page_title: Timeline of Hamburg
section_title: 16th–18th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Hamburg / 16th–18th centuries
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context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hamburg, Germany.
context_section_description: 1510 – Hamburg becomes an imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
  1529
  Protestant Reformation.
  Council of citizens established.
  Johanneum (college) founded.
  1536 – Hamburg joins Schmalkaldic League.
  1558 – Hamburg Stock Exchange established.
  1567 – Trade with the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London established.
  1590 – Berenberg Bank founded.
  1615 – City walls extended around Hamburg-Neustadt.
  1619 – Bank of Hamburg founded.
  1630 – Bremen–Lübeck–Hamburg defensive alliance formed.
  1654 – Synagoge Neuer Steinweg in use.
  1663 – Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen magazine begins publication.
  1665 – Hamburg Chamber of Commerce founded.
  1669
  St. Michael's Church built.
  Wapen von Hamburg (1669) (ship) launched.
  1678 – Oper am Gänsemarkt (opera house) opens; premiere of Theile's opera Adam und Eva.
  1679 – Coffee house in business.
  1705 – Premiere of Handel's opera Almira.
  1710 – Hamburg City Archives established.
  1712 – Plague.
  1735 – Commerzbibliothek (business library) founded.
  1762
  City occupied by Danish forces.
  St. Michael's Church built.
  1765
  Hamburgische Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Künste und nützlichen Gewerbe (arts society) and Patriotic Club founded.
  Komödienhaus (theatre) built.
  1767 – Hamburgische Entreprise (theatre) established.
  1778 – Hamburger Ersparungskasse (bank) established.
  1787 – City directory published.
  1789 – Clubbs der Freundschaft founded.
  1790 – United States consulate established.
  1792 – Hamburger Jakobinerklub formed.
  1799 – H. J. Merck & Co. in business.
caption: Hamburg, 1730
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