Timeline of Leipzig
Appearance
The following is a timeline of the history of the German city of Leipzig.
Prior to 18th century
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- Leipzig granted market and city privileges.
- St. Nicholas Church built (approximate date).
- City besieged by John Frederick I of Saxony.[1]
- Pleissenburg re-built, replaced in 1905 by the New Town Hall.[1]
18th century
- 1701 - Oil-fuelled street lighting introduced.
- 1702 - Collegium Musicum founded.
- 1704 - Romanus house built.
- 1710 - King Augustus II the Strong first presented Meissen porcelain at the local fair.[9]
- 1717 - What became Schillerhaus first built.
- 1723
- Breitkopf publishing established.
- Johann Sebastian Bach begins as Kapellmeister (music director) at St. Thomas Church
- 1724 - Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion.[10]
- 1729 - Premiere of Bach's St Matthew Passion.[10]
- 1731 - Zedler's Universal-Lexicon encyclopedia published.[6]
- 1745 - City "taken by the Prussians."[2]
- 1750 - Death of Johann Sebastian Bach Kapellmeister of St. Thomas Church
- 1755 - Stadtbibliothek Leipzig (municipal library) opens.[11]
- 1756 - City occupied by Prussian forces during the Seven Years' War.[2]
- 1759
- 1760 - October: "Prussians withdraw from Leipzig."[12]
- 1764 - Academy of Visual Arts and Leipzig Economic Society[13] founded.
- 1766 - Theater auf der Rannischen Bastei opens.[14]
- 1768 - Societas Jablonoviana founded by Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski.
- 1777 - April: Premiere of Klinger's play Sturm und Drang.
- 1781
- Gewandhaus built.[10][1]
- Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra formed.
- 1784
- 1785 - Augustusplatz laid out.[5]
- 1789 - Linnean Society founded.[13]
- 1790 - Observatory set up in Pleissenburg.
- 1797 - Population: 31,847.[8]
- 1798
- Tauchnitz publishers established.
- Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (music magazine) begins publication.
19th century
- 1800 - Edition Peters and Leipzig Singakademie (chorus)[15] established.
- 1801 - Population: 31,887.[1]
- 1807
- Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (publisher) founded.
- Leipziger Tageblatt (newspaper) begins publication.
- 1810 - Westermann Verlag founded.
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- 1813
- 22 May: Richard Wagner born.
- October: Battle of Leipzig.[1]
- 1825 - Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler formed.
- 1826
- Consulate of the United States established.[16]
- Wool market active.[2]
- 1828
- Reclam Verlag established.
- Hôtel de Pologne founded.[17]
- 1829 - Medical Society founded.[13]
- 1830 - "Political disturbance."[2]
- 1831
- November: Establishment of a committee to help Polish insurgents fleeing the Russian Partition of Poland after the unsuccessful Polish November Uprising. Collection of funds to help Poles, mainly among guilds and city guards.[18]
- Flight of Polish insurgents from the Russian Partition of Poland to the Great Emigration through the city begins.[19]
- 1832
- January: Mass escape of Polish insurgents from the Russian Partition of Poland through the city.[19]
- January: Polish national hero Józef Bem expelled from the city by authorities fearful of stirring up a revolution.[20]
- July: The committee to help Poles officially closed, although its members continued their activities in the following years.[21]
- 1833 - Accession to the Zollverein.[1]
- 1835 - Felix Mendelssohn becomes music director of Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.[1]
- 1836 - Augusteum built.[1]
- 1837 - Leipziger Kunstverein (art association) established.
- 1839 - Leipzig–Dresden railway opened.[5]
- 1842 - Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof built.
- 1843
- Illustrirte Zeitung (newspaper) begins publication.
- Conservatory of Music founded.[1]
- Bach monument, Leipzig erected.
- 1844 - Museum of Antiquities of Leipzig University on display.
- 1846
- 1 July: Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities founded.[13]
- 29 August: Hôtel de Pologne fire.[17]
- 1848
- "Museum of Fine Arts" founded.
- Hôtel de Pologne rebuilt as the city's largest hotel.[17]
- "Political disturbance."[2]
- 1850 - Bach Gesellschaft organized.[10]
- 1853 - Blüthner piano manufacturer in business.[10]
- 1855 - Leipzig synagogue built on Gottschedstraße (Leipzig) .
- 1856 - Händel-Gesellschaft organized.[10]
- 1858 - Municipal museum inaugurated.
- 1861 - Population: 78,495.[22]
- 1863 - General German Workers' Association founded in Leipzig.
- 1864 - Schrebergärten (community garden) association formed.[23]
- 1866 - Austro-Prussian War leads to Prussian occupation in 1866–67.[1]
- 1868 - Opera house built.
- 1869
- Leipzig Museum of Ethnography founded.[1]
- Leipzig Alpine Club founded.[24]
- 1872
- Harrassowitz publishing firm established.
- Verlag Karl Baedeker relocates to Leipzig.
- Trams in Leipzig start.[5]
- 1874
- Museum of Arts and Crafts founded.[1]
- Ernst Eulenburg (musical editions)[25] established.
- Bibliographisches Institut relocates to Leipzig.
- 1878
- Leipzig Zoo opens.[26]
- "Leipzig is growing into an industrial town of the first rank."[5]
- 1879
- Reichsgericht headquartered in Leipzig.[5]
- Südfriedhof established.
- 1880 - Population: 149,081.[8]
- 1884 - Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei founded.
- 1886
- Georg Thieme Verlag established.
- Lutherkirche (Leipzig)[5] and Neue Börse (Leipzig) (stock exchange) built.
- 1889 - Anger-Crottendorf and Reudnitz (Leipzig) become part of city.[27]
- 1890
- 1891
- Leipzig University Library opens in relocation.[5]
- Connewitz, Kleinzschocher , Lindenau, Lössnig , Plagwitz , and Schleussig become part of city.[27]
- 1892
- Neusellerhausen becomes part of city.[27]
- SSV Stötteritz football club founded.
- Mendelssohn monument erected.[5]
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- 1894 - Leipziger Volkszeitung (newspaper) begins publication.
- 1895
- Reichsgericht (supreme court) established. [5]
- Altes Grassimuseum built.
- Muster-Messe fair begins.
- Population: 399,995.[8]
- 1898 - Handelshochschule Leipzig founded.
- 1900 - Population: 456,156.[8]
20th century
- 1901
- Städtisches Kaufhaus built.
- Insel Verlag (publisher) in business.
- 1904 - Bachfest begins.
- 1905
- Reudnitz, Volkmarsdorf, Gohlis, Eutritzsch, Plagwitz and Lindenau were incorporated with the city.[5]
- New Town Hall opens. The Old Town Hall is going to house the Museum of the History of the City of Leipzig.
- Population: 503,672.[8]
- 1906
- Naturkundemuseum Leipzig established.[28]
- Leipzig Prison built.
- 1907 - Edeka founded at Hôtel de Pologne.[17]
- 1908 - Rowohlt Verlag founded.
- 1912 - German National Library established.
- 1913
- Kurt Wolff Verlag (publisher) in business.
- Monument to the Battle of the Nations erected.
- 1915
- Leipzig Hauptbahnhof and Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark open.
- Mockau and Schönefeld become part of city.[27]
- 1916
- German National Library building opened.
- Institute for Newspaper Research (Institut für Zeitungskunde) was founded at the University of Leipzig[29]
- 1917
- 1918 - Karl Rothe becomes mayor.
- 1919
- Church Music Institute founded.
- Der Drache begins publication.
- Population: 604,397.[8][30]
- 1921
- Leipzig War Crimes Trials held.
- December: American Consulate reopened.[16]
- 1922
- Grosszschocher , Leutzsch, Paunsdorf , and Wahren become part of city.[27]
- Bruno-Plache-Stadion opens.
- Goldmann (publisher) founded.
- 1923
- 1 January: Consulate of Poland opened.[31]
- MDR Symphony Orchestra founded.
- 1927 - Leipzig/Halle Airport opened.
- 1929 - Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig opens.
- 1930 - Abtnaundorf, Knautkleeberg, Schönau, and Thekla become part of city.[27]
- 1933 - Population: 713,470.[8]
- 1935 - Portitz becomes part of city.[27]
- 1936 - Knauthain and Lauer become part of city.[27]
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- 1938 - Expulsion of Polish Jews by Nazi Germany. 1,300 Polish Jews sheltered in the Polish Consulate and saved from deportation.[32]
- 1939
- September: Mass arrests of local Polish activists (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[33]
- September: Polish Consulate seized by Germany during the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. Confiscation of the Polish Consulate's library.[32]
- 1941 - German-ordered closure of the American Consulate.[16]
- 1943
- 6 March: Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 1,800 men, mostly Soviet, Polish, French, Belgian and Czechoslovak, were held there as slave labour.[34]
- December: Bombing of city by British.
- 1944
- Bombing.
- 11 May: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 250 men, mostly Polish, Russian, Czech and Ukrainian, were held there.[35]
- 9 June: HASAG Leipzig subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 5,000 women and children, mostly Polish, Soviet, French and Jewish, were held there.[36]
- 22 August: Leipzig-Schönau subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 500 Jewish women were held there.[37]
- 15 November: Subcamp of Buchenwald for men established at the HASAG factory. Around 700 men, mostly Jewish, French and Italian, were held there.[38]
- 24 November: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp dissolved. Prisoners deported to Wansleben am See and Rothenburg.[35]
- 1945
- 17 February: 600 prisoners brought to the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp from a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Jasień.[34]
- 13 April: Leipzig-Thekla, Leipzig-Schönau and both HASAG subcamps dissolved. Most prisoners sent on death marches.[36][38][34][37]
- 18 April: Massacre of remaining prisoners of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp perpetrated by the Gestapo, SS and Volkssturm. Some prisoners were saved by Polish prisoners of another camp.[34]
- April: Allied ground advance arrives.
- July: City under Soviet control.
- Population: 584,593.[8]
- 1950
- International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition begins.
- Bach-Archiv founded.
- Population: 617,574.[8]
- 1951 - Erich Uhlich becomes mayor.
- 1953 - Theaterhochschule Leipzig established, later named after Hans Otto
- 1954
- Staatsarchiv Leipzig (archives) founded.
- Zentralstadion built.
- 1955 - Festival of Cultural and Documentary Films begins.
- 1956 - Zentralstadion opens.
- 1959 - Walter Kresse becomes mayor.
- 1960
- Opera house built.
- Chess Olympiad held.
- Population: 589,632.[8]
- 1969
- 6 February: Polish Institute founded.[39]
- Leipzig-Halle S-Bahn established.
- 1970 - Karl-Heinz Müller (politician) becomes mayor.
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- 1972
- Polish Consulate reopened.
- City-Hochhaus Leipzig built.
- 1974 - Moritzbastei rebuilt.
- 1977 - Sportmuseum founded.[40]
- 1983 - Wagner monument, Leipzig erected.
- 1989 - Monday demonstrations.[41][42]
- 1990
- Neuer Leipziger Kunstverein (art association) founded.
- Hinrich Lehmann-Grube becomes mayor.[43]
- 1991
- Euro-scene Leipzig theatre festival begins.
- Mendelssohn House, Leipzig opens.
- 1992
- Technischen Hochschule founded.
- Wave-Gotik-Treffen begins.
- Leipzig-Altenburg Airport opens.
- American Consulate reopened.[16]
- 1993 - Hartmannsdorf becomes part of city.[27]
- 1994 - Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig opens.
- 1995
- 1996
- Leipzig Trade Fair building opens.
- Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta begins.
- 1997
- Gottscheina , Hohenheida , and Seehausen become part of city.[27]
- Leipziger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft (city utility company) established.
- Federal Administrative Court of Germany headquartered in Leipzig.[citation needed]
- 1998
- Podelwitz-Süd becomes part of city.[27]
- Wolfgang Tiefensee becomes mayor.
- 1999 - Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, Engelsdorf, Holzhausen, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenthal, Miltitz and Mölkau become part of city.[27]
21st century
- 2000 - Burghausen und Rückmarsdorf become part of city.[27]
- 2002
- Arena Leipzig built.
- Games Convention begins.
- 2004
- Leipziger Internet Zeitung begins publication.
- Museum der bildenden Künste opens.
- Leipzig Botanical Garden renovated.
- Leipzig is the German candidate city for the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2005
- Art galleries open in Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei.[44]
- BMW Central Building constructed.
- City hosts the 2005 World Fencing Championships.
- Population: 502,651.[8]
- 2006
- Amazon.com distribution centre begins operating.[45]
- Burkhard Jung becomes mayor.
- 2007
- Paulinum reconstruction begins.
- July: City hosts the 2007 World Archery Championships.
- 2010
- Haus der Computerspiele (museum) active.
- German Music Archive relocates to Leipzig.
- 2012
- German organ donor scandal reported.[46]
- Paulinum reconstruction finished.
- 2013
- New Propsteikirche begins construction.
- Leipzig City Tunnel opened.
- Leipzig is the most livable German city.[47]
- 2014 - Population: 551,871.[48]
- 2015
- January: Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident demonstration.[49]
- Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway opened.
- 2017
- July: City hosts the 2017 World Fencing Championships.
- December: City co-hosts the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.
- 2018 - Leipzig wins the European Cities of Future prize in the category of "Best Large City for Human Capital & Lifestyle"[50]
- 2019 - Leipzig is European City of the Year[51]
See also
Other cities in the state of Saxony:
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