Chronology of a valley
| 10th century | St. Ulrich: first Bajuvarian settlement proved through the discovery of burial rows |
| Waidring: the -ing suffix points to a Bajuvarian settlement | |
| 12th century | 1147 Waidring: first documentary evidence of the name as Waithering |
| 1151 St.Jakob in Haus / St.Ulrich am Pillersee / Fieberbrunn / Hochfilzen: first documentary mention of the localities as the 'Hofmark Pillersee'. Pope Eugen II confirms ownership by the Rott am Inn monastery of land including the area of Pillersee. | |
| 1151 St. Ulrich: first church in the Hofmark Pillersee | |
| 13th century | 1279 St. Ulrich: oldest mention of a farm: 'Schwaige Rehent-sowe' (today's Rechensauhof) |
| 1297 Waidring: the archbishop of Salzburg acquires all properties with land and people from Waidring | |
| 14th century | 1308 St. Jakob in Haus: first documentary evidence of a church |
| 1354 Fieberbrunn: according to legend, Margarethe Maultasch, princess of the province of Tyrol, falls ill with fever, drinks from the well at Kirchhügel, and is cured. | |
| 1377 St. Ulrich: first mention of the only public house in the Pillerseetal: the 'tavern on the road', today's Strasserwirt. | |
| 15th century | 1401 St. Ulrich: first documentary evidence of the pilgrimage church of St. Adolari |
| 1416 Waidring: first documentary evidence of a 'tavern in Waidring', today's Gasthof Post | |
| 1446 Fieberbrunn: consecration of the church in honour of SS Primus and Felician | |
| 1478 Waidring: first financial records of the church building of a new Gothic church (indications are that the first settlers in Wai-dring had already built a place of worship in the 10th century. Mass has been celebrated at the site every Sunday since 1381. Until then, the people from Waidring had to walk to Kirchdorf to attend mass.) | |
| 16th century | Fieberbrunn: mining is at its height in the Rettenwand pastures above today's Lauchsee. Lead mining at Bärfeld and iron mining at Gebra. |
| 1506: When the provincial court of Kitzbühel is joined to Tyrol under Emperor Maximilian I, Waidring and the Hofmark Pillersee come under the jurisdiction of Tyrol. | |
| 17th century | 1632 Fieberbrunn: according to legend, Claudia di Medici is also cured by taking the waters of the spring. |
| 1683 Hochfilzen: a chapel is built in honour of Our Lady of Loreto. | |
| 1689 St. Jakob in Haus: the church is destroyed by an avalanche. Reconstruction begins in the same year. | |
| 1689 Fieberbrunn: consecration of the parish church. | |
| 18th century | 1746 Hochfilzen: the chapel of Our Lady of Loreto is converted into a church. |
| 1759 Waidring: building work starts on the present-day parish church under the supervision of master builder Kassian Singer. | |
| 1760 Fieberbrunn: a chapel is built in honour of St John Nepomuk. | |
| 1771 Waidring: on his first journey to Italy, Leopold Mozart travels with his son Wolfgang through Waidring and stops off at today's 'Gasthof Post'. In a letter to his wife he writes "...we had soup accompanied by a surprisingly good drop of St. John's ale... | |
| 1790 St. Ulrich/Hochfilzen: border skirmishes between the 'county-principality' of Tyrol and the 'diocesan principality' of Salzburg at the 'Römersattel'. | |
| 19. Jhdt. | 1803 St. Ulrich/Fieberbrunn/Hochfilzen/St.Jakob: dissolution of the Bavarian monastery of Rott am Inn. The Hofmark Pillersee falls to the lord of the Tyrol (Emperor Franz II at the time). |
| 1809 Waidring: the 'marksmen from Waidring' defend the Strub Pass against Napoleon's troops. The pass has to be surrendered after heavy losses. | |
| 1818 St. Jakob in Haus: birth of Christian Reithmann, inventor of the gas engine, who dies in 1909 in Munich. | |
| 1819 The former Hofmark Pillersee becomes part of the jurisdic-tion and later district of Kitzbühel. | |
| 1833 Dissolution of the quadripartite municipalities of the Hof-mark Pillersee leads to the establishment of the four Pillersee municipalities of St. Ulrich, St. Jakob i.H, Hochfilzen and Fieberbrunn. | |
| 1870 Waidring: Foundation of the bell- and metal foundry of Joseph Lugmair | |
| 1875 Fieberbrunn / Hochfilzen: opening of the railway line - known as the 'Giselabahn' with to completion of the railway line between Salzburg and Wörgl. | |
| 1888 Fieberbrunn: establishment of the embellishment society later to become the tourist board. | |
| 1891 Hochfilzen: the 'Maria Schnee' house of God is made parish church. | |
| 20th century | 1906 St. Ulrich: opening of the Mack dwarf pine distillery (named after Mathias Mack, a pharmacist from Bad Reichenhall, who dis-covered the medicinal powers of the dwarf pine in 1856). |
| 1909 Waidring: 5 killed by an avalanche in the Wildlastal. | |
| 1911 - 1931 St. Jakob in Haus/ St. Ulrich /Waidring / Fieberbrunn: building of the Pillersee road. | |
| 1912 Fieberbrunn: one person killed in catastrophic flood which causes enormous damage to buildings and fields. | |
| 1912 Waidring: building of one of Tyrol's first outdoor swimming pools. | |
| 1926 St. Jakob in Haus: establishment of an 'embellishment society' later to become the tourist board. | |
| 1958 Fieberbrunn: first T-bar lift in the village (the 'Reitl lift'). | |
| 1959 Fieberbrunn: first chairlift to Streuböden. | |
| 1961 The Pillersee road is asphalted. | |
| 1963 Waidring: the first T-bar lift is built on the Hausberg. | |
| 1965 St. Jakob in Haus: the first ski lift is built on the Kröpflwiese. | |
| 1969 St. Jakob in Haus / St. Ulrich: the ski lifts are merged with Bergbahn Pillersee. | |
| 1970 St. Jakob in Haus: a one-seater chair lift is built up the side of the Buchensteinwand. | |
| 1972 Waidring: the 'Steinplatten Aufschließungsges. m.b.H. & Co. KG', a development company, is established. Building of the T-bar lifts 'Plattenkogel', 'Schwarzlofer' and 'Kammerkör'. | |
| 1974 Hochfilzen: Austrian Biathlon Championships held for the first time. | |
| 1997 Waidring: 850th anniversary celebrations. | |
| 21st century | 1.1.2002 Merger of the tourist boards of Fieberbrunn, Hochfilzen, St. Jakob in Haus, St. Ulrich am Pillersee and Waidring. |
| 4.-13.3.2005 Hochfilzen: Austrian Biathlon Championships | |
| 9.-10.2.2008 venue of the 36th intern. Koasalauf |
This is merely an excerpt from the region's history; the summary presented here is not exhaustive.
