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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Basel, Switzerland. == Prior to 11th century == * 5th century BC – Celts settle in the area * 150 BC – Rauraci Celtic tribe founds a settlement (located on the northwestern outskirts of the present city) * 58 BC * * Rauraci together with Helvetii try to emigrate to Gaul, but are defeated at the Battle of Bibracte by Julius Caesar and sent back to their homeland * * Returning Rauraci build a fortified settlement, called oppidum (located in today's Basel Cathedral hill) * c. 44 BC – Augusta Raurica is founded by the Romans * c. 15 BC – Successful colonization of the area supported by the Augustus's conquest of the central Alps * By the 2nd century AD * * Has become a prosperous commercial trading centre and the capital of a local Roman province * * Population reaches approximately twenty thousand people * 250 AD - Powerful earthquake damages a large part of the city * c. 260 AD - Alemanni tribes and/or marauding Roman troops destroy Augusta Raurica * c. 300 AD * * Following the loss of the Limes Germanicus and the right bank of the Rhine River, the Roman army builds a castra (fort) named ''Castrum Rauracense'' near the old site of Augusta Raurica. It was intended to serve as the headquarters of the ''legio I Martia'' and to protect a ford over the Rhine. * 4th century AD * * The fort grows in importance because it commands a bridge that lies along the road from Gaul to the Danube River * * Emperors Constantius II and Julian assemble their armies at the Castrum Rauracense before marching to battle against the Alemanni. * * Church is built near Castrum Rauracense * * The fort and neighboring church become the seat of a bishop, with the bishop first being mentioned in 346.〔 * 374 AD - The town named ''Basilea'' or ''Basilia'' in Latin (from Ancient Greek ''Basileia'', ''Βασιλεια'' meaning ''kingship'') is documented〔''The Encyclopedia Americana'', Grolier Incorporated 1999, p. 308〕 * c. 400 AD - Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Roman troops withdraw from Castrum Rauracense and Basilea, the Germanic Alemanni settled in * 7th century AD - The bishop moves to Basel and the settlement at Castrum Rauracense declines in importance * 740 - Catholic diocese of Basel active (approximate date). * 752 AD - A village called ''Augusta'' was first mentioned * 894 AD - East Francian King Arnulf grants the church in Kaiseraugst (Castrum Rauracense) to his vassal, Anno; the church was then granted to the Abbey of St Gall and then later to the Basel Münster * 917 AD – The Magyars destroyed Basel, and later burnt down the monasteries of St Gallen and Rheinau〔http://www.swissworld.org/en/history/alamans_to_the_holy_roman_empire/foreign_invasions/〕 * 999 AD – Rudolph III of Burgundy donates the Moutier-Grandval Abbey and all its possessions (540 square miles of lands) to Bishop Adalbero II,〔''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica'', Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993, p. 659〕〔Wood, 285–286, 313〕 establishing the Prince-Bishopric of Basel as a secular territory 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of Basel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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