Timeline of Brno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic.

Prior to 20th century

 * 980-1020 - Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady founded.
 * 11th C. - Vratislaus II of Bohemia bestows the town on his younger brother Otto I of Olomouc.
 * early 13th C. - Church of St. James established.
 * mid 13th C. - Špilberk Castle established.
 * 1229 - Brno charter endorsed by Ottocar I of Bohemia.
 * 1243 - City incorporated.
 * 1296 - Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul established.
 * 1343 - in use.
 * 1356 - Church of St. Thomas consecrated.
 * 1428 - Brno unsuccessfully besieged by Hussites.
 * 1451 - 27 July: Jews expelled.
 * 1467 - Brno besieged by forces of George of Bohemia.
 * 1485 - Printing press in operation.
 * 1645 - Brno besieged by forces of Swedish Torstensson.
 * 1655 - Dolní Kounice Synagogue founded.
 * 1742 - Brno besieged by Prussians.
 * 1766 - Cloth factory begins operating.
 * 1777 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno established; Mathias Franz Graf von Chorinsky Freiherr von Ledske becomes bishop.
 * 1780's - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor evicted the friars from St Thomas's Abbey.
 * 1782 - Brno becomes capital of Moravia-Silesia.
 * 1786 - Lužánky park established.
 * 1805 - 2 December: Battle of Austerlitz occurs near Brno; forces of Napoleon headquartered in city.
 * 1818 - Museum Francisceum founded.
 * 1822/30 - Silvio Pellico an Italian writer confined in Špilberk Castle.
 * 1838 - Brno main railway station opened.
 * 1839 - Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway operates to Břeclav.
 * 1843 - Labor unrest.
 * 1848 - October: Labor demonstration.
 * 1849
 * German Technical University in Brno founded.
 * Population: 45,189.
 * 1855 - Synagogue consecrated.
 * 1861 - Natural History Society established.
 * 1864 - Vankovka engineering works built near Brno.
 * 1866 - 13 July: Prussians in power.
 * 1867
 * Czech-language secondary school founded.
 * Red Church construction completed.
 * 1869 - Population: 73,771.
 * 1870's - Brno Philharmonic began its existence at the Besední dům.
 * 1872 - Starobrno Brewery built.
 * 1880 - becomes mayor.
 * 1881 - Organ School founded.
 * 1882 - Deutsches Stadttheater (Mahen Theatre) built.
 * 1891 - opens.
 * 1894 - becomes mayor.
 * 1899 - Imperial Czech Technical University of Franz Joseph founded.
 * 1900 - Population: 108,944.

20th century

 * 1910 - Population: 125,737.
 * 1913 - SK Židenice football club formed.
 * 1918
 * Československá zbrojovka manufactory in business.
 * Moravia becomes part of Czechoslovakia.
 * Brno City Archive Library established.
 * 1919
 * Bohunice and Slatina become part of Brno.
 * Masaryk University and Brno Conservatory founded.
 * 1926 - 18 December: Premiere of Janáček's opera Makropulos Affair.
 * 1928
 * Brno Exhibition Centre opens.
 * Exhibition of Contemporary Culture held.
 * Centrum department store built.
 * 1930
 * Modernist Villa Tugendhat built.
 * Population: 264,925.
 * 1935 - in use.
 * 1939
 * Brno (and whole country) occupied by German Nazis.
 * The Germans established an internment camp for Romani people in the city.
 * 1941 - First Martial Law, 239 people executed in Brno by the Germans, another 1,000 in concentration camps.
 * 1943 - October: The Germans established a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the city, and brought the first transport of 251 prisoners, mostly Poles, to the subcamp.
 * 1944 - Internment camp for Romani people dissolved.
 * 1945
 * German Technical University in Brno closed.
 * Subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp dissolved and remaining prisoners evacuated to Austria.
 * Many Germans fled Brno, the rest were later expelled.
 * Liberation of Brno
 * Brno City Theatre established.
 * 1946 - Brno–Tuřany Airport opens.
 * 1947
 * Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts established.
 * Královo Pole indoor arena opens.
 * Population: 133,637 city; 934,437 province.
 * 1953 - Brno Zoo and Stadion Za Lužánkami open.
 * 1955 - Julius Fucik Theatre active.
 * 1956 - Moravian Karst nature reserve established near city.
 * 1961
 * Moravian Gallery in Brno established.
 * Population: 314,235.
 * 1963
 * begins.
 * becomes mayor.
 * 1965 - Janáček Theatre opens.
 * 1974 - Population: 343,860.
 * 1980 - theatre troupe active.
 * 1982 - Starobrno Rondo Aréna opens.
 * 1985 - Dukovany Nuclear Power Station commissioned near city.
 * 1987 - Motorsport Masaryk Circuit opens.
 * 1990
 * Brno becomes a statutory city.
 * City divided into 29 districts.
 * founded.
 * becomes Catholic bishop.
 * 1991 - cultural space founded.
 * 1994 - becomes mayor.
 * 1997 - M-Palace hi-rise built.
 * 1998 - Petr Duchoň becomes mayor.

21st century

 * 2001 - Cinema City Velky Spalicek opens.
 * 2004
 * University of Defence (Czech Republic) established.
 * ProtestFest begins.
 * becomes mayor.
 * 2006 - Roman Onderka becomes mayor.
 * 2009 - September: Catholic pope visits Brno.
 * 2010 - Cinema Mundi International Film Festival begins.
 * 2011
 * Labyrinth under Vegetable Market, Brno (historic site) opens.
 * Population: 385,913.
 * 2012
 * Spielberk Towers built.
 * Brno Ossuary (historic site) opens.
 * 2013 - AZ Tower built.
 * 2014 - becomes mayor.
 * 2015 - June: Anti-immigration demonstration.
 * 2018 - 21 March: launched.
 * since 2020 - coke available for the mayor

in German

 * 1891-1897
 * (includes timeline 1091-1411)
 * (includes timeline 1091-1411)