page_title: Timeline of Wrocław
section_title: Prior to 16th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Wrocław / Prior to 16th century
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Wrocław, kościół p.w. św. Idziego, 1 poł. XIII, po 1953 This is a photo of a monument in Poland identified by the ID 598584
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Wrocław, Poland.
context_section_description: around 550 - At the end of the Migration Period around and in the present areas of Wrocław, the Slavic tribe of Ślężanie settled.
  985 - Mieszko I of Poland in power.
  1000
  Bishopric of Wrocław established.
  Population: 1,000 (approximate).
  1037 - Uprising.
  1038 - Bohemians in power.
  1054 - Poles in power.
  1109 - August 24: Battle of Hundsfeld (Psie Pole), Polish victory against the invading Germans.
  ca. 1112/1118 - Wrocław named one of the three major cities of the Polish Kingdom alongside Kraków and Sandomierz in the Gesta principum Polonorum.
  1138 - Town becomes capital of Duchy of Silesia within the fragmented Polish realm.
  around 1240 - Church of St. Vincent founded by High Duke of Poland Henry II the Pious.
  1241
  Town besieged by Mongols during the First Mongol invasion of Poland.
  Burial of Henry II the Pious, killed in the Battle of Legnica, in the Church of St. Vincent, as the first Polish monarch to be buried in Wrocław.
  1242 - Church of St. Giles built.
  1257 - Church of St. Elizabeth built.
  1262 - Magdeburg rights adopted.
  1272 - Cathedral of St. John the Baptist consecrated.
  1273 - Piwnica Świdnicka, one of the oldest still operating restaurants in Europe, opened.
  1274 - Duke Henryk IV Probus granted Wrocław staple right.
  1288 - Holy Cross church founded by High Duke of Poland Henryk IV Probus.
  1290 - Death and burial of Henryk IV Probus in the Holy Cross church, that was still under construction, as the second Polish monarch to be buried in Wrocław.
  1295 - Holy Cross church consecrated.
  1333 - Town Hall building expanded.
  1335 - City annexed to Bohemia.
  1342 - Fire.
  1344 - Fire.
  1348 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor visits the city.
  1351 - Saints Stanislaus, Dorothy and Wenceslaus church founded.
  1362 - St. Mary Magdalene Church built.
  1387 - City joins Hanseatic League.
  1418 - Guild revolt.
  1466 - Meeting of Polish diplomat Jan Długosz and the papal legate in Wrocław, which enabled peace talks between Poland and the Teutonic Order, which culminated a few months later in the signing of a peace treaty in Toruń ending the Thirteen Years' War.
  1469 - City passed to Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus.
  1474
  Siege by combined Polish-Czech forces.
  Meeting of the Polish, Czech and Hungarian kings in the village of Muchobór Wielki (present-day district of Wrocław), ceasefire signed.
  1475 - Kasper Elyan founded the Drukarnia Świętokrzyska (Holy Cross Printing House), the city's first printing house, which in the same year published the Statuta synodalia episcoporum Wratislaviensium, the first ever incunable in Polish.
  1490 - City passed to Bohemia.
  1492 - Pillory erected at the Market Square.
caption: Romanesque church of St. Giles, the oldest preserved church of Wrocław
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