Timeline of Łódź

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Timeline of the Łódź history
Affiliations

Kingdom of Poland 1300s–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1793
Kingdom of Prussia 1793–1807
Duchy of Warsaw 1807-1815
Congress Poland (Russian Empire) 1815–1916
Kingdom of Poland 1916–1918
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
 Nazi Germany 1939–1945
People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
 Republic of Poland 1989–present

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Łódź, Poland.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 19th century[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (to 1820) [pl]
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Timeline of Polish history

19th century[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (1821–1918) [pl]

20th century[edit]

1900s–1930s[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (1918–1939) [pl]
Plac Wolności ("Freedom Square") with the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument and the Holy Spirit Church in 1930

World War II (1939–1945)[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (1939–1945) [pl]
Invading German troops in Łódź in September 1939
  • 1939
    • 2 September: Germany carried out first air raids, bombing the airport and the Łódź Kaliska train station.[18]
    • 3 September: Further air raids carried out by Germany. The Germans bombed a railway station in the Widzew district, a power plant, a gas plant, a thread factory and many houses.[18]
    • 5 September: The Germans air raided the airport again.[18]
    • 6 September: The Germans air raided a historic palace which housed the command of the Polish Łódź Army.[18]
    • 6 September: the Citizens' Committee of the City of Łódź established.[19]
    • 6–8 September: Battle of Łódź during the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
    • 9 September: German troops entered the city, beginning of the German occupation.[19]
    • 11 September: The Germans issued the first occupation decrees.[19]
    • 12 September: The German Einsatzgruppe III entered the city to commit various crimes against the population.[20]
    • 12–15 September: The Germans carried out searches of local county offices and Polish police buildings.[20]
    • 16 September: Local administration took over by a German official, D. Leiste from Rhineland.[19]
    • 21 September: The Germans carried out mass searches in the present-day district of Chojny.[20]
    • September: The Germans carried out first arrests of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion and established first prisons for arrested Poles.[21]
    • 12 October – 4 November: City becomes seat of Nazi German General Government of occupied Poland.
    • 31 October: A German transit camp for Poles arrested in the Intelligenzaktion established in the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka.[21]
    • November: Radogoszcz concentration camp established by the Germans. Its prisoners were mostly people from Łódź, Pabianice and other nearby settlements.[21]
    • 9 November: City annexed directly into Nazi Germany; the Germans destroyed the monument of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.[19]
    • 9 November: First prisoners detained in the Radogoszcz concentration camp.[21]
    • November: Hundreds of Poles from Łódź and the region massacred by the Germans in the forest in the present-day district of Łagiewniki as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[22]
    • City renamed "Litzmannstadt"[citation needed] to erase traces of Polish origin.
    • 11 December: The Germans massacred 70 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
    • 13 December: The Germans massacred 40 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
    • December: 65 prisoners from the transit camp in Pabianice deported to the Radogoszcz concentration camp and then massacred in Łagiewniki.[21]
    • 31 December: First expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego carried out.[23]
    • Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
Łódź Ghetto in 1940
  • 1940
    • 14–15 January: German police and Selbstschutz carried out mass expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego.[25]
    • February: More prisoners from the liquidated transit camp in Pabianice imprisoned in the Radogoszcz camp; Radogoszcz camp converted into the Radogoszcz prison.[21]
    • February: Łódź Ghetto formed.[26]
    • Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
    • March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the Okręglik forest near Zgierz.[24]
    • April–May: The Russians committed the large Katyn massacre, among the victims of which were over 1,200 Poles, who either were born or lived in Łódź or the region before the war.[27]
  • 1941
Public execution of Poles in German-occupied Łódź in 1942
  • 1942
  • 1943
  • 1944
    • August: Łódź Ghetto liquidated.
    • September: Most POWs transported from Stalag Luft II to the Stalag Luft III camp in Żagań.[29]
    • 21 November: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated.[29]
  • 1945
    • German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children disestablished.[30]
    • 17 January: City taken by the Soviet Army and afterwards restored to Poland.

1945–2000[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (1945–1989) [pl]
Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (since 1989) [pl]
National Film School in Łódź
Grand Theatre, Łódź

21st century[edit]

Further information (in Polish): Timeline of Łódź (since 1989) [pl]
Piotrkowska Street in 2011

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ a b c d e Popławska 1986.
  3. ^ a b Adna Ferrin Weber (1899), Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, New York: Macmillan Company, OL 24341630M
  4. ^ Zieliński, Stanisław (1913). Bitwy i potyczki 1863-1864. Na podstawie materyałów drukowanych i rękopiśmiennych Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu (in Polish). Rapperswil: Fundusz Wydawniczy Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu. p. 22.
  5. ^ Zieliński, p. 35
  6. ^ Zieliński, p. 47
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  9. ^ Donna M. Di Grazia, ed. (2013). Nineteenth-Century Choral Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-98852-0.
  10. ^ Britannica 1910.
  11. ^ Sheila Skaff (2008). The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1784-3.
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  15. ^ Abramowicz, Sławomir (2003). "Wypędzeni z Osiedla "Montwiłła" Mireckiego w Łodzi". Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish). No. 12–1 (35–36). IPN. p. 28. ISSN 1641-9561.
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  20. ^ a b c Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 114.
  21. ^ a b c d e f Wardzyńska, p. 203
  22. ^ a b c Wardzyńska, p. 204
  23. ^ Abramowicz, p. 30
  24. ^ a b c Wardzyńska, p. 205
  25. ^ Abramowicz, p. 32
  26. ^ a b c "The establishment of Litzmannstadt Ghetto". Torah Code. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  27. ^ Tomasz Walkiewicz. "Łodzianie w grobach katyńskich". Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi (in Polish). Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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  29. ^ a b c d Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
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  31. ^ Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
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Bibliography[edit]

in English[edit]

  • Zysiak, Agata et al. From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994 (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019). online review

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