Timeline of Dresden
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
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Prior to 18th century
- 1215 CE – Nikolaikirche founded.
- 1272 – Franziskanerkloster founded.
- 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
- 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
- 1388 – Kreuzkirche consecrated.
- 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
- 1409 – Armory established.
- 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
- 1530 – City expands.
- 1548 – Orchestra founded.
- 1563 – Dresdner Zeughaus built.[1]
- 1589 – Johanneum built.[1]
- 1666 – Premiere of Schütz's St Matthew Passion.[2]
- 1667 – Opera house opens.[2]
- 1695 – Parade of Frederick Augustus I.[3][4]
- 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).[5]
18th century
Dresden by Bernardo Bellotto, 1748
- 1700 – Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.[6]
- 1704 - Palais Flemming-Sulkowski built.
- 1708 – Porcelain developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger.[6]
- 1717 – Japanisches Palais built.[1]
- 1718 – Royal Palace rebuilt.[1]
- 1722
- Zwinger built.[1]
- Picture Gallery founded.[1]
- 1723
- Grünes Gewölbe founded.
- Pillnitz Castle built.
- 1724 – Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments established.
- 1729 – Wackerbarth-Palais built.
- 1743 – Frauenkirche built.[5]
- 1748 – Collegium Medico Chirurgicum established.
- 1755 – Population: 63,000 (approximate).[5]
- 1756 – Katholische Hofkirche built.[5]
- 1760 – Siege of Dresden.[7]
- 1764 – Dresden Art Academy founded.
- 1776 – Landhaus built.
- 1784 – Observatory established.
- 1788 – Saxon Library opens.
19th century
The Semperoper opera house opened in its current form in 1878
- 1809 – Austrians in power.[7]
- 1813 – 26–27 August: Battle of Dresden.[8]
- 1814 – Großer Garten opens to the public.
- 1818 – Ernst Arnold gallery established.[9]
- 1823 – Jordan & Timaeus chocolate manufactury established.[6]
- 1828 – Saxon Technical School founded.
- 1833 – Isis Society (natural history) founded.[10]
- 1839 – Leipzig–Dresden railway begins operating.
- 1845 – Flood.
- 1841 – Opera house built.
- 1849 – Uprising.
- 1852
- Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.[11]
- Population: 100,000.
- 1854 – Semper Gallery[1] and Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
- 1855 – September: Royal Gallery opens.[12]
- 1856 – Dresden Conservatory established.
- 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
- 1866 – Prussians in power.[7]
- 1870 – Gewerbehausorchester founded.
- 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
- 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
- 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
- 1878 – Opera house rebuilt.
- 1889
- Albertinum built.[1]
- 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 – Dresdner SC football club formed.
20th century
Dresden approximately in 1900
- 1901
- Dresden-Neustadt station opens.
- Schwebebahn Dresden begins operating.
- 1903
- German City Exhibit held.[13]
- Simmel delivers The Metropolis and Mental Life lecture.[14]
- 1904 – Ministry building constructed.
- 1910 – Augustus Bridge constructed.
- 1911
- Dresden Museums Association formed.
- Premiere of Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.[15]
- 1912 – Ihagee camera company and German Hygiene Museum founded.
- 1914 – Saxon army museum established.
- 1919 – Stadion am Ostragehege des Dresdner SC opens.
- 1923 – Glücksgas Stadium built.
- 1933 – Population: 649,252.
- 1935 – Dresden Airport opens.
- 1939 – Population: 625,174.[7]
- 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor.
- 1945
- 13–14 February: Aerial bombing by Allied forces.[16]
- 8 May: Russians take city.[7]
- 1946
- Sächsische Zeitung begins publication.
- Population: 450,000.
- 1950
- SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden football club founded.
- Botanical Garden restored.
- Hellerau and Pillnitz incorporated into city.
- 1956 – Dresden Transport Museum opens.
- 1959 – Galerie Neue Meister formed.
- 1961 – Dresden University of Technology formed.
- 1972 – Filmtheater Prager Strasse opens.[17]
- 1973 – Dresden S-Bahn established.
- 1983
- Staatsschauspiel Dresden formed.
- Population: 522,532.
- 1986 - Pinova apple created.[18]
- 1990 - Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten begins publication.
- 1991
- Bunte Republik Neustadt festival begins.
- Fußballverein Dresden-Nord formed.
- 1992
- Soviet forces withdrawn.
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf established.
- 1996 – Dresdner Sinfoniker founded.
21st century
Rebuilt of the Frauenkirche in 2004
Dresden in 2010
- 2002
- Flood.[19]
- 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-Nazi demonstration.
- 2006 – 800th anniversary of founding of Dresden.
- 2007
- Freiberger Arena opens.
- Waldschlösschen Bridge construction begins.
- 2008 – Helma Orosz becomes mayor.[20]
- 2010 – Anti-fascist demonstration.
- 2011
- Bundeswehr Military History Museum opens.
- Population: 523,058.[21]
- 2014 - PEGIDA begin protesting against Islamism in the city, drawing crowds estimated at 17,000[22]
See also
- Economy of Dresden
- List of mayors of Dresden
- Other cities in Germany
- Timeline of Aachen
- Timeline of Augsburg
- Timeline of Berlin
- Timeline of Bonn
- Timeline of Bremen
- Timeline of Cologne
- Timeline of Düsseldorf
- Timeline of Essen
- Timeline of Frankfurt
- Timeline of Hamburg
- Timeline of Koblenz
- Timeline of Leipzig
- Timeline of Lübeck
- Timeline of Munich
- Timeline of Nuremberg
- Timeline of Stuttgart
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Guide to the Royal Collections of Dresden, Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1897
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephen Rose (2005). "Chronology". In Tim Carter and John Butt. Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79273-8.
- ↑ "Procession through the streets of Dresden held by Friedrich August I (Dresden: 1695)". Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Retrieved August 2014.
- ↑ Tony Sharp (2001). Pleasure and Ambition: The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong. I.B.Tauris. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-86064-619-5.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Dresden". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 City of Dresden. "History of the City". Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
- ↑ John G. Gallaher (1985). "Political Considerations and Strategy: The Dresden Phase of the Leipzig Campaign". Military Affairs (USA: Society for Military History) 49. JSTOR 1988400.
- ↑ W. Pembroke Fetridge (1874), "Dresden", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ↑ Denise Phillips (2003). "Friends of Nature: Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800–1850". Osiris 18. JSTOR 3655284.
- ↑ "New Railway and Traffic Bridge at Dresden, Saxony". Gleason's Pictorial (Boston). 14 August 1852.
- ↑ A. J. Dupays (September 1857). "Royal Gallery of Dresden". The Crayon (NY) 4.
- ↑ Andrew Lees; Lynn Hollen Lees (2007). Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83936-5.
- ↑ Jan Lin and Christopher Mele, ed. (2013). Urban Sociology Reader (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-24414-8.
- ↑ "Timeline of opera", Oxford Music Online (Oxford University Press), retrieved March 2015
- ↑ Tami Davis Biddle (2005). "Sifting Dresden's Ashes". Wilson Quarterly 29. JSTOR 40260966.
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Dresden, Germany". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ Rowan Jacobsen (2014). Apples of Uncommon Character. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63286-035-4.
- ↑ "Germany Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ↑ "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ Dearden, Lizzie (23 December 2014). "Germany anti-Islam protests: 17,000 march on Dresden against 'Islamification of the West'". The Independent. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 17th-19th century
- "Dresden". Topographia Germaniae (in German). Topographia Superioris Saxoniae, Thüringiae, Misniae et Lusatiae. Frankfurt. p. 43+. circa 1650/1690
- John Russell (1828), "Dresden", A Tour in Germany, and Some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire, in 1820, 1821, 1822, Edinburgh: Constable, OCLC 614379840
- Mariana Starke (1839), "Dresden", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
- "Dresden", Northern Germany (5th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1873, OCLC 5947482
- Guide to Dresden, its Buildings, Institutions and Environs, Dresden: Herman Burdach, 1880, OCLC 2838150
- Published in the 20th century
- "Dresden". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908. pp. 428–439.
- Mary Endell (1908), Dresden: History, Stage, Gallery, Dresden: J. Seifert, OCLC 373304
- "Dresden", Northern Germany as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
- G. E. Collier (1910), Collier's New Practical Guide to Dresden, Dresden: A. Tittmann
- Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Dresden", The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards
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