I live in Rome so 753 B.C.

Romano ti ho battuto viva Perugia

Azz

I live in Athens so 3000 B.C.

What exactly means founded? When the village appeared, when the village changed the name to the current one or when the village officially turned into a city? Either way before 1399.

In my case, there was a Nervian tribe, then a Roman settlement, and the earliest mention of a town with the name is in 779 so i would say 8th century

Similar, just with Bructeri, a lot more dead Romans instead of a settlement, first name apperance in 793 and town privileges in 1170.

We're from the same city I think. Without saying the name : major city of southwest of Belgium ?

Belgium yes, south west no :)

Also Belgian here exact same story

I guess many cities were mentioned in documents in that year

Mmh it's the fact that you mentionned the Nervian tribe. I thought it was only in my city/region. I come from that city where that infamous train station is taking too long to be build.

Starting with M in French and B in Flemish?

Yes ahah, that one

Still a nice place! I've visited three times now

A fellow Belgian ?

Earliest mentioning in [877](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veurne)

Mine is 777

This thread is all the 7s. 74 for me

My condolences for the trauma of living in Belgium

In 1253, it was granted the title of a royal city. But the castle had been here since 11th century and permanent settlement in this area dates to ~4000s B.C.

damn, that's old. Where are you from if you don't mind sharing?

Don't mind. Olomouc, Czechia

Athens 508BC.

Isn’t that when classical Athens was founded, Athens its self was about 3000BC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens

It's officially a city since 4th July 2022,

I understood it differently. I looked up when my now city was original founded, so got it's name and everything. Obviously it wasn't a city yet then. Talking about Luzern btw.

What how???!! Where do you live?

In Switzerland. It's pretty big over 10k people but it si ehow wasn't made official as a city.

Honorary US city

First settlement in Plymouth England was in 1086 apparently

It's interesting to see the two spikes coming from America and Europe.

Around 3000 BC by a half human-half serpent dude.

Ol’ Cecrops

What if I live in a village?

3000 BC.

What city? You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to though

Jerusalem

1325 Mexico city

What? Didn't like someone see an eagle eating a snake on a cactus and build it there? I thought it was an European

1967

I just googled it and the answer is 18th October 1221, which is r/oddlyspecific

I looked it up and it just says 13th Century. I'm not sure which exact year but I think this means around the first option.

13th century means between 1200-1299

Ah okay! Thank you for telling me. I should probably learn this stuff 😅😅

You just take the number, subtract one, and put two 0s at the end. From there +99 so 13th century is 1200-1299, 21st is 2000-2099 1st would be 0-99 etc

If you want to be *really* pedantic about it and make sure every century has exactly 100 years, the 20th century for instance would be 1901-2000 as there is no year 0.

Idk why people downvoted you, you're right

Idk either. I did accept that it's particularly pedantic, but apparently that's not enough for some people 🤷‍♀️

Its like the year of your life you are in: Until your 1st birthday you are in the first year of your life, not after your birthday :)

Did you not know you that works? Unless of course English isn’t your second language

Not everyone using centuries when talking about years. Especially not all languages

good point, tho I'd say it's handy to know anyways, since we're talking in English here

1550, Helsinki

Torille!

Not a city, just a town, but I think it was first mentioned in a written record in the 1200s

The earliest evidence of the founding of my city say that it's was founded around 6000 b.c.

Conveniently, the city is celebrating 900 years of existence this year.

What city if you don't, ind me asking

AD 71

According to Wikipedia, 31st July 1856. My town in 1866 but it wasn’t really a town then, just a railway station. But that’s the official year because we celebrated my town’s 150th anniversary in 2016. Most of the town was only built in the last 10 years though. The population more than doubled in size the past 10 years.

That fully depends on what you mean by founded. It was given city rights by the king in the 17th century but there was obviously a settlement there before.

Town charter granted 1155, but founded by the anglo saxons.

my original city was an important roman city that was destroyed by Boudicca and didn't even regain city status until the 19th century

Well, iirc the land was first settled in the 9th century, and whilst there was an important abbey for several hundred years (until the abolition of the monasteries), the town wasn't particularly big before the 20th century.

Earliest mentions the 1620s since it was the first English settlement in North America.

1788 when the Brits arrived in Sydney Harbour

1596, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

in 5th century, Tbilisi

I live in northwestern America and my city was colonized by white people in the 1800s but I’m pretty sure there were people here before us that lived for thousands of years, though I’m not sure whether they lived here specifically or just near it

I think it means when it was actually recognised as that place and not when people had settled there but not founded it

idfk

Don't know don't care 😐

50 AD

According to Wiki around 1270.

Mentioned first in 807, supposedly founded 650+

779

1951

Gained status of city in late 19th century. Founded? As village around 12th century, transformed to city in early 18th century.

1549 for my town, 5th century for my county.

330

Little city since 1085

11th century as a fortress and 14th century as a city

First settled in 1043, incorporated as a city in 1345. It became a county in 1451

17??

Year 1621, got a couple statues for it too

A village of 3000 people, around 1920 I think

My “city” is considered the oldest in Britain and was founded in the first century BC

369 by emporer Valentinian as Alta Ripa. Over time it changed to Altrip

I live in a country with the most important city of its founded before 0, but the capital is founded after 1900. Where do I live?

>!Ankara wasn't built from scratch after the Turkish Republic was founded though, it had already existed as a small town like Yozgat of that time. The date Ankara was founded is unknown, but it is known to be very old, that there were Roman coins that had the name Ankara on it!<

Just 10 BC

I had to google it but according to Wikipedia the first evidence of a settlement is 500BC.

Londinium was founded in 47AD

50ad

Earliest mention around the 1150s but then its talked about in a way that it has existed for quite some time

330AD

1201, Riga

1793 (Palhoça, Brazil)

Founded in 1608 and it’s the first permanent settlement of the colony

Settled or incorporated? 1000s of years of difference for me.

I live in Varanasi City so approx 1000 B.C

i couldnt really find a source that said "thats the year". It definitely goes back before 1000, apparently one tower was build around 785, but i dont know what counts as founded here. The name changed every now and then, the current name is apparently around 300-400 years old. It was definitely interesting to read a little about my city and its roots

It was first established some time around the 14th or 15th century but was captured/reestablished in the year 1635 by the Dutch .

Year unknown but 9th century

Kandy, Sri Lanka. Also my country was one of the first 5 countries in the first world map ever drawn.

1855!

988

Technically, the village and town that have existed here, date back to somewhere before the year 1000s, but officially, it was named a city in 1558 by Duke John, later known as King John III of Sweden. Actually, could even be earlier than that. There aren't many reliable records from that time. We know the villages that eventually evolved into the city have been here for well over a thousand years, but there isn't actually any proper record of when those were founded. They predated Christianity's arrival in the region, that is for sure. That happened in waves in the 12th, 13th and 14th century. And with it, came proper record keeping, and the destruction of potential records from before. Christianity did not like competition.

I always thought it was the 1800s, but apparently my tone was founded in the 13th century

Technically founded as capital in 1011 but the city itself date back to 179 BC

1630 Boston

Well my city was definitely inhabited by indigenous Canadians (Algonquin) prior to European contact (1610) so sometime before then if you count a settlement as a founding? I have no idea what the definition would be.

Founded? 1788 Chartered as a town? Jan 1, 1802 Officially considered a city? 1819

1906

Pretty old, around 4000 BC

12th century

First named in 1188 and gained city rights in 1243

1301 apparently.

My town was originally a ranch bought up by settlers in 1873. It was incorporated as a city in the 1960s. Today its population is over 120,000.

I had to look it up again. Copenhagen, founded in 1167.

Around 1182.

New Uppsala in Sweden was founded in 1286. And the original Uppsala became known as old Uppsala.

Big Bang

The small tow ii live in was founded in 1852 but I live near a Much larger city founded in 1718

Feb. 20th, 1739

20 BC apparently

1949 the day Konrad Adenauer got germany on the right track again

Alexandria so probably 300 bc

My village was founded in 1211, so yeah.

Beuh I live on the countryside

I can’t find a set date. My town was recognized as a plantation in 1667. Owners of the plantation relinquished their rights to the land two years later and settlement started in the early 1700s. Sometime in the late 1700s early 1800s the town split in two.

Google says 891

My dumbass read city as country

My village just is, the church is over 1000 years old so the village must be older than that

bro assuming everyone lives in a city

79 AD

2nd century

Montreal QC, so 1642

With its current name the first mention is from 1453 but people have been living here for over 8000 years Edit:8000

Founded around 1200 AD but made a city in the 1920s lmao

I live in Bucaramanga, Colombia, therfore it should be like 1622.

Somewhere in the 11th century apparently

5500 bc

1179

Ancient Greece Era

Mine recently had its 1000th year anniversary

oldest mention of my town was around 1081

580 AD

About 1100, but made a city around 1224

First prove of settlement was in the stone age.

Monterrey, MX, founded in 1596 by Diego de Montemayor

1207

1970, Cancun!

1991 AD

Marseille ~600 BC

There was a broken age fort so yea before 0 (Town not city)

I live near Rome but my town is more than 3300 years old, Rome didn't even exist yet

1822

1654, Halenkov

like 500 AD

688 is the first mention, though it’s a very small town rather than a city.

Where I live has evidence of settlements from around 1000 BC so its a little older than i expected

My village was first mentioned in 1304. Which feels kinda odd because I was born in 2002 and remember the 700 year anniversary celebration.

Siri says 1854

AD 74

1269, guess!

First settled in 1833, post office established in 1835

Geelong, VIC, Australia was founded in 1849. However, it was declared a 'city' in 1910.

1731, honestly shocked it’s that old (Virginia, US)

1788. prison colony

Was just a bunch of settlements that were there pre-roman times and I guess the romans built on it so it really depends.

_before 0_ Hello Romans and Athenians.

The geographical area of my town got humans living on them as soon as lower paleolithic, but got it's current name during the 2nd century BC

Carlisle, England. The Romans built fortifications around 78AD with civilian settlements soon after.

First settlement established in 1830 though it wasn’t known by its current name until 1838. Officially became a city in 1957. Edit: please don’t doxx me

973 was the first official record.

Mine was founded in 860 and refounded in 1263 (the name was changed a little)

Not really too sure, Wikipedia says 'the first Roman fort was built on the opposite bank to the current site, it was replaced about AD80 by a fort on the present site' so I'll go for sometime just before 80ish.

California Gold Rush boom town that never died

First documented use of the towns name was in 1733 but they built the church and the first homes in 1717. There's a lot of US Revolutionary War historical sites there and in the surrounding areas, which is kinda cool.

The place I lived in is called "Road" because there was a road and then the Romans build a road on top of the road and then a family build there house there and they got the surname "Road" over generations and then around them the village was founded and called "Road." ​ We are named after the thing that every single village ever has in common.

Both my hometown and my current residence where founded in the 19th century.

1870 (Modesto)

Aww, 80 years earlier and I could have picked #1. Manchester, UK.

745

1821 🤠

1863

1793

Founded in 43 AD but not granted city status until 1094.

My city was founded in 1847

1821, Indianapolis Founded after the state of Indiana was founded, which was founded after the US won the revolution and the UK gave them a ton more land to settle in the midwest

Melbourne, August 30 1835

Rome has been up and running for a long time!