Timeline of Łódź
Timeline of the Łódź history
Kingdom of Poland 1300s–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1793
Kingdom of Prussia 1793–1807
Duchy of Warsaw 1807-1815
Russian Empire 1815–1916
Kingdom of Poland 1916–1918
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
Third Reich 1939–1945
People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
Republic of Poland 1989–present
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Łódź, Poland.
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- 1793
- Town becomes part of South Prussia.
- Population: 190.[1]
19th century
- 1806 - Town joins the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw.
- 1815 - Town becomes part of Russian client state Congress Poland per Congress of Vienna.
- 1820 - Antoni Czarkowski becomes mayor.
- 1824 - Lodka settlement developed.[2]
- 1827 - K.F. Wendisch factory in business.[2]
- 1828 - Slazaki settlement developed.[2]
- 1829 - Population: 4,273.[1]
- 1837 - Ludwig Geyer factory in business.[2]
- 1839 - White Factory built.
- 1852 - Industrialist Karl Scheibler in business.
- 1860 - Population: 31,500.[3]
- 1861 - Stara Synagogue built.
- 1863 - Lodzer Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.
- 1866 - Koluszki-Łódź railway begins operating.
- 1867 - Congress Poland becomes part of the Russian Empire.
- 1868 - Łódź Fabryczna railway station built.
- 1872 - Moscow-Łódź railway begins operating.[2]
- 1878 - Manufaktura textile mill built.
- 1881
- Great Synagogue built.
- Population: 49,592.[4]
- 1884 - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built.
- 1888 - Karl Scheibler's Chapel built.
- 1892 - Izrael Poznański factory built.
- 1897 - Population: 314,780.[3]
- 1899 - Hazomir Choral Society founded.[5]
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 351,570.[6]
- 1901 - Krzemiński cinema active.[7]
- 1902 - Łódź Kaliska railway station built.
- 1904 - Ezras Israel Synagogue built.
- 1905 - 21–25 June: Łódź insurrection.
- 1910 - Widzew Łódź football club formed.
- 1914
- 11 November: Battle of Łódź begins near city.[8]
- December: Germans in power.
- 1915 - Bałuty becomes part of city.[9]
- 1918 - City becomes part of Poland.[10]
- 1920 - Catholic Diocese of Łódź established.
- 1922 - City becomes capital of Łódź Voivodeship (province).
- 1925 - Łódź Airport opens.
- 1930
- Stadion Widzewa (stadium) opens.
- Municipal Museum of History and Art inaugurated.[11]
- 1931 - Museum of Ethnography established.[12]
- 1939
- 6–8 September: Battle of Łódź; Germans in power.
- 12 October – 4 November: City becomes seat of Nazi German General Government of occupied Poland.
- November: City becomes part of the German Reich.
- City renamed "Litzmannstadt."
- Łódź Ghetto formed.
- 1945
- 17 January: City taken by the Soviet Army.
- Łódź University of Technology and Public Academy of Arts established.
- Dziennik Łodzki newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1948 - National Film School in Łódź established.
- 1957 - Russkiĭ Golos newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1958 - Łódź Heat Power Stations commissioned.
- 1960 - Central Museum of Textiles established.
- 1967 - Grand Theatre opens.[15]
- 1968 - Ballet festival begins.[15]
- 1973 - National choreographic competition begins.[15]
- 1975
- Stadion ŁKS (stadium) built.
- Museum of the City of Łódź active.[16]
- 1981 - Protest against food shortage.
21st century
- 2002
- Jerzy Kropiwnicki becomes mayor.
- Population: 785,134; province 2,612,900.[13]
- 2004 - Łódź Biennale active.[17]
- 2006 - Manufaktura shopping mall opens.
- 2008 - Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture established.
- 2009 - Arena Łódź opens.
- 2010 - Hanna Zdanowska becomes mayor.
See also
- History of Łódź
- History of the city of Łódź (in German)
- List of mayors of Łódź
- List of years in Poland
- Other cities in Poland
- Timeline of Białystok
- Timeline of Gdańsk
- Timeline of Kraków
- Timeline of Poznań
- Timeline of Szczecin
- Timeline of Warsaw
- Timeline of Wrocław
- Category:Timelines of cities in Poland (in Polish)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oskara Flatt (1853). Opis miasta Łodzi: pod względem historycznym, statystycznym i przemysłowym [Description of Łódź: historical, statistical and industrial] (in Polish). Warszawa: Drukarni gazety codziennej.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Irena Popławska; Stefan Muthesius (1986). "Poland's Manchester: 19th-Century Industrial and Domestic Architecture in Łódź". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45. JSTOR 990093.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adna Ferrin Weber (1899), Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, New York: Macmillan Company
- ↑ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- ↑ Donna M. Di Grazia, ed. (2013). Nineteenth-Century Choral Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-98852-0.
- ↑ "Łódź", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Sheila Skaff (2008). The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1784-3.
- ↑ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
- ↑ "Lodz". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on 2013.
- ↑ Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- ↑ Jesús Pedro Lorente (2011). Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4094-0587-0.
- ↑ "History of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź". Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne w Łodzi. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
- ↑ "Lodz Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Don Rubin, ed. (2001). "Poland". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. 1: Europe. Routledge. p. 634+. ISBN 9780415251570.
- ↑ "Historia Muzeum" (in Polish). Muzeum Miasta Łodzi. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ↑ "Culture.pl". Warsaw: Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Polish Wikipedia.
Further reading
Published in the 19th century
- O. Flatt (1866), "Łódź", Tygodnik Illustrowany (in Polish) 13 (330): 28–31
Published in the 20th century
- Alfred Scholz (1904). Die Baumwollindustrie im Lodzer Industrierayon 1823-1903 (in German). Breslau: R. Nischkowsky.
- "Lodz", Jewish Encyclopedia 8, New York, 1907
- F. Bielschowski (1912). Die Textilindustrie des Lodzer Rayons (in German). Leipzig.
- "Lodz", Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
- Zygmunt Gostkowski (1959). "Popular Interest in the Municipal Elections of Łódź, Poland". Public Opinion Quarterly 23. JSTOR 2746388.
- Bronislawa Kopczynska-Jaworska (1983). "Working Class Traditions in Łódź". Urban Anthropology 12. JSTOR 40553010.
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