Timeline of Berlin

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Berlin, Germany.

Prior to 17th century

 * 1163 – Berlin founded by Albert the Bear (approximate date).
 * 1183 – Oak beam, discovered in 2008 by archaeologists, dated to 1183.
 * 1200 – Saint Peter's Church built in Cölln (approximate date).
 * 1220 – Population: 2,400.
 * 1230
 * St. Nicholas' Church built (approximate date).
 * Tabor Church (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) built (approximate date).
 * 1237 – 28 October: First documentation of Cölln.
 * 1240 – Marienfelde church built (approximate date).
 * 1244 – 29 April: First documentation of Berlin.
 * 1250
 * Population: 1,200–2,000.
 * Jesus Church (Berlin-Kaulsdorf) built (approximate date).
 * Franziskaner-Klosterkirche built (approximate date).
 * Karow (Berlin) church built (approximate date).
 * 1253 – Oldest known town seal of Berlin.
 * 1272 – Bakers' guild established.
 * 1278 – Georgenhospital established.
 * 1282 – First documentation of official papers of the Margrave of Brandenburg.
 * 1292 – 3 January: St. Mary's Church in existence.
 * 1300 – Heinersdorf church construction begins.
 * 1307
 * 20 March: Legal union of Berlin and Cölln.
 * Population: 4,000–7,000.
 * 1360 – Berlin-Cölln joins the Hanseatic League.
 * 1380 – Fire.
 * 1400
 * Population: 7,000–8,500.
 * 1,100 buildings.
 * 1432 – Merger of Berlin and Cölln.
 * 1433 – (militia) formed.
 * 1442 – Berlin leaves the Hanseatic League.
 * 1443 – Stadtschloss (palace) construction begins.
 * 1446 – 7 December: Pogrom against Jews.
 * 1448 – 14 October: Unsuccessful protest against the construction of the Stadtschloss. Town privileges curtailed.
 * 1450 – Population: 7,000–8,000.
 * 1451 – Stadtschloss built.
 * 1454 – St. Erasmus Chapel consecrated.
 * 1468 – First documentation of Kammergericht.
 * 1484 – 18 October: Jerusalem Church in existence.
 * 1486 – 11 March: Berlin Stadtschloss becomes permanent seat of Brandenburg Electors.
 * 1510 – 100 Jews accused of desecrating hosts. 38 burned, the rest banished and stripped of their possessions.
 * 1530 – Tiergarten hunting park built.
 * 1539 – 1 November: Protestant Reformation.
 * 1540
 * Church possessions secularized.
 * Printing press in operation.
 * 1542 – Kurfürstendamm avenue built.
 * 1543 – Jagdschloss Grunewald hunting lodge built.
 * 1558 – Köpenick Palace built.
 * 1576
 * Population: 11,000–12,000.
 * Bubonic plague kills 6,000 people.
 * 1594 – Spandau Citadel built.

17th century

 * 1600 – Population: 9,000.
 * 1618 – Population: 12,000.
 * 1631 – Population: 8,100.
 * 1636 – Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium (school) relocates to Berlin.
 * 1647 – Unter den Linden boulevard laid out.
 * 1642 – Population: 7,500.
 * 1648 – Population: 6,000.
 * 1650 – Berlin Fortress construction begins.
 * 1653 – Alte Kommandantur built.
 * 1661 – Library of the Elector opened.
 * 1664 – Schönhausen Palace built.
 * 1669 – Kronprinzenpalais built.
 * 1671 – 21 May: 50 Jewish families from Austria settled in Berlin.
 * 1674 – Dorotheenstadt receives town privileges.
 * 1677 – Köpenick Palace rebuilt and enlarged.
 * 1678 – Dorotheen Church built.
 * 1680 – Population: 10,000.
 * 1685
 * 29 June: Börse Berlin stock exchange founded.
 * 6,000 Huguenots settle in Berlin.
 * Wooden Neustädtische Brücke built.
 * Population: 17,500.
 * 1688
 * Gendarmenmarkt laid out.
 * Jungfern Bridge built.
 * Leipziger Straße (street) laid out.
 * Population: 18,000–20,000.
 * 1690 – Hohenschönhausen Castle built.
 * 1691 – Friedrichstadt (Berlin) founded.
 * 1693 – Jagdschloss Glienicke completed.
 * 1695
 * 21 July: Sebastiankirche opened.
 * Friedrichsfelde Palace built.
 * Lange-brucke (bridge) built.
 * 1696 – Academy of Arts founded.

18th century

 * 1700
 * 11 July: Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences founded.
 * Population: 28,500.
 * 1701 – 18 January: Berlin becomes capital of the Kingdom of Prussia.
 * 1702 – Friedrichs-Waisenhaus Rummelsburg orphanage and infirmary established.
 * 1703
 * 8 July: Parochialkirche opened.
 * Wooden Friedrichs Bridge built.
 * 1704 – Vossische Zeitung founded.
 * 1705
 * Charlottenburg founded.
 * French Cathedral built in Friedrichstadt.
 * 1706 – Zeughaus built.
 * 1708
 * 9 April: Neue Kirche completed in Friedrichstadt.
 * Frankfurter Allee built.
 * 1709
 * Berlin merges with the cities of Cölln, Dorotheenstadt, Friedrichstadt, and Friedrichswerder to create the capital and royal residence of Berlin.
 * Population: 55,196.
 * 1710 – Charité hospital established.
 * 1712 – Population: 61,000.
 * 1713
 * 18 June: Spandauische Kirche inaugurated.
 * Charlottenburg Palace built.
 * Nicolaische Buchhandlung (bookseller) in business.
 * 1715 – City hosts Treaty of Berlin (1715).
 * 1716 – 12 July: Luisenkirche inaugurated.
 * 1717 – Compulsory schooling established.
 * 1720 – Späth nursery founded.
 * 1721 – Population: 65,300.
 * 1722 – Garrison Church built.
 * 1726 – Population: 72,000.
 * 1730 – Population: 72,387.
 * 1732
 * 13 December: Treaty of the Three Black Eagles signed by Prussia.
 * 1,200 Bohemians settle in Berlin to escape religious persecution.
 * Population: 77,973.
 * Crown Prince's Palace remodelled.
 * 1733
 * Prinzessinnenpalais built.
 * Population: 79,017.
 * 1734
 * Potsdam Gate constructed.
 * Pariser Platz laid out.
 * Das Rondell laid out.
 * 1735 – Population: 86,000.
 * 1737
 * City fortifications replaced by the Berlin Customs Wall
 * Opera Palace constructed.
 * Zietenplatz built.
 * 1738 – Ordenspalais built.
 * 1739
 * 13 August: Holy Trinity Church built.
 * Prinz-Albrecht-Palais built.
 * 1740 – Population: 90,000.
 * 1742
 * 28 July: City hosts signing of the Treaty of Berlin (1742).
 * 7 December: Berlin State Opera house inaugurated.
 * 1743 – Opernplatz (square) laid out.
 * 1746 – Population: 97,000.
 * 1747 – Population: 107,224.
 * 1748
 * Berlin Cathedral built.
 * Population: 107,635.
 * 1749 – Population: 110,933.
 * 1750 – Population: 113,289.
 * 1751
 * 22 September: Ackerstraße building begins.
 * Population: 116,483.
 * 1752 – Population: 119,224.
 * 1753
 * Palais am Festungsgraben built.
 * Luisenstädtische Kirche rebuilt.
 * Population: 122,897.
 * 1754 – Population: 125,385.
 * 1755 – Population: 126,661.
 * 1756 – Population: 99,224.
 * 1757
 * 16 October: 1757 raid on Berlin. Austrian general András Hadik raids Berlin.
 * Population: 94,219.
 * 1758 – Population: 92,356.
 * 1759 – Population: 94,433.
 * 1760
 * 9–12 October: Raid on Berlin. City taken by Russian and Austrian forces.
 * Population: 95,245.
 * 1761 – Population: 98,238.
 * 1762 – Population: 98,090.
 * 1763
 * 19 September: Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin founded in Charlottenburg.
 * Population: 119,219.
 * 1764
 * Döbbelinsches Theater opened, the first permanent German-language theater in Berlin.
 * Population: 122,667.
 * 1765
 * Bank established.
 * Population: 125,139.
 * 1766
 * Ephraim Palace built in Nikolaiviertel.
 * Population: 125,878.
 * 1767 – Population: 127,140.
 * 1768 – Population: 130,359.
 * 1769
 * Brick Friedrichs Bridge built.
 * Population: 132,365.
 * 1770
 * Bergakademie Berlin established.
 * Population: 133,520.
 * 1771 – Population: 133,639.
 * 1772 – Population: 131,126.
 * 1773
 * 1 November: St. Hedwig's Church consecrated.
 * Population: 132,204.
 * 1774
 * Französisches Komödienhaus established.
 * Population: 134,414.
 * 1775 – Population: 136,137.
 * 1776 – Population: 137,468.
 * 1777 – Population: 140,719.
 * 1778 – Population: 124,963.
 * 1779 – Population: 138,225.
 * 1780
 * (library) built.
 * Population: 140,625.
 * 1781 – Population: 142,375.
 * 1782 – Population: 143,098.
 * 1783
 * Wednesday Society active.
 * Berlinische Monatsschrift (magazine) begins publication.
 * Population: 144,224.
 * 1784 – Population: 145,021.
 * 1785 – Population: 146,647.
 * 1786
 * Bellevue Palace built.
 * Population: 147,338.
 * 1787 – Population: 146,167.
 * 1788 – Population: 149,274.
 * 1789 – Population: 149,875.
 * 1790 – Population: 150,803.
 * 1791
 * 24 May: Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (choral society) founded.
 * Brandenburg Gate dedicated.
 * Population: 155,211.
 * 1792 – Population: 157,534.
 * 1793 – Population: 157,121.
 * 1794 – Population: 157,603.
 * 1795
 * First steam engine in Berlin, used to power spinning machines.
 * Population: 156,218.
 * 1796
 * Zuckerbäckerei Johann Josty & Co. established.
 * Population: 160,733.
 * 1797
 * Pfaueninsel Palace built.
 * Population: 164,978.
 * 1798 – Population: 169,019.
 * 1799
 * 18 March: Bauakademie founded.
 * Population: 169,510.

1800s–1860s

 * 1800 – Population: 172,132.
 * 1801 – Population: 176,709.
 * 1802 – Population: 177,029.
 * 1803 – Population: 178,309.
 * 1804
 * Royal Prussian Iron Foundry established.
 * Population: 182,157.
 * 1805
 * 25 October: Alexanderplatz renamed in honor of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
 * Population: 155,706.
 * 1806
 * 24 October: Berlin occupied by the French army.
 * 21 November: Napoleon issues Berlin Decree while passing through city.
 * Population: 155,000.
 * 1807 – Population: 150,489.
 * 1808
 * December: French occupation ends.
 * Population: 145,941.
 * 1809
 * Elections to city council held.
 * 25 March: Berlin Police formed.
 * 4 November: Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin founded.
 * Population: 151,119.
 * 1810
 * 15 October: University of Berlin established.
 * Natural History Museum established as part of the University of Berlin.
 * Population: 162,971.
 * 1811 – Population: 169,763.
 * 1812
 * Café Josty in business (approximate date).
 * Population: 171,000.
 * 1813 – Population: 178,641.
 * 1814 – Population: 185,659.
 * 1815
 * 10 March: Nathan Israel Department Store established.
 * City becomes part of the Province of Brandenburg.
 * Population: 197,717.
 * 1816
 * First continental European locomotive built at the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry.
 * Population: 197,817.
 * 1817 – Population: 195,689.
 * 1818
 * 18 September: Neue Wache inaugurated.
 * Population: 198,125.
 * 1819 – Population: 209,138.
 * 1820 – Population: 201,900.
 * 1821
 * 30 March: Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars opened.
 * 18 June: Schauspielhaus Berlin (theatre) inaugurated.
 * Population: 205,965.
 * 1822 – Population: 209,146.
 * 1824
 * 29 February: Berlin Missionary Society constituted.
 * Schlossbrücke rebuilt.
 * 1825
 * 1 December: Population: 220,277.
 * Sing-Akademie building constructed.
 * First horsebus line operational.
 * 1826
 * Glienicke Palace built.
 * First gas lighting in Berlin at the Unter den Linden.
 * Crelle's Journal founded.
 * 1827 – 29 April: Premiere of Mendelssohn's opera Hochzeit des Camacho.
 * 1828
 * 1 December: Population: 236,830.
 * Berlin Geographical Society founded.
 * 1830
 * 3 August: Königliches Museum opens.
 * Museum Vaterländischer Altertümer formed.
 * 1831
 * 10 July: Friedrichswerder Church inaugurated.
 * 1 December: Population: 248,682.
 * 1834
 * 3 December: Population: 265,122.
 * Café Kranzler in business.
 * 1835 – 24 April: Berlin Observatory opened.
 * 1837
 * 13 August: Ss. Peter and Paul inaugurated.
 * 3 December: Population: 283,722.
 * August Borsig founds Machine factory on Chausseestraße.
 * Old Palace built.
 * Schinkelplatz laid out.
 * 1838
 * 22 September: Berlin-Zehlendorf station opened.
 * 29 October:
 * first railway in Prussia, the Berlin–Potsdam railway opened.
 * Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof opened.
 * Bote & Bock music publisher in business.
 * 1839 – 13 June: Berlin Rathaus Steglitz station opened.
 * 1840
 * 3 December: Population: 330,230.
 * Zwei Friedenssäulen erected outside Charlottenburg Palace.
 * 1841
 * 1 July:
 * Berlin–Halle railway opened.
 * Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof opened.
 * (artists association) founded.
 * 1842
 * 1 August: Bernau bei Berlin station opened.
 * 1 October: Stettiner Bahnhof opened.
 * 23 October:
 * Berlin–Wrocław railway opened.
 * Frankfurter Bahnhof opened.
 * Berlin-Friedrichshagen station opened.
 * Berlin-Köpenick station opened.
 * Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert opens locomotive factory at Chausseestrasse No. 29.
 * Springer-Verlag (publisher) in business.
 * 1843
 * 3 December: Population: 353,149.
 * Royal Opera House rebuilt.
 * 1844
 * Kroll Opera House opened.
 * Berlin Zoological Garden opened.
 * 1845
 * 14 January: Physical Society of Berlin established.
 * Stadtschloss completed.
 * 1846
 * 24 September: Discovery of Neptune planet at the Observatory.
 * 15 October:
 * Berlin–Hamburg Railway opened.
 * Berlin-Stresow station opened.
 * Hamburger Bahnhof opened.
 * Nauen station opened.
 * 3 December: Population: 408,502.
 * 15 December: Berlin–Hamburg Railway completed.
 * 1847
 * April: Prussian parliament begins meeting in the Stadtschloss.
 * 1 October: Siemens founded.
 * Stern Gesangverein founded.
 * Neue Berliner Musikzeitung begins publishing.
 * 1848
 * 18 March: "Barricade fights." 303 civilians killed by Prussian troops. King Friedrich Wilhelm promises reforms.
 * 22 May: Elected assembly held.
 * 15 June: Political unrest.
 * 21 November: St. Marien am Behnitz consecrated.
 * 5 December: Elected assembly dissolved and monarchist constitution imposed.
 * Falkensee station opened.
 * 1849
 * 3 December: Population: 423,902.
 * built.
 * Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik founded.
 * Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau in business.
 * 1850
 * 31 January: Prussian House of Lords established.
 * Berliner Musikschule (music school) founded.
 * Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek founded.
 * 1851
 * 31 May: Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great inaugurated on Unter den Linden.
 * 15 October: Disconto-Gesellschaft founded.
 * 19 November: Corps Vandalia-Teutonia founded.
 * Schering AG founded.
 * 1852
 * 3 October: Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff founded.
 * 3 December: Population: 438,958.
 * Luisenstadt Canal constructed.
 * 1853
 * 1 October: C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik founded.
 * delicatessen founded.
 * Katholischer Studentenverein Askania-Burgundia Berlin established.
 * 1855
 * 3 December: Population: 447,483.
 * Advertising columns installed in city.
 * New Museum opens.
 * 1856 – J. F. Schwarzlose Söhne perfume maker founded.
 * 1857 – Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift scientific journal founded.
 * 1858 – Population: 458,637.
 * 1859
 * 10 May: Alexander von Humboldt funeral.
 * Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal opened.
 * Charlottenburg Canal opened.
 * 1860 – Customs Wall removed.
 * 1861
 * Moabit and Wedding become part of Berlin.
 * Tiergarten locality established.
 * Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung begins publishing.
 * 28 October: St. Michael's Church consecrated.
 * 3 December: Population: 547,571.
 * 1862 – Berthold Kempinski wine shop in business.
 * 1863
 * Photographers Association founded.
 * Exchange built.
 * Ed. Westermayer piano manufacturer founded.
 * (publisher) in business.
 * 1864
 * Wallner Theater built.
 * 3 December: Population: 632,749.
 * 1865 – 22 June: First horse-drawn tram line set up.
 * 1866
 * 27 February: Lette-Verein (women's educational organization) founded.
 * 7 May: Ferdinand Cohen-Blind's assassination attempt against Otto von Bismarck.
 * 5 September: New Synagogue consecrated.
 * 13 September: Berlin-Grünau station opened.
 * Berlin–Görlitz railway opened.
 * Westend (Berlin) locality established.
 * 1867
 * 29 September: Friedrichstadt-Palast built.
 * 1 October: Berlin Old Ostbahnhof opened.
 * 3 December: Population: 702,437.
 * 1868
 * 24 May: Berlin-Schöneweide station opened.
 * 20 September: Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station opened.
 * City wall dismantled.
 * Berliner Pfandbriefinstitut bank established.
 * Palais Strousberg built.
 * Biesdorf Palace built.
 * Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin established.
 * 1869
 * 25 August: Kaulsdorf station opened.
 * 3 October: Rotes Rathaus (city hall) opened.
 * Royal School of Art in Berlin founded.
 * St. Thomas inaugurated.

1870s–1890s

 * 1870 – 10 March: Deutsche Bank established.
 * 1871
 * 18 January: Berlin becomes capital of the newly unified German Empire.
 * 17 July: Berlin Ringbahn (railway) begins operating.
 * 1 December: Population: 826,341.
 * Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing founded.
 * 1872
 * 1 January:
 * Berlin-Gesundbrunnen station opened.
 * Berlin-Neukölln station opened.
 * Berlin-Tempelhof station opened.
 * 1 May:
 * Berlin Frankfurter Allee station opened.
 * Berlin-Wedding station opened.
 * 15 December: Berlin-Lichterfelde West station opened.
 * German Society of Surgery founded.
 * Ludwig Loewe & Co. in business.
 * Berlin-Lichterfelde West station built.
 * 1873
 * 2 September: Victory Column inaugurated on Königsplatz.
 * Ethnological Museum of Berlin opened.
 * 1874
 * 1 June:
 * Wannsee Railway opened.
 * Berlin-Schlachtensee station opened.
 * Berlin-Wannsee station opened.
 * 1 November: Berlin-Friedenau station opened.
 * Fachschule für Dekomponieren, Komponieren und Musterzeichnen established.
 * Twelve Apostels Church opened.
 * 1875
 * 1 February: Berlin Treptow station opened.
 * 1 May: Berlin Greifswalder Straße station opened.
 * 17 June:
 * Berlin Dresdner Bahnhof opened.
 * Marienfelde station opened.
 * Rangsdorf railway station opened.
 * 15 October: Royal Prussian Military Railway opened.
 * 1 December: Population: 966,858.
 * Socialist Workers' Party of Germany headquartered in Berlin.
 * Hotel Kaiserhof in business.
 * Königliche Hochschule für Musik active.
 * 1876
 * 1 January: Reichsbank established.
 * 1 April: Orenstein & Koppel founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 980,194.
 * Imperial Health Agency established.
 * National Gallery opens.
 * Spandau Prison built.
 * 1877
 * 1 June: Berlin-Blankenburg station opened.
 * 10 July:
 * Berlin-Hermsdorf station opened.
 * Berlin-Schönholz station opened.
 * Berlin-Wilhelmsruh station opened.
 * Berlin-Wittenau station opened.
 * Berlin Wollankstraße station opened.
 * Berlin Old Nordbahnhof opened.
 * 15 November:
 * Berlin Ringbahn completed.
 * Berlin-Halensee station opened.
 * Berlin Hermannstraße station opened.
 * Berlin-Westend station opened.
 * Berlin Wuhlheide station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 1,008,566.
 * Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg water tower completed.
 * 1878
 * 13 July: City hosts Congress of Berlin.
 * Berlin Stadtbahn (city railway) begins operating.
 * 1879
 * 1 April: Technical University of Berlin formed.
 * 15 May: Berlin-Rahnsdorf station opened.
 * 26 June: Berlin-Buch station opened.
 * 1 August:
 * Berlin-Grunewald station opened.
 * Berlin Schönhauser Allee station opened.
 * 1 September: Rangierbahnhof station opened.
 * Imperial Treasury headquartered in city.
 * Crown Prince Bridge built.
 * Plötzensee Prison established.
 * 1880
 * 15 June: New Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof opened.
 * 15 August: Südende station opened.
 * 9 September: Weißensee cemetery inaugurated.
 * 15 October: Berlin-Pankow station opened.
 * 1 December: Population: 1,122,330.
 * Berlin movement initiated.
 * Matthew Church (Berlin-Steglitz) built.
 * 1881
 * 29 April: Electromote presented.
 * 4 May: Berlin Storkower Straße station opened.
 * 16 May: Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway in service, the world's first electric tram line.
 * 15 October: Berlin Julius-Leber-Brücke station opened.
 * Berlin administrative district separates from Province of Brandenburg.
 * Martin-Gropius-Bau built.
 * Berlin-Lichtenberg station opened.
 * Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde cemetery built.
 * Städtischer Friedhof III cemetery built.
 * Industrial museum established.
 * 1882
 * 7 February:
 * Berlin Stadtbahn (railway) begins operating.
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz station opened.
 * Berlin Bellevue station opened.
 * Berlin-Charlottenburg station opened.
 * Berlin Hackescher Markt station opened.
 * Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station opened.
 * Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station opened.
 * Berlin Friedrichstraße station opened
 * Stralau-Rummelsburg station opened.
 * 1 May: Berlin Philharmonic established.
 * 15 November:
 * Berlin-Karow station opened.
 * Neu-Rahnsdorf station opened.
 * Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus founded.
 * Berlin-Blankenheim railway opened.
 * Kietz-Rummelsburg station opened.
 * 1883
 * 1 June: Lichtenrade station opened.
 * 15 December: Berlin Heidelberger Platz station opened.
 * AEG founded.
 * Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger founded.
 * 1884
 * Dankeskirche (church) built.
 * 20 May: Berlin-Waidmannslust station opened.
 * 11 August: Berlin Warschauer Straße station opened.
 * 7 September: Dahlewitz railway station opened.
 * 15 November: City hosts West Africa Conference.
 * 1885
 * 5 January: Berlin-Tiergarten station opened.
 * 26 February: West Africa Conference concluded.
 * 1 August: Berlin-Biesdorf station opened.
 * 19 November: St. George's Anglican Church inaugurated.
 * 1 December: Population: 1,315,287.
 * St. George's Anglican Church built.
 * 1886 – Ethnological museum established.
 * 1887
 * German Colonial Society headquartered in Berlin.
 * (bridge) and Heiligekreuzkirche (church) built.
 * Society for Friends of Photography founded.
 * 1888
 * 3 March: Urania founded.
 * 15 April: BFC Germania 1888 founded.
 * 11 September: Lessing Theater opened.
 * 1889
 * 6 June: BFC Viktoria 1889 founded.
 * 14 June: Treaty of Berlin (1889) signed over Samoa.
 * Museum of Natural History opens.
 * Academic Alpine Club of Berlin formed.
 * 1890
 * 5 February: Allianz founded.
 * 20 May: Baumschulenweg station opened.
 * 1 December: Population: 1,578,794.
 * May Day begins.
 * Wittenbergplatz laid out.
 * 1891
 * April: Moltke Bridge opened.
 * 1 July: Robert Koch Institute founded.
 * 1 October: Western Berlin Yorckstraße station opened.
 * Oder–Spree Canal opened.
 * Hotel Bristol in business.
 * 1892
 * 4 January: Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung begins publishing.
 * 1 May:
 * Berlin Bundesplatz station opened.
 * Berlin Prenzlauer Allee station opened.
 * 2 July: Berliner SV 1892 founded.
 * 25 July: Hertha BSC founded.
 * 24 September: Komische Oper Berlin opened.
 * 20 December: Wriezen Railway opened.
 * Neues Theater opens.
 * Luther Bridge opened.
 * 1893
 * 26 February: Gethsemane Church inaugurated.
 * 26 June: St. Sebastian opened.
 * 1 August: Lichterfelde Süd station opened.
 * 1 October:
 * First section of the Kremmen Railway opened.
 * Berlin Alt-Reinickendorf station opened.
 * Berlin Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik station opened.
 * Berlin-Pankow-Heinersdorf station opened.
 * Schulzendorf railway station opened.
 * Berlin-Tegel railway station opened.
 * Hennigsdorf station opened.
 * 20 December: Second section of the Kremmen Railway opened.
 * Department of Medical Microbiology (Schering AG) established.
 * Mendelssohn Palace built.
 * 1894
 * 8 January: Adlershof station opened.
 * 1 May:
 * Berlin Beusselstraße station opened.
 * Berlin Jungfernheide station opened.
 * 1 October: Eichborndamm station opened.
 * 5 December: Reichstag building completed.
 * Friedrichs Bridge completely rebuilt.
 * Chapel of Reconciliation built.
 * Ss. Constantine and Helena Church built.
 * 1895
 * 15 February: Attilastraße station opened.
 * 1 May:
 * Berlin-Karlshorst station opened.
 * Berlin Landsberger Allee station opened.
 * 1 September:
 * Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church consecrated.
 * Mahlsdorf railway station opened.
 * 15 September: Spandau Synagogue dedicated.
 * 1 December:
 * Population: 1,677,304.
 * Lankwitz station opened.
 * 13 December: Premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 2.
 * 17 December: Berolina unveiled.
 * Pan (magazine) begins publishing.
 * 1896
 * Oberbaum Bridge rebuilt.
 * 1 May: Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin opened.
 * 8 June: Baumschulenweg–Neukölln link line opened.
 * 1 August: Berlin Savignyplatz station opened.
 * September: Treptow Observatory opened.
 * 17 September: Weidendammer Bridge rebuilt.
 * 15 October: Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin closed.
 * Messter Film in business.
 * 1897
 * 22 March: National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument unveiled.
 * 1 May: Heiligensee station opened.
 * 30 September: International Automobile Exhibition begins.
 * Rot-Weiss Tennis Club founded.
 * 1898
 * 1 May:
 * Ahrensfelde station opened.
 * Berlin-Marzahn station opened.
 * 31 August: Population: 1,820,000.
 * 1 October: Berlin Westhafen station opened.
 * 15 October: Wriezen Railway completed.
 * Jewel Palace (Berlin) built.
 * Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin established.
 * Berlin Secession (art group) founded.
 * Café des Westens in business.
 * 1899
 * 18 March: Die Woche begins publishing.
 * 30 April: Kopenhagener Straße opened.
 * 2 December: Tripartite Convention signed, dividing Samoa into German and American spheres of influence.
 * (museum) opens.

1900s–1945

 * 1900
 * 15 August: Berlin-Staaken station opened.
 * 1 December: Population: 1,888,848.
 * Berlin Automobile Association founded.
 * Viktoria-Luise-Platz laid out.
 * 1901
 * Population: 1,901,567.
 * 18 January: Überbrettl cabaret opened.
 * 1 October: Teltow railway station opened.
 * 1 December:
 * Anhalt Suburban Line opened.
 * Berlin Papestraße station opened.
 * Neuer Marstall built.
 * Catholic Apostolic Church (Kreuzberg) opened.
 * 1902
 * 15 February:
 * Berlin U-Bahn begins operating.
 * Kottbusser Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Möckernbrücke (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 18 February:
 * Görlitzer Bahnhof (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Hallesches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened (U1 line).
 * Berlin Potsdamer Platz station station opened.
 * Berlin Potsdamer Platz station station opened.
 * Schlesisches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 11 March:
 * Bülowstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Nollendorfplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn station opened.
 * Wittenbergplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 1 May: Berlin-Nikolassee station opened.
 * 22 July: Capernaum Church completed.
 * 17 August: Warschauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 14 December:
 * Ernst-Reuter-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 1903
 * 1 May: Western Berlin Yorckstraße station opened.
 * 27 May: Telefunken founded.
 * 1 October: Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Ost station opened.
 * German Colonial House built.
 * Original American Church in Berlin built.
 * 1904
 * 4 September: Rykestrasse Synagogue inaugurated.
 * 1 November: Zehlendorf-Beerenstraße station opened.
 * Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum opens.
 * Tietz department store in business on Alexanderplatz.
 * 1905
 * 27 February: Berlin Cathedral consecrated after rebuilding.
 * 20 May: Charlottenburg Town Hall opened.
 * 1 June: Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station opened.
 * 20 December: Tabor Church consecrated.
 * Neues Schauspielhaus built.
 * Population: 2,040,148.
 * 1906
 * 14 May:
 * Deutsche Oper (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Richard-Wagner-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 2 June: Teltow Canal opened.
 * 23 September: Hackesche Höfe courtyard opened.
 * 8 November: Museum of East Asian Art founded.
 * Britz Canal opened.
 * Griebnitz Canal opened.
 * Virchow Hospital opens in Moabit.
 * 1907
 * 1 January: Schiller Theater opened.
 * 17 February: Reformation Church consecrated.
 * 27 March: Kaufhaus des Westens established.
 * 16 November: Glienicke Bridge inaugurated.
 * Hotel Fürstenhof built.
 * Märkisches Museum built in Köllnischer Park.
 * 1908
 * 29 March:
 * Kaiserdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Sophie-Charlotte-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Theodor-Heuss-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 2 April: Hotel Excelsior opened.
 * 1 October:
 * Hausvogteiplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kaiserhof U-Bahn station opened.
 * Spittelmarkt (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Stadtmitte (Berlin U-Bahn) U2 platform opened.
 * Reichskanzlerplatz laid out.
 * Charlottenburg Gate opened.
 * Hotel Esplanade Berlin opened.
 * Friedrichstraßenpassage shopping arcade built.
 * Shot Ball Tower (Berlin) built.
 * 1909
 * 1 May: Berlin Botanischer Garten station opened.
 * 23 May: Rennbahn station opened.
 * 26 September: Johannisthal Air Field opened.
 * 1 November: Berlin Heerstraße station opened.
 * AEG turbine factory built.
 * Expressionist Der Neue Club founded.
 * 1910
 * April: Liebermann Villa completed.
 * 1 May: Berlin-Frohnau station opened.
 * 24 May: Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum opened.
 * 15 July: Berlin-Spandau station opened.
 * 7 August: Last horse-drawn tram line closed.
 * 17 November: Hohenzollern-Sport-Palast opened.
 * 1 November: Berlin Hohenzollerndamm station opened.
 * 1 December:
 * Population: 2,071,257.
 * Bayerischer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Innsbrucker Platz station station opened.
 * Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Viktoria-Luise-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Hohenzollerndamm station built.
 * Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin U-Bahn) opened.
 * Der Sturm magazine begins publication.
 * 1911
 * 9 April: Tabor Church (Berlin-Wilhelmshagen) consecrated.
 * 5 September: Berlin-Pichelsberg railway station opened.
 * 1 October: Berlin Sonnenallee station opened.
 * 29 October: Altes Stadthaus inaugurated.
 * 31 December: Population: 2,084,045.
 * Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Sciences founded.
 * Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry founded.
 * Hotel Esplanade built.
 * Haus Cumberland built.
 * Spandau Suburban Line opened.
 * Die Aktion magazine begins publication.
 * 1912
 * February: Haus Potsdam built.
 * 26 August: Fasanenstrasse Synagogue opened.
 * 22 September: Mater Dolorosa church consecrated.
 * 3 November: Gleisdreieck (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 7 November: Deutsche Oper Berlin opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 2,095,030.
 * 1913
 * 8 June:
 * Deutsches Stadion (Berlin) opened.
 * Stadion U-Bahn station opened.
 * 15 June: Märchenbrunnen opened.
 * 1 July:
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz station U-Bahn line U2 opened.
 * Klosterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Märkisches Museum (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 27 July:
 * Eberswalder Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Schönhauser Tor U-Bahn station opened.
 * Berlin Schönhauser Allee station station opened.
 * Senefelderplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 12 October:
 * Breitenbachplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Dahlem-Dorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Fehrbelliner Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Heidelberger Platz U-Bahn station opened.
 * Hohenzollernplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Podbielskiallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Rüdesheimer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Freie Universität (Thielplatz) (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Thielpalatz U-Bahn station opened.
 * 17 October: Johannisthal air disaster.
 * 31 December: Population: 2,079,156.
 * Cines-Palast (cinema) opened.
 * Neukölln Ship Canal opened.
 * Schillerpark opened.
 * 1914
 * 25 March: Rathaus Schöneberg opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 1,945,684.
 * Volksbühne (theatre) and Bendlerblock built.
 * Pacifist headquartered in city.
 * 1915 – 31 December: Population: 1,835,094.
 * 1916
 * 1 April: Witzleben station opened.
 * 19 November: Deulig Film company established.
 * 1 December: Population: 1,771,491.
 * Schleusen Bridge rebuilt.
 * Eiserne Bridge rebuilt.
 * Körnerpark opened.
 * 1917
 * 22 November: Standardisation Committee of German Industry founded.
 * 5 December: Population: 1,744,085.
 * 13 December: Deutsche Luft-Reederei founded.
 * 18 December: UFA GmbH established.
 * Rathaus Friedenau built.
 * 1918
 * 9 November:
 * Proclamation of the Republic by Philipp Scheidemann from the Reichstag building.
 * Die Rote Fahne newspaper begins publication.
 * 23 December: The Volksmarinedivision occupies the Reich Chancellery.
 * 24 December: Christmas crisis.
 * 31 December: Population: 1,748,000.
 * 1919
 * 1 January: Communist Party of Germany founded.
 * 5–12 January: Spartacist uprising.
 * 15 January: Socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by Freikorps.
 * February: Dadaist Jedermann sein eigner Fussball published.
 * 3–16 March: Berlin March Battles: Socialist uprising crushed by the government, 1,200 killed.
 * 10 March: Marxist revolutionary Leo Jogiches killed by right-wing paramilitaries.
 * May: Premiere of LGBT-themed film Anders als die Andern.
 * 22 June: Prizyv begins publishing.
 * 6 July: Institut für Sexualwissenschaft opened.
 * 8 October: Population: 1,902,508.
 * 7 November: SPD politician Hugo Haase killed by Johann Voss.
 * 31 December: Population: 1,928,432.
 * City becomes capital of the Weimar Republic.
 * Deutsche Luft-Reederei airline begins operating its Weimar-Berlin route.
 * 1920
 * February: Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute established.
 * 13–17 March: Kapp Putsch.
 * June: First International Dada Fair held.
 * 20 June: SC Berliner Amateure founded.
 * 7 August: Stadion An der Alten Försterei opened.
 * 16 August: Köllnische Heide station opened.
 * 1 October: City area expands per Greater Berlin Act, incorporating Charlottenburg, Köpenick, Lichtenberg, Neukölln, Schöneberg, Spandau, and Wilmersdorf.
 * October: Deutsche Hochschule für Politik founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,879,409.
 * Lokomotiv-Versuchsamt Grunewald facility established.
 * Akaflieg Berlin founded.
 * 1921
 * 15 March: Assassination of Talat Pasha by Soghomon Tehlirian.
 * 25 August: U.S.–German Peace Treaty (1921) signed.
 * 24 September: AVUS established.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,914,151.
 * Archenhold School built.
 * 1922
 * 28 March: Assassination of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov by Russian monarchists.
 * 17 April: Cemal Azmi assassinated by Armenian revolutionaries.
 * 27 April: Release of the first part of Dr. Mabuse the Gambler by Fritz Lang, filmed and set in Berlin.
 * 22 May: Neu-Westend (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 24 June: Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated.
 * December: International of Revolutionary Syndicalists founded in Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,953,920.
 * 1923
 * 30 January:
 * Französische Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Friedrichstraße U-Bahn station opened.
 * Hallesches Tor U6 line opened.
 * Kochstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Oranienburger Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Naturkundemuseum (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Stadtmitte (Berlin U-Bahn) U6 platform opened.
 * 8 March:
 * Leopoldplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Reinickendorfer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Schwartzkopffstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Seestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin-Wedding U-Bahn station opened.
 * 25 August: Last horsebus run in Berlin.
 * 8 October: Tempelhof Airport established.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,918,985.
 * 1924
 * 9 February: Stadion am Gesundbrunnen opened.
 * 19 April:
 * Mehringdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Gneisenaustraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 May: Bank of Workers, Employees, and Civil Servants established.
 * 7 July: Stadt und Land founded.
 * 14 December: Südstern (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,986,458.
 * Traffic light installed in Potsdamer Platz.
 * Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (radio exhibit) begins.
 * Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra active.
 * 1925
 * 1 February: Deutsche Werke formed.
 * 26 April: Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin inaugurated.
 * 16 June: Population: 4,024,286.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,082,778.
 * Hufeisensiedlung housing estate construction begins.
 * 1926
 * 6 January: Deutsche Luft Hansa founded.
 * 14 February: Kreuzberg U-Bahn station opened.
 * 11 April:
 * Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) U7 platform opened.
 * Bergstrasse U-Bahn station opened.
 * Rathaus Neukölln (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 24 April: Treaty of Berlin (1926) signed with the Soviet Union.
 * 3 September: Funkturm Berlin (radio tower) erected.
 * 24 October:
 * Kurfürstenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station platforms added.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,125,824.
 * Das Buddhistische Haus built.
 * 1927
 * 10 January: Premiere of film Metropolis.
 * 1 May: Adolf Hitler gives his first speech in Berlin, at the.
 * 4 July: Der Angriff begins publishing.
 * 17 July:
 * U8 (Berlin U-Bahn) line opened.
 * Boddinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) U8 platform opened.
 * Schönleinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 10 September: Paradestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 17 November: Betriebshaltepunkt Nieder-Schöneweide station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,195,725.
 * Tempelhof Airport terminal built.
 * Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics founded.
 * 1928
 * 12 February: Kottbusser Tor U-Bahn station U8 platform opened.
 * 6 April:
 * Neanderstraße U-Bahn station opened.
 * Moritzplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 23 August: Berlin Eichkamp station opened.
 * 31 August: Premiere of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
 * 1 October: Founding of NSDAP Gau Berlin.
 * 7 October: Priesterweg station opened.
 * 10 December: Berlin Westkreuz station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,272,375.
 * First TV broadcast in Berlin.
 * Titania Palast (theatre) opens.
 * 1929
 * 11 April: Kino Babylon opened.
 * 1–3 May: Blutmai unrest. 32 killed, 1,228 arrested and 11,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the police.
 * 28 May: Poststadion opened.
 * 4 August: Leinestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 22 December:
 * Krumme Lanke (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Oskar-Helene-Heim (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Ruhleben (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin-Tempelhof U-Bahn station opened.
 * 25 December: Lichtburg cinema opens.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,328,760.
 * Charlotten Bridge rebuilt.
 * Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule established.
 * 1930
 * 18 April:
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz station U-Bahn line U8 opened.
 * Bernauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin-Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station opened.
 * Berlin Jannowitzbrücke U-Bahn station opened.
 * Rosenthaler Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Voltastraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Weinmeisterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 29 June: Vinetastraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 13 August: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin established.
 * 17 August: Mommsenstadion opened.
 * 30 September: Berlin rocket launching site opened.
 * 21 December:
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz station U-Bahn line U8 opened.
 * Frankfurter Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Frankfurter Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Friedrichsfelde (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Grenzallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Neukölln (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Magdalenenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin-Lichtenberg station U-Bahn station opened.
 * Samariterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Schillingstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Strausberger Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Weberwiese (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,332,834.
 * Pergamon Museum built.
 * 1931
 * 22 January: Haus des Rundfunks inaugurated.
 * 9 August: Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,314,466.
 * Großsiedlung Siemensstadt housing built.
 * 1932
 * 24 January: Hitler Youth member Herbert Norkus killed by Communists.
 * 14–20 March: Ice Hockey European Championship 1932.
 * 3–7 November: 1932 Berlin transport strike.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,273,701.
 * Columbushaus built on Potsdamer Platz.
 * 1933
 * Nazi headquarters relocated to Berlin from Munich.
 * 30 January: Hitler named Chancellor.
 * 27 February: Reichstag fire.
 * 19 March: Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz inaugurated.
 * April: Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry established.
 * 26 April: Nazi Gestapo (secret police) headquartered in Berlin, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße.
 * 6 May: Institut für Sexualwissenschaft destroyed by the German Student Union.
 * 10 May: Nazi book burnings in Opernplatz.
 * 6 June: Afghan ambassador to Germany, Prince Shirdar Mohammed Aziz Khan, assassinated by an Afghan student.
 * 16 June: Population: 4,242,501.
 * 21–26 June: Köpenick's week of bloodshed.
 * 1 July: Berlin Innsbrucker Platz station opened.
 * July: Columbia concentration camp established.
 * 19 September: Ufa-Palast am Zoo premiere of the Hitlerjunge Quex, the first major Nazi propaganda film.
 * 22 September: Reich Chamber of Culture established.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,221,024.
 * City becomes capital of the Greater German Reich.
 * Hufeisensiedlung housing built.
 * Strength Through Joy national leisure programme headquartered in Berlin.
 * 1934
 * 30 June – 2 July: Night of the Long Knives.
 * Kurt von Schleicher, Ferdinand von Bredow, Gregor Strasser, Erich Klausener, Edgar Jung, Herbert von Bose, Karl Ernst and Karl-Günther Heimsoth killed.
 * 1 July: Berlin Sundgauer Straße station opened.
 * 27 September: Ferdowsi millennial celebration in Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,218,332.
 * City becomes seat of the Greater Berlin and Mark Brandenburg Gaue (Nazi administrative divisions).
 * 1935
 * 31 January: Berlin Humboldthain station opened.
 * 22 March: First TV broadcasting service in the world in operation.
 * 28 March: Premiere of the film Triumph of the Will.
 * 1 October: Berlin Bornholmer Straße station opened.
 * 29 November: Deutschlandhalle inaugurated.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,226,584.
 * Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin built.
 * Nazi SS-Hauptamt headquartered in Berlin, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße.
 * 1936
 * January: Gosen Canal opened.
 * 1 April: Luftkriegsschule 2 Berlin-Gatow staff and technical college opened.
 * 28 May:
 * Berlin Nord-Süd Tunnel opened.
 * Berlin Oranienburger Straße station opened.
 * July: Sachsenhausen concentration camp established near the city.
 * 16 July: Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp established.
 * 27 July: Berlin Brandenburger Tor station opened.
 * 1 August: Olympic Stadium opened.
 * 1–16 August: 1936 Summer Olympics held.
 * 2 August: Waldbühne amphitheater opened.
 * August: Air Ministry Building completed.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,267,560.
 * Bundesautobahn 9 from Berlin to Munich opened.
 * Vorbunker built.
 * 1937
 * 5 January: Julius Lippert becomes mayor.
 * 30 January: Albert Speer becomes for the Reich capital.
 * 28 May: Volkswagen auto company founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,314,432.
 * 700th anniversary of the city celebrated.
 * Messe Berlin built.
 * 1938
 * 20 April: Olympia (1938 film) released.
 * 29 April: DEST founded.
 * 9–10 November: Kristallnacht; Fasanenstrasse Synagogue and Spandau Synagogue burned.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,347,875.
 * Schwimmhalle Finckensteinallee opened.
 * Helicopter flight demonstrated.
 * Elektro-Mess-Technik founded.
 * 1939
 * 10 January: New Reich Chancellery completed.
 * 15 April: Berlin Potsdamer Platz station opened.
 * 20 April: Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.
 * 17 May: Population: 4,338,756.
 * 1 September: German declaration of war against Poland.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,330,640.
 * 1940
 * 1 January: Altglienicke station opened.
 * July: Ludwig Steeg becomes mayor.
 * 25 August: Bombing of Berlin in World War II begins.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,330,810.
 * Reichsbank extension (Haus am Werderschen Markt) built.
 * Telefunkenwerk Zehlendorf built.
 * 1941
 * 14 October: Deportation of Jews to the east ordered by Kurt Daluege.
 * 11 December: German declaration of war against the United States.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,383,882.
 * Tempelhof Airport terminal built.
 * Zoo Tower built.
 * 1942
 * 20 January: Wannsee Conference.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,478,102.
 * Schwerbelastungskörper built.
 * 1943
 * 28 January: Mass deportation of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp ordered.
 * February–March: Rosenstrasse protest.
 * 18 February: Proclamation of Total War in the Sportpalast speech by Joseph Goebbels.
 * 1 April: Berlin Albrechtshof station opened.
 * 18 November: Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign) begins.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,430,204.
 * Bunker (Berlin) air raid shelter built.
 * 1944
 * 31 March: RAF bombing campaign ends.
 * 21 July: Execution of 20 July plot conspirators.
 * 23 October: Führerbunker completed.
 * 31 December: Population: 4,361,398.
 * 1945
 * 16 April: Battle of Berlin begins.
 * 20 April: Operation Clausewitz begins.
 * 22 April: Panzerbär begins publishing.
 * 23 April: Battle in Berlin begins.
 * 24 April: Red Army encirclement of Berlin complete.
 * 30 April: Death of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker.
 * 1 May: Suicides of Joseph and Magda Goebbels.
 * 2 May:
 * Red Army capture of the Reichstag building.
 * Battle of Berlin ends.
 * Nikolai Berzarin becomes commander of the Soviet sector of city.
 * 8 May: Ceremonial German Instrument of Surrender signed in Karlshorst.
 * 21 May: Berliner Zeitung begins publishing.
 * Spring–summer: Mass rape of 100,000 German women by the Red Army.
 * 5 June: Berlin Declaration (1945).
 * 13 June: Deutsche Volkszeitung begins publishing.
 * 4 July: Floyd L. Parks becomes commander of the U.S. sector of city.
 * 5 July: Lewis Lyne becomes commander of the British sector of city.
 * 7 July: Das Volk begins publishing.
 * 11 July: Geoffroi du Bois de Beauchesne becomes commander of the French sector of city.
 * 17 July-2 August: Potsdam Conference held.
 * 21 July: Victory Parade.
 * 12 August: Population: 2,807,405.
 * 30 August: Allied Control Council constituted.
 * 12 December: Berlin Air Safety Center established.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,064,629.

1946–1989

 * 1946
 * 15 May: Buckower Chaussee station opened.
 * October: City election held.
 * 29 October: Population: 3,170,832.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,213,966.
 * Berlin Schönefeld Airport opened.
 * 1947
 * 8 February: Karlslust dance hall fire.
 * Ernst Reuter becomes mayor.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,271,179.
 * 1948
 * 5 April: 1948 Gatow air disaster.
 * 24 June: Soviet blockade begins.
 * 26 June: Allied airlift of supplies begins.
 * 4 December: Free University of Berlin established.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,312,307.
 * Berlin Tegel Airport opened.
 * Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit formed.
 * Handelsorganisation grocery opens in East Berlin.
 * 1949
 * 12 May: Berlin Blockade ends.
 * November: Berliner Ensemble founded.
 * 8 December: Supreme Court of East Germany set up.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,328,193.
 * City divided into East Berlin and West Berlin.
 * East Berlin becomes capital of the German Democratic Republic.
 * Currywurst introduced on.
 * 1950
 * 18 January: Marienfelde refugee transit camp opened.
 * 29 April: Liebknecht Bridge opened.
 * 20 May: Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,336,026.
 * Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle opened.
 * Academy of Arts established in East Berlin.
 * Freedom Bell installed in city hall of West Berlin.
 * 1951
 * 11 January: Landtag (parliament) of West Berlin established.
 * 6–17 June: Berlin International Film Festival begins in West Berlin.
 * 27 July: Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Park opened.
 * 3 August: Stalin Statue (Berlin) dedicated.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,351,865.
 * East Berlin hosts 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students.
 * Berliner Festspiele established in West Berlin.
 * 1952
 * Deutsche Waggon und Maschinenfabrik in business.
 * 1 May: Hochhaus an der Weberwiese completed.
 * 20 February: Knaack club opened.
 * 1 October: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,374,178.
 * 1953
 * June: Uprising in East Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,367,406.
 * 1954
 * 25 January – 18 February: Berlin Conference (1954) held.
 * 10 September: Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,350,957.
 * Academy of Arts established in West Berlin.
 * SC Dynamo Berlin founded.
 * 1955
 * 2 July: Tierpark Berlin opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,343,182.
 * Radrennbahn Weissensee cycling track opened.
 * 1956
 * 3 May:
 * Afrikanische Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kurt-Schumacher-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Rehberge (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 3 June: Plänterwald railway station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,345,650.
 * Westhafen Canal opened.
 * Rotes Rathaus reconstructed; becomes city hall of East Berlin.
 * 1957
 * 31 December: Population: 3,338,561.
 * International Building Exposition held.
 * Haus der Kulturen der Welt built in West Berlin.
 * 1958
 * 31 May:
 * Alt-Tegel (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Borsigwerke (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Holzhauser Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Otisstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Scharnweberstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,316,353.
 * Bundesautobahn 100 opened.
 * 1959
 * 2 June: Spichernstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,290,333.
 * Institute for European Politics founded in West Berlin.
 * Jüdisches Gemeindehaus Fasanenstraße (Jewish centre) inaugurated in West Berlin.
 * 1960
 * 31 December: Population: 3,274,016.
 * Gropiusstadt developed.
 * 1961
 * 28 January: Birkenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 8 May: Augsburger Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 4 June: Berlin Crisis of 1961 begins.
 * 13–15 August: Berlin Wall construction begins between East Berlin and West Berlin.
 * 19–20 August: U.S. vice president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin
 * 28 August:
 * Amrumer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Hansaplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kurfürstendamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Leopoldplatz U9 platform opened.
 * Spichernstraße U9 platform opened.
 * Turmstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Westhafen station station opened.
 * Berlin Zoologischer Garten U9 platform opened.
 * 27–28 October: U.S.–Soviet confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,252,691.
 * Max Planck Institute for Human Development established.
 * Ampelmännchen pedestrian signal introduced in East Berlin.
 * 1962
 * 27 May: Grünbergallee station opened.
 * 17 August: Killing of Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall by East German border guards.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,235,231.
 * 1963
 * 5 May: Maria Regina Martyrum consecrated.
 * 26 June: U.S. president Kennedy gives Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin.
 * 28 September:
 * Blaschkoallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Parchimer Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 29 September: Britz-Süd (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 15 October: Berliner Philharmonie opened.
 * 15 November: Kino International opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,251,489.
 * Berliner Philharmonie (concert hall) built in West Berlin.
 * Berliner Singakademie founded in East Berlin.
 * Hotel Berolina opened.
 * Wellblechpalast opened.
 * Biotronik founded.
 * 1964
 * 18 July: Fernmeldeturm Berlin in service.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,270,959.
 * Old Palace rebuilt.
 * Prinzessinnenpalais rebuilt.
 * JazzFest Berlin begins in West Berlin.
 * 1965
 * 2 April: Europa-Center inaugurated.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,274,500.
 * 1966
 * 28 February:
 * Alt-Mariendorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Alt-Tempelhof (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Möckernbrücke U7 platform opened.
 * Ullsteinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Westphalweg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * May: Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof Berlin opened.
 * 17 September: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,265,398.
 * Prussian Heritage Image Archive established.
 * 1967
 * 2 June: Death of Benno Ohnesorg.
 * 15 September: Brücke Museum opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,245,325.
 * Strausberger Platz built.
 * Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.
 * 1968
 * 11 April: Josef Bachmann's assassination attempt against Rudi Dutschke.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,225,354.
 * New National Gallery opens in West Berlin.
 * 1969
 * 30 September: World Clock (Alexanderplatz) opened.
 * 3 October: Fernsehturm Berlin (TV tower) erected in East Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,218,112.
 * Neuer Berliner Kunstverein founded.
 * Kulturpark Plänterwald opened.
 * 1970
 * 2 January:
 * Johannisthaler Chaussee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Lipschitzallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Wutzkyallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Zwickauer Damm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 7 October: Hotel Stadt Berlin built in East Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,208,719.
 * Protestant Church of Plötzensee inaugurated.
 * 1971
 * 29 January:
 * Bayerischer Platz U7 platform opened.
 * Berliner Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Blissestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Bundesplatz U-Bahn station opened
 * Eisenacher Straße station opened
 * Fehrbelliner Platz U7 platform opened.
 * Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Güntzelstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kleistpark (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Yorckstraße U7 platform opened.
 * 4 December: Georg von Rauch shot and killed during arrest by West Berlin police.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,172,902.
 * 2 June Movement anarchist group active in West Berlin.
 * 1972
 * 15 May: Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists dedicated.
 * 3 June: Four Power Agreement on Berlin in force.
 * 1 July: Rudow (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 21 December: Basic Treaty, 1972 signed.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,152,489.
 * Kunstbibliothek Berlin opened.
 * 1973
 * 25 June: Tierpark (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,136,776.
 * Großgaststätte Ahornblatt (restaurant) built in East Berlin.
 * 1974
 * 30 September:
 * Berlin Rathaus Steglitz U-Bahn station opened.
 * Schloßstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 13 October: Berlin Marathon begins in West Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,118,134.
 * 1975
 * 31 December: Population: 3,083,011.
 * Berlinische Galerie opened.
 * Hochschule der Künste Berlin (art school) formed.
 * Peter Lorenz becomes president of the Landtag of West Berlin.
 * 1976
 * 23 April: Palace of the Republic inaugurated.
 * 30 April:
 * Nauener Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Osloer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) U9 station opened.
 * 13 October: Bierpinsel opened.
 * 30 December: Berlin Springpfuhl station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,056,973.
 * 1977
 * 5 October:
 * Osloer Straße U8 platform opened.
 * Pankstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,044,968.
 * 1978
 * 28 April:
 * Adenauerplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Bismarckstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Konstanzer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Wilmersdorfer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * July: Air Berlin established.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,038,689.
 * Berlin Motor Show begins in West Berlin.
 * Berlin State Library building opens on Haus Potsdamer Straße in West Berlin.
 * 1979
 * 5 March: BESSY founded.
 * 2 April: Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,042,504.
 * Teufel company founded.
 * 1980
 * 1 May: Tempodrom opened.
 * 1 October:
 * Halemweg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Jakob-Kaiser-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Jungfernheide U7 station opened.
 * Mierendorffplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Rohrdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Siemensdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * founded.
 * Memorial to the German Resistance erected.
 * 15 December:
 * Mehrower Allee station opened.
 * Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,048,759.
 * 1981
 * 20 November: Western entrance to Teltow Canal reopened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,050,974.
 * AG Märkische Kleinbahn established.
 * 1982
 * 15 January: 1982 Berlin restaurant bombing.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,042,612.
 * 1983
 * 12 August: Weltkugelbrunnen opened.
 * 25 August: Bombing of French consulate in West Berlin.
 * 26 September: IAV founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,040,035.
 * German Museum of Technology opened.
 * founded.
 * 1984
 * 9 February: Eberhard Diepgen becomes mayor of West Berlin.
 * 1 October:
 * Altstadt Spandau (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Haselhorst (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Paulsternstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Rathaus Spandau (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Zitadelle (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 20 December: Berlin-Hohenschönhausen station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,045,456.
 * 1985
 * 31 December: Population: 3,075,670.
 * West Berlin hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show).
 * ESCP Europe school moves to Berlin.
 * 1986
 * 1 January: Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin opened.
 * 5 April: West Berlin discotheque bombing.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,115,473.
 * 1987
 * 750th anniversary of founding of Berlin celebrated.
 * Topography of Terror exhibit opens.
 * 27 April:
 * Franz-Neumann-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Paracelsus-Bad (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Residenzstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 1 May: May Day in Kreuzberg begins.
 * 12 June: U.S. president Reagan gives Tear down this wall! speech in West Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,273,630.
 * 1988
 * 31 March – 2 April: Four Nations Tournament (1988).
 * 1 July:
 * Biesdorf-Süd (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Elsterwerdaer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,352,848.
 * West Berlin designated a European Capital of Culture.
 * 1988 IMF/World Bank protests.
 * Metropol Verlag founded.
 * 1989
 * Population: 1,279,212 in East Berlin.
 * 1 July:
 * Cottbusser Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Hellersdorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Hönow (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kaulsdorf-Nord (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Louis-Lewin-Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Kienberg (Gärten der Welt) (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Wuhletal station opened.
 * 7 October: Demonstrations in East Berlin.
 * 4 November: Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin.
 * 9 November: Berlin Wall opened between East Berlin and West Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,409,737.

1990s

 * 1990
 * 13 June: Demolition of the Berlin wall begins.
 * 1 August: Most roads between West and East Berlin rebuilt and reopened.
 * 28 September: East Side Gallery opened.
 * 3 October: German reunification; unified Berlin designated capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.
 * 7 November: Stasi Museum opened.
 * 1 December: Schichauweg railway station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,433,695.
 * Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records and headquartered in Berlin.
 * Kunsthaus Tacheles established.
 * 1991
 * 20 June: Decision on the Capital of Germany.
 * 4 July: Alba Berlin founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,446,031.
 * 1992
 * 1 January: Weierstrass Institute established.
 * 17 September: Mykonos restaurant assassinations.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,456,891.
 * A-Trane club opened.
 * 1993
 * 1 October: West and East Berlin Academy of Arts merged.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,461,421.
 * Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology established.
 * Berlin Cathedral renovated.
 * Transparency International headquartered in city.
 * Magix founded.
 * Japanische Internationale Schule zu Berlin established.
 * 1994
 * March: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science established.
 * 26 April: Berlin-Bonn Act.
 * 9 September: Russian and Allied forces depart.
 * 24 September:
 * Berlin Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik U-Bahn station opened.
 * Lindauer Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Rathaus Reinickendorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin-Wittenau U-Bahn station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,452,284.
 * Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial opened.
 * Berlin British School founded.
 * 1995
 * 17 January: Die Pyramide completed.
 * 10 May: German-Russian Museum opens.
 * June: Artist Christo wraps the Reichstag.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,446,039.
 * Berlin Central and Regional Library opened.
 * 1996
 * 13 July: Berlin Hermannstraße U-Bahn station opened.
 * 13 December: Max-Schmeling-Halle opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,428,644.
 * Crown Prince Bridge rebuilt.
 * City website online (approximate date).
 * Berggruen Museum and open.
 * 1997
 * 5 September: Velodrom arena opened.
 * December: Propeller Island City Lodge founded.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,387,901.
 * Computer Games Museum founded.
 * 1998
 * 20 May: Treptowers opened.
 * 12 June: Gemäldegalerie opened.
 * 25 September: Osdorfer Straße station opened.
 * 2 October: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,358,235.
 * Allied Museum opened.
 * 1999
 * 17 February: 1999 Israeli consulate attack in Berlin.
 * 19 April: German Bundestag (legislature) relocated to Berlin from Bonn per Berlin-Bonn Act.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,340,887.
 * Molecule Man (sculpture) installed in the Spree River.
 * Clocktower reinstalled on Potsdamer Platz.
 * 2000
 * 14 June: Sony Center opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,331,232.
 * Bahntower built.

21st century

 * 2001
 * February: Anhalter Steg bridge built.
 * 2 May: Federal Chancellery (Berlin) completed.
 * 16 June: Klaus Wowereit becomes governing mayor.
 * 9 September: Jewish Museum, Berlin opened.
 * 21 October: Berlin state election, 2001.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,337,232.
 * Merger of boroughs: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, and Treptow-Köpenick formed.
 * DZ Bank building constructed.
 * Jewish Museum opens.
 * Berlin International Literature Festival begins.
 * 2002
 * 31 December: Population: 3,336,248.
 * SRH Hochschule Berlin established.
 * Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra founded.
 * Exberliner English-language magazine founded.
 * 2003
 * 2 December: AquaDom opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,330,242.
 * 2004
 * 1 January: Federal Joint Committee health agency established.
 * May: Badeschiff opened.
 * 3 June: Museum of Photography, Berlin opened.
 * 9 December: University Library of the TU Berlin and UdK opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,333,108.
 * Festival of Lights begins.
 * 2005
 * 7 February: Honor killing of Hatun Sürücü.
 * 24 February: Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt railway opened.
 * 10 May: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe unveiled.
 * 30 June: Gustav Heinemann Bridge opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,339,436.
 * Philological Library opened.
 * Transradio founded.
 * 2006
 * February: Institute for Media and Communication Policy.
 * 26 May: Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Central station) constructed.
 * 27 May: Berlin North–South mainline opened.
 * 9 July: FIFA World Cup Final held at Olympiastadion.
 * 15 July: DDR Museum opened.
 * 17 September: Berlin state election, 2006.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,348,805.
 * nursing home established.
 * 2007
 * July: Berlin Fashion Week first held.
 * 12 September: Alexa Centre shopping mall opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,353,858.
 * Rocket Internet founded.
 * 2008
 * July: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection opened.
 * 10 September: Mercedes-Benz Arena (Berlin) opened.
 * 1 October: BMG Rights Management founded.
 * October: Zalando founded.
 * 16 October: Khadija Mosque opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,362,843.
 * 2009
 * 8 August:
 * U55 (Berlin U-Bahn) line opened.
 * Bundestag (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened.
 * Berlin Hauptbahnhof U55 platforms opened.
 * 15–23 August: 2009 World Championships in Athletics held.
 * 16 October: Neues Museum reopened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,369,672.
 * International Psychoanalytic University Berlin founded.
 * (garden) created.
 * 2010 – 31 December: Population: 3,387,562.
 * 2011
 * 29 June: Humboldt Box opened.
 * 18 September: Berlin state election, 2011.
 * 15 October: Occupy Berlin.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,427,114.
 * 2012
 * March: Zoofenster high-rise completed.
 * 27 September: Rathaus Bridge inaugurated after rebuilding.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,469,621.
 * 2013
 * 21 March: 2013 Berlin helicopter crash.
 * 2 June: Hohenzollern Stadtschloss (palace) reconstruction begins.
 * 3 November: Berlin energy referendum, 2013 held.
 * 15 November: Museum in the Kulturbrauerei opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,517,424.
 * N26 (bank) founded.
 * 2014
 * March: .berlin internet domain name begins.
 * 28 August: 2014 Conference of Western Balkan States, Berlin held.
 * 25 September: Mall of Berlin opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,562,166.
 * Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service built.
 * 2015
 * 7 February: Victoria released.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,610,156.
 * 2016
 * July: Protest against gentrification in Friedrichshain.
 * 18 September: Berlin state election, 2016.
 * 1 December: Berlin Police Academy established.
 * 19 December: 2016 Berlin truck attack.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,670,622.
 * 2017
 * 13 April: IGA Cable Car opened.
 * 13 October: Babylon Berlin TV series released.
 * 10 December: Berlin–Munich high-speed railway opened.
 * 31 December: Population: 3,711,930.
 * Urban Nation museum opens.
 * 2018 – 31 December: Population: 3,748,148.
 * 2022 - 8 June - 2022 Berlin car attack.

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