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968 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Poznań established.
10th century – Poznań Cathedral built.
1038
City taken by forces of Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia.
11th C. – St. Michael church built.
1249 – Castle construction begins (approximate date).
1557 – Poznań native Josephus Struthius, renowned Polish professor of medicine and court physician to Polish kings, became mayor after gaining international recognition for his depiction of the human pulse and its use for diagnostic purposes.
AZS Poznań wins its first Polish men's basketball championship.
Association of Friends of the Sorbs established.[27]
1933 – Golęcin and Podolany become part of city.[23]
1935 – Lech Poznań wins its first Polish men's basketball championship.
World War II (1939–1945)
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Arthur Greiser, Wilhelm Frick and Walter Petzel in German-occupied Poznań in November 1939
1939
September: During the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, near Słupca, the Germans bombed a train with Polish civilians fleeing the Wehrmacht from Poznań.[28]
Poznań Nightingales (choir) secretly founded.
10 September: German troops invade Poznań, beginning of German occupation.[2]
10 September: Inhabitants of Poznań were among the victims of a massacre of Poles committed by German troops in Zdziechowa.[29]
12 September: The Einsatzkommando 1 and Einsatzgruppe VI paramilitary death squads entered the city to commit various crimes against the population.[30]
September: Mass arrests of Poles by the occupying forces.[31]
September: City made the headquarters of the central district of the Selbstschutz, which task was to commit atrocities against Poles during the German invasion of Poland.[32]
September: Tajna Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (Secret Polish Military Organization) Polish resistance organization founded.[33]
October: Infamous Fort VII concentration camp established by the Germans for imprisonment of Poles arrested in the city and region during the Intelligenzaktion.[34]
October: Poznańska Organizacja Zbrojna [pl] (Poznań Military Organization), Narodowa Organizacja Bojowa [pl] (National Fighting Organization), Ojczyzna (Homeland) and Komitet Niesienia Pomocy (Relief Committee) Polish resistance organizations founded.[35]
16, 18, 20, 26, 28 October: Mass executions of 71 Polish prisoners in Fort VII. Among the victims were teachers, merchants, farmers, craftsmen, workers, doctors, lawyers, editors of Polish newspapers.[34]
22 October: First expulsion of Poles carried out by the German police.[36]
November: Transit camp for Poles expelled from the city established by the occupiers.[37]
8, 18, 29 November: Further executions of over 30 Polish prisoners in Fort VII. Among the victims were merchants, craftsmen, editors of Polish newspapers.[38]
11 November: Special Staff for the Resettlement of Poles and Jews (Sonderstab für die Aussiedlung von Polen und Juden) founded by the Germans to coordinate the expulsion of Poles from the city and region, known as the Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, Umwandererzentralstelle) since 1940.[39]
12–16 November: German police and SS massacred 60 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp in the forest of Dębienko near Poznań.[40]
December: Further executions of 14 Polish craftsmen in Fort VII.[38]
The Germans massacred over 630 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp, incl. 70 students of Poznań universities and colleges and 70 nuns, in the forest of Dopiewiec near Poznań.[38]
Ernst Damzog, former commander of the Einsatzgruppe V, was appointed the police inspector for both Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in German-occupied Poznań.[41]
Tadeusz Kościuszko and 15th Poznań Uhlan Regiment monuments destroyed by the Germans.[25][26]
Bunker no. 16 in Fort VII, used by the German occupiers as an improvised gas chamber
1940
January: Further executions of 67 Poles in Fort VII. Among the victims were teachers, local officials, engineers, artists, priests, professors and merchants.[38]
27 January, 20 February, 5 March, 25 April: The Germans massacred over 700 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp, incl. 120 women, in the forest of Dębienko.[40]
February: The regional branch of the Union of Armed Struggle begins to organize.[42]
February, April and May: Further executions of 21 Poles in Fort VII.[38]
March: Several Polish resistance organizations merged into the Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich [pl] (Military Organization of the Western Lands).[43]
Early 1940: The Germans massacred over 2,000 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp in the forest of Dopiewiec.[38]
Spring: Polska Niepodległa [pl] (Independent Poland) resistance organization starts operating in Poznań.[43]
April: First arrests of members of Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich carried out by the Germans.[33]
20 April: Over 100 Poles were arrested by the Germans in the city in just one day.[44]
June: Bureau of the Government Delegation for Poland for Polish territories annexed by Germany founded.[45]
1 August: Stalag XXI-D prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs established by the occupiers.[46]
Autumn: Regional branch of the Bataliony Chłopskie resistance organization established.[47]
Autumn: Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich crushed by the Germans. Surviving members joined the Union of Armed Struggle.[33]
Adam Mickiewicz monument destroyed by the Germans.[19]
Reichsmarine rally in German-occupied Poznań in April 1941
1941
The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work.[48]
Spring: Komitet Niesienia Pomocy joined the Union of Armed Struggle.[33]
May: The Polish resistance movement facilitated escapes of British prisoners of war from the Stalag XXI-D POW camp.[49]
1942: Mass arrests of members of the Komitet Niesienia Pomocy resistance organization carried out by the Germans.[33]
1943
20–21 February: A flying unit of the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army carried out a spectacular operation to burn down Wehrmacht warehouses in the local river port.[50]
February: First Soviet POWs brought by the Germans to Stalag XXI-D.[46]
14 September: Kidnapped Polish children from Poznań were deported to a camp for Polish children in Łódź, which was nicknamed "little Auschwitz" due to its conditions.[51]
October: Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler delivers Posen speeches.
Lake Rusałka created.
December: First Italian POWs brought by the Germans to Stalag XXI-D.[46]
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