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Luxembourg Chronology

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Luxembourg Chronology

Beginning of Luxembourg
600-700 AD	St Willibrord, a missionary from Ireland, spread Christianity in the region.
963 AD	The region of Luxembourg was proclaimed an independent state.
1296	John the Blind –king of Bohemia and count of Luxembourg –was born.
1308	Henri VII, Count of Luxembourg, became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1346 November 26	Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected to be the new Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1354	Charles the IV created the Duchy of Luxembourg.
1443	Luxembourg was conquered by the Burgundian king Philip the Good.
1582 October 15	Luxembourg adopted the Gregorian Calendar along with the other European countries. The days between October 4 to 15 were dropped from the calendar to bring it en sync.

17th-19th Century
1684	France took over Luxembourg.
1867 September 9	Luxembourg gained its independence back.
1884 August 16	Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer and publisher, was born in Luxembourg.
1890 November 23	The Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg were separated when Queen Wilhemina took over the throne of the Netherlands.

Threshold of the 20th Century
1912	A new law was passed allowing women to rule. Marie Adelaide of Nassau became Grand Duchess.
1914	German troops entered the territory of Belgium and Luxembourg thus violating the countries’ neutrality.
1919	Charlotte became Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1920 May 1	A Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel was opened.
1940 May 10	During the World War II Germany again attacked Belgium and Luxembourg.
1944 September 11	American troops entered Luxembourg.
1944-1945	Across the country the Battle of the Bulge raged with fierceness. In it American and German troops clashed.

Post World Wars
1945	Luxembourg joined the United Nations.
1948	France, Great Britain and Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, also known as Benelux, signed the treaty of Brussels and ended the war.
1949	Luxembourg became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
1959-1974	Pierre Werner was prime minister of Luxembourg. He served again from 1979-1984.
1964	The Luxembourg Grand Duke Jean began his rule over the country.
1980s	In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg there was a boom in the banking due to friendly regulation and low taxes.
1993	Germany passed a 30% withholding tax on investment income and thus caused billions of marks to flow out of Germany and into Luxembourg.
1993	Luxembourg helped to found the European Union. The city of Luxembourg is the seat of several agencies of the European Union including the secretariat.
1996	The unemployment rate was merely 3 per cent.
1999	Luxembourg and 10 other European Union nations made the transition to the new Euro monetary system.

21st Century
2000	A hostage situation in Luxembourg when a Tunisian immigrant took hostages in a school in the town of Wasserbillig. Thanks to the actions of the police, no one but the hostage-taker was wounded.
2000 September	The Grand Duke planned to abdicate and give the throne to his eldest son, Prince Henri.
2002	Pierre Werner died. He was twice a prime minister in Luxembourg and also the person to conceive the idea of a common European currency. The same year Luxembourg officially started using the Euro.
2003	The leaders of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, all critics of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, agreed to beef up their military cooperation in an effort to make Europe's defence less reliant on the U.S.
2005 July	Luxembourg accepts the European constitution.