD)
• Holy Roman Empire House of Luxembourg (1308-1437)
• Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Luxembourg (1353-1797)
• Holy Roman Empire Habsburg dynasty rules Luxembourg (1477)
• Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Netherlands (1482-1794)
• Siege of Luxembourg (1684)
• Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
• Partitions of Luxembourg (1659-1839)
• War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)
• Siege of Luxembourg (1794-1795)
• France rules Luxembourg (1795-1815)
• Peasants' War (1798)
• Union with the Kingdom of Netherlands (1815-1867)
• Luxembourg crisis (1867)
• Luxembourg gains independence (1867)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Germany occupies Luxembourg (1914-1918)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Germany occupies Luxembourg (1940-1945)
• Luxembourg joins the European Coal and Steel Community (1952)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Luxembourg at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Luxembourg.)