History of Mizoën
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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...