Timeline of Brno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1180 - Church of St. Peter built (approximate date).
• 1229 - Brno charter endorsed by Ottocar I of Bohemia.[1]
• 1243 - City incorporated.[1]
• 1296 - Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul established.[2]
• 1343 - Old Town Hall (Brno) in use.
• 1356 - Church of St. Thomas consecrated.
• 1428 - Brno besieged by Hussites.[3]
• 1451 - 27 July: Jews expelled.[4]
• 1468 - Brno besieged by forces of George of Bohemia.[3]
• 1485 - Printing press in operation.[5]
• 1645 - Brno besieged by forces of Swedish Torstensson.[3]
• 1742 - Brno besieged by Prussians.[3]
• 1766 - Cloth factory begins operating.[6]
• 1777 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno established;[7][2] Mathias Franz Graf von Chorinsky Freiherr von Ledske becomes bishop.
• 1782 - Brno becomes capital of Moravia-Silesia.
• 1786 - Lužánky park established.
• 1805 - 2 December: Battle of Austerlitz occurs near Brno; forces of Napoleon headquartered in city.[1]
• 1818 - Museum Francisceum founded.[8]
• 1843 - Labor unrest.[9]
• 1848 - October: Labor demonstration.[9]
• 1849
  • German Technical University in Brno founded.[10]
  • Population: 45,189.[11]
• 1855 - Synagogue consecrated.[12]
• 1864 - Vankovka engineering works built near Brno.[13]
• 1866 - 13 July: Prussians in power.[14]
• 1867 - Czech-language secondary school founded.[15]
• 1869 - Population: 73,771.[11]
• 1872 - Starobrno Brewery built.
• 1880 - Gustav Winterholler becomes mayor.
• 1881 - Organ School founded.[16]
• 1882 - Deutsches Stadttheater built.[17]
• 1884 - National Theatre Brno established.
• 1891 - Deutsches Haus (Brno) opens.
• 1894 - August Wieser becomes mayor.
• 1899 - Imperial Czech Technical University of Franz Joseph founded.[1]
• 1900 - Population: 108,944.[3]

20th century

• 1910 - Population: 125,737.
• 1913 - SK Židenice football club formed.
• 1918
  • Československá zbrojovka manufactory in business.
  • Moravia becomes part of Czechoslovakia.
  • Brno City Archive Library established.[18]
• 1919
  • Bohunice and Slatina become part of Brno.
  • Masaryk University[1] and Brno Conservatory founded.
• 1926 - 18 December: Premiere of Janáček's opera Makropulos Affair.
• 1928
  • Brno Exhibition Centre opens.
  • Exhibition of Contemporary Culture held.[6]
  • Centrum department store built.[6]
• 1930
  • Modernist Villa Tugendhat built.
  • Population: 264,925.
• 1935 - New City Hall (Brno) in use.
• 1939 - Brno (and whole country) occupied by German Nazis.
• 1941 - First Martial Law, 239 people executed in Brno, another 1000 in concentration camps.
• 1945
  • Brno City Theatre established.
  • Liberation of Brno
  • many Germans fled Brno, the rest was later expelled.[1]
• 1946 - Brno–Tuřany Airport opens.
• 1947
  • Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts established.[19]
  • Královo Pole indoor arena opens.
  • Population: 133,637 city; 934,437 province.[1]
• 1953 - Brno Zoo and Stadion Za Lužánkami open.
• 1955 - Julius Fucik Theatre active.[17]
• 1956 - Moravian Karst nature reserve established near city.
• 1961
  • Moravian Gallery in Brno established.
  • Population: 314,235.
• 1963
  • Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno begins.
  • Oldřich Vaverka becomes mayor.
• 1965 - Janáček Theatre opens.
• 1974 - Population: 343,860.[20]
• 1980 - HaDivadlo theatre troupe active.[17]
• 1982 - Starobrno Rondo Aréna opens.
• 1985 - Dukovany Nuclear Power Station commissioned near city.[10]
• 1987 - Motorsport Masaryk Circuit opens.
• 1990
  • Brno becomes a statutory city.
  • City divided into 29 districts.
  • International Institute for Political Science of Masaryk University founded.[21]
  • Vojtěch Cikrle becomes Catholic bishop.
• 1991 - Kabinet múz cultural space founded.
• 1994 - Dagmar Lastovecká becomes mayor.
• 1997 - M-Palace hi-rise built.
• 1998 - Petr Duchoň becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2001 - Cinema City Velky Spalicek opens.[22]
• 2004
  • University of Defence (Czech Republic) established.[21]
  • ProtestFest begins.[23]
  • Richard Svoboda becomes mayor.
• 2006 - Roman Onderka becomes mayor.
• 2009 - September: Catholic pope visits Brno.
• 2010 - Cinema Mundi International Film Festival begins.
• 2011
  • Labyrinth under Vegetable Market, Brno (historic site) opens.
  • Population: 385,913.
• 2012
  • Spielberk Towers built.
  • Brno Ossuary (historic site) opens.
• 2013 - AZ Tower built.
• 2014 - Petr Vokřál becomes mayor.
• 2015 - June: Anti-immigration demonstration.[24]

See also

• History of Brno
• Other names of Brno
• List of mayors of Brno
• List of bishops of Brno
• List of churches of Brno
• History of Moravia
• Timelines of other cities in the Czech Republic: Prague

References

1. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Brno", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 273, OL 6112221M
2. Lins 1908.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. Frankl-Grün 1907.
5. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Austria-Hungary: Brunn". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450632 – via HathiTrust.
6. Humphreys, Rob; Lunt, Susie (2002). Czech & Slovak Republics. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-85828-904-5.
7. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Czech Republic". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
8. David Murray (1904). Museums, Their History and Their Use. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons.
9. Stanley Z. Pech (1967). "Czech Working Class in 1848". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 9 (1): 60–73. doi:10.1080/00085006.1967.11091077. JSTOR 40867492.
10. David Turnock (2006). Eastern European Economy, 1800-2000: Stages of Transformation in a Peripheral Region. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-67876-1.
11. Kay 1880.
12. "Brno". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
13. Worldwatch Institute (2007). State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future. W.W. Norton. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-393-32923-0.
14. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Moravia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776 – via Hathi Trust
15. Stanley B. Kimball (1973). "Austro-Slav Revival: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Literary Foundations". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 63 (4): 1–83. doi:10.2307/1006167. JSTOR 1006167.
16. Jiří Hochman (1998). Historical Dictionary of the Czech State. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3338-8.
17. Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Czech Republic". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. pp. 196–210. ISBN 9780415251570.
18. "About the Archive". Brno City Archive. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
19. Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
20. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
21. "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
22. "Movie Theaters in Brno, Czech Republic". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
23. Jiří Navrátil (2010). "Between the Spillover and the Spillout: Tracing the Evolution of the Czech Global Justice Movement". Czech Sociological Review. 46 (6): 913–944. JSTOR 41132925.
24. "Hundreds Rally Against Refugees in 2nd Largest Czech City", New York Times, Associated Press, 26 June 2015

This article incorporates information from the Czech Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Abraham Rees (1819), "Brunn", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Brunn". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 2. London. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
• David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Brünn", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030647005
• "Brunn", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany and Austria, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Brunn", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
• Adolf Frankl-Grün (1907), "Brünn", Jewish Encyclopedia, 3, New York, hdl:2027/osu.32435029752920
• Joseph Lins (1908). "Brünn". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• "Brünn", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive

in German

• C.J. Schmidt (1835). Brünn und seine Umgebungen (in German). Brünn: Seidel.
• Gustav Trautenberger. Chronik der Landeshauptstadt Brünn (in German). Brünn: Deutsches Haus (Brno). 1891-1897
• B. Bretholz (1911). Geschichte der Stadt Brünn (in German). Brünn: Verlag des Vereines. (includes timeline 1091-1411)

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