# Timeline of Kassel

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kassel, Germany.

## Prior to 19th century

Part of a series on the :
History of Germany :
Topics
Chronology
Historiography
Military
Economy
LGBT
Judaism
Women
Territorial evolution
Historic states (Holy Roman Empire)
Monarchs (Queens, Empresses, 1918, Family tree, Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, Württemberg, Mediatised) :
Early history
Linear Pottery culture
Únětice culture
Urnfield culture
Germanic peoples
Migration Period
Barbarian kingdoms
Frankish Empire :
Middle Ages
East Francia
Kingdom of Germany
Holy Roman Empire
Eastward settlement :
Early Modern period
Sectionalism
18th century
Kingdom of Prussia :
Unification
Mediatisation
Confederation of the Rhine
German ConfederationZollverein
German revolutions of 1848–1849
North German Confederation :
German ReichGerman Empire1871–1918World War I1914–1918Weimar Republic1918–1933Nazi Germany1933–1945World War II1939–1945 :
Contemporary GermanyOccupationOstgebiete1945–1949/1952Expulsion of Germans1944–1950West–East division1949–1990ReunificationNew states1990Modern historysince 1990 :
Germany portal
History portal :
vte :
* 1462 - Martinskirche, Kassel (church) built.
* 1502 - Hofkapelle [de] (orchestra) founded.
* 1593 - Marstall (Kassel) [de] built.
* 1594 - Printer Wilhelm Wessel in business.
* 1606 - Ottoneum (theatre) built.
* 1626 - Population: 6,329.
* 1709 - Collegium Carolinum (Kassel) (school) founded.
* 1710 - Karlskirche (Kassel) (church) built.
* 1731 - Casselische Zeitung von Policey (newspaper) begins publication.
* 1761 - Siege of Cassel (1761): Cassel successfully defended by the French.
* 1762 - Siege of Cassel (1762): Cassel was captured by the Germans from the French.
* 1767 - Königsplatz (Kassel) [de] (square) laid out.
* 1768 - Friedrichsplatz (Kassel) [de] (square) laid out.
* 1769 - Opera house built on Königsstraße (Kassel) [de].
* 1777 - Art school established.
* 1779 - Fridericianum museum opens.
* 1798 - Schloss Wilhelmshöhe (palace) built.

## 19th century

* 1807 - Became the capital of the Kingdom of Westphalia.
* 1810 - Population: 23,068.
* 1813 - Bombarded and captured by the Russian general Chernichev;
* 1836 - Verein für Naturkunde (society) founded.
* 1848 - Kassel–Warburg railway begins operating.
* 1850/51 - Occupied by the Prussians.
* 1866
** Prussian XI Army Corps headquartered in Kassel.
** Kassel becomes seat of province Hesse-Nassau in Prussia.
* 1877 - Steam tram begins operating.
* 1880 - Population: 58,290.
* 1885 - Population: 64,083.
* 1895 - Population: 81,752.
* 1899 - Wehlheiden [de] becomes part of Kassel.
* 1900 - Population: 106,034.

## 20th century

* 1905 - Population: 120,446.
* 1906 - Bettenhausen [de], Kirchditmold [de], Rothenditmold [de], and Wahlershausen [de] become part of Kassel.
* 1909
** Neue Hoftheater (theatre) built.
** Population: 150,577.
* 1914 - Stadthalle Kassel [de] built.
* 1926 - Gutsbezirk Fasanenhof becomes part of Kassel.
* 1928 - Gutsbezirk Oberförsterei Kirchditmold, Kragenhof, Oberförsterei Ehlen, and Wilhelmshöhe [de] become part of Kassel.
* 1936
** Harleshausen [de], Niederzwehren, Nordshausen [de], Oberzwehren [de], Waldau [de], and Wolfsanger [de] become part of Kassel.
** Population: 203,418.
* 1939 - Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established (see also Porajmos).
* 1942 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II begins.
* 1943 - July: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.
* 1944 - October: Several prisoners escaped from the Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald.
* 1945
** 29 March: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald dissolved. Escape of many prisoners during their deportation to the main Buchenwald camp.
** 1–4 April: Battle of Kassel (1945); Allied forces win.
** Hessischen Nachrichten newspaper begins publication.
* 1955
** National Bundesgartenschau 1955 [de] (garden show) held in Kassel.
** "Documenta" quinquennial art exhibition begins.
* 1959 - Staatstheater Kassel built.
* 1960
** Kassel Hauptbahnhof (train station) rebuilt.
** Brüder Grimm-Museum Kassel [de] opens.
* 1971 - University of Kassel established.
* 1972 - Kassel (district) formed in the state of Hesse.
* 1976 - New Gallery (Kassel) opens.
* 1977 - Eissporthalle Kassel (ice rink) opens.
* 1981 - National Bundesgartenschau 1981 [de] (garden show) held in Kassel.
* 1985 - Population: 184,466.

## 21st century

* 2005
** Scheidemannplatz [de] (square) remodelled.
** Bertram Hilgen [de] becomes mayor.
* 2007
** Kassel RegioTram begins operating.
** Kassel Marathon begins.
* 2013 - Theater im Centrum [de] opens.
* 2014 - Mevlana Mosque (Kassel-Oberzwehren) [de] built.
* 2015 - Population: 200,507.