History of Mizoën

Interactive timeline

Relive key moments since -1000.

Origins and Transmission

This timeline gathers the major historical events of Mizoën: key dates, village transformations, ancient anecdotes, and pivotal moments. It is gradually being enriched through local research and contributions.

Period: -1000 — 1935 | 23 events.

Featured events

The First Traces of Occupation around Mizoën

Long before Mizoën became a village, people were already passing through the upper Romanche valley. The first people about whom we can speak with some degree of certainty were probably the Ligurians, ...

The Plague

The plague deeply marked the history of Mizoën and the entire upper valley. In 1348, the scourge decimated nearly half the population of Oisans, durably disrupting life in the mountain villages. Trans...

Births of Parishes

Although Christianity had been established in the West for several centuries, the isolation of the high Alpine valleys probably delayed its local organization. In 1080, however, the churches of the th...