Timeline of Dresden

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

Prior to 18th century

 * 1206 – First documentation of Dražďany.
 * 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
 * 1272 – Franziskanerkloster founded.
 * 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
 * 1350 – first documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
 * 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
 * 1388 – Kreuzkirche consecrated.
 * 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
 * 1409 – Armory established.
 * 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
 * 1524 - Printing press in operation.
 * 1530 – City expands.
 * 1548 – Orchestra founded.
 * 1563 – Dresdner Zeughaus built.
 * 1589 – Johanneum built.
 * 1666 – Premiere of Schütz's St Matthew Passion.
 * 1667 – Opera house opens.
 * 1678 - "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe(de) headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).
 * 1695 – Parade of Frederick Augustus I.
 * 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
 * 1700 – Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.

18th century

 * 1704 - Palais Flemming-Sulkowski built.
 * 1708 – Porcelain developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger.
 * 1710 – Meissen porcelain manufactory begins operating near city.
 * 1717 – Japanisches Palais built.
 * 1718 – Royal Palace rebuilt.
 * 1719 – Wedding reception of Polish Prince Frederick Augustus and Maria Josepha of Austria.
 * 1720 – Catholic Cemetery opens by decree of King Augustus II the Strong.
 * 1722
 * Zwinger built.
 * Picture Gallery founded.
 * 1723
 * Grünes Gewölbe founded.
 * Pillnitz Castle built.
 * 1724 – Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments established.
 * 1726 – Übigau Palace completed.
 * 1729 – Wackerbarth-Palais built.
 * 1733 – Villages of Gorbitz and Übigau (present-day districts) granted to Aleksander Józef Sułkowski by Augustus III of Poland.
 * 1736 – Equestrian sculpture of Polish King August the Strong unveiled.
 * 1743 – Frauenkirche built.
 * 1745 - City "taken by the Russians."
 * 1748 – Collegium Medico Chirurgicum established.
 * 1755 – Population: 63,000 (approximate).
 * 1756 – Catholic Church of the Royal Court built.
 * 1759 - September: "Dresden liberated from Prussians."
 * 1760 – July: Siege of Dresden.
 * 1763 – Death and burial of King Augustus III of Poland at the Catholic Church of the Royal Court.
 * 1764 – Dresden Art Academy founded.
 * 1776 – Landhaus built.
 * 1784 – Observatory established.
 * 1788 – Saxon Library opens.
 * 1793 – Tadeusz Kościuszko begins preparations for the Kościuszko Uprising in the city in response to the Second Partition of Poland.

19th century

 * 1807 – Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw promulgated.
 * 1809 – Austrians in power.
 * 1813 – 26–27 August: Battle of Dresden.
 * 1814 – Großer Garten opens to the public.
 * 1818 – Ernst Arnold gallery established.
 * 1823 – Jordan & Timaeus chocolate manufactury established.
 * 1828 – Saxon Technical School founded.
 * 1831 – Many Polish insurgents of the November Uprising fled from the Russian Partition of Poland to the city.
 * 1833 – Isis Society (natural history) founded.
 * 1835 – Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin met his future fiancée Maria Wodzinska in the city.
 * 1838 - Dresden Coinage Convention held in city.
 * 1839 – Leipzig–Dresden railway begins operating.
 * 1843 - Jam factory begins operating.
 * 1845 – Flood.
 * 1841 – Opera house built.
 * 1845 - 19 October: Premiere of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser.
 * 1849 – May Uprising in Dresden.
 * 1852
 * Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.
 * Population: 100,000.
 * 1854 – Semper Gallery and Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
 * 1855 – September: Royal Gallery opens.
 * 1856 – Dresden Conservatory established.
 * 1858 - Population: 128,152.
 * 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
 * 1866 – Prussians in power.
 * 1870 – Gewerbehausorchester founded.
 * 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
 * 1874 - Dresden English Football Club confirmed
 * 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
 * 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
 * 1878 – Opera house rebuilt.
 * 1889
 * Albertinum built.
 * Dresden Botanical Garden created.
 * 1891 – Dresden City Museum founded.
 * 1893 – Blue Wonder bridge constructed.
 * 1895 – Dresden Funicular Railway begins operating.
 * 1897 – Dresden Central Station built.
 * 1898
 * Ernemann-Werke camera factory in operation.
 * Dresdner SC football club formed.

1900-1945

 * 1901
 * Dresden-Neustadt station opens.
 * Schwebebahn Dresden begins operating.
 * 1903
 * German City Exhibit held.
 * Simmel delivers The Metropolis and Mental Life lecture.
 * 1904 – Ministry building constructed.
 * 1905 - 9 December: Premiere of Strauss' opera Salome.
 * 1910
 * Städtische Zentralbibliothek, Dresden (city library) formed.
 * Augustus Bridge constructed.
 * 1911
 * Dresden Museums Association formed.
 * Premiere of Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
 * 1912 – Ihagee camera company and German Hygiene Museum founded.
 * 1914 – Saxon army museum established.
 * 1919
 * Stadion am Ostragehege des Dresdner SC opens.
 * Population: 529,326.
 * 1923 – Glücksgas Stadium built.
 * 1932 – Polish-language church services cancelled.
 * 1933 – Population: 649,252.
 * 1935 – Dresden-Klotzsche Airport opens.
 * 1939
 * September: Mass arrests of local Polish activists (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
 * Population: 625,174.
 * 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor.
 * 1942
 * June: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the SS Engineer's Barracks.
 * 23–24 August: Twelve young Polish men, members of the Czarny Legion resistance organization, executed.
 * 24 August: Five Polish students of the Salesian oratory in Poznań, known as the "Poznań Five" (Poznańska Piątka), later beatified martyrs of World War II of the Catholic Church, executed.
 * 1944
 * 15 September: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the Railway Repair Works. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.
 * 9 October: Two women subcamps of Flossenbürg founded at the Goehle-Werk and Universelle factories. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians and Germans.
 * 22 October: Dresden-Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Russian and Jewish women.
 * 24 November: Dresden-Bernsdorf subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish-Jewish men, women and children.
 * 1945
 * 13–14 February: Aerial bombing by Allied forces.
 * 19 February: Subcamp of Flossenbürg at the Railway Repair Works dissolved. Prisoners deported to the main Flossenbürg camp.
 * 24 March: Dresden-Reichsbahn subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Jewish and Russian men.
 * April: Goehle-Werk, Bernsdorf, Reichsbahn, Universelle and SS Engineer's Barracks subcamps of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners either deported or mostly sent on death marches to various other locations.
 * 22–27 April: Battle of Dresden
 * April: Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent on a death march to the Ore Mountains.
 * 8 May: Russians take city.

1946-1990s

 * 1946
 * Sächsische Zeitung begins publication.
 * Population: 450,000.
 * 1950
 * SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden football club founded.
 * Botanical Garden restored.
 * Hellerau and Pillnitz incorporated into city.
 * 1956 – Dresden Transport Museum opens.
 * 1959 – Galerie Neue Meister formed.
 * 1960 – Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Museum opens at his former house.
 * 1961 – Dresden University of Technology formed.
 * 1972 – Filmtheater Prager Strasse opens.
 * 1973 – Dresden S-Bahn established.
 * 1983
 * Staatsschauspiel Dresden formed.
 * Population: 522,532.
 * 1986 - Pinova apple created.
 * 1989
 * protests stop the planned high-purity silicon factory
 * trains with East German embassy refugees from Prague pass Dresden main station with demonstrations and clashes with the police
 * Monday demonstrations
 * 1990 - Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten begins publication.
 * 1991
 * Bunte Republik Neustadt festival begins.
 * Fußballverein Dresden-Nord formed.
 * 1992
 * Soviet forces withdrawn.
 * Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf established.
 * 1996 – Dresdner Sinfoniker founded.
 * 2000 - Stadtarchiv Dresden (city archives) relocated to Elisabeth-Boer-Strasse.

21st century



 * 2002
 * Elbe Flood.
 * Volkswagen's Transparent Factory opens.
 * 2004
 * Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory established.
 * Dresden Elbe Valley designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 * 2005
 * Dresden Frauenkirche rebuilt.
 * Dresden City Art Gallery opens.
 * Neo-Nazi demonstration.
 * 2006 – 800th anniversary of founding of Dresden.
 * 2007
 * Freiberger Arena opens.
 * Waldschlösschen Bridge construction begins.
 * 2008
 * Helma Orosz becomes mayor.
 * December: City hosts the 38th Chess Olympiad.
 * 2009 - Dresden Elbe Valley's UNESCO World Heritage Site status is revoked.
 * 2010 – Anti-fascist demonstration.
 * 2011
 * Bundeswehr Military History Museum opens.
 * Population: 523,058.
 * 2013
 * Elbe flood.
 * September: City co-hosts the 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
 * 2014 - PEGIDA begin protesting(de) against Islamism in the city, drawing crowds estimated up to 17,000 in peak
 * 2015 - Dirk Hilbert becomes mayor.

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