1649
Reconstruction
Begins rebuilding the Palatinate after decades of war and exile
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Heidelberg in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Begins rebuilding the Palatinate after decades of war and exile
Returns to the devastated Palatinate and reclaims his fathers electoral title and most former territories
Takes possession of the Lower Palatinate under the Westphalian settlement
As heir to the Elector Palatine, Johann Wilhelm sees the Palatinate devastated during the French withdrawal and destruction campaign.
Awarded the chair of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg
Birth of Friedrich Ebert
Studies how cathode rays penetrate matter through thin windows, establishing characteristic absorption and scattering behaviour.
Discovers Patroclus, an asteroid occupying Jupiter's trailing Trojan region.
Discovers Achilles, the first recognized asteroid sharing Jupiter's orbit near a stable Lagrange point.
Discovers Hektor, a large asteroid in Jupiter's leading Trojan swarm.
Graduates with a doctorate
Helps demonstrate a practical spherical-aberration corrector that greatly improves transmission electron microscope resolution.
Provenance
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