Timeline of Dresden

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

Prior to 18th century

• 1206 – First documentation of "Dresdene".
• 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
• 1272 – Franziskanerkloster founded.
• 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
• 1350 – First documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
• 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
• 1388 – Kreuzkirche consecrated.
• 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
• 1409 – Armory established.
• 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
• 1524 – Printing press in operation.
• 1530 – City expands.
• 1548 – Orchestra founded.
• 1563 – built.
• 1589 – Johanneum built.
• 1666 – Premiere of Schütz's St Matthew Passion.
• 1667 – Opera house opens.
• 1678 – "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe⁽⁾ headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).
• 1695 – Parade of Frederick Augustus I.
• 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
• 1700 – Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.

18th century

• 1704 – Palais Flemming-Sulkowski built.
• 1708 – Porcelain developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger.
• 1710 – Meissen porcelain manufactory begins operating near city.
• 1717 – Japanisches Palais built.
• 1718 – Royal Palace rebuilt.
• 1719 – Wedding reception of Polish Prince Frederick Augustus and Maria Josepha of Austria.
• 1720 – Catholic Cemetery opens by decree of King Augustus II the Strong.
• 1722
• Zwinger built.
• Picture Gallery founded.
• 1723
• Grünes Gewölbe founded.
• Pillnitz Castle built.
• 1724 – Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments established.
• 1726 – Übigau Palace completed.
• 1729 – Wackerbarth-Palais built.
• 1733 – Villages of Gorbitz and Übigau (present-day districts) granted to Aleksander Józef Sułkowski by Augustus III of Poland.
• 1736 – Equestrian sculpture of Polish King August the Strong unveiled.
• 1743 – Frauenkirche built.
• 1745 – City "taken by the Russians."
• 1748 – Collegium Medico Chirurgicum established.
• 1755 – Population: 63,000 (approximate).
• 1756 – Catholic Church of the Royal Court built.
• 1759 – September: "Dresden liberated from Prussians."
• 1760 – July: Siege of Dresden.
• 1763 – Death and burial of King Augustus III of Poland at the Catholic Church of the Royal Court.
• 1764 – Dresden Art Academy founded.
• 1776 – Landhaus built.
• 1784 – Observatory established.
• 1788 – Saxon Library opens.
• 1793 – Tadeusz Kościuszko begins preparations for the Kościuszko Uprising in the city in response to the Second Partition of Poland.

19th century

• 1807 – Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw promulgated.
• 1809 – Austrians in power.
• 1813 – 26–27 August: Battle of Dresden.
• 1814 – Großer Garten opens to the public.
• 1818 – Ernst Arnold gallery established.
• 1823 – Jordan & Timaeus chocolate manufactury established.
• 1828 – Saxon Technical School founded.
• 1831 – Many Polish insurgents of the November Uprising fled from the Russian Partition of Poland to the city.
• 1833 – Isis Society (natural history) founded.
• 1835 – Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin met his future fiancée Maria Wodzinska in the city.
• 1838 – Dresden Coinage Convention held in city.
• 1839 – Leipzig–Dresden railway begins operating.
• 1841 – Opera house built.
• 1843 – Jam factory begins operating.
• 1845 – Flood.
• 1845 – 19 October: Premiere of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser.
• 1849 – May Uprising in Dresden.
• 1852
• Marien Brucke (bridge) constructed.
• Population: 100,000.
• 1854 – Semper Gallery and Schloss Albrechtsberg built.
• 1855 – September: Royal Gallery opens.
• 1856 – Dresden Conservatory established.
• 1858 – Population: 128,152.
• 1861 – Dresden Zoo opens.
• 1866 – Prussians in power.
• 1870 – Gewerbehausorchester founded.
• 1871 – Military facility built in Albertstadt.
• 1874 – Dresden English Football Club confirmed.
• 1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded.
• 1876 – Fürstenzug created.
• 1878 – Opera house rebuilt.
• 1889
• Albertinum built.
• Dresden Botanical Garden created.
• 1891 – Dresden City Museum founded.
• 1893 – Blue Wonder bridge constructed.
• 1895 – Dresden Funicular Railway begins operating.
• 1897 – Dresden Central Station built.
• 1898
• camera factory in operation.
• Dresdner SC football club formed.

20th century

1900-1945

• 1901
• Dresden-Neustadt station opens.
• Schwebebahn Dresden begins operating.
• 1903
• German City Exhibit held.
• Simmel delivers The Metropolis and Mental Life lecture.
• 1904 – Ministry building constructed.
• 1905 – 9 December: Premiere of Strauss' opera Salome.
• 1910
• (city library) formed.
• Augustus Bridge constructed.
• 1911
• Dresden Museums Association formed.
• Premiere of Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
• 1912 – Ihagee camera company and German Hygiene Museum founded.
• 1914 – Saxon army museum established.
• 1919
• Stadion am Ostragehege des Dresdner SC opens.
• Population: 529,326.
• 1923 – Glücksgas Stadium built.
• 1932 – Polish-language church services cancelled.
• 1933 – Population: 649,252.
• 1935 – Dresden-Klotzsche Airport opens.

• 1939
• September: Mass arrests of local Polish activists (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
• Population: 625,174.
• 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor.
• 1942
• June: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the SS Engineer's Barracks.
• 23–24 August: Twelve young Polish men, members of the Czarny Legion resistance organization, executed.
• 24 August: Five Polish students of the Salesian oratory in Poznań, known as the "Poznań Five" ('), later beatified martyrs of World War II of the Catholic Church, executed.
• 1944
• 15 September: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the Railway Repair Works. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.
• 9 October: Two women subcamps of Flossenbürg founded at the Goehle-Werk and Universelle factories. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians and Germans.
• 22 October: Dresden-Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Russian and Jewish women.
• 24 November: Dresden-Bernsdorf subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish-Jewish men, women and children.
• 1945
• 13–14 February: Aerial bombing by Allied forces.
• 19 February: Subcamp of Flossenbürg at the Railway Repair Works dissolved. Prisoners deported to the main Flossenbürg camp.
• 24 March: Dresden-Reichsbahn subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Jewish and Russian men.
• April: Goehle-Werk, Bernsdorf, Reichsbahn, Universelle and SS Engineer's Barracks subcamps of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners either deported or mostly sent on death marches to various other locations.
• 22–27 April: Battle of Dresden
• April: Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent on a death march to the Ore Mountains.
• 8 May: Russians take city.