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Timeline of Stuttgart

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7805932 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Stuttgart, Germany.

Prior to 14th century

1st C. CE - Roman fort established (Bad Cannstatt).

950 CE - Old Castle built.

1240 - Stiftskirche built.

1300 - Counts of Württemberg establish residence (approximate date).

14th-18th century

1321 - City status granted.

1392 - Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg (1315–1392) dies in Stuttgart.

1486 - Printing press in operation.

1493 - Spitalkirche built.

1495 - Stuttgart becomes capital of Wurttemberg.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Timeline of Stuttgart” is timeline. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Timeline, Stuttgart and timeline, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1240, 1300, 1321, 1392—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Timeline, Stuttgart and timeline is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of Stuttgart” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.