Timeline of Hanover
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hanover, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
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- 1333 - de (church) consecrated.
- 1347 - de (church) built.
- 1366 - Marktkirche (church) built.
- 1369 - Welfs in power.[1]
- 1382 - de built near city.
- 1400 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[2]
- 1410 - de building expanded (approximate date).(de)[3]
- 1440 - de (library) founded.[4][5]
- 1529 - Hanover Schützenfest established.
- 1550 - de (cemetery) established.
- 1640 - Royal Palace built.[1]
- 1698 - de in use.
- 1670 - Neustädter Kirche (church) built.
- 1689 - Population: 11,373.[3]
- 1698 - Schloss Herrenhausen built near city.(de)
- 1720 - de active.[6][1]
- 1726 - de laid out.
- 1755 - Population: 17,432.[3]
- 1797 - de founded.[7]
- 1798 - de (city directory) begins publication.[3]
19th century
- 1810 - Hanover becomes part of the Kingdom of Westphalia.[1]
- 1815 - City becomes capital of the Kingdom of Hanover.[1]
- 1821 - Population: 33,255.[3]
- 1824 - de becomes part of city.[3]
- 1826 - Gas lighting installed.[8]
- 1832 - de (art society) formed.
- 1835 - de (historical society) founded.
- 1838 - de (military barracks) built.
- 1844 - Hanover–Braunschweig Railway in operation.
- 1847
- Bremen–Hanover railway begins operating.
- Development of de area begins.[3]
- 1851 - Thalia Society founded.[9]
- 1852
- Royal Theatre built.[1][10]
- de newspaper in publication.[3]
- 1853 - Hanoverian Southern Railway begins operating.
- 1854 - de newspaper begins publication.
- 1856 - de built.
- 1861 - Population: 71,170.[11]
- 1864
- Hanover–Hamburg railway in operation.
- de and de (cemeteries) established.
- 1865 - Hanover Zoo established.[12]
- 1866
- 1870 - de built.
- 1871 - Continental rubber manufacturer in business.
- 1872
- 1879 - Hannover Hauptbahnhof rebuilt.
- 1885 - Population: 139,731.[14]
- 1886 - de built.
- 1888 - Photographischer Verein founded.[15]
- 1889
- de opens.
- Kestner Museum established.
- 1891 - de , de , de , and de become part of city.[3]
- 1893
- 1895 - de and de built.
- 1896
- Hannover 96 football club formed.
- de installed.
- 1897 - Music Conservatory established.
- 1898 - Hannoversche Waggonfabrik (manufacturer) in business.
20th century
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1900-1945
- 1902 - Provincial museum built.[1]
- 1903 - de opens.
- 1904 - Bismarck Tower erected.
- 1907 - de , de , Klein-Buchholz, de , de , Mecklenheide, Stöcken, and de become part of city.[3]
- 1908 - Anti-noise society formed.[16]
- 1911 - de (theatre) opens.
- 1913 - New City Hall built in the de .
- 1914
- 1916
- Kestnergesellschaft (modern art society) formed.[17]
- de (fountain) installed in the Neustädter Markt.
- 1918
- November: German Revolution of 1918–19.
- de becomes mayor.
- 1919
- Deutsche Luft-Reederei begins operating its Berlin-Hannover airplane route.[18]
- Population: 310,431.[19]
- 1920
- 1921
- Nazi Party branch established.[20]
- Überlandwerke und Straßenbahnen Hannover AG (public transit entity) active.
- de in use.
- 1923
- German Völkisch Freedom Party branch established.[20]
- Nazi de weekly newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1924 - de becomes mayor.
- 1925
- 1927 - Botanischer Schulgarten Burg (garden) established.[21]
- 1936 - Maschsee (lake) created.
- 1937 - de becomes mayor.
- 1938 - November: Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.
- 1939
- 1942 - de becomes Staatskommissare.(de)
- 1944
- 1945
- February: de begins operating.
- 10 April: Allied forces arrive.
- April–May: Mayor, Regierungspräsident, and Oberpräsident (local government officials) appointed.[22]
1946-1990s
- 1946 - February: Flood.(de)
- 1947
- 1 April: Food protest.[23]
- Hannover Messe (trade fair) begins.[3]
- 1949
- Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (newspaper) in publication.
- de built.[24]
- 1950s - Hannover War Cemetery established.
- 1951 - de built.
- 1952
- 1954
- Niedersachsenstadion (stadium) opens.
- Mannesmann Tower erected.
- de begins.
- de rebuilt.
- 1965 - de begins.
- 1965 - Population: 555,228.
- 1969 - de built.
- 1970 - Norddeutsche Landesbank headquartered in city.
- 1972 - de becomes mayor.[24]
- 1974 - Ahelm, Anderten, Bemerode, Misburg, Vinnhorst, Wettbergen, and de become part of city.[3]
- 1975
- Hanover Stadtbahn begins operating.
- Eilenriedehalle built in the de .
- 1979 - Sprengel Museum opens.
- 1987 - de founded.
- 1991 - Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway built.
- 1992 - de moves to Bokemahle in de .[25]
21st century
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- 2000
- June: Expo 2000 opens.
- Hanover S-Bahn commuter rail begins operating.
- 2001 - Gehry Tower built.
- 2002 - de built.
- 2005 - Regional de established, including its de .[26]
- 2006 - Stephan Weil becomes mayor.
- 2008
- de urban planning process begins.[27]
- Baitus Sami Mosque built.
- 2013 - Stefan Schostok becomes mayor.
- 2014 - Population: 523,642.
Images
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Herrenhäuser Allee, laid out in 1726 (postcard from 1906)
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Vaterländisches Museum, opened in 1903
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Crowd outside house of Hindenburg on day he becomes President of Germany, 12 May 1925
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Bombed wreckage of Old Town Hall, 1943
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Flood, 1946
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Britannica 1910.
- ^ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Mlynek 2009.
- ^ Julius Petzholdt [in German] (1853), "Hannover", Handbuch Deutscher Bibliotheken (in German), Halle: H.W. Schmidt, OCLC 8363581
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(help) - ^ Chambers 1901.
- ^ Lindau 2000.
- ^ Fischer 1899.
- ^ "Germany: States of North Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
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- ^ "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
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- ^ Florence Feiereisen; Alexandra Merley Hill, eds. (2011). Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-987722-5.
- ^ a b Heine 1994.
- ^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- ^ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
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- ^ "Garden Search: Germany". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved November 2015.
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- ^ "March 24-April 6, 1947". Chronology of International Events and Documents. 3. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1947. JSTOR 40545021.
- ^ a b c Mlynek 1991.
- ^ "Stadtarchiv: Archivgeschichte". Hannover.de (in German). Retrieved November 2015.
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This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Hanover", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
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in German
- published in the 19th century
- Hoppe (1845). Geschichte der Stadt Hannover (in German).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae (1859). Chronik der residenzstadt Hannover (in German). Hildesheim: Finckesche Buchhandlung.
- Adressbuch, Stadt- und Geschäfts-Handbuch der königlichen Residenzstadt Hannover (in German). 1872 – via HathiTrust. + 1884 ed.
- de (in German). Vereins für die Geschichte der Stadt Hannover. 1898. ongoing
- "Hannover (Stadt)". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 8 (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
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- published in the 20th century
- Otto Jürgens [in German] (1907). Hannoversche chronik (in German). Hanover: Geibel. (chronology)
- Verwaltungsbericht des Magistrats der Koniglichen Haupt- und Residenzstadt Hannover, 1906-07 (in German). Hanover: Aug. Eberlein & Co. 1908.
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- Adelheid von Saldern, ed. (1989). Stadt und Moderne: Hannover in der Weimarer Republik (in German). Ergebnisse. ISBN 978-3-925622-51-9.
- Klaus Mlynek [in German]; Waldemar R. Röhrbein [in German], eds. (1991). Hannover Chronik (in German). de . ISBN 978-3-87706-319-4. (chronology)
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- published in the 21st century
- Friedrich Lindau [in German] (2000). Hannover: Wiederaufbau und Zerstörung; die Stadt im Umgang mit ihrer bauhistorischen Identität (in German) (2nd ed.). Schlütersche. ISBN 978-3-87706-659-1.
- de (in German). 2002.
- de (in German) (4th ed.). 2007.
- Klaus Mlynek; et al., eds. (2009), Stadtlexikon Hannover (in German), Schlütersche – via Google Books(de)
External links
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- "Stadtgeschichte". Hannover.de (in German). Landeshauptstadt Hannover.