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Timeline of Leipzig

The following is a timeline of the history of the German city of Leipzig.

Prior to 18th century

18th century

19th century

  • 1813
  • 22 May: Richard Wagner born.
  • October: Battle of Leipzig.
  • 1824
  • Abolition of the Torgroschen (Gate penny) at the Leipzig City Gates.
  • Execution of Johann Christian Woyzeck as the last one on the Markt.
  • 1825 - formed.
  • 1826
  • Consulate of the United States established.
  • Wool market active.
  • 1828
  • Reclam Verlag established.
  • founded.
  • 1829 - Medical Society founded.
  • 1830 - "Political disturbance."
  • 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.
  • Flight of Polish insurgents from the Russian Partition of Poland to the Great Emigration through the city begins.
  • 1832
  • January: Mass escape of Polish insurgents from the Russian Partition of Poland through the city.
  • January: Polish national hero Józef Bem expelled from the city by authorities fearful of stirring up a revolution.
  • July: The committee to help Poles officially closed, although its members continued their activities in the following years.
  • 1833 - Accession to the Zollverein.
  • 1835 - Felix Mendelssohn becomes music director of Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • 1836 - Augusteum built.
  • 1837 - (art association) established.
  • 1894 - Leipziger Volkszeitung (newspaper) begins publication.
  • 1895
  • Reichsgericht (supreme court) established.
  • built.
  • Muster-Messe fair begins.
  • Population: 399,995.
  • 1897 - Sächsisch-Thüringische Industrie- und Gewerbeausstellung (Litt.: Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition) in Leipzig.
  • 1898 - Handelshochschule Leipzig founded.
  • 1900 - Population: 456,156.

20th century
  • 1938
  • Expulsion of Polish Jews by Nazi Germany. 1,300 Polish Jews sheltered in the Polish Consulate and saved from deportation.
  • 9–10 November: Kristallnacht in Leipzig
  • 1939
  • Leipzig Meuten dissolved by the Gestapo.
  • September: Mass arrests of local Polish activists (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
  • 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.
  • 1941 - German-ordered closure of the American Consulate.
  • 1942 - 23 June: Leipzig L-IV experiment accident is the first nuclear accident in history.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 22 August: Leipzig-Schönau subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 500 Jewish women were held there.
  • 15 November: Subcamp of Buchenwald for men established at the HASAG factory. Around 700 men, mostly Jewish, French and Italian, were held there.
  • 24 November: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp dissolved. Prisoners deported to Wansleben am See and Rothenburg.

21st century

See also

Other cities in the state of Saxony:

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in German

  • (bibliography)
  • (includes city timeline)

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