Timeline of Vienna

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria.

Prior to 19th century

 * 1st-millennium BCE – Vindobona settled.
 * 180 – Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius dies in Vindobona.
 * 740 - Church of St Ruprecht, the oldest church in Vienna, first built.
 * 881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna).
 * 1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna.
 * 1155
 * Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city.
 * Schottenstift founded.
 * 1160 – St. Stephen's Cathedral built.
 * 1221 – Vienna receives rights as staple port.
 * 1237 – Vienna received a charter of freedom from Frederick II., confirmed in 1247.
 * 1251 – Ottokar II of Bohemia in power.
 * 1276 – Foundation stone for the Minorites Church laid by King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
 * 1278 – City charter granted.
 * 1280 – Jans der Enikel writes the Fürstenbuch, a first history of the city.
 * 1349 – Augustinian Church consecrated.
 * 1365 – University of Vienna founded.
 * 1421 – Jews expelled.
 * 1482 – Johann Winterburger sets up printing press (approximate date).
 * 1485
 * Siege of Vienna by Kingdom of Hungary, city passed to Hungary.
 * Royal Court of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary relocated to Vienna (known as Bécs in Hungarian).
 * 1515 – First Congress of Vienna.
 * 1529 – Siege of Vienna by Turks.
 * 1556 – Vienna becomes seat of Holy Roman Empire under Ferdinand I.
 * 1598 – Donaukanal regulated.
 * 1600 – Melchior Khlesl becomes Bishop of Vienna.
 * 1643 – Schönbrunn Palace built.
 * 1668 – July: premiere of Cesti's opera Il pomo d'oro.
 * 1678 – Palais Modena completed.
 * 1679 – Great Plague of Vienna.
 * 1683 – Battle of Vienna.
 * 1684 – Kollschitzky coffeehouse in business.
 * 1692 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna founded.
 * 1702 – Palais Strozzi completed.
 * 1703 – Palais Liechtenstein built.
 * 1704 – Linienwall fortification built.
 * 1709 – Theater am Kärntnertor built.
 * 1712 – Palais Trautson completed.
 * 1713 – Plague epidemic.
 * 1716 – Palais Kinsky completed.
 * 1718 – Vienna Porcelain Manufactory founded.
 * 1724 – Population: 150,000.
 * 1735 – Winter Riding School built.
 * 1741 – Burgtheater opens.
 * 1762 – Premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
 * 1765
 * Tiergarten Schönbrunn (zoo) opens.
 * Artaria publishing firm founded.
 * 1766 – Prater opens.
 * 1770 – Chess-playing Mechanical Turk introduced at Schönbrunn Palace.
 * 1772 – Freyung Christmas market begins.
 * 1781 – Mozart arrives to Vienna from Salzburg.
 * 1786 – Premiere of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
 * Demel confectionery and Gesellschaft der Associierten founded.
 * 1 May: premiere of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.
 * 1790 – Population: 200,000.
 * 1791 – 30 September: premiere of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
 * 1792 – Schweighofer piano manufactury established. Beethoven arrives to Vienna from Bonn.
 * 1797 - 31 January Franz Peter Schubert is born in Alsergrund
 * 1800 – 2 April: premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.

19th century

 * 1802 – Palais Erdődy commissioned.
 * 1805
 * 23 May: premiere of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.
 * 13 November: Napoleon takes city.
 * 1807 – Czartoryski Palace built.
 * 1808 – 22 December: premiere of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Choral Fantasy, and Piano Concerto No. 4 at the Theater an der Wien.
 * 1809 – Battle of Aspern-Essling. Joseph Haydn dies.
 * 1814
 * Congress of Vienna.
 * C.F. Peters music publisher in business.
 * 1824 – 7 May: premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
 * 1827- 27 March: Ludwig van Beethoven dies.
 * 1828 19 November: Franz Peter Schubert dies.
 * 1829 – Leopoldine Society formed.
 * 1832 – Sachertorte invented.
 * 1840 – Population: 231,050.
 * 1842
 * Austrian Southern Railway begins.
 * Philharmonische Academie formed.
 * 1847 – Austrian Academy of Sciences established.
 * 1848 – Vienna Uprising.
 * 1850
 * City expanded beyond Innere Stadt.
 * Population: 551,300.
 * 1858 – Ringstraße constructed.
 * 1860/1864 – the fine and lofty tower of the Cathedral of St Stephen rebuilt.
 * 1864
 * Palais Todesco completed.
 * Neue Freie Presse newspaper begins publication.
 * 1867 – Palais Toskana built.
 * 1869
 * Vienna State Opera house built.
 * Population: 842,951.
 * 1870
 * Works started to regulate the Danube to make it safe for navigation.
 * Musikverein inaugurated.
 * 1873
 * World exposition held.
 * Café Landtmann and Hotel Imperial in business.
 * 1874
 * Palais Chotek completed.
 * Premiere of Strauss's opera Die Fledermaus.
 * 1875 – Danube levees constructed.
 * 1876
 * Academy of Fine Arts building erected.
 * Hotel Sacher established.
 * Café Central in business.
 * 1878 – Palais Nathaniel Rothschild built.
 * 1879 – Geological Office formed.
 * 1880
 * Café Sperl in business.
 * Population: 1,090,119.
 * 1881 – Palace of Justice (Vienna) built.
 * 1882 – Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (greenhouse) opens.
 * 1883 – Completion of the Vienna City Hall, an immense Gothic building.
 * 1884 – Palais Albert Rothschild built.
 * 1885 – Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory and Alpinen Gesellschaft Edelraute (hiking club) established.
 * 1886 – Hermesvilla built.
 * 1887 – Historical Museum of the City of Vienna established.
 * 1889 – Vienna City Archives active.
 * 1890 – City expanded; population: 1,364,548.
 * 1891 – Kunsthistorisches Museum (art museum) opens.
 * 1892 – City hosts the 1892 European Figure Skating Championships.
 * 1894
 * January: city hosts the 1894 European Figure Skating Championships.
 * Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) built.
 * 1895 – Palais Lanckoroński completed.
 * 1897
 * Wiener Riesenrad erected.
 * Vienna Secession art group founded.
 * 1898
 * Wiener Stadtbahn begins.
 * Secession Building constructed.
 * City hosts the 1898 ICA Track Cycling World Championships.
 * 1899
 * Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams published.
 * Die Fackel magazine begins publication.
 * 1900 – Population: 1,769,137.

1900s–1940s

 * 1901 – Universal Edition in business.
 * 1902
 * Freudenau harbor constructed.
 * Franciszek Trześniewski opens restaurant.
 * 1903
 * Kuchelau harbor constructed.
 * Wiener Werkstätte art group founded.
 * 1904
 * Floridsdorf district added.
 * Café Korb in business.
 * 1907 – City hosts the 1907 World Figure Skating Championships.
 * 1908 – Vienna Psychoanalytic Society active.
 * 1910 – Population: 2,031,000.
 * 1912 – Aspern Airfield opens.
 * 1913
 * 23 February: premiere of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder.
 * Richard Weiskirchner becomes mayor.
 * 1915 – April: Conference of Central European Socialist Parties held in Vienna.
 * 1916 – 30 November: funeral of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
 * 1918 – Red Vienna begins.
 * 1919
 * Lainzer Tiergarten opens.
 * Jakob Reumann becomes mayor.
 * 1920
 * Austrian National Library established.
 * Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna founded.
 * 1921
 * The Geistkreis seminar begins.
 * Österreichische Bundesgärten (garden) established.
 * International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.
 * 1923
 * Karl Seitz becomes mayor.
 * Phaidon Press founded.
 * 1924 – Collegium Hungaricum Vienna founded.
 * 1925 – Kolosseum (cinema) opens.
 * 1929 – Austrian Bridge Federation founded.
 * 1931 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion built.
 * 1934 – Richard Schmitz becomes mayor.
 * 1938
 * Anschluss.
 * Hermann Neubacher becomes mayor.
 * City expands.
 * 1940 – Philipp Wilhelm Jung becomes mayor.
 * 1941 – Kehal Adas Yereim Vien established.
 * 1942 – Bombing begins.
 * 1943
 * 30 August: Vienna-Schwechat (Heidfeld) subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp established. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Soviet, Italian and Spanish.
 * 30 December: Hanns Blaschke becomes mayor.
 * 1944
 * Vienna-Schwechat ('Santa') subcamp of Mauthausen established.
 * 13 July: Vienna-Schwechat (Heidfeld) subcamp dissolved, Vienna-Floridsdorf subcamp of Mauthausen established. Prisoners moved from Schwechat (Heidfeld) to Floridsdorf.
 * 20 August: Vienna-Saurerwerke subcamp of Mauthausen established. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviet citizens.
 * September: Vienna-Hinterbrühl subcamp of Mauthausen established. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Soviet and Italian.
 * 28 September: Vienna-Schönbrunn subcamp of Mauthausen established.
 * 1945
 * Vienna Offensive.
 * 31 March: Vienna-Schwechat ('Santa') subcamp dissolved. Prisoners moved to the Hinterbrühl subcamp.
 * 1 April: Floridsdorf, Hinterbrühl and Schönbrunn subcamps dissolved. Prisoners are evacuated by the SS in death marches to the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp and main Mauthausen camp. Massacre of 52 Hinterbrühl prisoners, who were unable to walk.
 * 2 April: Vienna-Saurerwerke subcamp dissolved. Prisoners are evacuated by the SS in a death march to the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp, except for ill prisoners who are left behind.
 * Allied-occupied city.
 * Rudolf Prikryl becomes mayor, succeeded by Theodor Körner.
 * Soviet War Memorial installed.
 * 1948 – Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna founded.

1950s–1990s

 * 1951
 * March: city hosts the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships.
 * Franz Jonas becomes mayor.
 * 1952 – City hosts the 1952 European Figure Skating Championships.
 * 1954
 * Vienna International Airport opens.
 * Flood.
 * 1955 – City hosts the 1955 World Figure Skating Championships.
 * 1957
 * February: city hosts the 1957 European Figure Skating Championships.
 * International Atomic Energy Agency headquartered in Vienna.
 * 1958 – Freudenauer Harbour Bridge built.
 * 1959
 * Vienna Museum opens.
 * City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students.
 * 1960 – Österreichische Mediathek (sound archive) headquartered in city.
 * 1961 – Vienna summit of USA and USSR.
 * 1962 – Vienna S-Bahn begins.
 * 1964 – Österreichisches Filmmuseum established.
 * 1965 – Bruno Marek becomes mayor.
 * 1967
 * February–March: city hosts the 1967 World Figure Skating Championships.
 * March: city hosts the 1967 Ice Hockey World Championships.
 * 1968 – Austrian Science Fund formed.
 * 1969 – OPEC Headquarter moves from Geneva, Switzerland to Vienna.
 * 1970 – Felix Slavik becomes mayor.
 * 1971 – City hosts the 1971 World Fencing Championships.
 * 1973 – Leopold Gratz becomes mayor.
 * 1974 – Polish Institute in Vienna founded.
 * 1976
 * 8 May: Vienna U-Bahn opens.
 * 1 August: Reichsbrücke collapse.
 * 1977 – City hosts the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships.
 * 1979
 * March: city hosts the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships.
 * Vienna Islamic Centre and UNO City built.
 * 1983
 * July: city hosts the 1983 World Fencing Championships.
 * Donauinselfest begins.
 * 1984 – Helmut Zilk becomes mayor.
 * 1985
 * Airport attack.
 * Institute of Technology Assessment founded.
 * 1988
 * New Danube channel constructed.
 * ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival begins.
 * 1990 – Museum in Progress created.
 * 1991 – City hosts the 1991 World Rowing Championships.
 * 1992 – The biggest AIDS charity event in Europe, the Life Ball begins.
 * 1993 – World Conference on Human Rights held.
 * 1994
 * Czech Centre in Vienna founded.
 * Michael Häupl becomes mayor.
 * 1995 – Secretariat for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe established.
 * 1996 – City hosts the 1996 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.
 * 1998 – Andromeda-Tower built.
 * 1999 – Millennium Tower built.
 * 2000
 * City website online (approximate date).
 * Mischek Tower built.

21st century

 * 2001 – IZD Tower and Ares Tower built.
 * 2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.
 * 2004 – Saturn Tower built.
 * 2005 – City co-hosts the 2005 IIHF World Championship.
 * 2007 – EU Fundamental Rights Agency established.
 * 2008
 * World Institute for Nuclear Security headquartered in city.
 * UEFA European Football Championship held.
 * 2010 – Wiener Staatsballet formed.
 * 2011
 * Smart City Wien begins.
 * Funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
 * 2014 – Population: 1,797,337.
 * 2020 – The Vienna attack occurs.

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