Timeline of Rijeka

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rijeka, Croatia.

Prior to 19th century

1809 – Town occupied by French forces.^[1]
1813 – Town taken by British forces.^[1]
1822 – Town ceded to Hungary.^[1]
1849 – Town becomes part of Croatia.^[4]
1856 – Imperial Naval Academy founded.^[5]
1870 – Town becomes part of the Kingdom of Hungary again.^[1]
1872 – Drenova becomes part of Fiume.^{[citation needed]}
1873 – Railway begins operating.^[1]
1875 – Whitehead's torpedo manufactory in operation.
1877 – Port built.^[2]
1891
- Fiume loses free port status.^[6]
- June: Austrian emperor visits town.^[2]
- Population: 29,494.^[6]
1898 – October: Flood.^[2]

1900 – Population: 38,955.^[1]
1903
- Rijeka Synagogue built.
- Seamanship school founded.^[1]
1906 – February: Labour strike.^[2]
1913 – Stadio Comunale del Littorio opens.
1919 – Town becomes part of the Italian Regency of Carnaro.
1920 – Free State of Fiume established per Treaty of Rapallo.^[3]
1921 – Communist Party of Fiume established.
1922 – Town taken by Italian forces.^[3]
1924
- 16 March: Fiume becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Rome.^[3]
- Town becomes capital of Fiume province.^[3]
1926 – Unione Sportiva Fiumana football club formed.
1945 – Yugoslavs in power.^[3]
1946 – NK Kvarner football club active.
1947 – Fiume becomes part of Yugoslavia per treaty.^[3]
1948 – Kvarnersko Brodogradilište shipyard active.
1949 – City becomes seat of the Rijeka Oblast of Yugoslavia.^[3]
1953 – Kvarnerska Rivijera football tournament begins.
1970 – Rijeka Airport opens.
1973
- University of Rijeka established.
- Dvorana Mladosti (sport venue) opens in Trsat.
1978 – Automotodrom Grobnik opens.
1991
- City becomes part of Croatia.
- Population: 162,814; metro 236,028.
1998 – Polytechnic of Rijeka founded.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Fiume", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Fiume", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Rijeka", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1581, OL 6112221M
^ ^a ^b George Henry Townsend (1867), "Fiume", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co. {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ "Fiume", Austria-Hungary, with Excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest (11th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b "Fiume", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

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