# Timeline of Włocławek

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Włocławek, Poland.

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* 9th century – Establishment of Włocławek.
* 10th century – Włocławek included within the emerging Polish state.
* 1110s – Włocławek first mentioned in the Gesta principum Polonorum chronicle.
* 1136 – Włocławek mentioned in the Bull of Gniezno.
* 1138 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Masovia within Poland.
* 1215 – Local school first mentioned.
* 1231 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Kuyavia within Poland.
* 1255 – Włocławek granted city rights by Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia from the Piast dynasty.
* 1250s – Castellany relocated from Włocławek to Brześć Kujawski.
* 1267 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Brześć Kujawski within Poland.
* 1329 – Teutonic raid.
* 1340 – Bishop Maciej of Gołańcz laid the foundation stone of the new Gothic Włocławek Cathedral.
* 1411 – Włocławek Cathedral consecrated by Bishop Jan Kropidło.
* 1480s – Nicolaus Copernicus possibly attended the local cathedral school.

## 16th to 18th centuries

* 1538 – Gothic Saint John the Baptist church consecrated.
* 1569 – August 16: Bishop Stanisław Karnkowski founded a theological seminary in Włocławek, one of the oldest seminaries in Poland.
* 1587 – Sigismund III Vasa visited Włocławek on the way to his royal coronation in Kraków.
* 1593 – Visit of King Sigismund III Vasa.
* 1625 – Reformed Franciscans brought to Włocławek by Bishop Andrzej Lipski.
* 1644 – Baroque Reformed Franciscan church consecrated by Bishop Piotr Mieszkowski.
* 1790 – Stay of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Włocławek.
* 1793 – City annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland.
* 1794 – Kościuszko Uprising: Dionizy Mniewski [pl] sank Prussian ships with ammunition headed for besieged Warsaw.
* 1797 – Salt granaries built.

## 19th century

* 1806 – City captured by the French.
* 1807 – Włocławek becomes part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
* 1815 – Włocławek passes to the Russian Partition of Poland.
* 1832 – Bojańczyk's Brewery founded.
* 1840 – Nadbrzeżna Street (present-day Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards) outlined.
* 1854 – Synagogue built.
* 1862 – Włocławek railway station opened.
* 1863 – 8 November: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.
* 1864 – 17 February: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.
* 1870 – Henryk Sienkiewicz Park founded.
* 1873 – Faience factory established.
* 1886 – Włocławek Rowing Society founded.

## 20th century

* 1901 – Diocesan Museum founded.
* 1907 – Kronika Diecezji Kujawsko-Kaliskiej [pl] begins publishing.
* 1908 – Museum of Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Land founded.
* 1909 – Oldest Polish theological journal Ateneum Kapłańskie [pl] began publishing.
* 1911 – Building of the former Gdańsk Bank in Włocławek built.
* 1914
** 5 August: World War I: Germans occupy the city.
** 23 August: Russians re-occupy the city.
** 21 September: Germans re-occupy the city.
** 8 November: Russians re-occupy the city.
** 12 November: Germans re-occupy the city.
* 1918 – Poland regained independence and the Poles disarmed the Germans and liberated the city.
* 1920 – 13–19 August: Successful Polish defense against the invading Russians during the Polish–Soviet War.
* 1927 – City limits greatly expanded by including several settlements as new districts, including Kapitułka, Krzywe Błoto, Lisek, Łęg, Słodowo, Świech and Zazamcze.
* 1937 – Edward Śmigły-Rydz Bridge built.
* 1939
** September: Beginning of German occupation during World War II.
** 9 September: German invaders committed a massacre of a group of local Jews.
** October-November: Einsatzgruppe III carried out mass arrests of local Poles, including teachers, priests, lecturers and students of the seminary and Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek Michał Kozal, during the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign.
** 29 October: Włocławek became the first city in which the Germans imposed yellow badges on the Jews.
** November-December: SS and Selbstschutz burnt down the Grzywno district and murdered many of its inhabitants in the nearby village of Warząchewka Polska.
** Arrested Polish teachers, landowners and priests from the Włocławek and Lipno counties imprisoned in a local prison by the Germans, with some later deported to concentration camps and murdered.
** Families of deported and murdered Poles, as well as the remaining residents of Grzywno were expelled to the so-called General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland.
* 1940
** January: The Germans carried out deportations of arrested priests to the Dachau concentration camp, where most were eventually killed.
** June, September: The Germans carried out further expulsions of Poles, including owners of shops, workshops and bigger houses, which were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.
** Autumn: Jewish ghetto established by the occupiers.
* 1942 – April: Liquidation of the ghetto. surviving Jews deported by the Germans to the Chełmno extermination camp.
* 1945
** 4 April: Seminary resumed activities in Lubraniec.
** May: Seminary relocated from Lubraniec back to Włocławek.
* 1946 – Włocłavia Włocławek football club founded.
* 1952 – Kujawskie Zakłady Przemysłu Owocowo-Warzywnego Włocławek food company, manufacturer of the Włocławek ketchup, established.
* 1970 – Hydroelectric power plant in Włocławek opened.
* 1973
** Zarzeczewo Marina in Włocławek launched.
** Włocławek became a member of the Federation of Copernican Cities.
* 1975
** Włocławek became capital of the newly formed Włocławek Voivodeship.
** Monument to Polish railwaymen murdered during World War II unveiled.
* 1984 – Assassination of Jerzy Popiełuszko.
* 1986 – Ethnographic Museum in Włocławek opened.
* 1990 – KK Włocławek basketball club founded.
* 1991 – Monument to Priest Jerzy Popiełuszko unveiled.
* 1999 – Włocławek became part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

## 21st century

* 2001 – Hala Mistrzów indoor arena opened.
* 2002 – State Academy of Applied Sciences in Włocławek founded.
* 2003 – Anwil Włocławek won its first Polish basketball championship.
* 2009 – Wzorcownia shopping centre opened.
* 2018 – Jan Długosz Monument unveiled.
* 2022 – Silent Unseen Monument unveiled.