Timeline of Vienna

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria.

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Prior to 19th century

• 1st-millennium BCE – Vindobona settled.
• 180 – Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius dies in Vindobona.
• 881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna).
• 1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna.
• 1155
  • Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city.[1]
  • Schottenstift founded.
• 1160 – St. Stephen's Cathedral built.
• 1221 – Vienna receives rights as staple port.
• 1278 – City charter granted.[2]
• 1280 – Jans der Enikel writes the Fürstenbuch, a first history of the city.
• 1349 – Augustinian Church consecrated.
• 1365 – University of Vienna founded.
• 1421 – Jews expelled.
• 1482 – Johann Winterburger sets up printing press (approximate date).[3]
• 1485 – Siege of Vienna by Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1515 – First Congress of Vienna.
• 1529 – Siege of Vienna by Turks.
• 1556 – Vienna becomes seat of Holy Roman Empire under Ferdinand I.
• 1598 – Donaukanal regulated.
• 1600 – Melchior Khlesl becomes Bishop of Vienna.
• 1643 – Schönbrunn Palace built.
• 1668 – July: Premiere of Cesti's opera Il pomo d'oro.[4]
• 1679 – Great Plague of Vienna.
• 1683 – Battle of Vienna.[5]
• 1684 – Kollschitzky coffeehouse in business.[6]
• 1692 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna founded.
• 1703 – Palais Liechtenstein built.[7]
• 1704 – Linienwall fortification built.
• 1709 – Theater am Kärntnertor built.
• 1713 – Plague epidemic.
• 1718 – Vienna Porcelain Manufactory founded.[8]
• 1724 – Population: 150,000.
• 1735 – Winter Riding School built.
• 1741 – Burgtheater opens.[9]
• 1762 – Premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.[10]
• 1765
  • Tiergarten Schönbrunn (zoo) opens.[11]
  • Artaria publishing firm founded.
• 1766 – Prater opens.
• 1770 – Chess-playing Mechanical Turk introduced at Schönbrunn Palace.
• 1772 – Freyung Christmas market begins.
• 1786
  • Demel confectionery and Gesellschaft der Associierten founded.
  • 1 May: Premiere of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.
• 1790 – Population: 200,000.
• 1791 – 30 September: Premiere of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
• 1792 – Schweighofer piano manufactury established.
• 1800 – 2 April: Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.

19th century

• 1805
  • 23 May: Premiere of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.[10]
  • 13 November: Napoleon takes city.
• 1808 – 22 December: Premiere of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Choral Fantasy, and Piano Concerto No. 4 at the Theater an der Wien.
• 1809 – Battle of Aspern-Essling. Joseph Haydn dies.
• 1814
  • Congress of Vienna.
  • C.F. Peters music publisher in business.[12]
• 1824 – 7 May: Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
• 1827- 27 March: Ludwig Van Beethoven dies.
• 1829 – Leopoldine Society formed.
• 1832 – Sachertorte invented.
• 1842
  • Austrian Southern Railway begins.
  • Philharmonische Academie formed.
• 1847 – Austrian Academy of Sciences established.
• 1848 – Vienna Uprising.[13]
• 1850
  • City expanded beyond Innere Stadt.
  • Population: 551,300.
• 1858 – Ringstraße constructed.
• 1864 – Neue Freie Presse newspaper begins publication.
• 1869 – Vienna State Opera house built.
• 1870 – Musikverein inaugurated.
• 1873
  • World exposition held.[14]
  • Café Landtmann and Hotel Imperial in business.
• 1874 – Premiere of Strauss's opera Die Fledermaus.[15]
• 1875 – Danube levees constructed.
• 1876
  • Academy of Fine Arts building erected.[16]
  • Hotel Sacher established.
  • Café Central in business.
• 1878 – Palais Nathaniel Rothschild built.
• 1879 – Geological Office formed.
• 1880 – Café Sperl in business.
• 1881 – Palace of Justice (Vienna) built.
• 1882 – Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (greenhouse) opens.
• 1884 – Palais Albert Rothschild built.
• 1885 – Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory and Alpinen Gesellschaft Edelraute (hiking club)[17] established.
• 1886 – Hermesvilla built.
• 1887 – Historical Museum of the City of Vienna established.
• 1889 – Vienna City Archives active.[18]
• 1890 – City expanded.
• 1891 – Kunsthistorisches Museum (art museum) opens.
• 1894 – Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) built.
• 1897
  • Wiener Riesenrad erected.
  • Vienna Secession art group founded.
• 1898
  • Wiener Stadtbahn begins.
  • Secession Building constructed.
• 1899
  • Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams published.
  • Die Fackel magazine begins publication.[19]
• 1900 – Population: 1,769,137.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 – Universal Edition in business.[12]
• 1902
  • Freudenau harbor constructed.
  • Franciszek Trześniewski opens restaurant.
• 1903
  • Kuchelau harbor constructed.
  • Wiener Werkstätte art group founded.[19]
• 1904
  • Floridsdorf district added.[20]
  • Café Korb in business.
• 1908 – Vienna Psychoanalytic Society active.
• 1910 – Population: 2,031,000.
• 1912 – Aspern Airfield opens.
• 1913[21]
  • 23 February: Premiere of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder.[22]
  • Richard Weiskirchner becomes mayor.
• 1915 – April: Conference of Central European Socialist Parties held in Vienna.
• 1916 – 30 November: Funeral of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
• 1918 – Red Vienna begins.
• 1919
  • Lainzer Tiergarten opens.
  • Jakob Reumann becomes mayor.
• 1920 – Austrian National Library established.
• 1921
  • The Geistkreis seminar begins.
  • Österreichische Bundesgärten (garden) established.[23]
  • International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.[24]
• 1923
  • Karl Seitz becomes mayor.[2]
  • Phaidon Press founded.
• 1925 – Kolosseum (cinema) opens.[25]
• 1929 – Austrian Bridge Federation founded.
• 1931 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion built.
• 1934 – Richard Schmitz becomes mayor.
• 1938
  • Anschluss.
  • Hermann Neubacher becomes mayor.
  • City expands.
• 1940 – Philipp Wilhelm Jung becomes mayor.
• 1941 – Kehal Adas Yereim Vien established.
• 1942 – Bombing begins.
• 1943 – Hanns Blaschke becomes mayor.
• 1945
  • Vienna Offensive.
  • Allied-occupied city.
  • Rudolf Prikryl becomes mayor, succeeded by Theodor Körner.
  • Soviet War Memorial installed.

1950s-1990s

• 1951 – Franz Jonas becomes mayor.
• 1954
  • Vienna International Airport opens.
  • Flood.
• 1957 – International Atomic Energy Agency headquartered in Vienna.
• 1958 – Freudenauer Harbour Bridge built.
• 1959
  • Vienna Museum opens.
  • City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students.
• 1960 – Österreichische Mediathek (sound archive) headquartered in city.[26]
• 1961 – Vienna summit of USA and USSR.
• 1962 – Vienna S-Bahn begins.
• 1964 – Österreichisches Filmmuseum established.[26]
• 1965 – Bruno Marek becomes mayor.
• 1968 – Austrian Science Fund formed.
• 1969 – OPEC Headquarter moves from Geneva, Switzerland to Vienna.
• 1970 – Felix Slavik becomes mayor.
• 1973 – Leopold Gratz becomes mayor.
• 1976 – Vienna U-Bahn opens.
• 1979 – Vienna Islamic Centre and UNO City built.
• 1983 – Donauinselfest begins.
• 1984 – Helmut Zilk becomes mayor.
• 1985
  • Airport attack.
  • Institute of Technology Assessment founded.
• 1988
  • New Danube channel constructed.
  • ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival begins
• 1990 – Museum in Progress created.
• 1992 – The biggest AIDS charity event in Europe, the Life Ball begins.
• 1993 – World Conference on Human Rights held.
• 1994 – Michael Häupl becomes mayor.[27]
• 1995 – Secretariat for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe established.
• 1998 – Andromeda-Tower built.
• 1999 – Millennium Tower built.
• 2000
  • City website online (approximate date).[28]
  • Mischek Tower built.

21st century

• 2001 – IZD Tower and Ares Tower built.
• 2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.
• 2004 – Saturn Tower built.
• 2007 – EU Fundamental Rights Agency established.
• 2008
  • World Institute for Nuclear Security headquartered in city.
  • UEFA European Football Championship held.
• 2010 – Wiener Staatsballet formed.
• 2011
  • Smart City Wien begins.[29]
  • Funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
• 2014 – Population: 1,797,337.[30]

See also

• History of Vienna
• History of the Jews in Vienna
• List of mayors of Vienna
• Years in Austria
• Timelines of other cities in Austria: Graz, Linz, Salzburg

References

1. Csendes 1999.
2. Paula Sutter Fichtner (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Austria. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6310-1.
3. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Austria-Hungary: Wien". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
4. Stephen Rose (2005). "Chronology". In Tim Carter and John Butt (ed.). Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79273-8.
5. "Austria". Political Chronology of Europe. Europa Publications. 2003. pp. 11–15. ISBN 978-1-135-35687-3.
6. Bradshaw 1867.
7. English Guide to the Princes Liechtenstein's Gallery, Vienna, Wien: W.J. Knoch, 1910, OL 7089970M
8. Daniela Tarabra (2008). "Chronology". European Art of the Eighteenth Century. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-0-89236-921-8.
9. William Grange (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of German Theater. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6489-4.
10. Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
11. Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
12. Chester L. Alwes (2012). "Choral Music in the Culture of the 19th Century". In André de Quadros (ed.). Cambridge Companion to Choral Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11173-7. Music publishers of the 18th to the early 20th c. (chronological list)
13. Eric Roman (2003). "Chronologies: Austro-Hungarian Empire 1522-1918". Austria-Hungary & the Successor States: A Reference Guide. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-7469-3.
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15. "Timeline of opera", Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 30 March 2015
16. David Charles Preyer (1911), The Art of the Vienna Galleries, Boston: L.C. Page & Company, OL 23279063M
17. A.J. Mackintosh (1907). "Mountaineering Clubs, 1857-1907". Alpine Journal. UK (177).
18. Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Vienna City Administration, retrieved 30 September 2015
19. Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.
20. History of Vienna, Vienna City Administration, retrieved 30 September 2015
21. Charles Emerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares Vienna to 20 major world cities on the eve of World War I; pp 87–109.
22. Florian Illies (2013). 1913: The Year Before the Storm. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-352-6.
23. "Garden Search: Austria". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
24. James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.
25. "Movie Theaters in Vienna, Austria". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
26. Film and Television Collections in Europe: the MAP-TV Guide. Routledge. 1995. ISBN 978-1-135-37262-0.
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29. "Smart City Wien". City of Vienna. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
30. Vienna in Figures, Vienna City Administration, retrieved 30 September 2015

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

published in the 18th-19th century

• Thomas Nugent (1749), "Vienna", The Grand Tour, 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt
• William Hunter (1803), "(Vienna)", Travels through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792, 2, London: J. White, OCLC 10321359
• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Vienna", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• John Russell (1828), "Vienna", A Tour in Germany, and Some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire, in 1820, 1821, 1822, Edinburgh: Constable, OCLC 614379840
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Vienna". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker.
• Frances Trollope (1838), Vienna and the Austrians, London: R. Bentley, OCLC 2431804 + v.2
• Mariana Starke (1839), "Vienna", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
• John Thomson (1845), "Vienna", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
• A.A. Paton (1861). "Vienna". Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic. Leipzig: Brockhaus.
• "Vienna", Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany (9th ed.), London: John Murray, 1863
• "Vienna". Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany. London: W.J. Adams & Sons. 1867.
• 'The Graphic' Guide to Vienna, London: Office of The Graphic, 1873, OL 24225739M
• David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Vienna", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
• The Newest Plan and Guide of Vienna and Environs, Vienna: R. Lechner, 1891, OL 19356630M
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Vienna", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555

published in the 20th century

• Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Vienna", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351
• Maria Hornor Lansdale (1902), Vienna and the Viennese, Philadelphia: H. T. Coates & Co., OCLC 1522879, OL 6920560M
• "Vienna", Jewish Encyclopedia, 12, New York, 1907
• "Vienna", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Donald Olsen (1986). The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300042122.
• Peter Csendes (1999). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Vienna. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3562-7.

published in the 21st century

• John W. Stamper (2004). "The Industry Palace of the 1873 World's Fair: Karl von Hasenauer, John Scott Russell, and New Technology in Nineteenth-Century Vienna". Architectural History. 47: 227–250. doi:10.1017/S0066622X00001763. JSTOR 1568823.
• Jens S. Dangschat & Alexander Hamedinger (2009). "Planning culture in Austria: the case of Vienna, the unlike city". In Jörg Knieling & Frank Othengrafen (eds.). Planning Cultures in Europe: Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7565-5.

in German

• Karl Friedrich Arnold von Lützow (1876), Wiener Neubauten [Viennese Buildings] (in German), Wien: Lehmann & Wentzel, OCLC 17857346, OL 6565936M
• Moritz Bermann (1880), Alt- und Neu-Wien: Geschichte der Kaiserstadt und ihrer Umgebungen [Old and New Vienna: History of the Imperial City and its Surroundings], A. Hartleben, OCLC 11359182, OL 23423601M
• Eugen Guglia (1892), Geschichte der Stadt Wien [History of the City of Vienna] (in German), Wien: F. Tempsky, OL 23360656M

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Vienna via Wikisource
• Items related to Vienna, various dates (via Europeana)