Timeline of Vienna

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vienna, Austria.

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Prior to 19th century

• 1st-millennium BCE – Vindobona settled.
• 881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna).
• 1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna.
• 1155
  • Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city.
  • Schottenstift founded.
• 1160 – St. Stephen's Cathedral built.
• 1221 – Vienna receives rights as staple port.
• 1278 – City charter granted.
• 1280 – Jans der Enikel writes the Fürstenbuch, a first history of the city.
• 1349 – Augustinian Church consecrated.
• 1365 – University of Vienna founded.
• 1421 – Jews expelled.
• 1482 – Johann Winterburger sets up printing press (approximate date).
• 1485 – Siege of Vienna by Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1515 – First Congress of Vienna.
• 1529 – Siege of Vienna by Turks.
• 1556 – Vienna becomes seat of Holy Roman Empire under Ferdinand I.
• 1598 – Donaukanal regulated.
• 1600 – Melchior Khlesl becomes Bishop of Vienna.
• 1643 – Schönbrunn Palace built.
• 1668 – July: Premiere of Cesti's opera Il pomo d'oro.
• 1679 – Great Plague of Vienna.
• 1683 – Battle of Vienna.
• 1684 – Kollschitzky coffeehouse in business.
• 1692 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna founded.
• 1703 – Palais Liechtenstein built.
• 1704 – Linienwall fortification built.
• 1709 – Theater am Kärntnertor built.
• 1713 – Plague epidemic.
• 1718 – Vienna Porcelain Manufactory founded.
• 1724 – Population: 150,000.
• 1735 – Winter Riding School built.
• 1741 – Burgtheater opens.
• 1762 – Premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
• 1765
  • Tiergarten Schönbrunn (zoo) opens.
  • Artaria publishing firm founded.
• 1766 – Prater opens.
• 1770 – Chess-playing Mechanical Turk introduced at Schönbrunn Palace.
• 1772 – Freyung Christmas market begins.
• 1786
  • Demel confectionery and Gesellschaft der Associierten founded.
  • 1 May: Premiere of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.
• 1790 – Population: 200,000.
• 1791 – 30 September: Premiere of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
• 1792 – Schweighofer piano manufactury established.

19th century

• 1800 – 2 April: Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.
• 1805
  • 23 May: Premiere of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.
  • 13 November: Napoleon takes city.
• 1808 – 22 December: Premiere of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Choral Fantasy, and Piano Concerto No. 4 at the Theater an der Wien.
• 1809 – Battle of Aspern-Essling.
• 1814
  • Congress of Vienna.
  • C.F. Peters music publisher in business.
• 1824 – 7 May: Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
• 1829 – Leopoldine Society formed.
• 1832 – Sachertorte invented.
• 1842
  • Austrian Southern Railway begins.
  • Philharmonische Academie formed.
• 1847 – Austrian Academy of Sciences established.
• 1848 – Vienna Uprising.
• 1850
  • City expanded beyond Innere Stadt.
  • Population: 551,300.
• 1858 – Ringstraße constructed.
• 1864 – Neue Freie Presse newspaper begins publication.
• 1869 – Vienna State Opera house built.
• 1870 – Musikverein inaugurated.
• 1873
  • World exposition held.
  • Café Landtmann and Hotel Imperial in business.
• 1874 – Premiere of Strauss's opera Die Fledermaus.
• 1875 – Danube levees constructed.
• 1876
  • Academy of Fine Arts building erected.
  • Hotel Sacher established.
  • Café Central in business.
• 1878 – Palais Nathaniel Rothschild built.
• 1879 – Geological Office formed.
• 1880 – Café Sperl in business.
• 1881 – Palace of Justice (Vienna) built.
• 1882 – Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (greenhouse) opens.
• 1884 – Palais Albert Rothschild built.
• 1885 – Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory and Alpinen Gesellschaft Edelraute (hiking club) established.
• 1886 – Hermesvilla built.
• 1887 – Historical Museum of the City of Vienna established.
• 1889 – de active.
• 1890 – City expanded.
• 1891 – Kunsthistorisches Museum (art museum) opens.
• 1894 – Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) built.
• 1897
  • Wiener Riesenrad erected.
  • Vienna Secession art group founded.
• 1898
  • Wiener Stadtbahn begins.
  • Secession Building constructed.
• 1899
  • Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams published.
  • de magazine begins publication.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1900 – Population: 1,769,137.
• 1901 – Universal Edition in business.
• 1902
  • Freudenau harbor constructed.
  • Franciszek Trześniewski opens restaurant.
• 1903
  • Kuchelau harbor constructed.
  • Wiener Werkstätte art group founded.
• 1904
  • Floridsdorf district added.
  • de in business.
• 1908 – Vienna Psychoanalytic Society active.
• 1910 – Population: 2,031,000.
• 1912 – Aspern Airfield opens.
• 1913
  • 23 February: Premiere of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder.
  • de becomes mayor.
• 1915 – April: Conference of Central European Socialist Parties held in Vienna.
• 1916 – 30 November: Funeral of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
• 1918 – Red Vienna begins.
• 1919
  • Lainzer Tiergarten opens.
  • Jakob Reumann becomes mayor.
• 1920 – Austrian National Library established.
• 1921
  • The Geistkreis seminar begins.
  • de (garden) established.
  • International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.
• 1923
  • Karl Seitz becomes mayor.
  • Phaidon Press founded.
• 1925 – de (cinema) opens.
• 1929 – Austrian Bridge Federation founded.
• 1931 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion built.
• 1934 – Richard Schmitz becomes mayor.
• 1938
  • Anschluss.
  • Hermann Neubacher becomes mayor.
  • City expands.
• 1940 – Philipp Wilhelm Jung becomes mayor.
• 1941 – Kehal Adas Yereim Vien established.
• 1942 – Bombing begins.
• 1943 – Hanns Blaschke becomes mayor.
• 1945
  • Vienna Offensive.
  • Allied-occupied city.
  • Rudolf Prikryl becomes mayor, succeeded by Theodor Körner.
  • Soviet War Memorial installed.

1950s-1990s

• 1951 – Franz Jonas becomes mayor.
• 1954
  • Vienna International Airport opens.
  • Flood.
• 1957 – International Atomic Energy Agency headquartered in Vienna.
• 1958 – de built.
• 1959
  • Vienna Museum opens.
  • City hosts World Festival of Youth and Students.
• 1960 – Österreichische Mediathek (sound archive) headquartered in city.
• 1961 – Vienna summit of USA and USSR.
• 1962 – Vienna S-Bahn begins.
• 1964 – de established.
• 1965 – de becomes mayor.
• 1968 – Austrian Science Fund formed.
• 1969 – OPEC Headquarter moves from Geneva, Switzerland to Vienna.
• 1970 – de becomes mayor.
• 1973 – Leopold Gratz becomes mayor.
• 1976 – Vienna U-Bahn opens.
• 1979 – Vienna Islamic Centre and UNO City built.
• 1983 – Donauinselfest begins.
• 1984 – Helmut Zilk becomes mayor.
• 1985
  • Airport attack.
  • Institute of Technology Assessment founded.
• 1988
  • New Danube channel constructed.
  • ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival begins
• 1990 – Museum in Progress created.
• 1992 – The biggest AIDS charity event in Europe, the Life Ball begins.
• 1993 – World Conference on Human Rights held.
• 1994 – Michael Häupl becomes mayor.
• 1995 – Secretariat for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe established.
• 1998 – de built.
• 1999 – Millennium Tower built.

21st century

• 2000
  • City website online (approximate date).
  • de built.
• 2001 – de and Ares Tower built.
• 2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.
• 2004 – de built.
• 2007 – EU Fundamental Rights Agency established.
• 2008
  • World Institute for Nuclear Security headquartered in city.
  • UEFA European Football Championship held.
• 2010 – Wiener Staatsballet formed.
• 2011 – Funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
• 2014 – Population: 1,797,337.

See also

• History of Vienna
• History of the Jews in Vienna
• List of mayors of Vienna
• Years in Austria

other cities in Austria

• Timeline of Graz

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

published in the 18th-19th century

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published in the 20th century

published in the 21st century

in German

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Vienna via Wikisource
• Items related to Vienna, various dates (via Europeana)