Creation of the Bavarian tribe and tribal duchy.

748 - 788

Duke Tassilo III, expansion of Bavaria to the East and Southeast.

955

Rising of German tribes against the Magyars. Battle of Lechfeld nr. Augsburg. Second addition of Bavarian territory to Austria.

c. 1050

Foundation of Nuremberg.

1158

Henry the Lion founds Munich (coin mint and trade in salt).

1180

Count Palatine Otto v. Wittelsbach is given the Duchy of Bavaria by Emperor Friedrich. Transformation from tribal duchy into a territorial state.

1214

Palatinate becomes part of Bavarian.

1402

Foundation of Würzburg University.

1472

Foundation of Ingolstadt University by Duke Ludwig the Rich.

1524-1525

Reformation in Nuremberg.

1623

Bavaria is made an Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire.

1628

Upper Palatinate incorporated into Bavaria.

1662 - 1726

Prince Elector Max Emanuel ("the Blue Prince Elector"): patron of the Baroque art and culture.

1663 - 1806

Perpetual Imperial Diet in Regensburg.

1705- 1706

Popular uprising in Bavaria against the Hapsburg rule. Battles at Sendling and Aidenbach.

1743

Founding of Erlangen University.

1759

Founding of the Academy of Sciences in Munich.

1778

Bavarian Wars of Succession: the Innviertel (territory between rivers Danube, Inn, Salzach and Traun) was ceded to Austria.

1.1.1806

Bavaria becomes a kingdom under Max I Joseph; Augsburg and Nuremberg join Bavaria, followed by Bayreuth and Regensburg in 1810. Reorganization of the state system under Minister Montgelas (1759-1839).

1818

Bavaria receives a Constitution.

1825 - 1848

King Ludwig I. Munich becomes a glittering centre of the arts and a bastion of scientific knowledge.

1848 - 1864

King Maximilian II. Patron of the arts, science and industry. Pioneering advances in social policy.

1864 - 1886

King Ludwig II

1868

Founding of the Munich College of Technology.

1919

Republic of the Soviets. The new Bavarian Constitution.

1923

Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich.

1933

Hitler comes to power. End of Bavaria's independence as a state.

8th May 1945

Germany capitulates. Bavaria becomes part of the US Occupation Zone.

1st December 1946

The third Bavarian Constitution is adopted by a people's referendum.

1946

The Palatinate is separated from Bavaria.

13^th-14th June 1947

The First All-German Conference of Minister Presidents in Munich.

10th - 25th Aug. 1948

At the invitation of the Bavarian Minister President Ehard, a Committee for the drawing up of the West German Constitution convenes on the Isle of Herreninsel in the Chiemsee lake.

23rd May 1949

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany comes into force.

1st September 1955

After on 5th May 1955 the occupational status was rescinded, the town and district of Lindau once again returned to Bavaria.

30th April 1968

After a popular referendum the "Christian Coeducational School" is embodied in the Bavarian Constitution with a great majority.

1st July 1972

The Administrative and Territorial Reform enters into force. The former 143 districts are replaced by 71 "Landkreise". The government districts acquire new borders.

17th June 1984

In a referendum Bavaria, the first of all states of the Federal Republic, gives constitutional rank to environmental protection.

20^th - 21st Dec. 1990

An All-German Conference of Minister-Presidents is held in Munich at the invitation of Minister-President Max Streibl, the second after the failed conference in 1947.

21^st April 1994

12^th October 1999

In two government declarations Minister-President Edmund Stoiber launches the Future for Bavaria Action Programme (1994) and the High-Tech Future for Bavaria Action Programme (1999). The expected receipts from the privatisation of government shares amounting to about 2.8 billions euro and 1.35 billions euro will be used for building Bavaria´s future.