Timeline of Gdańsk
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.
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- 997 - Gdańsk becomes capital of Duchy of Pomerania (approximate date).[1]
- 1224 - Gdańsk granted city rights.
- 1260 - St. Dominic's Fair begins.
- 1308 - November 13: Teutonic takeover of Gdańsk.
- 1326 - St. Catherine's Church built.[1]
- 1346 - Stockturm built.[2]
- 1350 - Artus Court built (approximate date).
- 1360 - City joins Hanseatic League (approximate date).[1]
- 1391 - Foundation of the Marienbrunn Abbey.
- 1455
- City ceded to Kingdom of Poland.[3]
- Danzig law in effect (approximate date).
- 1465 - St. John's Church built.[1]
- 1481 - Artus Court rebuilt.[2]
- 1494 - Hall of the Brotherhood of St. George built.[2]
- 1502 - St. Mary's Church built.
- 1514 - Trinity Church built.[1]
- 1537 - Franz Rhode sets up printing press.
- 1558 - Academic Gymnasium established.
- 1561 - Rathhaus tower built.[1]
- 1568 - Green Gate built.
- 1569
- City becomes part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Mennonite Church founded.
- 1575 - Danzig rebellion begins.
- 1577
- April 17: Battle of Lubieszow.
- Siege of Danzig by Stephen Báthory of Poland.
- 1588 - Hohe Thor erected.[1]
- 1594 - Oliwa Cathedral consecrated.
- 1596 - Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis established.[4]
- 1605 - Arsenal built in Kohlenmarkt.[1]
- 1606 - Der Lachs distillery in business.
- 1612 - Langgasser-Thor built.[1]
- 1614 - Golden Gate built.
- 1627 - Battle of Oliwa.
- 1633 - Neptune Fountain installed at Long Market.[2]
- 1655 - Siege of Danzig (1655–1660) begins.
- 1681 - Royal Chapel of the Polish King built.
- 1709 - Bubonic plague.
- 1734 - Siege of Danzig by Russians.
- 1742
- Experimental Physics Society organized.
- Corn exchange opens in Artus Court.[2]
- 1756 - Abbot's Palace expanded.
- 1772 - City separated from Poland.[3]
- 1793
19th century
- 1807
- March 19-May 24: Siege of Danzig by French forces.[3]
- September 9: Free City of Danzig established by Napoleon.
- 1813 - January–December 29: Siege of Danzig by Russian and Prussian forces.
- 1814 - City becomes part of Prussia again.[3]
- 1815 - City becomes administrative capital of Danzig (region).
- 1832 - Handelsakademie established.[5]
- 1852 - Königliche Werft Danzig in business.
- 1871
- City becomes part of German Empire.
- Franciscan monastery building restored.[3]
- 1880 - Westpreussische Provinzial-Museum opens.[6]
- 1885 - Population: 114,805.[3]
- 1887 - Great Synagogue built.[7]
- 1896 - Old fortifications dismantled in north and west of city.[3]
- 1899 - Harbor built at Neufahrwasser.[3]
- 1900 - Railway Station opens.
20th century
1900–1945
- 1901
- 1903 - Fußball Club Danzig formed.
- 1904 - Königliche Technische Hochschule founded.
- 1905 - Population: 159,088.[3]
- 1918 - City becomes part of Weimar Germany.
- 1919 - Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of Versailles.
- 1920
- Polish Post Office and Sportverein Schutzpolizei Danzig established.
- Volkstag (parliament) becomes active.
- 1921 - Danziger Werft in business.
- 1922 - Gedania Danzig football club formed.
- 1927 - MOSiR Stadium built.
- 1937 - October: Pogrom against Jews.
- 1939
- September 1: Battle of the Danzig Bay; Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig.
- September 1–7: Battle of Westerplatte.
- October 8: City occupied by Nazi Germany; city becomes capital of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
- 1941 - Lufttwaffensportverein Danzig formed.
- 1945
- March 27–30: City taken by forces of Soviet Union.
- Gdańsk becomes part of Republic of Poland.
- City becomes capital of Gdańsk Voivodeship.
- Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski becomes mayor.
- Gdańsk Shipyard, Akademia Lekarska, Baltia Gdańsk football club, Gdańsk Symphony Orchestra, and Academy of Fine Arts established.
1946–1990s
- 1946 - Gdańsk College of Education established.
- 1952 - City becomes part of Polish People's Republic.
- 1953 - Baltic State Opera and Philharmonic formed.
- 1965 - Abbot's Palace rebuilt.
- 1970
- University of Gdańsk established.
- Gdańsk Power Station commissioned.
- Hala Olivia arena opens.
- 1972 - National Museum, Gdańsk established.
- 1974
- 1980
- Summer: Shipbuilders strike.
- August 31: Solidarity (Polish trade union) founded; Gdańsk Agreement signed.
- Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 unveiled.
- 1982 - August 31: Anti-government demonstration.
- 1985 - SS Soldek museum opens.
- 1989 - City becomes part of Republic of Poland.
- 1991 - Franciszek Jamroz becomes mayor.
- 1993 - Gdańsk Shakespeare Days begin.
- 1994 - Tomasz Posadzki becomes mayor.
- 1996 - International Festival of Street & Open-Air Theatres begins (approximate date).[10]
- 1998
- Pawel Adamowicz becomes mayor.
- Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art founded.
- 1999
- Gdańsk becomes capital of Pomeranian Voivodeship.
- Solidarity Centre Foundation established.
21st century
- 2001 - Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge opens.
- 2002 - The Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries installed.
- 2004 - May 1: Poland becomes part of European Union.
- 2007
- Deepwater Container Terminal Gdańsk launched.
- Tricity Charter signed.
- 2010
- Ergo Arena opens.
- Population: 455,830.
- 2011 - Baltic Arena opens.
- 2014
- European Solidarity Centre opens.[11]
- Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre opens.[12]
See also
- History of Gdańsk
- List of mayors of Danzig, 1308 to 1945
- List of mayors of Gdańsk, pre-1308 and post-1945
- List of Gdańsk aristocratic families
- Category:Timelines of cities in Poland (in Polish)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Dantsic", Northern Germany (5th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1873, OCLC 5947482
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Baedeker 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 "Historia" (in Polish). Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Gdansku. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
- ↑ Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1865), "Danzig", Allgemeine Deutsche Real-Encyklopädie für die Gebildeten Stände (in German) (11th ed.), Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus
- ↑ H. Conwentz (1905), Das Westpreussische Provinzial-Museum, 1880-1905 (in German), Danzig
- ↑ "Gdansk". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on December 2014.
- ↑ "Dzieje Archiwum Panstwowego w Gdansku" (in Polish). Archiwum Panstwowe w Gdansku. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
- ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
- ↑ "FETA". Gdańsk. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
- ↑ "W Gdańsku otwarto Europejskie Centrum Solidarności" (in Polish). Onet.pl. 31 August 2014. Archived from the original on 13 December 2015.
- ↑ Gentle, Peter (20 September 2014). "Bomb scare disrupts Gdansk Shakespeare theatre opening". thenews.pl. Polish Radio External Service.
- This article incorporates information from the Polish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
In English
- Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Dantzic". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events. London: Thomas Kelly.
- "Danzig", Jewish Encyclopedia, 4, New York, 1907
- "Danzig", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
- "Danzig", The Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Szymon Askenazy (1921), Dantzig & Poland, London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., OCLC 2181707
- "Historic Danzig: Last of the City-States", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 76, 1939
- "Poland: Gdansk", Eastern and Central Europe (17th ed.), Fodor's, 1996, OL 7697674M
- George Lerski (1996). "Gdansk". Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5.
- Piotr Wróbel (1998). "Gdansk". Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-135-92694-6.
In other languages
- Johannes Bolte (1895), Das Danziger Theater im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert [Danzig Theatre in the 16th and 17th Centuries] (in German), Hamburg: L. Voss
- Max Foltz (1912), Geschichte des Danziger Stadthaushalts [History of the Danzig City Budget] (in German), Danzig: A.W. Kafemann, OCLC 12495569
- P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Danzig". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
- Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Danzig". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 275+. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.
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