| Date | Event |
|---|---|
around 800 | Lüdenscheid church village, later seat of the deanery |
| 1114 | castle built by Emperor Henry V. as protection against insurgents (Duke of Saxony, Archbishop of Cologne and the Earls of Arnsberg) |
| 1268 | first indication of the elevation of the church village to the position of a town by Earl Engelbert I of the Mark. Lüdenscheid develops exemplary town ordinances and privileges, forms its own town ordinances and privileges district and is the higher court for half of the county of Mark. |
| 15th century | Lüdenscheid is the seat of a centre of jurisdiction for the Vehm courts which became famous throughout Europe |
| 15th + 16th century | Lüdenscheid is a member of the Hanseatic League as an iron manufacturing and iron processing site of European importance from time immemorial |
16th | The Vest High Court seated in Lüdenscheid becomes the Court of Appeal for half the County of Mark instead of the Municipal Court. |
| 1609 | Lüdenscheid falls to Brandenburg and Prussia together with Kleve-Mark |
| 1723 | last great town fire |
| 1807-13 | Lüdenscheid is a part of the Grand Duchy of Berg under Napoleonic rule |
| 1815 | Lüdenscheid is a part of the newly-formed province of Westphalia |
| 1907 | Lüdenscheid becomes an administrative district in its own right |
| 1969 | Lüdenscheid again becomes part of another administrative district Dissolution of Lüdenscheid municipal authority and incorporation of the municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land into the town of Lüdenscheid |
| 1975 | Lüdenscheid becomes an administrative centre in the newly-created Märkischer Kreis |
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