Timeline of Włocławek

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

Middle Ages

 * 9th century – Establishment of Włocławek.
 * 10th century – Włocławek included within the emerging Polish state.
 * 1110s – Włocławek first mentioned in the Gesta principum Polonorum chronicle.
 * 1136 – Włocławek mentioned in the Bull of Gniezno.
 * 1138 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Masovia within Poland.
 * 1215 – Local school first mentioned.
 * 1231 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Kuyavia within Poland.
 * 1255 – Włocławek granted city rights by Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia from the Piast dynasty.
 * 1250s – Castellany relocated from Włocławek to Brześć Kujawski.
 * 1267 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Brześć Kujawski within Poland.
 * 1329 – Teutonic raid.
 * 1340 – Bishop Maciej of Gołańcz laid the foundation stone of the new Gothic Włocławek Cathedral.
 * 1411 – Włocławek Cathedral consecrated by Bishop Jan Kropidło.
 * 1480s – Nicolaus Copernicus possibly attended the local cathedral school.

16th to 18th centuries

 * 1538 – Gothic Saint John the Baptist church consecrated.
 * 1569 – August 16: Bishop Stanisław Karnkowski founded a theological seminary in Włocławek, one of the oldest seminaries in Poland.
 * 1587 – Sigismund III Vasa visited Włocławek on the way to his royal coronation in Kraków.
 * 1593 – Visit of King Sigismund III Vasa.
 * 1625 – Reformed Franciscans brought to Włocławek by Bishop Andrzej Lipski.
 * 1644 – Baroque Reformed Franciscan church consecrated by Bishop Piotr Mieszkowski.
 * 1790 – Stay of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Włocławek.
 * 1793 – City annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland.
 * 1794 – Kościuszko Uprising: Dionizy Mniewski sank Prussian ships with ammunition headed for besieged Warsaw.
 * 1797 – Salt granaries built.

19th century

 * 1806 – City captured by the French.
 * 1807 – Włocławek becomes part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
 * 1815 – Włocławek passes to the Russian Partition of Poland.
 * 1832 – Bojańczyk's Brewery founded.
 * 1840 – Nadbrzeżna Street (present-day Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards) outlined.
 * 1854 – Synagogue built.
 * 1862 – Włocławek railway station opened.
 * 1863 – 8 November: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.
 * 1864 – 17 February: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.
 * 1870 – Henryk Sienkiewicz Park founded.
 * 1873 – Faience factory established.
 * 1886 – Włocławek Rowing Society founded.

20th century

 * 1901 – Diocesan Museum founded.
 * 1907 – Kronika Diecezji Kujawsko-Kaliskiej begins publishing.
 * 1908 – Museum of Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Land founded.
 * 1909 – Oldest Polish theological journal  began publishing.
 * 1911 – Building of the former Gdańsk Bank in Włocławek built.
 * 1914
 * 5 August: World War I: Germans occupy the city.
 * 23 August: Russians re-occupy the city.
 * 21 September: Germans re-occupy the city.
 * 8 November: Russians re-occupy the city.
 * 12 November: Germans re-occupy the city.
 * 1918 – Poland regained independence and the Poles disarmed the Germans and liberated the city.
 * 1920 – 13–19 August: Successful Polish defense against the invading Russians during the Polish–Soviet War.
 * 1927 – City limits greatly expanded by including several settlements as new districts, including Kapitułka, Krzywe Błoto, Lisek, Łęg, Słodowo, Świech and Zazamcze.
 * 1937 – Edward Śmigły-Rydz Bridge built.
 * 1939
 * September: Beginning of German occupation during World War II.
 * 9 September: German invaders committed a massacre of a group of local Jews.
 * October-November: Einsatzgruppe III carried out mass arrests of local Poles, including teachers, priests, lecturers and students of the seminary and Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek Michał Kozal, during the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign.
 * 29 October: Włocławek became the first city in which the Germans imposed yellow badges on the Jews.
 * November-December: SS and Selbstschutz burnt down the Grzywno district and murdered many of its inhabitants in the nearby village of Warząchewka Polska.
 * Arrested Polish teachers, landowners and priests from the Włocławek and Lipno counties imprisoned in a local prison by the Germans, with some later deported to concentration camps and murdered.
 * Families of deported and murdered Poles, as well as the remaining residents of Grzywno were expelled to the so-called General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland.
 * 1940
 * January: The Germans carried out deportations of arrested priests to the Dachau concentration camp, where most were eventually killed.
 * June, September: The Germans carried out further expulsions of Poles, including owners of shops, workshops and bigger houses, which were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.
 * Autumn: Jewish ghetto established by the occupiers.
 * 1942 – April: Liquidation of the ghetto. surviving Jews deported by the Germans to the Chełmno extermination camp.
 * 1945
 * 4 April: Seminary resumed activities in Lubraniec.
 * May: Seminary relocated from Lubraniec back to Włocławek.
 * 1946 – Włocłavia Włocławek football club founded.
 * 1952 – Kujawskie Zakłady Przemysłu Owocowo-Warzywnego Włocławek food company, manufacturer of the Włocławek ketchup, established.
 * 1970 – Hydroelectric power plant in Włocławek opened.
 * 1973
 * Zarzeczewo Marina in Włocławek launched.
 * Włocławek became a member of the Federation of Copernican Cities.
 * 1975
 * Włocławek became capital of the newly formed Włocławek Voivodeship.
 * Monument to Polish railwaymen murdered during World War II unveiled.
 * 1984 – Assassination of Jerzy Popiełuszko.
 * 1986 – Ethnographic Museum in Włocławek opened.
 * 1990 – KK Włocławek basketball club founded.
 * 1991 – Monument to Priest Jerzy Popiełuszko unveiled.
 * 1999 – Włocławek became part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

21st century

 * 2001 – Hala Mistrzów indoor arena opened.
 * 2002 – State Academy of Applied Sciences in Włocławek founded.
 * 2003 – Anwil Włocławek won its first Polish basketball championship.
 * 2009 – Wzorcownia shopping centre opened.
 * 2018 – Jan Długosz Monument unveiled.
 * 2022 – Silent Unseen Monument unveiled.