Timeline of Vienna

Prior to 19th century

1st-millennium BCE – Vindobona settled.

18 – Herod Archelaus, king of Judea, banished to Vienna by Caesar.

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 – Vienna City Archives 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.

Die Fackel magazine begins publication.

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.

Café Korb 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.

Richard Weiskirchner 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.

Österreichische Bundesgärten (garden) established.

International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded in Vienna.

1923

Karl Seitz becomes mayor.

Phaidon Press founded.

1925 – Kolosseum (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 – Freudenauer Harbour Bridge 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 – Österreichisches Filmmuseum established.

1965 – Bruno Marek becomes mayor.

1968 – Austrian Science Fund formed.

1969 – OPEC Headquarter moves from Geneva, Switzerland to Vienna.

1970 – Felix Slavik 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 – Andromeda-Tower built.

1999 – Millennium Tower built.

21st century

2000

City website online (approximate date).

Mischek Tower built.

2001 – IZD Tower and Ares Tower built.

2003 – Lighthouse Wien founded.

2004 – Saturn Tower 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.