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The following is a timeline of the Dresden#History, history of the city of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
* 1206 – First documentation of Dražďany.
* 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
* 1272 – Franziskanerkloster (Dresden), Franziskanerkloster founded.
* 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
* 1350 – first documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt (Dresden), Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
* 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
* 1388 – Kreuzkirche, Dresden, Kreuzkirche consecrated.
* 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
* 1409 – Dresden Armory, Armory established.
* 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
* 1524 - Global spread of the printing press, Printing press in operation.
* 1530 – City expands.
* 1548 – Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra founded.
* 1563 – built.
* 1589 – Johanneum (Dresden), Johanneum built.
* 1666 – Premiere of Heinrich Schütz, Schütz's ''St Matthew Passion (Schütz), St Matthew Passion''.
* 1667 – Opera house opens.
* 1678 - "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe(:de:Deutsche Wanderbühne, de) headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).
* 1695 – Parade of Augustus II the Strong, Frederick Augustus I.
* 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
* 1700 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.
* 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 – Dresden University of Technology, 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 – Semperoper, Opera house built.
* 1845 - 19 October: Premiere of Wagner's opera ''Tannhäuser (opera), Tannhäuser''.
* 1849 – May Uprising in Dresden.
* 1852
** Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.
** Population: 100,000.
* 1854 – Semper Gallery and Schloss Albrechtsberg (Dresden), Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
* 1855 – September: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Royal Gallery opens.
* 1856 – Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden Conservatory established.
* 1858 - Population: 128,152.
* 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
* 1866 – Prussians in power.
* 1870 – Dresden Philharmonic, Gewerbehausorchester founded.
* 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
* 1874 - Dresden English Football Club confirmed
* 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
* 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
* 1878 – Semperoper, Opera house rebuilt.
* 1889
** Albertinum built.
** Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden, 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
** camera factory in operation.
** Dresdner SC football club formed.
* 2002
** 2002 European floods, 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-Nazism, Neo-Nazi demonstration.
* 2006 – 800th anniversary of founding of Dresden.
* 2007
** EnergieVerbund Arena, 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 – 2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade, Anti-fascist demonstration.
* 2011
** Bundeswehr Military History Museum opens.
** Population: 523,058.
* 2013
** 2013 European floods, Elbe flood.
** September: City co-hosts the 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
* 2014 - PEGIDA begin protesting(:de:Ausländerfeindliche Proteste in Dresdene, de) against Islamism in the city, drawing crowds estimated up to 17,000 in peak
* 2015 - Dirk Hilbert becomes mayor.
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Prior to 18th century
* 1206 – First documentation of Dražďany.
* 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
* 1272 – Franziskanerkloster (Dresden), Franziskanerkloster founded.
* 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
* 1350 – first documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt (Dresden), Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
* 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
* 1388 – Kreuzkirche, Dresden, Kreuzkirche consecrated.
* 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
* 1409 – Dresden Armory, Armory established.
* 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
* 1524 - Global spread of the printing press, Printing press in operation.
* 1530 – City expands.
* 1548 – Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra founded.
* 1563 – built.
* 1589 – Johanneum (Dresden), Johanneum built.
* 1666 – Premiere of Heinrich Schütz, Schütz's ''St Matthew Passion (Schütz), St Matthew Passion''.
* 1667 – Opera house opens.
* 1678 - "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe(:de:Deutsche Wanderbühne, de) headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).
* 1695 – Parade of Augustus II the Strong, Frederick Augustus I.
* 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
* 1700 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, 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 – Dresden Castle, Royal Palace rebuilt. * 1719 – Wedding reception of Polish Prince Augustus III of Poland, Frederick Augustus and Maria Josepha of Austria. * 1720 – Catholic Cemetery opens by decree of King Augustus II the Strong. * 1722 ** Zwinger (Dresden), Zwinger built. ** Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Picture Gallery founded. * 1723 ** Grünes Gewölbe founded. ** Pillnitz Castle built. * 1724 – Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, 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 – Dresden Frauenkirche, Frauenkirche built. * 1745 - City "taken by the Russians." * 1748 – Collegium Medico Chirurgicum established. * 1755 – Population: 63,000 (approximate). * 1756 – Dresden Cathedral, 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 Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden Art Academy founded. * 1776 – Landhaus (Dresden), Landhaus built. * 1784 – Observatory established. * 1788 – Saxon State Library, 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 – Dresden University of Technology, 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 – Semperoper, Opera house built.
* 1845 - 19 October: Premiere of Wagner's opera ''Tannhäuser (opera), Tannhäuser''.
* 1849 – May Uprising in Dresden.
* 1852
** Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.
** Population: 100,000.
* 1854 – Semper Gallery and Schloss Albrechtsberg (Dresden), Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
* 1855 – September: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Royal Gallery opens.
* 1856 – Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden Conservatory established.
* 1858 - Population: 128,152.
* 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
* 1866 – Prussians in power.
* 1870 – Dresden Philharmonic, Gewerbehausorchester founded.
* 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
* 1874 - Dresden English Football Club confirmed
* 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
* 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
* 1878 – Semperoper, Opera house rebuilt.
* 1889
** Albertinum built.
** Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden, 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
** camera factory in operation.
** Dresdner SC football club formed.
20th century
1900-1945
* 1901 ** Dresden-Neustadt station opens. ** Schwebebahn Dresden begins operating. * 1903 ** German City Exhibit held. ** Georg Simmel, Simmel delivers ''The Metropolis and Mental Life'' lecture. * 1904 – Sächsische Staatskanzlei, Ministry building constructed. * 1905 - 9 December: Premiere of Strauss' opera ''Salome (opera), Salome''. * 1910 ** (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 – Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Saxon army museum established. * 1919 ** Heinz-Steyer-Stadion, 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 Airport, Dresden-Klotzsche Airport opens. * 1939 ** September: Mass arrests of local Polish people, Polish activists (see also ''Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). ** Population: 625,174. * 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor. * 1942 ** June: List of subcamps of Flossenbürg, 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'' Polish resistance movement in World War II, resistance organization, executed. ** 24 August: Five Polish students of the Salesian oratory in Poznań, known as the "Poznań Five" ('':pl:Poznańska Piątka, Poznańska Piątka''), later 108 Martyrs of World War II, 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 Jews, Jewish women. ** 24 November: Dresden-Bernsdorf subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish-Jewish men, women and children. * 1945 ** 13–14 February: Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Aerial bombing by Allies of World War II, 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 during the Holocaust, 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 ** Dynamo Dresden, SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden football club founded. ** Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden, 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 – 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 Embassy of Germany, Prague#East German refugees, East German embassy refugees from Prague pass Dresden main station with demonstrations and clashes with the police ** Monday demonstrations in East Germany, Monday demonstrations * 1990 - ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten'' begins publication. * 1991 ** Bunte Republik Neustadt festival begins. ** SC Borea Dresden, Fußballverein Dresden-Nord formed. * 1992 ** Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Soviet forces withdrawn. ** Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf established. * 1996 – founded. * 2000 - (city archives) relocated to Elisabeth-Boer-Strasse.21st century
* 2002
** 2002 European floods, 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-Nazism, Neo-Nazi demonstration.
* 2006 – 800th anniversary of founding of Dresden.
* 2007
** EnergieVerbund Arena, 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 – 2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade, Anti-fascist demonstration.
* 2011
** Bundeswehr Military History Museum opens.
** Population: 523,058.
* 2013
** 2013 European floods, Elbe flood.
** September: City co-hosts the 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
* 2014 - PEGIDA begin protesting(:de:Ausländerfeindliche Proteste in Dresdene, de) against Islamism in the city, drawing crowds estimated up to 17,000 in peak
* 2015 - Dirk Hilbert becomes mayor.
See also
* * Economy of Dresden * Other Saxony#Largest cities and towns, cities in the state of Saxony: * Timeline of Chemnitz * Timeline of LeipzigReferences
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