Skip to content

HistorIQly Timeline

Explore

HistorIQly One account, every site.

/* A burger that cannot open is worse than no burger, so without JavaScript the bar keeps the two controls the menu would have carried and the links drop into the strip below. The call to action stays out: it does not fit beside them at this width, and every page that has one repeats it in its own hero. */ @media (max-width: 760px) { #site-nav .site-nav__actions .lang-switch { display: block; } #site-nav .site-nav__account:empty + .site-nav__signin { display: inline-flex; } } @media (max-width: 1099px) { #site-nav { height: auto; } #site-nav .site-nav__inner { height: 72px; } #site-nav .site-nav__burger { display: none; } } Saved Search Settings

Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0

Event religious Europe

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

1858 CE

World's most visited Catholic pilgrimage site after the Vatican, where Bernadette Soubirous reported apparitions of the Virgin…

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Marian shrine in Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes on Wikipedia.

Read the article

The full record

This moment was taken from a record with a span of its own.

Landmark · Europe

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

1858 CE – still standing

World's most visited Catholic pilgrimage site after the Vatican, where Bernadette Soubirous reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary

Standing in 1858 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Mexico Polity · Americas Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Giant's Causeway Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Danube Delta Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

1856 CE Second Opium War 1856 CE Panthay Rebellion 1857 CE Indian Rebellion of 1857 1858 CE Sanctuary of Lourdes 1861 CE American Civil War 1861 CE French Intervention in Mexico

Image credits 1 picture from Wikimedia Commons

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0