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.university.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 – 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.
** ' magazine begins publication.
* 1900 – Population: 1,769,137.

20th century

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.
** 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''.
** becomes mayor.
* 1915 – April: Vienna Socialist Conference of 1915, 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.
** (garden) established.
** International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.
* 1923
** Karl Seitz becomes mayor.
** Phaidon Press founded.
* 1924 – Balassi Institute, Collegium Hungaricum Vienna founded.
* 1925 – (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 – Vien (Hasidic community), Kehal Adas Yereim Vien established.
* 1942 – Bombing of Vienna in World War II, Bombing begins.
* 1943
** 30 August: Vienna-Schwechat (Heidfeld) List of subcamps of Mauthausen, 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 during the Holocaust, 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 Austria, Allied-occupied city.
** Rudolf Prikryl becomes mayor, succeeded by Theodor Körner (Austrian president), Theodor Körner.
** Soviet War Memorial (Vienna), Soviet War Memorial installed.
* 1948 – Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 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 – built.

* 1959
** Vienna Museum opens.
** City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students.
* 1960 – Österreichische Phonothek, Österreichische Mediathek (sound archive) headquartered in city.
* 1961 – Vienna summit of USA and USSR.
* 1962 – Vienna S-Bahn begins.
* 1964 – Österreichisches Filmmuseum established.
* 1965 – 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 – 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 Vienna International Centre, UNO City built.
* 1983
** July: City hosts the 1983 World Fencing Championships.
** Donauinselfest begins.
* 1984 – Helmut Zilk becomes mayor.
* 1985
** Rome and Vienna airport attacks, Airport attack.
** Institute of Technology Assessment founded.
* 1988
** New Danube channel constructed.
** ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival begins
* 1990 – museum in progress, 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 Centres, 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 – built.
* 1999 – Millennium Tower (Vienna), Millennium Tower built.
* 2000
** City website online (approximate date).
** built.

21st century

* 2001 – and Ares Tower built.
* 2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.
* 2004 – 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 Euro 2008, UEFA European Football Championship held.
* 2010 – Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsballet formed.
* 2011
** Smart City Wien begins.
** Death and funeral of Otto von Habsburg, Funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
* 2014 – Population: 1,797,337.
* 2020 – The 2020 Vienna attack, Vienna attack occurs.

See also

* History of Vienna
* History of the Jews in Vienna
* List of mayors of Vienna
* Years in Austria
* :City timelines, Timelines of other List of cities and towns in Austria, cities in Austria: Timeline of Graz, Graz, Timeline of Linz, Linz, Timeline of Salzburg, Salzburg

References

''This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.''

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