Historical place archive

Dessau in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Dessau in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records2 event labels2 people1626–1831

Historical events in Dessau

1626

April 1626
Battle of Dessau
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein · Thirty Years War

Defeats the Danish under Ernst of Mansfeldt

1831

1831
Great Red Spot Drawing
Heinrich Schwabe · Astronomy

Records features matching the modern Great Red Spot era.

1831
Great Red Spot Drawing
Heinrich Schwabe · Astronomy

Makes an early detailed drawing of a large spot on Jupiter later associated with the Great Red Spot.

Provenance

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