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The district of Cheb was in 870 included in the new margraviate of East Franconia , which belonged at first to the Babenbergs, but from 906 to the counts of Vohburg, who took the title of margraves of Cheb. By the marriage, in 1149, of Adela of Vohburg with the emperor Frederick I, Cheb came into the possession of the house of Swabia, and remained in the hands of the emperors until the 13th century.
In 1265 it was taken by the king Ottokar II of Bohemia, who retained it for eleven years. After being repeatedly transferred from the one power to the other, according to the preponderance of Bohemia or the empire, the town and territory were finally incorporated with Bohemia in 1350, after the Bohemian king became the emperor Charles IVThe Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV ( german: Karl IV. of the House of Luxembourg ( May 14, 1316 29 November 1378) was elected rival king of the Romans in 1346 to emperor Louis IV, succeeded his father John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1346, and was. Several imperial privileges, however, continued to be enjoyed by the town till 1849Events January 23 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor January 31 Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom February 14 In New York City, James Knox Polk be. It suffered severely during the Hussite WarsThe Hussite Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434. The Hussite Wars were arguably the first European war in which hand-held gunpowder weapons such as muskets made a deci, during the SwedishThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf invasion in 1631Events February 5 Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. May 10 During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed. May 18 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop tak and 1647Events March 14 Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. August 8 The Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces. August Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the, and in the War of the Austrian SuccessionThe War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740- 1748). When Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Hapsburg dominions in 1740 in accordance with the pragmaticae sanctiones ( Pragmatic Sanction), she, as a woman, was in 1742Events January 24 Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. February 16 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain. February 18 British attack La Guayra. April 8 The first performance of George Frideric Handel's orat.
Austrian National Socialism and hence German National Socialism can trace its origins to Eger when Franko Stein transferred a small newspaper Der Hammer from Vienna to Eger in 1897. There, he organized a German workers congress called the Deutschvölkischer Arbeitertag where the 25-point program was published.