Pied Piper legend originates in Hamelin
1284
The earliest references to a mysterious figure leading one hundred and thirty children out of the German town of Hamelin date to around this year. Whether the tale records a plague, a children's crusade, or a colonization drive to the east, something happened in Hamelin that its citizens never forgot and never fully explained.
In context
Also in 1284 (3 other events on record)
- Statute of Rhuddlan annexes Wales · Europe · Politics
- Genoese destroy Pisan fleet at Meloria · Europe · War
- Alfonso X deposed by his son Sancho · Europe · Politics
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.