Made in Nuremberg  

The first Lebkuchen (spicy gingerbread) is baked.

Ulman Stromer starts operation of the Germany's first paper mill.

The first print workshop opens up in Nuremberg.

Johannes Regiomontanus calculates his "Ephemerides", the basis for nautical navigation.

The globe, the oldest representation of the world as a sphere, is fashioned, after a design by Martin Behaim.

Erhard Etzlaub, with the Map of Roads to Rome manufactures the first road map of Christian Europe.

Peter Henlein invents the fob watch.

Albrecht Dürer's book on surveying, fortifications and proportions is published.

Georg Hartmann discovers the phenomenon of inclination and manages to work out the precise Northern direction.

The first German manufacturing plant for leonic wire is founded.

Glass cutter, Heinrich Schwanhardt, discovers a method for etching glass.

The clarinet is developed in the workshop of Christoph Denner.

Johann Heinrich Schulze creates the foundations for photography.

Thomas Leykauf manages to make synthetic ultramarine blue.

The Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft runs the first German railway.

The first electrical arc lamp designed by Sigmund Schuckert lights up.

Johannes Zeltner is awarded the first German Reich patent for the process for producing synthetic ultramarine red.

Lothar von Faber develops the hexagonal brand pencil.

"Em-Eukal", the first cough sweet is launched on the market by Dr. Carl Soldan.

The "Tempo" paper handkerchief produced by Vereinigte Papierwerke becomes the German synonym for paper handkerchief.

The MP3 format is developed by the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Fraunhofer-Institut for Integrated Circuits.

Drive technology from the Nuremberg region powers the Transrapid train in Shanghai.

Nuremberg roast sausages are protected within the EU.

Germany's first fully automated underground starts operation.