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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.