1050 First documented mention 1062 Nuremberg gets market rights 1219 Bestowal of imperial immediacy 1348 Rebellion of manufacturer 1492 M. Behaim invents the first globe 1510 Peter Henlein invents the first pocket watch 1525 Nuremberg becomes lutheran 1528 Albrecht Dürer died 1552 Warfare against margrave Albrecht 1649 Pauperisation after the 30-year-war 1794 Occupation by prussian army 1806 Nuremberg becomes bavarian 1835 Ride from the first railtrain to Fürth 1929 Nuremberg rally take place 1935 The Nuremberg laws legislate 1945 Over 80% of the city were ruined by british bombers 1946 Nuremberg trial of war criminals

Afterwards the city has to cure the wounds of war in a long way. The economic life increase slowly and Nuremberg developed to a economic hotspot in the northern part of Bavaria together with the neighbouring cities Fürth and Erlangen.

1995 First award for human rights