Timeline of Gdańsk

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.

Middle Ages

 * c. VII century - Settlement is established on the Motława river.
 * c. X century - Gdańsk becomes a defensive fort for Kashubian dukes.
 * 997 - Saint Adalbert baptises the citizens of urbs Gyddannyzc.
 * 1013 - Poland loses influence over the region.
 * 1047 - Casimir I takes back control over Gdańsk.
 * 1186 - Cistercians establish a monastery in Oliwa.
 * 1216 - Swiętopełk II takes control of Pomerania.
 * 1224 - Gdańsk granted city rights.
 * 1226 - Monastery in Oliwa is raided by pagan Old Prussians.
 * 1227 - Dominican Monastery founded in Gdańsk.
 * 1253 - Oliwa is raided by the Teutonic Order.
 * 1260 - St. Dominic's Fair begins.
 * 1263 - The village of Wrzeszcz, today's borough of Gdańsk, mentioned for the first time.
 * 1271 - First mention of Polanki and Przymorze.
 * 1294, 1295 - Visits of Polish King Przemysł II.
 * 1308 - November 13: Teutonic takeover of Gdańsk.
 * 1325 - Brzeźno is mentioned for the first time.
 * 1326 - St. Catherine's Church built.
 * 1327 - Construction of the Gdańsk Town Hall begins.
 * 1343 - Casimir III the Great agrees to give Pomerelia to the Teutonic order.
 * 1346 - Gaol Tower built.
 * 1350 - Artus Court built (approximate date).
 * 1360 - City joins Hanseatic League (approximate date).
 * 1380 - First Scots settled in the city, founding what would eventually become a significant Scottish diaspora in Poland.
 * 1391 - Foundation of the Marienbrunn Abbey.
 * 1410 - The city recognized Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło as rightful ruler.
 * 1411 - The city came under Teutonic rule again.
 * 1416 - A revolt against the local government happens due to its weak management.
 * 1427 - First mention of Armenians in the city.
 * 1440 - City joins the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation.
 * 1454
 * 11 February: Townspeople captured the local castle.
 * 6 March: City reincorporated to the Kingdom of Poland by King Casimir IV Jagiellon upon the request of the Prussian Confederation.
 * March: City authorized by the Polish king to mint Polish coins.
 * June: City solemnly pledged allegiance to the King in Elbląg, recognizing the Teutonic annexation and rule as unlawful.
 * 1455 - Danzig law in effect (approximate date).
 * 1458 - Truce between Poland and Denmark signed, after Denmark initially sided with the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466).
 * 1463 - The fleets of Elbląg and Gdańsk defeat the Teutonics on the Vistula Lagoon.
 * 1465 - St. John's Church built.
 * 1481 - Artus Court rebuilt.
 * 1494 - Hall of the Brotherhood of St. George built.

16th to 18th centuries

 * 1502 - St. Mary's Church completed.
 * 1504 - Nicolaus Copernicus visited the city several times.
 * 1514 - Trinity Church built.
 * 1520 - During the Polish-Teutonic War, the Landsknecht coordinated an attack on Gdańsk.
 * 1525 - The Gdańsk Tumult - Lutherans organise a revolt against mayor Eberhard Ferber.
 * 1526
 * January - The council is overthrown by the revolt.
 * April - King Sigismund I enters the city with eight thousand men, executing the rebels and asserting his power over the region.
 * July: Nicolaus Copernicus visited the city.
 * 1537 - Franz Rhode sets up printing press.
 * 1540 - Narratio Prima, an abstract of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory published.
 * 1557 - Sigismund II grants Protestants equal rights.
 * 1558 - Academic Gymnasium established.
 * 1561 - Main Town Hall tower built, with a gilded statue of Polish King Sigismund II Augustus placed at its top.
 * 1568 - Green Gate built.
 * 1569
 * City becomes part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 * Mennonite Church founded.
 * 1575 - Danzig rebellion begins.
 * 1577
 * April 17: Battle of Lubieszów.
 * Siege of Danzig by Stephen Báthory of Poland.
 * 1588 - Highland Gate erected.
 * 1594 - Oliwa Cathedral consecrated.
 * 1596 - Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis established.
 * 1605 - Arsenal built at the Coal Market Square.
 * 1606 - Der Lachs distillery in business.
 * 1614 - Golden Gate built.
 * 1621 - Jesuit College established in the present-day neighbourhood of Stare Szkoty.
 * 1627 - Battle of Oliwa during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629), won by Poland.
 * 1633 - Neptune's Fountain installed at the Long Market.
 * 1640 - Jan Heweliusz established his astronomical observatory in the Old Town.
 * 1655 - Deluge (Swedish invasion of Poland): Siege of Danzig (1655–1660) begins.
 * 1660 - Treaty of Oliva signed.
 * 1677 - An alliance treaty between Poland and Sweden signed.
 * 1681 - Royal Chapel of the Polish King John III Sobieski built.
 * 1703–1711 - Large scale arms smuggling for Hungarian insurgents during the Rákóczi's War of Independence against Austria.
 * 1709 - Bubonic plague.
 * 1711–1712 - Stay of Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi in the city following the Rákóczi's War of Independence.
 * 1734 - Siege of Danzig by Russians during the War of the Polish Succession.
 * 1742
 * Experimental Physics Society organized.
 * Corn exchange opens in Artus Court.
 * 1756 - Abbot's Palace expanded.
 * 1772 - After the First Partition of Poland the city became separated from the rest of Poland, it remained a Polish exclave.
 * 1793
 * Second Partition of Poland - city annexed by Prussia.
 * Municipal Library established.
 * 1797 - Attempt of student uprising against Prussia, crushed quickly by the Prussian authorities.

19th century

 * 1807
 * March 19-May 24: Siege of Danzig by French-Polish-Italian-Saxon-Baden forces.
 * September 9: Free City of Danzig established by Napoleon.
 * 1813 - January–December 29: Siege of Danzig by Russian and Prussian forces.
 * 1814 - City becomes part of Prussia again.
 * 1815 - City becomes administrative capital of Danzig (region).
 * 1831
 * October 18–19: 2nd and 4th Polish Cavalry Brigades of the November Uprising stopped near the city on their way to their final internment places.
 * November 10: Several further cavalry units of the 1st and 2nd Polish Cavalry Brigades stopped near the city on their way to their final internment places.
 * 1832
 * May: 52 Polish insurgents depart partitioned Poland on ship to Bordeaux, France (see Great Emigration).
 * 23 June: Over 450 Polish insurgents depart partitioned Poland on ship to Bordeaux, France.
 * Summer: Polish insurgents imprisoned by the Prussians at Biskupia Górka.
 * Trade academy established.
 * 1833, November - Over 500 Polish insurgents depart partitioned Poland on ships to France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
 * 1852 - Königliche Werft Danzig in business.
 * 1871
 * City becomes part of German Empire.
 * Franciscan monastery building restored.
 * 1880 - Westpreussische Provinzial-Museum opens.
 * 1885 - Population: 114,805.
 * 1887 - Great Synagogue built.
 * 1896 - Old fortifications dismantled in north and west of city.
 * 1899 - Harbor built at Neufahrwasser (Nowy Port).
 * 1900 - Main railway station opens.

1900–1939

 * 1901
 * Königliche Staatsarchiv für Westpreussen (National Archives) opens.
 * House of the Sheriffs restored.
 * 1903 - Fußball Club Danzig formed.
 * 1904 - Königliche Technische Hochschule founded.
 * 1905 - Population: 159,088.
 * 1918 - City becomes part of Weimar Germany.
 * 1919 - Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of Versailles.
 * 1920
 * Polish Post Office and Sportverein Schutzpolizei Danzig established.
 * Volkstag (parliament) becomes active.
 * 1921 - Danziger Werft in business.
 * 1922 - Gedania Danzig football club formed.
 * 1927 - MOSiR Stadium built.
 * 1937
 * Mass anti-Polish discrimination by Germans: employing Poles by German companies prohibited, already employed Poles fired.
 * October: Pogrom against Jews by the Germans.
 * 1938, May 3: Over 100 German attacks on Polish homes on the day of the Polish 3 May Constitution Day.
 * 1939
 * March: Ban and mass requisition of Polish press.
 * SS Heimwehr Danzig and SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann" units of the SS established by the Germans.

World War II (1939–1945)

 * 1939
 * September 1: Battle of the Danzig Bay; Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig.
 * September 1–7: Battle of Westerplatte.
 * September: The Germans established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in the present-day neighborhood of Maćkowy.
 * October 5: The Germans executed 39 Polish defenders of the Polish Post Office in the present-day district of Zaspa.
 * October 8: City occupied by Nazi Germany; city becomes capital of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
 * October: The Germans established a Nazi camp for Romani people.
 * 1940
 * The Germans established a forced labour subcamp of the Stalag XX-A prisoner-of-war camp in Biskupia Górka, initially for Polish POWs, and later mostly for French POWs.
 * Subcamp of the Stalag XX-A POW camp redesignated as a subcamp of the Stalag XX-B POW camp.
 * The Germans established two subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp in Westerplatte and Suchanino.
 * The Germans established a subcamp of the Stalag XX-B POW camp for Allied POWs in VII Dwór.
 * 1941
 * Lufttwaffensportverein Danzig formed.
 * The subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp in Maćkowy and Westerplatte were dissolved.
 * 1943–1944 - The local Polish resistance movement facilitated escapes of endangered Polish resistance members and British prisoners of war who fled from German POW camps via the city's port to neutral Sweden.
 * 1944
 * August 26: The Germans established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp at the main shipyard.
 * August 27: AGSSt 32 and 33 assembly centers for Allied POWs established in the city by the Germans (later relocated).
 * September 13: The Germans established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp at the Schichau shipyard.
 * October 16: The Germans established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp on the Ostrów Island.
 * October 18: Dulag 154 transit POW camp evacuated from Tapa in German-occupied Estonia to Gdańsk by the Germans.
 * 1945
 * February: Most prisoners of the Schichau subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp were evacuated towards Lębork, while some were sent back to Stutthof main camp; subcamp dissolved.
 * March: The subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp at the main shipyard and Ostrów Island were dissolved.
 * March 27–30: City taken by forces of Soviet Union.
 * Gdańsk becomes part of Republic of Poland.

1945–1990s

 * 1945
 * City becomes capital of Gdańsk Voivodeship.
 * Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski becomes mayor.
 * Gdańsk Shipyard, Akademia Lekarska, Baltia Gdańsk (Lechia Gdańsk) and Stoczniowiec Gdańsk football clubs, Gdańsk Symphony Orchestra, and Academy of Fine Arts established.
 * 1945-1946 Expulsion of the city's German-speaking majority in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.
 * 1946
 * August 28: Execution of Danuta Siedzikówna and Feliks Selmanowicz, members of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and the anti-communist resistance movement, Polish national heroes, by the communists.
 * October 1: Gdańsk College of Education established.
 * 1949 - Four transports of Greeks and Macedonians, refugees of the Greek Civil War, arrived at the port of Gdańsk, from where they were transported to new homes in Poland.
 * 1951 - Wybrzeże Gdańsk handball team established.
 * 1952
 * Gdańsk Zaspa, Gdańsk Przymorze-Uniwersytet and Gdańsk Politechnika railway stations opened.
 * City becomes part of Polish People's Republic.
 * 1953
 * Baltic State Opera and Philharmonic formed.
 * Stoczniowiec Gdańsk ice hockey team established.
 * 1956
 * 1 May: Lechia Gdańsk rugby union team established.
 * Manifestation of support for the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mass raising of funds, medical supplies and blood donation for Hungarian insurgents.
 * 1957 - Wybrzeże Gdańsk motorcycle speedway team established.
 * 1960 - Lechia Gdańsk wins its first Polish rugby championship.
 * 1962 - National Maritime Museum established.
 * 1963 - Gdańsk hosts the 1963 World Fencing Championships.
 * 1965 - Abbot's Palace rebuilt.
 * 1966
 * Wybrzeże Gdańsk wins its first Polish handball championship.
 * Westerplatte Monument unveiled.
 * 1970
 * University of Gdańsk established.
 * Gdańsk Power Station commissioned.
 * Hala Olivia arena opens.
 * 1972 - National Museum, Gdańsk established.
 * 1974
 * Airport opens.
 * Population: 402,200.
 * 1975 - Gdańsk Żabianka railway station opened.
 * 1977 - Monument of Polish poet Maria Konopnicka unveiled.
 * 1979
 * Museum of the Polish Post (Muzeum Poczty Polskiej) established at the site of the 1939 defence of the Polish Post Office.
 * Defenders of the Polish Post Office Monument unveiled.
 * 1980
 * Summer: Shipbuilders strike.
 * August 31: Solidarity (Polish trade union) founded; Gdańsk Agreement signed.
 * Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 unveiled.
 * 1982 - August 31: Anti-government demonstration.
 * 1983 - Father Eugeniusz Dutkiewicz SAC Hospice founded.
 * 1985 - SS Soldek museum opens.
 * 1989 - City becomes part of Republic of Poland.
 * 1991 - Franciszek Jamroż becomes mayor.
 * 1993 - Gdańsk Shakespeare Days begin.
 * 1994
 * May: Gdańsk hosts the 1994 European Judo Championships.
 * July: Tomasz Posadzki becomes mayor.
 * 1996 - International Festival of Street & Open-Air Theatres begins (approximate date).
 * 1997 - Gdańsk hosts the 1997 European Fencing Championships.
 * 1998
 * Paweł Adamowicz becomes mayor.
 * Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art founded.
 * 1999
 * Gdańsk becomes capital of Pomeranian Voivodeship.
 * Solidarity Centre Foundation established.

21st century

 * 2001
 * Wybrzeże Gdańsk wins its tenth Polish handball championship.
 * Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge opens.
 * 2002
 * The Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries installed.
 * Lechia Gdańsk wins its tenth Polish rugby championship.
 * 2004 - May 1: Poland becomes part of European Union.
 * 2005 - Trefl Gdańsk volleyball team established.
 * 2007
 * Deepwater Container Terminal Gdańsk launched.
 * Tricity Charter signed.
 * 2009 - Gdańsk co-hosts the EuroBasket 2009.
 * 2010
 * Ergo Arena opens.
 * Population: 455,830.
 * 2011
 * July: City hosts the final round of the 2011 FIVB Volleyball World League.
 * August: Baltic Arena opens.
 * October: Gdańsk hosts the 2011 European Table Tennis Championships.
 * 2012 - Gdańsk co-hosts the UEFA Euro 2012.
 * 2013 - Gdańsk co-hosts the 2013 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
 * 2014
 * August: European Solidarity Centre opens.
 * September: Gdańsk co-hosts the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
 * September: Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre opens.
 * 2015
 * April 1: Gdańsk Śródmieście railway station opened.
 * August 30: Monument of Danuta Siedzikówna unveiled in the Orunia district.
 * December: Honorary Consulate of Bulgaria opened.
 * 2016
 * January: Gdańsk co-hosts the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.
 * August 28: State burial of Polish national heroes Danuta Siedzikówna and Feliks Selmanowicz in the 70th anniversary of their execution.
 * 2017
 * March: Museum of the Second World War opened.
 * Gdańsk co-hosts the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
 * 2018 - Cursed soldiers monument unveiled.
 * 2019
 * 10 May: Monument to the victims of the Ponary massacre unveiled.
 * 17 September: Witold Pilecki monument unveiled.
 * 2020
 * June: Medieval Pietas Domini altar, stolen by Germany during World War II, restored from Berlin to the St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk.
 * 22 October: Consulate-General of Hungary opened.
 * 2021 - Gdańsk co-hosts the 2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
 * 2023
 * January: Gdańsk co-hosts the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.
 * July: Gdańsk hosts the final round of the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League.