Timeline of Bonn
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
- 70 CE - Roman-Batavian conflict.[1]
- 359 CE - Town of the Ubii restored by the emperor Julian.[1]
- 889 CE - Settlement sacked by Norse raiders.[1]
- 1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
- 13th C. - Bonn Minster (church) built.[1]
- 1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.[1]
- 1543 - Printing press in operation.[2]
- 1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne.[citation needed]
- 1627 - Kreuzbergkirche (Bonn) (church) built.
- 1673 - November: Siege of Bonn.
- 1693 - Jesuiten-kirche (church) built.[1]
- 1730 - Palace built.[3]
- 1737 - Town Hall built.[3]
- 1746 - Poppelsdorf Palace built.
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn.[1]
- 1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded..
- 1792 - Beethoven leaves Bonn for Vienna where he would stay for the rest of his life.
- 1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.[4]
- 1794 - French took power; sanctioned by the Treaty of Lunéville.[1]
- 1800 - Johann Joseph Eichhoff becomes mayor.
19th century
- 1815 - Town becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna.[1]
- 1818 - Rhenish Frederic William University and Academic Art Museum established.
- 1820 - Museum of Antiquities founded.
- 1822 - Town becomes part of the Rhine Province.
- 1841 - Society of the Friends of Antiquity founded.[5]
- 1844 - Railway Station built; Bonn–Cologne Railway begins operating.
- 1845 - Beethovenhalle (concert hall) built.
- 1851 - Leopold Kaufmann becomes mayor.
- 1859 - Durchmusterung astronomical survey begins at the Bonn Observatory.
- 1860 - Dieckhoff residence built.
- 1862 - Herz Jesu-kirche (church) built.[1]
- 1867 - Population: 63,630.[6]
- 1871 - Bonn-Beuel station opens.
- 1882 - Municipal museum active.[1]
- 1884 - Railway Station rebuilt.
- 1885 - Population: 35,989.[1]
- 1888 - the local newspaper General-Anzeiger was first published
- 1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.[7][1]
- 1890 - Beethovenfest active.[8]
- 1891 - Provincial Museum of Rhenish and Roman Antiquities opens.[9]
- 1892 - Marienkirche (church) built.[1]
- 1898 - Rhine bridge built.[1]
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1904 - Photographische Vereinigung Bonn and Amateur-Photographen-Club Bonn active (approximate date).[10]
- 1905 - Population: 81,997.[1]
- 1913 - Stollfuß Verlag (publisher) in business.[citation needed]
- 1919 - Population: 91,410.[11]
- 1922 - Gummy bear candy invented.[12]
- 1934 - Museum Koenig (natural history museum) opens.
- 1939 - Population: 101,391.[13]
- 1944
- 4 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp established.[14]
- 14 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn-Bad Godesberg forced labour camp established.[15]
- 28 November: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp dissolved.[14]
- 1945
- March: American forces take city.
- Allied occupation of Germany begins; North Rhine-Westphalia overseen by British forces.
- 1947 - Kunstmuseum Bonn (art museum) founded.
- 1949
- May: City designated capital of Federal Republic of Germany.[13]
- Bundestag (national legislature) begins meeting in the Bundeshaus.
- Rhine bridge rebuilt.
1950s-1990s
- 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.[16]
- Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany.
- 1951
- Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland (foreign press association) formed.[17]
- 1959 - Beethovenhalle rebuilt.
- 1963 - British Embassy Preparatory School founded.
- 1967 - Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (museum) rebuilt.
- 1969
- Bad Godesberg, Beuel, and Duisdorf become part of city.[18]
- Central Theater and Youth Theater founded.
- 1970 - United Nations Volunteers headquartered in Bonn.
- 1975
- Bonn Stadtbahn (public transit) begins operating; Bundesrechnungshof station opens.
- Hans Daniels becomes mayor.
- 1978 - July: 4th G7 summit held.
- 1979 - City hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show).[19]
- 1980 - University of Bonn's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics established.
- 1981 -Bonn Women's Museum founded.
Protest in Bonn against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Germany, 1981 - 1982 - 10 June: NATO summit held.
- 1984 - Bonn Botanical Garden reconstructed.
- 1985
- Rheinisches Malermuseum (art museum) established.
- May: 11th G7 summit held.
- 1986 - Heimatmuseum Beuel (museum) established.
- 1989 - International Paralympic Committee headquartered in city.[17]
- 1991 - Capital decision (Hauptstadtbeschluss)
- 1992 - Bundeskunsthalle (exhibit hall) inaugurated.
- 1994
- Bärbel Dieckmann becomes mayor.
- Haus der Geschichte (history museum) opens.
- 1995 - Deutsches Museum Bonn, and University of Bonn's Center of Advanced European Studies and Research and Center for European Integration Studies established.
- 1996 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat headquartered in Bonn.[20]
- 1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law)[21] established.
- 1998 - Institute for the Study of Labor founded.
- 1999
- German Bundestag (legislature) relocated from Bonn to Berlin per Berlin-Bonn Act.
- Federal Court of Auditors and Federal Cartel Office relocated to Bonn.
21st century
- 2001 - University of Bonn's Egyptian Museum founded.
- 2002
- Post Tower and Schürmann-Bau (office building) constructed.
- UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training inaugurated.[17][22]
- 2005 - Events of the World Youth Day 2005 were held in Bonn
- 2006 - Official opening of the Bonn UN Campus by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- 2009
- 2011 - The celebrations for the Day of German Unity take place in Bonn
- 2012 - attempted bomb attack on Bonn Central Station
- 2015
- After 9 years of construction, the World Conference Center Bonn was opened
- Ashok-Alexander Sridharan becomes mayor[25]
- 2017
- Meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 20
- 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) under the Presidency of the Republic of Fiji in Bonn
- 2019 - University of Bonn becomes excellence university
- 2020 - Katja Dörner is elected new mayor
- 2023 - Telekom Baskets Bonn win the Basketball Champions League as first German team and first title in the club´s history.
- 2025 - Guido Déus becomes mayor.
See also
- Bonn history
- List of mayors of Bonn
- History of the city of Bonn
- Bonna (in Italian), settlement in the Roman province of Germania Inferior
- Timelines of other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia:(de) Aachen, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Münster
