Timeline of Radom

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Radom, Poland.

Important dates

1155: first mention about Radom (Pope Adrian IV bull)

before 1300: Old Radom granted with Środa Śląska rights (city rights based on those of Środa Śląska)

1233: first written reference to Radom's chief of castle - Marek

1340: Casimir III founds New Radom (Nowy Radom)

1360–1370: Casimir III founds St. John's Church

1364: Radom granted with Magdeburg law

1383: Jadwiga of Poland accepted by a Sejm held in Radom as a king of Poland

1401: First union of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania signed in Radom

1481: Radom becomes a de facto capital of Poland after Casimir IV of Poland moves to Lithuania and his son, Saint Casimir to be, ruled the country in his absence from Radom

1489: Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, John von Tieffen pays tribute to Casimir IV of Poland in Radom castle

1505: a Sejm in Radom passes the Nihil novi constitution and Łaski's Statute, the first real bill of rights of Poland

1564: 1800 inhabitants, 180 houses, 14 butchers' shops, two baths and two wells

1613: Radom becomes the place where the Highest Fiscal Courts are held

1628: Great fire destroys the town

1656: Charles X of Sweden stays in town during The Deluge

1660: the city plundered by Sweden; after they leave the town has 395 inhabitants and 37 houses

1724: Augustus II the Strong grant to Radom privilege De non tollerandis judaeis

1737–1756: Kolegium Pijarów [the Piarists College] school founded

1763: Fiscal Tribunal moved to Warsaw; the town has 1370 inhabitants and 137 buildings

1795: After the 3rd Partition Radom is annexed by Austria

1809: Radom becomes capital of a department of the Duchy of Warsaw

1815: Radom, after the Congress of Vienna, becomes part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland

1817: First lay school founded

1819: Fryderyk August Schnierstein opens a tannery, the date is considered a start of towns industrialisation

1844: Radom becomes the capital of Radom-Kielce government

1867: Creation of Radom local government; the sewers are built

1885: Dęblin–Dąbrowa Górnicza railway opened

1901: electricity plant opened

1908: Population: 39,981.

1911: Radom has 51,934 inhabitants

1920–1939: Radom becomes a part of the Central Industrial Area (Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy); Chemical Plant, arms and munitions factory (Łucznik Arms Factory), gas works, telephone and shoe factories are founded

1935: Radom–Warsaw railway opened. It significantly shortened rail distance between Warsaw and Kraków

1938: 90,059 inhabitants

1939–1945: capital of Radom district of the General Government

1942–1944: Radom Ghetto

January 16, 1945: liberation from German occupation

1948–1975: Theatre (Teatr Dramatyczny) and an engineering school are opened.

1975: the city becomes the capital of Radom Voivodeship

June 25, 1976: Huge workers' strike against the communist regime; the town becomes one of the main centres of anti-communist opposition in Poland (see June 1976 protests)

1996: Radomska Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierska promoted to the rank of a Kazimierz Pułaski Technical University of Radom (Politechnika Radomska)

1999: Radom becomes the capital of Radom County of the Masovian Voivodeship

References

Timeline of Radom Wikipedia

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