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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Contents

Prior to 19th century

  • 70 AD - Roman-Batavian conflict.
  • 889 AD - Settlement sacked by Norse.
  • 1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
  • 13th century - Bonn Minster (church) built.
  • 1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.
  • 1543 - Printing press in operation.
  • 1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne.
  • 1627 - Kreuzbergkirche (Bonn) (church) built.
  • 1673 - November: Siege of Bonn.
  • 1693 - Jesuiten-kirche (church) built.
  • 1730 - Palace built.
  • 1737 - Town Hall built.
  • 1746 - Poppelsdorf Palace built.
  • 1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded.
  • 1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.
  • 1794 - French in power.

    • 19th century

  • 1800 - Johann Joseph Eichhoff becomes mayor.
  • 1815 - Town becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1867 - Population: 63,630.
  • 1871 - Bonn-Beuel station opens.
  • 1882 - Municipal museum active.
  • 1884 - Railway Station rebuilt.
  • 1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.
  • 1890 - Beethovenfest active.
  • 1891 - Provincial Museum of Rhenish and Roman Antiquities opens.
  • 1892 - Marienkirche (church) built.
  • 1898 - Rhine bridge built.

    • 1900s-1940s

  • 1904 - Photographische Vereinigung Bonn and Amateur-Photographen-Club Bonn active (approximate date).
  • 1905 - Population: 81,997.
  • 1913 - Stollfuß Verlag (publisher) in business.
  • 1919 - Population: 91,410.
  • 1922 - Gummy bear candy invented.
  • 1934 - Museum Koenig (natural history museum) opens.
  • 1939 - Population: 101,391.
  • 1945
  • March: Allied 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.
  • Bundestag (national legislature) begins meeting in the Bundeshaus.
  • Rhine bridge rebuilt.

    • 1950s-1990s

  • 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.
  • Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany.
  • 1951
  • Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland (foreign press association) formed.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 1980 - University of Bonn's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics established.
  • 1981 -Bonn Women's Museum founded.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law) 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.
  • 2009
  • Jürgen Nimptsch becomes mayor.
  • Student protests.

    • References

    Timeline of Bonn Wikipedia
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