Timeline of Brno

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

Prior to 20th century

• 980-1020 - Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady founded.
• 11th C. - Vratislaus II of Bohemia bestows the town on his younger brother Otto I of Olomouc.
• early 13th C. - Church of St. James established.
• mid 13th C. - Å pilberk Castle established.
• 1229 - Brno charter endorsed by Ottocar I of Bohemia.
• 1243 - City incorporated.
• 1296 - Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul established.
• 1343 - in use.
• 1356 - Church of St. Thomas consecrated.
• 1428 - Brno unsuccessfully besieged by Hussites.
• 1451 - 27 July: expulsion of the Jews.
• 1467 - Brno besieged by forces of George of Bohemia.
• 1485 - First printing press in operation.
• 1645 - Brno besieged by Swedish forces led by Lennart Torstensson.
• 1655 - Dolní Kounice Synagogue founded.
• 1742 - Brno besieged by Prussians.
• 1766 - Cloth factory begins operating.
• 1777 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno established; Mathias Franz Graf von Chorinsky Freiherr von Ledske becomes bishop.
• 1780s - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor evicts the friars from St Thomas's Abbey.
• 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.
• 1818 - Museum Francisceum founded.

• 1822/30 - Silvio Pellico, an Italian writer, confined in Å pilberk Castle.
• 1838 - Brno main railway station opened.
• 1839 - Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway operates to Břeclav.
• 1843 - Labor unrest.
• 1848 - October: Labor demonstration.
• 1849
• German Technical University in Brno founded.
• Population: 45,189.
• 1855 - Synagogue consecrated.
• 1861 - Natural History Society established.
• 1864 - Vankovka engineering works built near Brno.
• 1866 - 13 July: Prussians in power.
• 1867
• Czech-language secondary school founded.
• Red Church construction completed.
• 1869 - Population: 73,771.
• 1870s - Brno Philharmonic begins its existence at the Besední dům.
• 1872 - Starobrno Brewery built.

• 1880 - becomes mayor.
• 1881 - Organ School founded.
• 1882 - Deutsches Stadttheater (Mahen Theatre) built.
• 1891 - opens.
• 1894 - becomes mayor.
• 1899 - Imperial Czech Technical University of Franz Joseph founded.
• 1900 - Population: 108,944.

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.
• 1919
• Bohunice and Slatina become part of Brno.
• Masaryk University and Brno Conservatory founded.
• 1926 - 18 December: Premiere of Janáček's opera Makropulos Affair.
• 1928
• Brno Exhibition Centre opens.
• Exhibition of Contemporary Culture held.
• Centrum department store built.
• 1930
• Modernist Villa Tugendhat built.
• Population: 264,925.
• 1935 - in use.
• 1939
• Brno (and whole country) occupied by German Nazis.
• The Germans established an internment camp for Romani people in the city.
• 1941 - First Martial Law, 239 people executed in Brno by the Germans, another 1,000 in concentration camps.
• 1943 - October: The Germans established a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the city, and brought the first transport of 251 prisoners, mostly Poles, to the subcamp.
• 1944 - Internment camp for Romani people dissolved.
• 1945
• German Technical University in Brno closed.
• Subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp dissolved and remaining prisoners evacuated to Austria.
• Many Germans fled Brno, the rest were later expelled.
• Liberation of Brno
• Brno City Theatre established.
• 1946 - Brno–Tuřany Airport opens.
• 1947
• Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts established.
• Královo Pole indoor arena opens.
• Population: 133,637 city; 934,437 province.

• 1953 - Brno Zoo and Stadion Za Lužánkami open.
• 1955 - Julius Fucik Theatre active.
• 1956 - Moravian Karst nature reserve established near city.
• 1961
• Moravian Gallery in Brno established.
• Population: 314,235.
• 1963
• begins.
• becomes mayor.
• 1965 - Janáček Theatre opens.
• 1974 - Population: 343,860.
• 1976 - falls into a sinkhole created by a tram station collapse. Her remains were not found until 1990s, and the sudden accident accelerated the systematic exploration of the Brno underground.
• 1980 - theatre troupe active.
• 1982 - Starobrno Rondo Aréna opens.
• 1985 - Dukovany Nuclear Power Station commissioned near city.
• 1987 - Motorsport Masaryk Circuit opens.
• 1990
• Brno becomes a statutory city.
• City divided into 29 .
• founded.
• becomes Catholic bishop.
• 1991 - cultural space founded.
• 1994 - becomes mayor.
• 1997 - M-Palace hi-rise built.
• 1998 - Petr Duchoň becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2001 - Cinema City Velky Spalicek opens.
• 2004
• University of Defence (Czech Republic) established.
• ProtestFest begins.https://web.archive.org/web/20070501203713/http://2004.protestfest.cz/
• 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 - becomes mayor.
• 2015 - June: Anti-immigration demonstration.
• 2018 - 21 March: launched.

See also

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

References

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

Bibliography

in English

in German

• 1891-1897
• (includes timeline 1091-1411)

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