# Timeline of Lübeck

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

## Prior to 13th century

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* 1138 – Town sacked.
* 1143 – New town founded by Adolf II of Holstein near site of old town.
* 1158 – Town ceded by Adolf II of Holstein to Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony.
* 1160 – Seat of Catholic diocese of Lübeck relocated to Lübeck from Oldenburg in Holstein.
* 1173 – Lübeck Cathedral construction begins.
* 1177 – Benedictine St.-Johannis-Kloster (Lübeck) [de] founded.
* 1188 – Town charter issued by Henry the Lion.

## 13th–15th centuries

* 1201 – Danes in power.
* 1210 – Lübeck Cathedral construction completed (approximate date).
* 1226 – Lübeck becomes an Imperial Free City.
* 1250 – Petrikirche (Lübeck) [de] (church) built.
* 1310 – Marienkirche (church) built (approximate date).
* 1312 – Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Lübeck) [de] founded.
* 1356 – St. Catherine's Church built (approximate date).
* 1368 – Hanseatic League adopts Lübeck's city seal.
* 1379 – Circle Company founded.
* 1408 – Uprising.
* 1420 - Paper mill established.
* 1442 – Lübeck Town Hall [de] built.
* 1444 – Burgtor (city gate) built.
* 1450 – Merchants Company founded (approximate date).
* 1462 – Hinrich Castorp [de] becomes mayor.
* 1463 – Bernt Notke creates Dance of Death artwork for the Marienkirche.
* 1475 - Printing press in operation.
* 1477
** Crucifix created by Bernt Notke erected in Lübeck Cathedral.
** Holstentor (city gate) built.
* 1491 – Artist Hans Memling creates triptych for the Lübeck Cathedral.

## 16th–18th centuries

* 1515 – St. Anne's Priory built.
* 1530 – Protestant reformation.
* 1531 – Katharineum (school) opens.
* 1533 – Jürgen Wullenwever becomes mayor.
* 1535 – Shipowners' Guild house built.
* 1586 – Outer Holstentor (city gate) built.
* 1630 – Last Hanseatic Diet meets at Lübeck.
* 1668 – Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche.
* 1697 – Buthman's Bierstube (tavern) in business.
* 1793 – Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit (charitable society) established.

## 19th century

* 1801 – City "temporarily occupied" by Danes.
* 1802 – Town walls dismantled.
* 1806 – 6 November: City captured by French forces.
* 1810 – 12 November: City becomes part of the French Empire.
* 1813 – French occupation ends.
* 1815
** Recognized as a free city by the Congress of Vienna.
** Joins the German Confederation.
* 1825 – Navigation School founded.
* 1832 – Lübecker General-Anzeiger newspaper begins publication.
* 1835 – Lübeckische Blätter [de] (newspaper) in publication.
* 1851 – Population: town 26,093; territory 54,166.
* 1857 - Population: town 30,717; territory 49,324.
* 1866 – Joins the North German Confederation.
* 1867 – Wilhelm-Theater opens.
* 1868
** Joins the German Customs Union.
** Schiffergesellschaft (restaurant) in operation.
* 1871 – Joins the German Empire.
* 1874 – Aegidienkirche (Lübeck) [de] (church) restored.
* 1875 – Population: 44,799.
* 1890 – Population: town 63,590; territory 76,485.
* 1891 – Sacred Heart Church consecrated.
* 1893 – Museum am Dom (Lübeck) [de] built.
* 1900 – Elbe-Trave canal opens.

## 20th century

* 1904 – City Theatre opens.
* 1905 – Population: town 91,541; state 105,857.
* 1915 – St. Anne's Museum opens.
* 1917 – Lübeck Airport constructed.
* 1919
** Lübeck joins the Weimar Republic.
** Ballsportverein Vorwärts Lübeck (sport club) formed.
** Population: town 113,071.
* 1921 – Sportvereinigung Polizei Lübeck (sport club) formed.
* 1924 – Stadion an der Lohmühle (stadium) opens.
* 1937 – The Greater Hamburg Act merges Lübeck into the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and it loses its status as an independent free city.
* 1940 – Oflag X-C prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers established.
* 1942 – Bombing of Lübeck in World War II.
* 1945
** 2 May: City captured by British forces. Oflag X-C POW camp liberated.
** VfB Lübeck sport club formed.
* 1946 - Lübecker Nachrichten and Lübecker Freie Presse newspapers begin publication.
* 1948 – Lübecker Kantorei (choir) founded.
* 1973 – Lübeck Academy of Music founded.
* 1982
** Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets established.
** Lübeck Cathedral reconstructed.
* 1987 – City centre becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
* 2000 – Bernd Saxe [de] becomes mayor.

## 21st century

* 2001 – International School of New Media established.
* 2005 – Herren Tunnel opens.
* 2012 – Population: 211,713.