Timeline of Bonn

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

 * 70 CE - Roman-Batavian conflict.
 * 359 CE - Town of the Ubii restored by the emperor Julian.
 * 889 CE - Settlement sacked by Norse raiders.
 * 1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
 * 13th C. - Bonn Minster (church) built.
 * 1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.
 * 1543 - Printing press in operation.
 * 1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne.
 * 1627 - Kreuzbergkirche (Bonn) (church) built.
 * 1673 - November: Siege of Bonn.
 * 1693 - Jesuiten-kirche (church) built.
 * 1730 - Palace built.
 * 1737 - Town Hall built.
 * 1746 - Poppelsdorf Palace built.
 * 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn.
 * 1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded..
 * 1792 - Beethoven leaves Bonn for Vienna where he would stay for the rest of his life.
 * 1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.
 * 1794 - French took power; sanctioned by the Treaty of Lunéville.
 * 1800 - Johann Joseph Eichhoff becomes mayor.

19th century

 * 1815 - Town becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna.
 * 1818 - Rhenish Frederic William University and Academic Art Museum established.
 * 1820 - Museum of Antiquities founded.
 * 1822 - Town becomes part of the Rhine Province.
 * 1841 - Society of the Friends of Antiquity founded.
 * 1844 - Railway Station built; Bonn–Cologne Railway begins operating.
 * 1845 - Beethovenhalle (concert hall) built.
 * 1851 - Leopold Kaufmann becomes mayor.
 * 1859 - Durchmusterung astronomical survey begins at the Bonn Observatory.
 * 1860 - Dieckhoff residence built.
 * 1862 - Herz Jesu-kirche (church) built.
 * 1867 - Population: 63,630.
 * 1871 - Bonn-Beuel station opens.
 * 1882 - Municipal museum active.
 * 1884 - Railway Station rebuilt.
 * 1885 - Population: 35,989.
 * 1888 - the local newspaper General-Anzeiger was first published
 * 1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.
 * 1890 - Beethovenfest active.
 * 1891 - Provincial Museum of Rhenish and Roman Antiquities opens.
 * 1892 - Marienkirche (church) built.
 * 1898 - Rhine bridge built.



1900s-1940s

 * 1904 - Photographische Vereinigung Bonn and Amateur-Photographen-Club Bonn active (approximate date).
 * 1905 - Population: 81,997.
 * 1913 - Stollfuß Verlag (publisher) in business.
 * 1919 - Population: 91,410.
 * 1922 - Gummy bear candy invented.
 * 1934 - Museum Koenig (natural history museum) opens.
 * 1939 - Population: 101,391.
 * 1944
 * 4 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp established.
 * 14 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn-Bad Godesberg forced labour camp established.
 * 28 November: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp dissolved.
 * 1945
 * March: American forces take city.
 * Allied occupation of Germany begins; North Rhine-Westphalia overseen by British forces.
 * 1947 - Kunstmuseum Bonn (art museum) founded.
 * 1949
 * May: City designated capital of Federal Republic of Germany.
 * Bundestag (national legislature) begins meeting in the Bundeshaus.
 * Rhine bridge rebuilt.

1950s-1990s

 * 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.
 * Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany.
 * 1951
 * (foreign press association) formed.
 * 1959 - Beethovenhalle rebuilt.
 * 1963 - British Embassy Preparatory School founded.
 * 1967 - Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (museum) rebuilt.
 * 1969
 * Bad Godesberg, Beuel, and Duisdorf become part of city.
 * Central Theater and Youth Theater founded.
 * 1970 - United Nations Volunteers headquartered in Bonn.
 * 1975
 * Bonn Stadtbahn (public transit) begins operating; Bundesrechnungshof station opens.
 * Hans Daniels becomes mayor.
 * 1978 - July: 4th G7 summit held.
 * 1979 - City hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show).
 * 1980 - University of Bonn's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics established.
 * 1981 -Bonn Women's Museum founded.[[File:Massale vredesdemonstratie in Bonn tegen de modernisering van kernwapens in West, Bestanddeelnr 253-8611.jpg|thumb|Protest in Bonn against the deployment of [[Pershing II]] missiles in Germany, 1981]]
 * 1982 - 10 June: NATO summit held.
 * 1984 - Bonn Botanical Garden reconstructed.
 * 1985
 * Rheinisches Malermuseum (art museum) established.
 * May: 11th G7 summit held.
 * 1986 - Heimatmuseum Beuel (museum) established.
 * 1989 - International Paralympic Committee headquartered in city.
 * 1991 - Capital decision (Hauptstadtbeschluss)
 * 1992 - Bundeskunsthalle (exhibit hall) inaugurated.
 * 1994
 * Bärbel Dieckmann becomes mayor.
 * Haus der Geschichte (history museum) opens.
 * 1995 - Deutsches Museum Bonn, and University of Bonn's Center of Advanced European Studies and Research and Center for European Integration Studies established.
 * 1996 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat headquartered in Bonn.
 * 1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law) established.
 * 1998 - Institute for the Study of Labor founded.
 * 1999
 * German Bundestag (legislature) relocated from Bonn to Berlin per Berlin-Bonn Act.
 * Federal Court of Auditors and Federal Cartel Office relocated to Bonn.

21st century

 * 2001 - University of Bonn's Egyptian Museum founded.
 * 2002
 * Post Tower and Schürmann-Bau (office building) constructed.
 * UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training inaugurated.
 * 2005 - Events of the World Youth Day 2005 were held in Bonn
 * 2006 - Official opening of the Bonn UN Campus by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
 * 2009
 * becomes mayor.
 * Student protests.
 * 2011 - The celebrations for the Day of German Unity take place in Bonn
 * 2012 -
 * 2015
 * After 9 years of construction, the was opened
 * Ashok-Alexander Sridharan becomes mayor
 * 2017
 * Meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 20
 * 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) under the Presidency of the Republic of Fiji in Bonn
 * 2019 - University of Bonn becomes excellence university
 * 2020 - Katja Dörner is elected new mayor
 * 2023 - Telekom Baskets Bonn win the Basketball Champions League as first German team and first title in the club´s history.