Timeline of the history of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .
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Prior to 19th century [ ] 70 AD - Roman-Batavian conflict.[1]
889 AD - Settlement sacked by Norse.[1]
1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
13th century - Bonn Minster (church) built.
1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.[1]
1543 - Printing press in operation.[2]
1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne .[citation needed
1627 - [de ] (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.
1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded.
1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.[4]
1794 - French in power.[1]
1800 - [de ] 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
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.
1888 - the local newspaper General-Anzeiger was first published
1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.[7]
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]
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 .[13]
Bundestag (national legislature) begins meeting in the Bundeshaus .Rhine bridge rebuilt. 1950s-1990s [ ] 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.[14] Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany .
1951
[de ] (foreign press association) formed.[15]
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.[16] 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).[17]
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.[15]
1991 - Capital decision (Hauptstadtbeschluss)
1992 - Bundeskunsthalle (exhibit hall) inaugurated.
1994
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.[18]
1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law)[19]
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.[15] [20]
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 - [de ]
2015
After 9 years of construction, the [de ] was opened
Ashok Sridharan [de ] becomes mayor[23]
2017
2019 - University of Bonn becomes excellence university
2020 - Katja Dörner is elected new mayor See also [ ] References [ ]
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