History of La Grave
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Relive key moments since -400.
Origins and Transmission
This timeline gathers the major historical events of La Grave: key dates, village transformations, ancient anecdotes, and pivotal moments. It is gradually being enriched through local research and contributions.
Period: -400 — 1910 | 16 events.
Featured events
Birth of the Parish
At the turn of the central Middle Ages, La Grave finally appears clearly in the written record. The first document mentioning our Christian communities is the cartulary of the Abbey of Oulx, dated 110...
The Aigle Refuge
From 1875 onward, mountaineers used the Rocher de l'Aigle, on the ridge separating the Homme and Tabuchet glaciers, as a simple bivouac during attempts to climb the northern side of La Meije. The site...
From Barbarians to the Franks
At the beginning of the 5th century, the Roman Empire was already no longer very Roman. To defend what it could still control, it settled certain “barbarian” peoples as allies. In 443, the general Aet...