The following is a timeline of the

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of the city of

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

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Prior to 19th century

* 1332 - Łódź mentioned as the village ''Łodzia'' in a document of Duke Władysław the Hunchback of the Polish

Piast dynasty The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented List of Polish monarchs, Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I of Poland, Mieszko I (–992). The Poland during the Piast dynasty, Piasts' royal rule in Pol ...

* 1423 - Łódź granted city rights by Polish King

Władysław II Jagiełło Jogaila (; 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło (),Other names include (; ) (see also Names and titles of Władysław II Jagiełło) was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and starting in 1386, becoming King of Poland as well. ...

* 1487 - Polish King

Casimir IV Jagiellon Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; ; Lithuanian: ; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under ...

visited Łódź. * 1496 - Polish King

John I Albert John I Albert (; 27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501) was King of Poland Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of Roy ...

confirmed the establishment of two annual

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s and a weekly market in Łódź. * 1793 ** City annexed by

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in the

Second Partition of Poland The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of partitions of Poland, three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition (politics), partition occurred i ...

and included within the newly formed province of South Prussia. ** Population: 190.

19th century

* 1806 - Town joins the Napoleonic

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a First French Empire, French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars. It initially comprised the ethnical ...

. * 1815 - Town becomes part of

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Congress Poland Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established w ...

per

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. * 1820 - Antoni Czarkowski becomes mayor. * 1824 - Lodka settlement developed. * 1827 - K.F. Wendisch factory in business. * 1828 - Slazaki settlement developed. * 1829 - Population: 4,273. * 1837 - Ludwig Geyer factory in business. * 1839 - White Factory built. * 1852 - Industrialist Karl Scheibler in business. * 1860 - Population: 31,500. * 1861 - Stara Synagogue built. * 1863 ** 31 January: A Polish insurgent unit entered the city without a fight in the first days of the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

, and seized weapons and 18,000

ruble The ruble or rouble (; rus, рубль, p=rublʲ) is a currency unit. Currently, currencies named ''ruble'' in circulation include the Russian ruble (RUB, ₽) in Russia and the Belarusian ruble (BYN, Rbl) in Belarus. These currencies are s ...

s for the uprising. ** 18 June: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops. ** 29 September: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops. ** ''Lodzer Zeitung'' bilingual Polish-German newspaper begins publication. * 1866 -

Koluszki Koluszki () is a town, and a major railway junction, in central Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about 20 km east of Łódź with a population of 12,776 (2020). The junction in Koluszki serves trains that go from Warsaw to Łódź, Wrocław, Cz ...

-Łódź railway begins operating. * 1867 **

forcibly integrated with of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

. ** Sudden death of Shakespearean actor

Ira Aldridge Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of William Shakespeare, Shakespearean characters. James Hewlett (actor), James Hewlett and Ald ...

before his scheduled performance at a local theater. * 1868 - Łódź Fabryczna railway station built. * 1870 -

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opened. * 1872 - Moscow-Łódź railway begins operating. * 1878 - Manufaktura textile mill built. * 1881 ** Great Synagogue built. ** Population: 49,592. * 1884 - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built. * 1888 - Karl Scheibler's Chapel built. * 1892 - Izrael Poznański factory built. * 1897 -

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: 314,780. * 1899 ** First cinema in Poland (''Gabinet Iluzji'') founded by brothers Władysław and Antoni Krzemiński. ** Hazomir Choral Society founded. * 1900 - Population: 351,570.

20th century

1900s–1930s

* 1901 - Krzemiński cinema active. * 1902 - Łódź Kaliska railway station built. * 1904 - Ezras Israel Synagogue built. * 1905 - 21–25 June: Łódź insurrection. * 1908 - ŁKS Łódź football club (later multi-section club) founded. * 1910 -

Widzew Łódź RTS Widzew Łódź () is a Polish football (soccer), football club based in Łódź. The club was founded in 1910. Its official colours are red and white, hence their nicknames ''Czerwona Armia'' (Red Army) and ''Czerwono-biało-czerwoni'' (Red-wh ...

football club formed. * 1914 ** 11 November: Battle of Łódź begins near city. ** December: Germans in power. * 1915 - becomes part of city. * 1918 - Poland regains independence and the city becomes again part of

. * 1920 - Catholic Diocese of Łódź established. * 1922 - City becomes capital of

Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province is named after its capital and largest city, Łódź, pronounced . Łódź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: Masovian Voivodeship ...

(province). * 1925 - Łódź Airport opens. * 1928 - Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego luxury neighborhood founded. * 1930 ** Stadion Widzewa (stadium) opens. ** Municipal Museum of History and Art inaugurated. ** December: Monument of Polish national hero

Tadeusz Kościuszko Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and ...

unveiled at Plac Wolności in the city center. * 1931 ** January: Museum of Ethnography established. ** ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish men's volleyball championship. * 1937 - HKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship.

World War II (1939–1945)

* 1939 ** 2 September: Germany carried out first air raids, bombing the airport and the Łódź Kaliska train station. ** 3 September: Further air raids carried out by Germany. The Germans bombed a railway station in the Widzew district, a power plant, a gas plant, a thread factory and many houses. ** 5 September: The Germans air raided the airport again. ** 6 September: The Germans air raided a historic palace which housed the command of the Polish Łódź Army. ** 6 September: the Citizens' Committee of the City of Łódź established. ** 6–8 September: Battle of Łódź during the German

invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...

, which started

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. ** 9 September: German troops entered the city, beginning of the German occupation. ** 11 September: The Germans issued the first occupation decrees. ** 12 September: The German '' Einsatzgruppe III'' entered the city to commit various crimes against the population. ** 12–15 September: The Germans carried out searches of local county offices and Polish police buildings. ** 16 September: Local administration took over by a German official, D. Leiste from

Rhineland The Rhineland ( ; ; ; ) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly Middle Rhine, its middle section. It is the main industrial heartland of Germany because of its many factories, and it has historic ties to the Holy ...

. ** 21 September: The Germans carried out mass searches in the present-day district of Chojny. ** September: The Germans carried out first arrests of

Poles Pole or poles may refer to: People *Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland * Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name * Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist ...

as part of the ''

Intelligenzaktion The ''Intelligenzaktion'' (), or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish people, Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) during the ...

'' and established first prisons for arrested Poles.Wardzyńska, p. 203 ** 12 October – 4 November: City becomes seat of Nazi German

General Government The General Government (, ; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovakia and the Soviet ...

of occupied Poland. ** 31 October: A German transit camp for Poles arrested in the ''Intelligenzaktion'' established in the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka. ** November: Radogoszcz concentration camp established by the Germans. Its prisoners were mostly people from Łódź,

Pabianice Pabianice is a city in central Poland with 63,023 inhabitants (2021). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the capital of Pabianice County. It lies about southwest of Łódź and belongs to the metropolitan area of that city. It is the thi ...

and other nearby settlements. ** 9 November: City annexed directly into

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

; the Germans destroyed the monument of Polish national hero

. ** 9 November: First prisoners detained in the Radogoszcz concentration camp. ** November: Hundreds of Poles from Łódź and the region massacred by the Germans in the forest in the present-day district of Łagiewniki as part of the ''Intelligenzaktion''.Wardzyńska, p. 204 ** City renamed "Litzmannstadt" to erase traces of Polish origin. ** 11 December: The Germans massacred 70 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki. ** 13 December: The Germans massacred 40 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki. ** December: 65 prisoners from the transit camp in Pabianice deported to the Radogoszcz concentration camp and then massacred in Łagiewniki. ** 31 December: First expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego carried out. ** Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.Wardzyńska, p. 205 * 1940 ** 14–15 January: German police and '' Selbstschutz'' carried out mass expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego. ** February: More prisoners from the liquidated transit camp in Pabianice imprisoned in the Radogoszcz camp; Radogoszcz camp converted into the Radogoszcz prison. ** February:

Łódź Ghetto The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of ...

formed. ** Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las. ** March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the Okręglik forest near Zgierz. ** April–May: The Russians committed the large

Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...

, among the victims of which were over 1,200 Poles, who either were born or lived in Łódź or the region before the war. * 1941 ** March: German transit prisoner-of-war camp Dulag 240 established. ** June: German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft II relocated from Barth to the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka. ** July: Dulag 240 camp relocated to Jabłonna. ** November: 5,007

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deported by the Germans from German-occupied

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to Łódź and imprisoned in a new German camp. * 1942 ** January: The Germans dissolved the camp for Romani people and exterminated its prisoners in the

Chełmno extermination camp Chełmno, or Kulmhof, was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, Germany annexed ...

. ** 9 October: Two prisoners of war escaped from the Stalag Luft II in the only known case of a successful escape from the camp. ** German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children of 2 to 16 years of age established in the city. It was nicknamed "little

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

" due to its conditions. * 1943 ** April: Subcamp of the Stalag XXI-D POW camp established. ** The Germans established a

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camp for around 800 English prisoners of war in the Olechów neighbourhood. * 1944 ** August: Łódź Ghetto liquidated. ** September: Most POWs transported from Stalag Luft II to the

Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III (; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a ''Luftwaffe''-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel. The camp was established in March 1942 near th ...

camp in

Żagań Żagań (French language, French and , ) is a town in western Poland, on the Bóbr river, with 25,731 inhabitants (2019), capital of Żagań County in the Lubusz Voivodeship, located in the historic region of Lower Silesia. Founded in the 12th ce ...

. ** 21 November: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated. * 1945 ** German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children disestablished. ** 17 January: City taken by the

Soviet Army The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army. After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...

and afterwards restored to Poland.

1945–2000

* 1945 **

Łódź University of Technology Łódź University of Technology () was created in 1945 and has developed into one of the biggest technical universities in Poland. Originally located in an old factory building, today it covers nearly 200,000 sq. meters in over 70 separate bu ...

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (, ) is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute (192 ...

and Public Academy of Arts established. ** ''Dziennik Łodzki'' newspaper begins publication. Palac Oskara Kona Lodz

* 1946 - Retkinia included within city limits. * 1947 - Animation studio

Se-ma-for Se-ma-for was a Polish film and animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland in 1947, the company has created many animated cartoons and stop motion animations for young and older audiences. The name, meaning literally ''Se-ma-phore'', is an acr ...

founded in Łódź. * 1948 -

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established. * 1950 - Medical Academy of Łódź established. * 1953 - ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish men's basketball championship. * 1957 - ''Russkiĭ Golos'' newspaper begins publication. * 1958 ** Łódź Heat Power Stations commissioned. ** ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish football championship. * 1960 - Central Museum of Textiles established. * 1967 ** ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's basketball championship. ** Grand Theatre opens. * 1968 ** Ballet festival begins. ** Start Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship. * 1973 - National choreographic competition begins. * 1974 - Population: 784,000. * 1975 ** Stadion ŁKS (stadium) built. ** Museum of the City of Łódź active. * 1978 - Monument of writer

Władysław Reymont Władysław Stanisław Reymont (; born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel '' Chłopi'' (''The Peasant ...

unveiled. * 1981 ** April: Łódź co-hosts the 1981 European Wrestling Championships. **

wins its first Polish football championship. ** Protest against food shortage. * 1983 ** Anilana Łódź wins its first Polish men's handball championship. ** ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship. ** Budowlani Łódź wins its first Polish rugby championship. * 1984 - Monument of

Stanisław Staszic Stanisław Wawrzyniec Staszic (baptised 6 November 1755 – 20 January 1826) was a leading figure in the Polish Enlightenment: a Catholic priest, philosopher, geologist, writer, poet, translator and statesman. A physiocrat, monist, pan-Sla ...

unveiled in the Staszic Park in the city center. * 1991 - 2 October: Visit of British Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013), was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of th ...

. * 1992 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Łódź promoted to

archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...

. * 1996 -

KP Łódź KP Łódź is a professional beach soccer team based in Łódź, Poland. Honours Polish competitions *Ekstraklasa (beach soccer), Ekstraklasa :* ''Winners:'' 2014, 2017, 2019 :* ''Runners-up:'' 2016 *Polish Beach Soccer Cup :* ''Winners:'' 2 ...

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team founded. * 1998 - Higher School of Art and Design established. * 2000 - Monument of

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

unveiled at the

Piotrkowska Street Piotrkowska Street (pronounced: ; ), also popularly known as Pietryna, is the main artery of Łódź, Poland, and one of the longest commercial thoroughfares in Europe, with a length of around 4.2 km. It is one of the major tourist attractio ...

21st century

* 2001 - Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and

Örebro Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...

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. * 2002 **

Jerzy Kropiwnicki Jerzy Janusz Kropiwnicki (born 5 July 1945 in Częstochowa) is a Polish right-wing politician, member of Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice party. He was leader of small party Christian-National Union (Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Nar ...

becomes mayor. ** Population: 785,134;

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2,612,900. * 2004 - Łódź Biennale active. * 2006 - Manufaktura shopping mall opens. Ulica Piotrkowska in Lodz

* 2008 ** 19 May: Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and

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Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. ** September: Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture opened. * 2009 ** Arena Łódź opens. ** Łódź co-hosts the

EuroBasket 2009 The 2009 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2009, was the 36th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe. The tournament, which was hosted by Poland, began on 7 September and concluded with the ...

. * 2010 - Hanna Zdanowska becomes mayor. * 2011 - Łódź co-hosts the EuroBasket Women 2011. * 2013 **

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between Łódź and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

started. ** 10 November:

Khachkar A ''khachkar'' (also spelled as ''khatchkar'') or Armenian cross-stone (, , խաչ ''xačʿ'' "cross" + քար ''kʿar'' "stone") is a carved, memorial stele bearing a cross, and often with additional motifs such as rosette (design), rosettes ...

commemorating the victims of the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

unveiled. * 2014 - Łódź co-hosts the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship. * 2015 - Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

, China. * 2017 ** June: Łódź hosts the 2017 Łódź Sevens tournament of the 2017 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series. ** December: Łódź co-hosts the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. * 2018 - Łódź hosts the first ever Mixed Doubles Łódź curling tournament. * 2019 ** May–June: Łódź co-hosts the

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. ** November: Honorary Consulate of

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opened in Łódź.

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Bibliography

in English

* * * * * * * Zysiak, Agata et al. ''From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994'' (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019)
online review

in other languages

* * * *

External links

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