Timeline of Prague

Prior to 16th century

870 CE – Prague Castle founded

973

St. George's Convent established in Prague Castle.

St. George's Basilica building expanded.

1085 – Coronation of Vratislaus II of Bohemia.

1172 – Judith Bridge built.

1235 – City wall constructed.

1270 – Great Synagogue built.

1344 – Catholic Archdiocese of Prague established.

1345 – University of Prague founded.

1347 – 2 September: Coronation of Charles IV as King of Bohemia; Prague becomes capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

1348 – New Town founded outside Prague city walls.

1354 - Public clock installed (approximate date).

1363 – St. Wenceslas Chapel built

1370 – Tyn Church construction begins.

1386 – Karolinum rebuilt.

1391 – Bethlehem Chapel built.

1398 – Town Hall built in New Town.

1410 – Astronomical clock installed in City Hall.

1419 – Defenestration (political unrest).

1458 – Coronation of George of Poděbrady as King of Bohemia.

1475 – Powder Tower built.

1478 - Printing press in operation.

16th-18th centuries

1501 - Czech-language Protestant hymnal published.

1503 – Charles Bridge built.

1580 - Loew reportedly invents the Golem of Prague.

1604 - October: Kepler observes a Milky Way supernova.

1618 – 23 May: 2nd Prague defenestration sparked off the Thirty Years' War.

1621 – 21 June: Execution of 27 Czech nobles on the Old Town Square as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

1635 – 30 May: City hosts signing of the Peace of Prague (1635).

1648 – West bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies.

1650 – Column of the Virgin erected in Old Town Square.

1724 – Sporck theatre active.

1738 – Palais Sylva-Tarouca built on Na příkopě.

1739 – Kotzentheater active.

1741 – November: Occupation by French-Bavarian armies.

1742 – Siege of Prague (1742).

1744 – City occupied by Prussian forces.

1755 – St. Nicholas Church built.

1757

6 May: Battle of Prague (1757).

May–June: Siege of Prague.

1765 – Goltz Palace built.

1783 – Nostitz Theatre opens.

1784 – Administration of Hradčany, Malá Strana, New Town, and Old Town unified as one city.

1787

19 January: Premiere of Mozart's Prague Symphony.

29 October: Premiere of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

1791

6 September: Coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.

6 September: Premiere of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.

1796

Lithography invented.

Academy of Fine Arts and the Picture Gallery established.

19th century

1813 – July–October: City hosts meeting of the Coalition forces of the Napoleonic Wars.

1819 – Bohemian Museum founded.

1825 – Savings bank established.

1841 – Bridge of Francis I built.

1847 – Austrian National Bank branch opens.

1848

2–12 June: Prague Slavic Congress, 1848 held.

17 June: Revolutionary uprising near Prague crushed by imperial army.

Old Town Hall rebuilt.

1850

Josefov becomes part of city.

Statue of Francis I erected in the Franzensquai.

1851 - Prague City Archives established.

1857

Prager Eisenindustrie-Gesellschaft in business.

Industrial school established.

1862

Sokol sport club founded.

Provisional Theatre opens.

1866 – City hosts signing of the Peace of Prague (1866).

1868

Živnostenská banka (bank) founded.

Spanish Synagogue built.

1876 – Prager Tagblatt German-language newspaper begins publication.

1877 – Premiere of Dvořák's Symphonic Variations.

1879 – Anglo-Austrian Bank branch established.

1880 – Population: 293,822 metro.

1882 – Charles University reorganized into German- and Czech-language institutions.

1883

Vyšehrad becomes part of city.

Czech Theatre built.

National Theatre Ballet founded.

1884

Café Slavia opens.

Holešovice-Bubna becomes part of city.

1885

Rudolfinum (concert hall) inaugurated.

Museum of Decorative Arts founded.

1888 – Neues Deutsches Theater opens.

1890

2 February: Premiere of Dvořák's Symphony No. 8.

September: Flood.

Population: 182,530.

1891

Petřín Lookout Tower and Bohemian Museum building constructed.

Hanavský Pavilion built in Letná Park.

General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) held.

1896

Czech Philharmonic established.

Population: 189,157; metro 368,490.

1898

Bohemian Industrial Bank headquartered in city.

Civic museum opens on Poric Street.

20th century

1900 – Old Prague Society founded.

1901

Liben becomes part of city.

Francis Bridge built.

1906

Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse opens.

Jewish Museum founded.

Population: 460,849 metro.

1907 – Vinohrady Theatre inaugurated.

1908

May–June: City hosts Prague 1908 chess tournament.

19 September: Premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

1909 - Smíchov becomes part of Prague.

1910 - Population: 223,741.

1911 – St.-Antonius-von-Padua-Kirche (church) built on Bubenská-Platz.

1916 – May: City premiere of Janáček's Jenůfa.

1918

Kino Světozor (cinema) opens.

October: City becomes capital of Czechoslovakia.

1921 – Communist Party of Czechoslovakia headquartered in city.

1922

Great Prague created by uniting Prague with its suburbs and neighboring towns; 37 municipalities added.

Vinohrady and Žižkov become part of Prague.

Population: 676,000.

1930 – Population: 848,823.

1931 – Prague Zoo opens.

1934 - Prague Symphony Orchestra founded.

1939

March: Nazi German occupation of city begins.

City becomes seat of German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

1942 – 27 May: German official Reinhard Heydrich assassinated; Nazis respond with wave of terror.

1945

14 February: Bombing of Prague in World War II.

5–8 May: Prague uprising against the Nazi German occupants during the last days of World War II.

6–11 May: Prague Offensive: arrival of the Red Army; Nazi German occupation ends.

Expulsion of German citizens

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague established.

1946

Prague Spring International Music Festival begins.

Faculty of Theatre established.

1948

February: 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état.

May: City hosts The Second International Congress of Composers and Music Critics 1948.

1952

Slánský trial.

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra active.

1954 – Bethlehem Chapel reconstructed.

1958 – Theatre on the Balustrade founded.

1955 – Stalin Monument unveiled at Letná Park.

1957 – Reduta Jazz Club opens on Národní.

1962 - Stalin Monument destroyed.

1964 – Prague Ballet active.

1968 – Prague Spring; Soviet crackdown.

1969

Jan Palach's self-immolation.

City becomes capital of the Czech Socialist Republic.

1970 – Prague Chamber Ballet founded.

1973 – 11 December: City hosts signing of the Treaty of Prague (1973).

1978 – Charles Bridge pedestrianized.

1989 – November–December: Velvet Revolution.

1990 – City divided into 56 districts.

1991

School of International Relations, University of Economics in Prague established.

Prager Zeitung German-language newspaper begins publication.

Prague Metronome erected.

1992

Žižkov Television Tower erected.

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic headquartered in city.

1993 – 1 January: Prague becomes capital of the Czech Republic.

1995 – U.S. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquartered in city.

1996

City hosts World Congress of Esperanto; manifesto drafted.

Dancing House built.

1997 – Via Foundation headquartered in city.

1998 – University of New York in Prague established.

1999 - Prague Mosque built.

21st century

2001 – Prague Fringe Festival begins.

2002

August: Prague suffers from flooding, parts of the city evacuated, many historic archives damaged but no major landmarks destroyed.

Broadway Theatre (Prague) opens.

Prague Security Studies Institute established.

November: City hosts NATO summit.

2007 – The Codex Gigas returns to Prague after 379 years

2009 – 5 April: U.S. president gives speech on nuclear disarmament.

2010 – September: Economic protest.

2011 – Population: 1,262,106; metro 2,300,000.

2013

29 April: 2013 Prague explosion.

Tomáš Hudeček becomes mayor.

2014 Adriana Krnáčová becomes mayor.