Timeline of Bonn

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* 70 CE - Roman-Batavian conflict.[1]
* 359 CE - Town of the Ubii restored by the emperor Julian.[1]
* 889 CE - Settlement sacked by Norse raiders.[1]
* 1151 - Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf consecrated.
* 13th C. - Bonn Minster (church) built.[1]
* 1318 - Minoretenkirche (church) built.[1]
* 1543 - Printing press in operation.[2]
* 1597 - Bonn becomes capital of the Electorate of Cologne.[citation needed]
* 1627 - Kreuzbergkirche (Bonn) [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.
* 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn.[1]
* 1777 - Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (academy) founded..
* 1792 - Beethoven leaves Bonn for Vienna where he would stay for the rest of his life.
* 1793 - N. Simrock music publisher in business.[4]
* 1794 - French took power; sanctioned by the Treaty of Lunéville.[1]
* 1800 - Johann Joseph Eichhoff [de] becomes mayor.

## 19th century

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* 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 astronomical survey begins at the Bonn Observatory.
* 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.
* 1885 - Population: 35,989.[1]
* 1888 - the local newspaper General-Anzeiger was first published
* 1889 - Beethoven House museum opens.[7][1]
* 1890 - Beethovenfest active.[8]
* 1891 - Provincial Museum of Rhenish and Roman Antiquities opens.[9]
* 1892 - Marienkirche (church) built.[1]
* 1898 - Rhine bridge built.[1]

Bonn at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

## 20th century

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### 1900s-1940s

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* 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]
* 1944
* 4 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp established.[14]
* 14 May: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn-Bad Godesberg forced labour camp established.[15]
* 28 November: Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn forced labour camp dissolved.[14]
* 1945
* March: American 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

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* 1950 - Cologne Bonn Airport in operation.[16]
* Hammerschmidt Villa designated residence of the President of Germany.
* 1951
* Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland [de] (foreign press association) formed.[17]
* 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.[18]
* 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).[19]
* 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.[17]
* 1991 - Capital decision (Hauptstadtbeschluss)
* 1992 - Bundeskunsthalle (exhibit hall) inaugurated.
* 1994
* Bärbel Dieckmann becomes mayor.
* Haus der Geschichte (history museum) opens.
* 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.[20]
* 1997 - Bonn International School and Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Society for Arab and Islamic Law)[21] established.
* 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

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* 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.[17][22]
* 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
* Jürgen Nimptsch [de] becomes mayor.[23]
* Student protests.[24]

Aerial view of the city center in 2013

* 2011 - The celebrations for the Day of German Unity take place in Bonn
* 2012 - attempted bomb attack on Bonn Central Station [de]
* 2015
* After 9 years of construction, the World Conference Center Bonn [de] was opened
* Ashok-Alexander Sridharan becomes mayor[25]
* 2017
* Meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 20
* 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) under the Presidency of the Republic of Fiji in Bonn
* 2019 - University of Bonn becomes excellence university
* 2020 - Katja Dörner is elected new mayor
* 2023 - Telekom Baskets Bonn win the Basketball Champions League as first German team and first title in the club´s history.

## See also

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* Bonn history
* List of mayors of Bonn
* History of the city of Bonn [de]
* Bonna (in Italian), settlement in the Roman province of Germania Inferior
* Timelines of other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia:(de) Aachen, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Münster

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bonn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 209.
2. ^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
3. ^ a b Guide to Bonn and its Environs. Bonn: B. Pleimes. 1845.
4. ^ Chester L. Alwes (2012). "Choral Music in the Culture of the 19th Century". In André de Quadros (ed.). Cambridge Companion to Choral Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11173-7. "Music publishers of the 18th to the early 20th c. (chronological list)"
5. ^ John Eidson (2000). "Which Past for Whom? Local Memory in a German Community during the Era of Nation Building". Ethos. 28 (4): 575–607\. doi:10.1525/eth.2000.28.4.575. JSTOR 640617.
6. ^ J. Niederstetter, ed. (1867). Staats-Almanach für das Königreich Preußen (in German). Berlin: Heymann.
7. ^ Königliche Museen zu Berlin (1904). Kunsthandbuch für Deutschland (in German) (6th ed.). Georg Reimer.
8. ^ "Beethoven Fest Bonn Chronology". Retrieved 15 November 2013.
9. ^ "Bonn", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
10. ^ "Foreign Camera Clubs: German". American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1904. New York: Scovill & Adams Company. hdl:2027/mdp.39015067127715.
11. ^ "Germany: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.
12. ^ Ursula Heinzelmann (2008). "Timeline". Food Culture in Germany. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-34495-4.
13. ^ a b Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 145, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
14. ^ a b "Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
15. ^ "Arbeitserziehungslager Bonn-Bad Godesberg". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
16. ^ "Historic Milestones". Cologne Bonn Airport. Cologne: Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
17. ^ a b c Europa World Year Book 2003. Taylor & Francis. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
18. ^ Conrad J. Weiler, Jr. (1972). "Metropolitan Reorganization in West Germany". Publius. 2 (1): 26–68\. JSTOR 3329509.
19. ^ "Bisherige Gartenschauen" [Previous Garden Shows] (in German). Bonn: Deutsche Bundesgartenschau-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
20. ^ "History of the Secretariat". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
21. ^ "History". Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
22. ^ "United Nations in Bonn". City of Bonn. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
23. ^ "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
24. ^ "Cases: Germany". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania, USA: Swarthmore College. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
25. ^ "Neuer Oberbürgermeister: CDU-Kandidat in Bonn gewählt". Spiegel Online. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

## Bibliography

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### in English

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* T. Cogan (1794), "Bonn", The Rhine, London: J. Johnson, OCLC 4735435
* Francis Lieber and Edward Wigglesworth, ed. (1830). "Bonn". Encyclopædia Americana. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea.
* "Bonn", Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine, London: J. Murray, 1852
* "Bonn". Description of the Rhine Valley from Cologne to Mayence. Bonn: T. Habicht. 1856.
* Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bonn". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 2\. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
* W. Pembroke Fetridge (1884), "Bonn", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (23rd ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588363
* G. Holscher (1900), "Bonn", Guide to the Rhine (3rd ed.), Cologne: Hoursch & Bechstedt, OCLC 8672751
* "Bonn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 209.
* "Bonn", The Rhine, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 21888483
* John M. Jeep, ed. (2001). "Augsburg". Medieval Germany: an Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3.

### in German

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* B. Hundeshagen (1832), Die Stadt und Universität Bonn am Rhein [City and University of Bonn on the Rhine] (in German), Bonn: Tobias Habicht, OCLC 165879286, OL 23434076M
* Caspar A. Müller (1834), Geschichte der Stadt Bonn [History of the City of Bonn] (in German), Bonn
* Franz Ritter (1851). Entstehung der drei ältesten Städte am Rheine oder Urgeschichte von Mainz, Bonn u. Köln [Emergence of the three oldest cities on the Rhine, or prehistory of Mainz, Bonn and Cologne] (in German). A. Marcus.
* "Bonn". Kleiner Führer für die Rhein-Reise von Köln bis Frankfurt [Short guide for a trip along the Rhine from Cologne to Frankfurt]. Griebens Reisebücher (in German). Vol. 75\. Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1900 – via Google Books.
* Paul Clemen, ed. (1905). Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und des Kreises Bonn. Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz [de] (in German). Vol. 5\. Dusseldorf: Schwann.+[de]&rft.pub=Schwann&rft.date=1905&rft_id=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009438435&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Timeline+of+Bonn" class="Z3988">
* Klaus Flink, ed. (1978), Bonn, Rheinischer Städteatlas (in German), vol. 1 (2nd ed.)

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