page_title: Timeline of Luxembourg City
section_title: Prior to 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Luxembourg City / Prior to 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Lutzenburg
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
context_section_description: 963 - Castle built atop Bock cliffs by Siegfried of Luxembourg.
  987 - Church of the Redemption consecrated.
  1120 - Church of St. Peter built.
  1320 - Saint Michael's Church built (approximate date).
  1340
  New city fortifications constructed.
  Schobermesse (tent fair) begins.
  1390 - Public clock installed (approximate date).
  1443 - Burgundians under Philip the Good conquer city.
  1554 - Fire in Ville Haute.
  1563 - La Fontaine Castle construction begins.
  1572 - City Hall built.
  1603 - Collège des Jésuites founded.
  1606 - Neumünster Abbey built.
  1613 - Church of Notre Dame cornerstone laid.
  1623 - Capuchin monastery built.
  1644 - Tunnels built.
  1671 - Place d'Armes laid out (approximate date).
  1684 - French in power.
  1685 - Lambert Fortress built.
  1693 - Jean-Bernard Knepper becomes mayor.
  1697 - Spaniards in power per Treaty of Ryswick.
  1714 - Austrians in power.
  1732 - Fort Thüngen built.
  1784 - Château de Septfontaines built outside city (in Rollingergrund).
  1794 - November 22: Siege of Luxembourg by French forces begins.
  1795
  June 7: Siege of Luxembourg ends.
  City becomes préfecture of the Forêts département of the French First Republic.
  1798 - Municipal Library active.
  1800 - François Scheffer becomes mayor.
caption: Map of Luxembourg, 1581
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