# Timeline of Dresden

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## Prior to 18th century

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* 1206 – First documentation of Dražďany.
* 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
* 1272 – Franziskanerkloster founded.
* 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
* 1350 – first documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
* 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
* 1388 – Kreuzkirche consecrated.
* 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
* 1409 – Armory established.
* 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
* 1524 - Printing press in operation.
* 1530 – City expands.
* 1548 – Orchestra founded.
* 1563 – Dresdner Zeughaus [de] built.
* 1589 – Johanneum built.
* 1666 – Premiere of Schütz's St Matthew Passion.
* 1667 – Opera house opens.
* 1678 - "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).
* 1695 – Parade of Frederick Augustus I.
* 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
* 1700 – Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.

## 18th century

* 1704 - Palais Flemming-Sulkowski built.
* 1708 – Porcelain developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger.
* 1710 – Meissen porcelain manufactory begins operating near city.
* 1717 – Japanisches Palais built.
* 1718 – Royal Palace rebuilt.
* 1719 – Wedding reception of Polish Prince Frederick Augustus and Maria Josepha of Austria.
* 1720 – Catholic Cemetery opens by decree of King Augustus II the Strong.
* 1722
** Zwinger built.
** Picture Gallery founded.
* 1723
** Grünes Gewölbe founded.
** Pillnitz Castle built.
* 1724 – Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments established.
* 1726 – Übigau Palace completed.
* 1729 – Wackerbarth-Palais built.
* 1733 – Villages of Gorbitz and Übigau (present-day districts) granted to Aleksander Józef Sułkowski by Augustus III of Poland.
* 1736 – Equestrian sculpture of Polish King August the Strong unveiled.
* 1743 – Frauenkirche built.
* 1745 - City "taken by the Russians."
* 1748 – Collegium Medico Chirurgicum established.
* 1755 – Population: 63,000 (approximate).
* 1756 – Catholic Church of the Royal Court built.
* 1759 - September: "Dresden liberated from Prussians."
* 1760 – July: Siege of Dresden.
* 1763 – Death and burial of King Augustus III of Poland at the Catholic Church of the Royal Court.
* 1764 – Dresden Art Academy founded.
* 1776 – Landhaus built.
* 1784 – Observatory established.
* 1788 – Saxon Library opens.
* 1793 – Tadeusz Kościuszko begins preparations for the Kościuszko Uprising in the city in response to the Second Partition of Poland.

## 19th century

* 1807 – Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw promulgated.
* 1809 – Austrians in power.
* 1813 – 26–27 August: Battle of Dresden.
* 1814 – Großer Garten opens to the public.
* 1818 – Ernst Arnold gallery established.
* 1823 – Jordan & Timaeus chocolate manufactury established.
* 1828 – Saxon Technical School founded.
* 1831 – Many Polish insurgents of the November Uprising fled from the Russian Partition of Poland to the city.
* 1833 – Isis Society (natural history) founded.
* 1835 – Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin met his future fiancée Maria Wodzinska in the city.
* 1838 - Dresden Coinage Convention held in city.
* 1839 – Leipzig–Dresden railway begins operating.
* 1843 - Jam factory begins operating.
* 1845 – Flood.
* 1841 – Opera house built.
* 1845 - 19 October: Premiere of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser.
* 1849 – May Uprising in Dresden.
* 1852
** Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.
** Population: 100,000.
* 1854 – Semper Gallery and Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
* 1855 – September: Royal Gallery opens.
* 1856 – Dresden Conservatory established.
* 1858 - Population: 128,152.
* 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
* 1866 – Prussians in power.
* 1870 – Gewerbehausorchester founded.
* 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
* 1874 - Dresden English Football Club confirmed
* 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
* 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
* 1878 – Opera house rebuilt.
* 1889
** Albertinum built.
** 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
** Ernemann-Werke [de] camera factory in operation.
** Dresdner SC football club formed.

## 20th century
### 1900-1945

* 1901
** Dresden-Neustadt station opens.
** Schwebebahn Dresden begins operating.
* 1903
** German City Exhibit held.
** Simmel delivers The Metropolis and Mental Life lecture.
* 1904 – Ministry building constructed.
* 1905 - 9 December: Premiere of Strauss' opera Salome.
* 1910
** Städtische Zentralbibliothek, Dresden [de] (city library) formed.
** Augustus Bridge constructed.
* 1911
** Dresden Museums Association formed.
** Premiere of Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
* 1912 – Ihagee camera company and German Hygiene Museum founded.
* 1914 – Saxon army museum established.
* 1919
** Stadion am Ostragehege des Dresdner SC opens.
** Population: 529,326.
* 1923 – Glücksgas Stadium built.
* 1932 – Polish-language church services cancelled.
* 1933 – Population: 649,252.
* 1935 – Dresden-Klotzsche Airport opens.
* 1939
** September: Mass arrests of local Polish activists (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
** Population: 625,174.
* 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor.
* 1942
** June: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the SS Engineer's Barracks.
** 23–24 August: Twelve young Polish men, members of the Czarny Legion resistance organization, executed.
** 24 August: Five Polish students of the Salesian oratory in Poznań, known as the "Poznań Five" (Poznańska Piątka), later beatified martyrs of World War II of the Catholic Church, executed.
* 1944
** 15 September: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the Railway Repair Works. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.
** 9 October: Two women subcamps of Flossenbürg founded at the Goehle-Werk and Universelle factories. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians and Germans.
** 22 October: Dresden-Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Russian and Jewish women.
** 24 November: Dresden-Bernsdorf subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish-Jewish men, women and children.
* 1945
** 13–14 February: Aerial bombing by Allied forces.
** 19 February: Subcamp of Flossenbürg at the Railway Repair Works dissolved. Prisoners deported to the main Flossenbürg camp.
** 24 March: Dresden-Reichsbahn subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Jewish and Russian men.
** April: Goehle-Werk, Bernsdorf, Reichsbahn, Universelle and SS Engineer's Barracks subcamps of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners either deported or mostly sent on death marches to various other locations.
** 22–27 April: Battle of Dresden
** April: Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent on a death march to the Ore Mountains.
** 8 May: Russians take city.

### 1946-1990s

* 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.
* 1960 – Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Museum opens at his former house.
* 1961 – Dresden University of Technology formed.
* 1972 – Filmtheater Prager Strasse [de] opens.
* 1973 – Dresden S-Bahn established.
* 1983
** Staatsschauspiel Dresden formed.
** Population: 522,532.
* 1986 - Pinova apple created.
* 1989
** protests stop the planned high-purity silicon factory
** trains with East German embassy refugees from Prague pass Dresden main station with demonstrations and clashes with the police
** Monday demonstrations
* 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 [de] founded.
* 2000 - Stadtarchiv Dresden [de] (city archives) relocated to Elisabeth-Boer-Strasse.

## 21st century

* 2002
** Elbe Flood.
** 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.
** December: City hosts the 38th Chess Olympiad.
* 2009 - Dresden Elbe Valley's UNESCO World Heritage Site status is revoked.
* 2010 – Anti-fascist demonstration.
* 2011
** Bundeswehr Military History Museum opens.
** Population: 523,058.
* 2013
** Elbe flood.
** September: City co-hosts the 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
* 2014 - PEGIDA begin protesting against Islamism in the city, drawing crowds estimated up to 17,000 in peak
* 2015 - Dirk Hilbert becomes mayor.