Timeline of Munich

The following is a of the history of the city of Munich, Germany.

Prior to 17th century

• 1158 - Duke Henry the Lion builds bridge, mint, and salt-depot.
• 1175 - Munich gains official status as city.
• 1239 - Coat of arms of Munich in use.
• 1240 - Otto II Wittelsbach in power.
• 1255 - City becomes ducal residence of Upper Bavaria.
• 1327
• .
• City then rebuilt by Louis the Bavarian
• 1368
• Cathedral construction begins.
• St. Peter's Church reconstructed.
• 1383 - Löwenbräu founded.
• 1385 - Munich Residenz built.
• 1394 - Town Hall built.
• 1397 - Guild uprising.
• 1429 - Fire.
• 1482 - Johann Schauer sets up printing press.
• 1494 - Frauenkirche consecrated.
• 1506 - City becomes capital of Bavaria.
• 1576 - Jesuit school built (approximate date).

17th-18th centuries

• 1609 - Catholic League founded.
• 1617 - Hofgarten laid out.
• 1623 - Schleissheim Palace constructed.
• 1628 - Treaty of Munich signed.
• 1632 - City occupied by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
• 1634 - Bubonic plague.
• 1638 - Mary's Column erected, Marienplatz.
• 1653 - State opera active.
• 1675 - Nymphenburg Palace built.
• 1680 - Population: 20,000
• 1688 - Premiere of Steffani's opera Niobe.
• 1690 - Theatine Church built.
• 1705 - Sendlinger Mordweihnacht.
• 1739 - Amalienburg built.
• 1742 - Habsburgs in power.
• 1753 - Cuvilliés Theatre built.
• 1759 - Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities founded.
• 1762
• 28 April: Fire.
• Hoforchester active.
• 1781 - Premiere of Mozart's opera Idomeneo.
• 1783 - Population: 38,000.
• 1789 - Englischer Garten laid out by Count Rumford.
• 1797 - Charitable soup kitchen begins operating.
• 1800 - 2 July: City taken by French forces.

19th century

• 1801 - Population - 48,885.
• 1806 - City becomes capital of Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 1807
• Viktualienmarkt active.
• Hofgartenkaserne built.
• Augustiner-Keller beer garden in business.https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/how-the-beer-garden-came-to-be/391343/
• 1808 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts established.
• 1809 - Alte Münze in use.
• 1810 - (Oktoberfest) begins.
• 1818
• National Theatre built.
• Lese-Konditorei (reading cafe) in business.
• 1825 - Accession of Ludwig I of Bavaria leads to "handsome streets and buildings".

• 1826
• LMU Munich relocates to Munich.
• Türkenkaserne built.
• 1830
• Ludwigstraße laid out (approximate date).
• Glyptothek built.
• 1835 - St. Boniface's Abbey founded by Ludwig I of Bavaria.
• 1836 - Alte Pinakothek established.
• 1837 - Allerheiligen-Hofkirche built.
• 1839 - Train station opens.
• 1843
• State Library building constructed.
• Paläontologisches Museum established.
• 1844
• Ludwigskirche consecrated.
• Feldherrnhalle constructed.
• 1848 - München Hauptbahnhof relocated.
• 1853
• Maximilianstraße laid out.
• Neue Pinakothek established.
• 1854 - Glaspalast built; city hosts General German Industrial Exhibition.
• 1855 - Bavarian National Museum founded.
• 1861 - Population: 148,201.
• 1862 - Propylaea constructed.
• 1865 - Premiere of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.
• 1867 - Royal Bavarian Music School established.
• 1868
• State Museum of Ethnology founded.
• Technical University of Munich opened.
• 1869 - Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke created.
• 1871
• Haidhausen station and München Süd station open.
• Population: 169,693.
• 1875 - Munich Opera Festival begins.
• 1876 - Trams in Munich runs by horsecar.
• 1878 - Munich Pasing station relocated.
• 1879
• Bavarian Army Museum founded.
• Over 28 million gallons of beer were brewed in Munich.
• 1880
• Bürgerliches Brauhaus formed.
• Population: 230,023.
• 1882 - Allgemeine Zeitung moved to Munich.
• 1885
• Bürgerbräukeller (beer hall) in business.
• Population: 261,982.
• 1887
• Hofatelier Elvira founded.
• opens.
• 1888 - Munich Stadtmuseum established.
• 1889 - Eisenbahnkaserne built.

• 1890 - Population: 350,594.
• 1892
• (hospital) opens.
• formed.
• 1893
• active.
• Kaim Orchestra formed.
• 1894 -Production of Hildebrand & Wolfmüller motorcycle begins.
• 1895
• Trams in Munich electrified.
• Population: 407,174.
• 1896 - Simplicissimus magazine begins publication.
• 1898 - City hosts Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinen-Ausstellung.
• 1900
• FC Bayern Munich founded.
• opens.

20th century

1900–1945

• 1901
• Franz Eher publisher in business.
• Prinzregententheater opens.
• 1902 - Anthropologisch-Prähistorisches Sammlung des Staates formed.
• 1903 - Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik founded.
• 1904 - Heinrich Thannhauser's art gallery opens.
• 1905 - Population: 538,983.
• 1906 - City co-hosts the 1906 World Figure Skating Championships.
• 1908 - New Town Hall built; Rathaus-Glockenspiel installed.
• 1909
• Neue Künstlervereinigung München founded.
• Modern Gallery of contemporary art and Schackgalerie open.
• 1910 – 12 September: Premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
• 1911
• Hellabrunn Zoo opens.
• Der Blaue Reiter art exhibit held.
• 1917 - Bayerische Motoren Werke formed.
• 1919
• German Workers' Party founded in Munich.
• 16 October: Hitler gives his first political speech at the Hofbräukeller.
• City becomes capital of Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• Population: 630,711.
• 1920
• July: Consulate of Poland opens.
• Nazi paramilitary Sturmabteilung headquartered in Munich.
• Nazi Völkischer Beobachter newspaper headquartered in Munich.
• 1923 - 8–9 November: Nazis attempt coup ("Beer Hall Putsch").
• 1925
• (transportation exposition) held in city.
• München Hauptbahnhof electrified.
• 1927 - Richard Strauss Conservatory founded.
• 1929 - Lenbachhaus museum opens.
• 1930
• 13 September: Hitler gives campaign speech at the Circus Krone Building, prior to German federal election, 1930 on 14 September.
• Population: 728,900.
• 1931 - National Socialist Party headquartered in Brown House.
• 1932
• Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (intelligence agency) headquartered in Munich.
• Zoologische Staatssammlung München formed.
• 1933
• Nazi headquarters relocated from Munich to Berlin.
• March: Dachau concentration camp begins operating near city.
• 1934 - Hunting museum established.
• 1935 - Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute built.

• 1937
• Führerbau constructed.
• 18 July: House of German Art opens.
• 19 July: "Degenerate art" exhibit held in Hofgarten.
• 1938
• September: Munich Agreement signed.
• November: Kristallnacht.
• 1939
• Munich-Riem Airport opens.
• Population: 829,318.
• 1940
• June: Bombing of Munich begins.
• 1942
• 27 June: White Rose group active.
• 17 December: Forced labour camp for men established in the Moosach district.
• 1943
• February: Munich-Allach subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp established by the SS.
• Polenlager Ost and Polenlager Süd forced labour subcamps of the local Nazi prison for youth established for young Poles (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
• 1944
• 5 August: Forced labour camp for women established in the Berg am Laim district.
• Agfa-Commando subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp established.
• 2 December: Forced labour camp for women in Berg am Laim dissolved.

• 1945
• 13 March: Forced labour camp for men in Moosach dissolved.
• City captured by Americans. Remaining prisoners of the Munich-Allach and Agfa-Commando subcamps liberated.
• AFN Munich begins broadcasting.
• Munich Central Collecting Point set up.
• Denazification.
• Christian Social Union in Bavaria headquartered in Munich.

1946-1990s

• 1948 - Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste established.
• 1949 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra founded.
• 1951 - Residenz Theatre built.
• 1952 - Deutsches Brauereimuseum founded.
• 1954 - Population: 908,572.
• 1955
• Italian Cultural Institute in Munich founded.
• Fast-food Wienerwald (restaurant) in business.
• 1958
• 6 February: Munich air disaster.
• Population: 1,011,878.
• 1959 - begins.
• 1960
• Munich Central Station rebuilt.
• Convair 340 crash.
• 1961 - Population: 1,106,298.
• 1963 - National Theatre rebuilt.
• 1965 - Population: 1,214,603.
• 1966
• Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst founded.
• Deutsches Jagdmuseum reopens.
• 1967 - Staatliche Antikensammlungen opens.
• 1969 - City hosts the 1969 World Table Tennis Championships.
• 1970
• Munich bus attack
• Population: 1,311,978.
• 1971 - U-Bahn begins operating.
• 1972
• S-Bahn begins operating.
• Olympic Stadium opens; city hosts Summer Olympics; Munich massacre.
• BMW Headquarters is established.
• 1973 - built.
• 1974 - City hosts the 1974 World Figure Skating Championships.
• 1975 - City co-hosts the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships.

• 1978 - Population: 1,296,970.
• 1980 - Museum Witt established; Oktoberfest bombing.
• 1983
• April–May: City co-hosts the 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships.
• City hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show).
• 1985 - Gasteig culture center opens.
• 1988 - Munich Biennale opera festival begins.
• 1989 - Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, USA.
• 1990 - Museum of Man and Nature opens.
• 1992
• City hosts 18th G7 summit.
• Museum Villa Stuck opens.
• Munich Airport opens.
• 1993
• Bayerische Staatskanzlei built.
• Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding founded.
• 1995 - Eureka Prometheus Project's VaMP driverless car goes to Copenhagen and back.
• 1996 - City website online (approximate date).
• 1999
• Czech Centre in Munich founded.
• BMW Headquarters declared as protected historical building
• 2000 - formed.

21st century

• 2001 - City hosts the 2001 World Judo Championships.
• 2002 - Pinakothek der Moderne opens.
• 2003 - Goetz Collection opens.
• 2005 - Allianz Arena opens.
• 2006 - Ohel Jakob synagogue built.
• 2007
• Jewish Museum opens.
• Population: 1,311,573.
• 2009 - Museum Brandhorst opens.
• 2010 - Türkentor restored.
• 2012 - March: 2012 Munich artworks discovery.
• 2013 - Population: 1,407,836.
• 2014 - Dieter Reiter becomes mayor.
• 2015
• Migrants arrive.
• NS-Dokumentationszentrum (Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism) opens.
• 2016 - Munich shooting occurs.
• 2024 - 2024 Munich shooting
• 2025 - 2025 Munich car attack

See also

• History of Munich
• List of mayors of Munich
• Timeline of German history
• of other cities in the state of Bavaria: Augsburg, Nuremberg, Würzburg

References

Bibliography

in English

in German

• 1887-

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Munich via Wikisource