# Timeline of Brno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic.

## Prior to 20th century

Part of a series on the :
History of Czechoslovakia :
| Origins of Czechoslovakia | 1918 |
| Washington Declaration | 1918 |
| First Czechoslovak Republic | 1918–1938 |
| Munich Agreement | 1938 |
| Second Czechoslovak Republic | 1938–1939 |
| German occupation | 1938–1945 |
| Bohemia and Moravia | 1939–1945 |
| Slovak Republic | 1939–1945 |
| Czechoslovak government-in-exile | 1939–1945 |
| Third Czechoslovak Republic | 1945–1948 |
| Coup d'état | 1948 |
| Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | 1948–1989 |
| Prague Spring/Invasion | 1968 |
| Velvet Revolution | 1989 |
| Post-revolution | 1989–1992 |
| Federative Republic | 1990–1992 |
| Dissolution of Czechoslovakia | 1992 |
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* 980-1020 - Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady founded.
* 11th C. - Vratislaus II of Bohemia bestows the town on his younger brother Otto I of Olomouc.
* early 13th C. - Church of St. James established.
* mid 13th C. - Špilberk Castle established.
* 1229 - Brno charter endorsed by Ottocar I of Bohemia.
* 1243 - City incorporated.
* 1296 - Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul established.
* 1343 - Old Town Hall (Brno) [de] in use.
* 1356 - Church of St. Thomas consecrated.
* 1428 - Brno unsuccessfully besieged by Hussites.
* 1451 - 27 July: Jews expelled.
* 1467 - Brno besieged by forces of George of Bohemia.
* 1485 - Printing press in operation.
* 1645 - Brno besieged by forces of Swedish Torstensson.
* 1655 - Dolní Kounice Synagogue founded.
* 1742 - Brno besieged by Prussians.
* 1766 - Cloth factory begins operating.
* 1777 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno established; Mathias Franz Graf von Chorinsky Freiherr von Ledske becomes bishop.
* 1780's - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor evicted the friars from St Thomas's Abbey.
* 1782 - Brno becomes capital of Moravia-Silesia.
* 1786 - Lužánky park established.
* 1805 - 2 December: Battle of Austerlitz occurs near Brno; forces of Napoleon headquartered in city.
* 1818 - Museum Francisceum founded.
* 1822/30 - Silvio Pellico an Italian writer confined in Špilberk Castle.
* 1838 - Brno main railway station opened.
* 1839 - Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway operates to Břeclav.
* 1843 - Labor unrest.
* 1848 - October: Labor demonstration.
* 1849
** German Technical University in Brno founded.
** Population: 45,189.
* 1855 - Synagogue consecrated.
* 1861 - Natural History Society established.
* 1864 - Vankovka engineering works built near Brno.
* 1866 - 13 July: Prussians in power.
* 1867
** Czech-language secondary school founded.
** Red Church construction completed.
* 1869 - Population: 73,771.
* 1870's - Brno Philharmonic began its existence at the Besední dům.
* 1872 - Starobrno Brewery built.
* 1880 - Gustav Winterholler [cs] becomes mayor.
* 1881 - Organ School founded.
* 1882 - Deutsches Stadttheater (Mahen Theatre) built.
* 1891 - Deutsches Haus (Brno) [de] opens.
* 1894 - August Wieser [cs] becomes mayor.
* 1899 - Imperial Czech Technical University of Franz Joseph founded.
* 1900 - Population: 108,944.

## 20th century

* 1910 - Population: 125,737.
* 1913 - SK Židenice football club formed.
* 1918
** Československá zbrojovka manufactory in business.
** Moravia becomes part of Czechoslovakia.
** Brno City Archive Library established.
* 1919
** Bohunice and Slatina become part of Brno.
** Masaryk University and Brno Conservatory founded.
* 1926 - 18 December: Premiere of Janáček's opera Makropulos Affair.
* 1928
** Brno Exhibition Centre opens.
** Exhibition of Contemporary Culture held.
** Centrum department store built.
* 1930
** Modernist Villa Tugendhat built.
** Population: 264,925.
* 1935 - New City Hall (Brno) [cs] in use.
* 1939
** Brno (and whole country) occupied by German Nazis.
** The Germans established an internment camp for Romani people in the city.
* 1941 - First Martial Law, 239 people executed in Brno by the Germans, another 1,000 in concentration camps.
* 1943 - October: The Germans established a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the city, and brought the first transport of 251 prisoners, mostly Poles, to the subcamp.
* 1944 - Internment camp for Romani people dissolved.
* 1945
** German Technical University in Brno closed.
** Subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp dissolved and remaining prisoners evacuated to Austria.
** Many Germans fled Brno, the rest were later expelled.
** Liberation of Brno
** Brno City Theatre established.
* 1946 - Brno–Tuřany Airport opens.
* 1947
** Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts established.
** Královo Pole indoor arena opens.
** Population: 133,637 city; 934,437 province.
* 1953 - Brno Zoo and Stadion Za Lužánkami open.
* 1955 - Julius Fucik Theatre active.
* 1956 - Moravian Karst nature reserve established near city.
* 1961
** Moravian Gallery in Brno established.
** Population: 314,235.
* 1963
** Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno [cs] begins.
** Oldřich Vaverka [cs] becomes mayor.
* 1965 - Janáček Theatre opens.
* 1974 - Population: 343,860.
* 1976 - Marie Bartošová [cs] falls into a sinkhole created by a tram station collapse. Her remains were not found until 1990s, and the sudden accident accelerated the systematic exploration of the Brno underground.
* 1980 - HaDivadlo [cs] theatre troupe active.
* 1982 - Starobrno Rondo Aréna opens.
* 1985 - Dukovany Nuclear Power Station commissioned near city.
* 1987 - Motorsport Masaryk Circuit opens.
* 1990
** Brno becomes a statutory city.
** City divided into 29 districts.
** International Institute for Political Science of Masaryk University [cs] founded.
** Vojtěch Cikrle [cs] becomes Catholic bishop.
* 1991 - Kabinet múz [cs] cultural space founded.
* 1994 - Dagmar Lastovecká [cs] becomes mayor.
* 1997 - M-Palace hi-rise built.
* 1998 - Petr Duchoň becomes mayor.

## 21st century

* 2001 - Cinema City Velky Spalicek opens.
* 2004
** University of Defence (Czech Republic) established.
** ProtestFest begins.
** Richard Svoboda [cs] becomes mayor.
* 2006 - Roman Onderka becomes mayor.
* 2009 - September: Catholic pope visits Brno.
* 2010 - Cinema Mundi International Film Festival begins.
* 2011
** Labyrinth under Vegetable Market, Brno (historic site) opens.
** Population: 385,913.
* 2012
** Spielberk Towers built.
** Brno Ossuary (historic site) opens.
* 2013 - AZ Tower built.
* 2014 - Petr Vokřál [cs] becomes mayor.
* 2015 - June: Anti-immigration demonstration.
* 2018 - 21 March: Brno Open Data Platform [cz] launched.