# Timeline of Münster

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

## Prior to 19th century

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* 797 - School founded.
* 800 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster established.
* 800's - Charlemagne made it the residence of Saint Ludger, the newly appointed bishop of the Saxons.
* 1040 - Überwasserkirche convent founded.
* 1070 - Church of St Maurice founded.
* 1170 - Church of St Ludgerus erected.
* 1180
** Prince-Bishopric of Münster established.
** Municipal charter received.
* 13th C. - Member of the Hanseatic League.
* 1250 - Town Hall in use (approximate date).
* 1253 - Munster joins the City Alliance of Werne [de].
* 1264 - Münster Cathedral built.
* 1340 - Our Lady's Church built.
* 1444 - Kloster Niesing [de] (béguinage) founded.
* 1450 - Münster Diocesan Feud begins.
* 1458 - Leinenlegge [de] (cloth inspection entity) established (approximate date).
* 1485 - Printing press in operation.
* 1532 - Protestant Reformation.
* 1534 - February: Münster Rebellion; Anabaptists in power.
* 1588 - Jesuit College, Münster [de] founded.
* 1589
** Krameramtshaus [de] (guild hall) built.
** Jesuit College's Bibliotheca Paulina [de] (library) active.
* 1617 - Saint Clare Monastery [de] construction begins on the Stubengasse.
* 1630 - Liebfrauen-Schützenbruderschaft von 1630 Münster [de] (militia) formed.
* 1648 - Dutch-Spanish peace treaty signed in Munster.
* 1661 - Forces of Christoph Bernhard von Galen occupy Munster.
* 1662 - Münster Citadel [de] built.
* 1665 - An alliance with Christoph Bernhard von Galen was sought by the English against Holland.
* 1720 - Aschendorff [de] publisher in business.
* 1759 - City besieged by Hanoverian forces during the Seven Years' War.
* 1780 - University of Münster founded.
* 1787 - Schloss Münster (palace) built.
* 1800 - Damenclub [de] founded.

## 19th century

* 1803
** Münster Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) established.
** Botanischer Garten Münster established.
** The bishopric was secularized and annexed to Prussia.
* 1806 - French in power.
* 1810 - Münster "annexed to France."
* 1815 - Münster "ceded to Prussia" per Congress of Vienna.
* 1816 - Population: 17,316.
* 1825 - Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens, Abt. Münster [de] (historical society) founded.
* 1829 - Staatsarchiv Münster [de] (regional archive) established.
* 1835 - "Revidierte Städteordnung" (city self-administration) in effect.
* 1848
** 25 May: Münster–Hamm railway begins operating.
** Münster Hauptbahnhof opens.
* 1861 - Population: 27,332 (city).
* 1874 - Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway in operation.
* 1875
** Lamberti, St. Mauritz, and Überwasser become part of city.
** Münster Zoological Gardens [de] established.
* 1880 - Population: 40,434.
* 1885 - Population: 44,060.
* 1890 - Münster Hauptbahnhof opened.
* 1892 - Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde opens.
* 1895
** Lortzing-Theater opens.
** Population: 57,135.
* 1897 - Münstersche Zeitung [de] (newspaper) in publication.
* 1899 - Port of Münster [de] and Dortmund–Ems Canal open.

## 20th century

* 1901
** Tram begins operating.
** Stadtwerke Münster [de] established.
* 1905 - Population: 81,468.
* 1906 - Stadtbücherei Münster [de] (library) and SC Preußen Münster (football club) founded.
* 1908 - Westphalian State Museum opens.
* 1919
** Münster Symphony Orchestra [de] founded.
** Population: 100,452.
* 1926 - Halle Münsterland and Preußenstadion (stadium) open.
* 1929 - Provinzialinstitut für westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde [de] (regional history institute) founded.
* 1940
** 16 May: Bombing of city by Allied forces begins.
** Oflag VI-D prisoner-of-war camp mostly for French, but also some Polish and Soviet, officers founded.
** Population: 144,945.
* 1944 - September: Allied prisoners of war relocated from Oflag VI-D to Oflag VI-A in Soest.
* 1946 - Westfälische Nachrichten [de] newspaper begins publication.
* 1947 - Reconstruction of Prinzipalmarkt begins.
* 1948 - University of Münster's Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum [de] established.
* 1956 - Städtische Bühnen Münster (theatre) built.
* 1958 - Old City Hall reconstructed.
* 1960
** City twinned with Orléans, France.
** Population: 180,117.
* 1971 - Fachhochschule Münster established.
* 1972 - Münster/Osnabrück Airport begins operating.
* 1974 - Population: 200,448.
* 1975
** Hiltrup [de] becomes part of city.
** Population: 264,546.
* 1977
** Salzstraße (Münster) [de] pedestrianized.
** Skulptur Projekte Münster begins.
* 1979
** Stadtmuseum Münster [de] founded.
** South Park, Münster [de] created.
* 1981 - Filmfestival Münster [de] begins.
* 1984 - Jörg Twenhöven [de] becomes mayor.
* 1985 - Fernmeldeturm Münster (TV tower) erected.
* 1987 - Catholic pope visits city.
* 1993
** Münster-Barometer [de] survey begins.
** Museum für Lackkunst [de] opens.
* 1994 - Marion Tüns [de] becomes mayor.
* 1999 - Berthold Tillmann [de] becomes mayor.

## 21st century

* 2003 - Bait ul-Momin [de] mosque opens in Hiltrup.
* 2005 - GuD-Kraftwerk Münster Hafen [de] begins operating.
* 2007 - January: Storm.
* 2009 - Markus Lewe [de] becomes mayor.
* 2010 - Population: 279,803.
* 2012 - British military stationed in York Barracks in Gremmendorf depart.
* 2018 - 2018 Münster attack.