Timeline_of_Vienna
Timeline of Vienna
Timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria.
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- 1st-millennium BCE – Vindobona settled.
- 180 – Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius dies in Vindobona.
- 740 - Church of St Ruprecht, the oldest church in Vienna, first built.[1]
- 881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna).
- 1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna.
- 1155
- Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city[clarification needed].[2]
- Schottenstift founded.
- 1160 – St. Stephen's Cathedral built.
- 1221 – Vienna receives rights as staple port.
- 1237 – Vienna received a charter of freedom from Frederick II., confirmed in 1247.[1]
- 1251 – Ottokar II of Bohemia in power.
- 1276 – Foundation stone for the Minorites Church laid by King Ottokar II of Bohemia.[3]
- 1278 – City charter granted.[4]
- 1280 – Jans der Enikel writes the Fürstenbuch, a first history of the city.
- 1349 – Augustinian Church consecrated.
- 1365 – University of Vienna founded.[1]
- 1421 – Jews expelled.
- 1482 – Johann Winterburger sets up printing press (approximate date).[5]
- 1485
- Siege of Vienna by Kingdom of Hungary, city passed to Hungary.
- Royal Court of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary relocated to Vienna (known as Bécs in Hungarian).
- 1515 – First Congress of Vienna.
- 1529 – Siege of Vienna by Turks.
- 1556 – Vienna becomes seat of Holy Roman Empire under Ferdinand I.
- 1598 – Donaukanal regulated.
- 1600 – Melchior Khlesl becomes Bishop of Vienna.
- 1643 – Schönbrunn Palace built.
- 1668 – July: premiere of Cesti's opera Il pomo d'oro.[6]
- 1678 – Palais Modena completed.
- 1679 – Great Plague of Vienna.
- 1683 – Battle of Vienna.[7]
- 1684 – Kollschitzky coffeehouse in business.[8]
- 1692 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna founded.
- 1702 – Palais Strozzi completed.
- 1703 – Palais Liechtenstein built.[9]
- 1704 – Linienwall fortification built.
- 1709 – Theater am Kärntnertor built.
- 1712 – Palais Trautson completed.
- 1713 – Plague epidemic.
- 1716 – Palais Kinsky completed.[10]
- 1718 – Vienna Porcelain Manufactory founded.[11]
- 1724 – Population: 150,000.
- 1735 – Winter Riding School built.
- 1741 – Burgtheater opens.[12]
- 1762 – Premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.[13]
- 1765
- Tiergarten Schönbrunn (zoo) opens.[14]
- Artaria publishing firm founded.
- 1766 – Prater opens.
- 1770 – Chess-playing Mechanical Turk introduced at Schönbrunn Palace.
- 1772 – Freyung Christmas market begins.
- 1781 – Mozart arrives to Vienna from Salzburg.
- 1786 – Premiere of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
- Demel confectionery and Gesellschaft der Associierten founded.
- 1 May: premiere of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.
- 1790 – Population: 200,000.
- 1791 – 30 September: premiere of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
- 1792 – Schweighofer piano manufactury established. Beethoven arrives to Vienna from Bonn.
- 1797 - 31 January Franz Peter Schubert is born in Alsergrund
- 1800 – 2 April: premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.
- 1802 – Palais Erdődy commissioned.
- 1805
- 1807 – Czartoryski Palace built.
- 1808 – 22 December: premiere of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Choral Fantasy, and Piano Concerto No. 4 at the Theater an der Wien.
- 1809 – Battle of Aspern-Essling. Joseph Haydn dies.
- 1814
- Congress of Vienna.
- C.F. Peters music publisher in business.[15]
- 1824 – 7 May: premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
- 1827- 27 March: Ludwig van Beethoven dies.
- 1828 19 November: Franz Peter Schubert dies.
- 1829 – Leopoldine Society formed.
- 1832 – Sachertorte invented.
- 1840 – Population: 231,050.[1]
- 1842
- Austrian Southern Railway begins.
- Philharmonische Academie formed.
- 1847 – Austrian Academy of Sciences established.
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- 1848 – Vienna Uprising.[16]
- 1850
- City expanded beyond Innere Stadt.
- Population: 551,300.
- 1858 – Ringstraße constructed.
- 1860/1864 – the fine and lofty tower of the Cathedral of St Stephen rebuilt.[1]
- 1864
- Palais Todesco completed.
- Neue Freie Presse newspaper begins publication.
- 1867 – Palais Toskana built.
- 1869
- Vienna State Opera house built.
- Population: 842,951.[1]
- 1870
- Works started to regulate the Danube to make it safe for navigation.[1]
- Musikverein inaugurated.
- 1873
- World exposition held.[17]
- Café Landtmann and Hotel Imperial in business.
- 1874
- Palais Chotek completed.
- Premiere of Strauss's opera Die Fledermaus.[18]
- 1875 – Danube levees constructed.
- 1876
- Academy of Fine Arts building erected.[19]
- Hotel Sacher established.
- Café Central in business.
- 1878 – Palais Nathaniel Rothschild built.
- 1879 – Geological Office formed.
- 1880
- Café Sperl in business.
- Population: 1,090,119.[1]
- 1881 – Palace of Justice (Vienna) built.
- 1882 – Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (greenhouse) opens.
- 1883 – Completion of the Vienna City Hall, an immense Gothic building.[1]
- 1884 – Palais Albert Rothschild built.
- 1885 – Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory and Alpinen Gesellschaft Edelraute (hiking club)[20] established.
- 1886 – Hermesvilla built.
- 1887 – Historical Museum of the City of Vienna established.
- 1889 – Vienna City Archives [de] active.[21]
- 1890 – City expanded; population: 1,364,548.[1]
- 1891 – Kunsthistorisches Museum (art museum) opens.
- 1892 – City hosts the 1892 European Figure Skating Championships.
- 1894
- January: city hosts the 1894 European Figure Skating Championships.
- Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) built.
- 1895 – Palais Lanckoroński completed.
- 1897
- Wiener Riesenrad erected.
- Vienna Secession art group founded.
- 1898
- Wiener Stadtbahn begins.
- Secession Building constructed.
- City hosts the 1898 ICA Track Cycling World Championships.
- 1899
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams published.
- Die Fackel [de] magazine begins publication.[22]
- 1900 – Population: 1,769,137.
1900s–1940s
- 1901 – Universal Edition in business.[15]
- 1902
- Freudenau harbor constructed.
- Franciszek Trześniewski opens restaurant.
- 1903
- Kuchelau harbor constructed.
- Wiener Werkstätte art group founded.[22]
- 1904
- Floridsdorf district added.[23]
- Café Korb [de] in business.
- 1907 – City hosts the 1907 World Figure Skating Championships.
- 1908 – Vienna Psychoanalytic Society active.
- 1910 – Population: 2,031,000.
- 1912 – Aspern Airfield opens.
- 1913[24]
- 23 February: premiere of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder.[25]
- Richard Weiskirchner [de] becomes mayor.
- 1915 – April: Conference of Central European Socialist Parties held in Vienna.
- 1916 – 30 November: funeral of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
- 1918 – Red Vienna begins.
- 1919
- Lainzer Tiergarten opens.
- Jakob Reumann becomes mayor.
- 1920
- Austrian National Library established.
- Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna founded.[26]
- 1921
- The Geistkreis seminar begins.
- Österreichische Bundesgärten [de] (garden) established.[27]
- International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.[28]
- 1923
- Karl Seitz becomes mayor.[4]
- Phaidon Press founded.
- 1924 – Collegium Hungaricum Vienna founded.[26]
- 1925 – Kolosseum [de] (cinema) opens.[29]
- 1929 – Austrian Bridge Federation founded.
- 1931 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion built.
- 1934 – Richard Schmitz becomes mayor.
- 1938
- Anschluss.
- Hermann Neubacher becomes mayor.
- City expands.
- 1940 – Philipp Wilhelm Jung becomes mayor.
- 1941 – Kehal Adas Yereim Vien established.
- 1942 – Bombing begins.
- 1943
- 30 August: Vienna-Schwechat (Heidfeld) subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp established. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Soviet, Italian and Spanish.[30]
- 30 December: Hanns Blaschke becomes mayor.
- 1944
- Vienna-Schwechat ('Santa') subcamp of Mauthausen established.[30]
- 13 July: Vienna-Schwechat (Heidfeld) subcamp dissolved,[30] Vienna-Floridsdorf subcamp of Mauthausen established. Prisoners moved from Schwechat (Heidfeld) to Floridsdorf.[30]
- 20 August: Vienna-Saurerwerke subcamp of Mauthausen established. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviet citizens.[30]
- September: Vienna-Hinterbrühl subcamp of Mauthausen established. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Soviet and Italian.[30]
- 28 September: Vienna-Schönbrunn subcamp of Mauthausen established.[30]
- 1945
- Vienna Offensive.
- 31 March: Vienna-Schwechat ('Santa') subcamp dissolved. Prisoners moved to the Hinterbrühl subcamp.[30]
- 1 April: Floridsdorf, Hinterbrühl and Schönbrunn subcamps dissolved. Prisoners are evacuated by the SS in death marches to the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp and main Mauthausen camp.[30] Massacre of 52 Hinterbrühl prisoners, who were unable to walk.[30]
- 2 April: Vienna-Saurerwerke subcamp dissolved. Prisoners are evacuated by the SS in a death march to the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp, except for ill prisoners who are left behind.[30]
- Allied-occupied city.
- Rudolf Prikryl becomes mayor, succeeded by Theodor Körner.
- Soviet War Memorial installed.
- 1948 – Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna founded.[31]
1950s–1990s
- 1951
- March: city hosts the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships.
- Franz Jonas becomes mayor.
- 1952 – City hosts the 1952 European Figure Skating Championships.
- 1954
- Vienna International Airport opens.
- Flood.
- 1955 – City hosts the 1955 World Figure Skating Championships.
- 1957
- February: city hosts the 1957 European Figure Skating Championships.
- International Atomic Energy Agency headquartered in Vienna.
- 1958 – Freudenauer Harbour Bridge [de] built.
- 1959
- Vienna Museum opens.
- City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students.
- 1960 – Österreichische Mediathek (sound archive) headquartered in city.[32]
- 1961 – Vienna summit of USA and USSR.
- 1962 – Vienna S-Bahn begins.
- 1964 – Österreichisches Filmmuseum established.[32]
- 1965 – Bruno Marek [de] becomes mayor.
- 1967
- February–March: city hosts the 1967 World Figure Skating Championships.
- March: city hosts the 1967 Ice Hockey World Championships.
- 1968 – Austrian Science Fund formed.
- 1969 – OPEC Headquarter moves from Geneva, Switzerland to Vienna.
- 1970 – Felix Slavik [de] becomes mayor.
- 1971 – City hosts the 1971 World Fencing Championships.
- 1973 – Leopold Gratz becomes mayor.
- 1974 – Polish Institute in Vienna founded.[33]
- 1976
- 8 May: Vienna U-Bahn opens.
- 1 August: Reichsbrücke collapse.
- 1977 – City hosts the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships.
- 1979
- March: city hosts the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships.
- Vienna Islamic Centre and UNO City built.
- 1983
- July: city hosts the 1983 World Fencing Championships.
- Donauinselfest begins.
- 1984 – Helmut Zilk becomes mayor.
- 1985
- 1988
- New Danube channel constructed.
- ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival begins.
- 1990 – Museum in Progress created.
- 1991 – City hosts the 1991 World Rowing Championships.
- 1992 – The biggest AIDS charity event in Europe, the Life Ball begins.
- 1993 – World Conference on Human Rights held.
- 1994
- Czech Centre in Vienna founded.[34]
- Michael Häupl becomes mayor.[35]
- 1995 – Secretariat for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe established.
- 1996 – City hosts the 1996 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.
- 1998 – Andromeda-Tower [de] built.
- 1999 – Millennium Tower built.
- 2000
- City website online (approximate date).[36][chronology citation needed]
- Mischek Tower [de] built.
- 2001 – IZD Tower [de] and Ares Tower built.
- 2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.
- 2004 – Saturn Tower [de] built.
- 2005 – City co-hosts the 2005 IIHF World Championship.
- 2007 – EU Fundamental Rights Agency established.
- 2008
- World Institute for Nuclear Security headquartered in city.
- UEFA European Football Championship held.
- 2010 – Wiener Staatsballet formed.
- 2011
- Smart City Wien begins.[37]
- Funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
- 2014 – Population: 1,797,337.[38]
- 2020 – The Vienna attack occurs.
- History of Vienna
- History of the Jews in Vienna
- List of mayors of Vienna
- Years in Austria
- Timelines of other cities in Austria: Graz, Linz, Salzburg
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This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
in English
- published in the 18th-19th century
- Thomas Nugent (1749), "Vienna", The Grand Tour, vol. 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762572
- William Hunter (1803), "(Vienna)", Travels through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792, vol. 2, London: J. White, OCLC 10321359
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Vienna", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- John Russell (1828), "Vienna", A Tour in Germany, and Some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire, in 1820, 1821, 1822, Edinburgh: Constable, OCLC 614379840
- David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Vienna". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3dz0hq2k.
- Frances Trollope (1838), Vienna and the Austrians, London: R. Bentley, OCLC 2431804 + v.2
- Mariana Starke (1839), "Vienna", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
- John Thomson (1845), "Vienna", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
- A.A. Paton (1861). "Vienna". Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic. Leipzig: Brockhaus. hdl:2027/hvd.32044017982406.
- "Vienna", Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany (9th ed.), London: John Murray, 1863
- "Vienna". Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany. London: W.J. Adams & Sons. 1867.
- 'The Graphic' Guide to Vienna, London: Office of The Graphic, 1873, OL 24225739M
- David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Vienna", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030647005
- The Newest Plan and Guide of Vienna and Environs, Vienna: R. Lechner, 1891, OL 19356630M
- Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Vienna", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
- published in the 20th century
- Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Vienna", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351
- Maria Hornor Lansdale (1902), Vienna and the Viennese, Philadelphia: H. T. Coates & Co., OCLC 1522879, OL 6920560M
- "Vienna", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 12, New York, 1907, hdl:2027/osu.32435029752839
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- Donald Olsen (1986). The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300042122.
- Peter Csendes (1999). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Vienna. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3562-7.
- published in the 21st century
- John W. Stamper (2004). "The Industry Palace of the 1873 World's Fair: Karl von Hasenauer, John Scott Russell, and New Technology in Nineteenth-Century Vienna". Architectural History. 47: 227–250. doi:10.1017/S0066622X00001763. JSTOR 1568823.
- Jens S. Dangschat & Alexander Hamedinger (2009). "Planning culture in Austria: the case of Vienna, the unlike city". In Jörg Knieling & Frank Othengrafen (eds.). Planning Cultures in Europe: Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7565-5.
in German
- Karl Friedrich Arnold von Lützow (1876), Wiener Neubauten [Viennese Buildings] (in German), Wien: Lehmann & Wentzel, OCLC 17857346, OL 6565936M
- Moritz Bermann (1880), Alt- und Neu-Wien: Geschichte der Kaiserstadt und ihrer Umgebungen [Old and New Vienna: History of the Imperial City and its Surroundings], A. Hartleben, OCLC 11359182, OL 23423601M
- Eugen Guglia (1892), Geschichte der Stadt Wien [History of the City of Vienna] (in German), Wien: F. Tempsky, OL 23360656M
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