Timeline of Radom

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Radom, Poland.^[1]

Important dates

Pope John Paul 2 in Radom, 4 VI 1991

• 1155: first mention about Radom (Pope Adrian IV bull)
• before 1300: Old Radom granted with Środa Śląska rights (city rights based on those of Środa Śląska)
• 1233: first written reference to Radom's chief of castle - Marek
• 1340: Casimir III founds New Radom (Nowy Radom)
• 1360–1370: Casimir III founds St. John's Church
• 1364: Radom granted with Magdeburg law
• 1383: Jadwiga of Poland accepted by a Sejm held in Radom as a king of Poland
• 1401: First union of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania signed in Radom
• 1481: Radom becomes a de facto capital of Poland after Casimir IV of Poland moves to Lithuania and his son, Saint Casimir to be, ruled the country in his absence from Radom
• 1489: Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, John von Tieffen pays tribute to Casimir IV of Poland in Radom castle
• 1505: a Sejm in Radom passes the Nihil novi constitution and Łaski's Statute, the first real bill of rights of Poland
• 1564: 1800 inhabitants, 180 houses, 14 butchers' shops, two baths and two wells
• 1613: Radom becomes the place where the Highest Fiscal Courts are held
• 1628: Great fire destroys the town
• 1656: Charles X of Sweden stays in town during The Deluge
• 1660: the city plundered by Sweden; after they leave the town has 395 inhabitants and 37 houses
• 1724: Augustus II the Strong grant to Radom privilege De non tollerandis judaeis
• 1737–1756: Kolegium Pijarów [the Piarists College] school founded
• 1763: Fiscal Tribunal moved to Warsaw; the town has 1370 inhabitants and 137 buildings
• 1795: After the 3rd Partition Radom is annexed by Austria
• 1809: Radom becomes capital of a department of the Duchy of Warsaw
• 1815: Radom, after the Congress of Vienna, becomes part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland
• 1817: First lay school founded
• 1819: Fryderyk August Schnierstein opens a tannery, the date is considered a start of towns industrialisation
• 1844: Radom becomes the capital of Radom-Kielce government
• 1867: Creation of Radom local government; the sewers are built
• 1885: Dęblin–Dąbrowa Górnicza railway opened
• 1901: electricity plant opened
• 1908: Population: 39,981.^[2]
• 1911: Radom has 51,934 inhabitants
• 1920–1939: Radom becomes a part of the Central Industrial Area (Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy); Chemical Plant, arms and munitions factory (Łucznik Arms Factory), gas works, telephone and shoe factories are founded
• 1935: Radom–Warsaw railway opened. It significantly shortened rail distance between Warsaw and Kraków
• 1938: 90,059 inhabitants
• 1939–1945: capital of Radom district of the General Government
  • 1942–1944: Radom Ghetto
• January 16, 1945: liberation from German occupation
• 1948–1975: Theatre (Teatr Dramatyczny) and an engineering school are opened.
• 1975: the city becomes the capital of Radom Voivodeship
• June 25, 1976: Huge workers' strike against the communist regime; the town becomes one of the main centres of anti-communist opposition in Poland (see June 1976 protests)
• 1996: Radomska Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierska promoted to the rank of a Kazimierz Pułaski Technical University of Radom (Politechnika Radomska)
• 1999: Radom becomes the capital of Radom County of the Masovian Voivodeship

See also

• List of years in Poland

References