Timeline of the Łódź history
Affiliations
Affiliations
Kingdom of Poland 1300s–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1793
Kingdom of Prussia 1793–1807
Duchy of Warsaw 1807-1815
Congress Poland (Russian Empire) 1815–1916
Kingdom of Poland 1916–1918
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
Nazi Germany 1939–1945
People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
Republic of Poland 1989–present
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Łódź, Poland.
Prior to 19th century
edit- 1332 - Łódź mentioned as the village Łodzia in a document of Duke Władysław the Hunchback of the Polish Piast dynasty
- 1423 - Łódź granted city rights by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło
- 1487 - Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon visited Łódź.
- 1496 - Polish King John I Albert confirmed the establishment of two annual fairs and a weekly market in Łódź.
- 1793
- City annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland and included within the newly formed province of South Prussia.
- Population: 190.[1]
19th century
edit- 1806 - Town joins the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw.
- 1815 - Town becomes part of Russian client state Congress Poland per Congress of Vienna.
- 1820 - Antoni Czarkowski becomes mayor.
- 1824 - Lodka settlement developed.[2]
- 1827 - K.F. Wendisch factory in business.[2]
- 1828 - Slazaki settlement developed.[2]
- 1829 - Population: 4,273.[1]
- 1837 - Ludwig Geyer factory in business.[2]
- 1839 - White Factory built.
- 1852 - Industrialist Karl Scheibler in business.
- 1860 - Population: 31,500.[3]
- 1861 - Stara Synagogue built.
- 1863
- 31 January: A Polish insurgent unit entered the city without a fight in the first days of the January Uprising, and seized weapons and 18,000 rubles for the uprising.[4]
- 18 June: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.[5]
- 29 September: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.[6]
- Lodzer Zeitung bilingual Polish-German newspaper begins publication.
- 1866 - Koluszki-Łódź railway begins operating.[citation needed]
- 1867
- Congress Poland forcibly integrated with of the Russian Empire.
- Sudden death of Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge before his scheduled performance at a local theater.
- 1868 - Łódź Fabryczna railway station built.
- 1870 - Studio Theatre opened.
- 1872 - Moscow-Łódź railway begins operating.[2]
- 1878 - Manufaktura textile mill built.
- 1881
- Great Synagogue built.
- Population: 49,592.[7]
- 1884 - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built.
- 1888 - Karl Scheibler's Chapel built.
- 1892 - Izrael Poznański factory built.
- 1897 - Population: 314,780.[3]
- 1899
- 1900 - Population: 351,570.[10]
20th century
edit1900s–1930s
edit- 1901 - Krzemiński cinema active.[11]
- 1902 - Łódź Kaliska railway station built.
- 1904 - Ezras Israel Synagogue built.
- 1905 - 21–25 June: Łódź insurrection.
- 1908 - ŁKS Łódź football club (later multi-section club) founded.
- 1910 - Widzew Łódź football club formed.
- 1914
- 11 November: Battle of Łódź begins near city.[12]
- December: Germans in power.
- 1915 - Bałuty becomes part of city.[13]
- 1918 - Poland regains independence and the city becomes again part of Poland.[14]
- 1920 - Catholic Diocese of Łódź established.
- 1922 - City becomes capital of Łódź Voivodeship (province).
- 1925 - Łódź Airport opens.
- 1928 - Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego luxury neighborhood founded.[15]
- 1930
- Stadion Widzewa (stadium) opens.
- Municipal Museum of History and Art inaugurated.[16]
- December: Monument of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko unveiled at the Plac Wolności ("Freedom Square") in the city center.
- 1931
- January: Museum of Ethnography established.[17]
- ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish men's volleyball championship.
- 1937 - HKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship.
World War II (1939–1945)
edit- 1939
- 2 September: Germany carried out first air raids, bombing the airport and the Łódź Kaliska train station.[18]
- 3 September: Further air raids carried out by Germany. The Germans bombed a railway station in the Widzew district, a power plant, a gas plant, a thread factory and many houses.[18]
- 5 September: The Germans air raided the airport again.[18]
- 6 September: The Germans air raided a historic palace which housed the command of the Polish Łódź Army.[18]
- 6 September: the Citizens' Committee of the City of Łódź established.[19]
- 6–8 September: Battle of Łódź during the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
- 9 September: German troops entered the city, beginning of the German occupation.[19]
- 11 September: The Germans issued the first occupation decrees.[19]
- 12 September: The German Einsatzgruppe III entered the city to commit various crimes against the population.[20]
- 12–15 September: The Germans carried out searches of local county offices and Polish police buildings.[20]
- 16 September: Local administration took over by a German official, D. Leiste from Rhineland.[19]
- 21 September: The Germans carried out mass searches in the present-day district of Chojny.[20]
- September: The Germans carried out first arrests of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion and established first prisons for arrested Poles.[21]
- 12 October – 4 November: City becomes seat of Nazi German General Government of occupied Poland.
- 31 October: A German transit camp for Poles arrested in the Intelligenzaktion established in the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka.[21]
- November: Radogoszcz concentration camp established by the Germans. Its prisoners were mostly people from Łódź, Pabianice and other nearby settlements.[21]
- 9 November: City annexed directly into Nazi Germany; the Germans destroyed the monument of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.[19]
- 9 November: First prisoners detained in the Radogoszcz concentration camp.[21]
- November: Hundreds of Poles from Łódź and the region massacred by the Germans in the forest in the present-day district of Łagiewniki as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[22]
- City renamed "Litzmannstadt"[citation needed] to erase traces of Polish origin.
- 11 December: The Germans massacred 70 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
- 13 December: The Germans massacred 40 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
- December: 65 prisoners from the transit camp in Pabianice deported to the Radogoszcz concentration camp and then massacred in Łagiewniki.[21]
- 31 December: First expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego carried out.[23]
- Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
- 1940
- 14–15 January: German police and Selbstschutz carried out mass expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego.[25]
- February: More prisoners from the liquidated transit camp in Pabianice imprisoned in the Radogoszcz camp; Radogoszcz camp converted into the Radogoszcz prison.[21]
- February: Łódź Ghetto formed.[26]
- Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
- March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the Okręglik forest near Zgierz.[24]
- April–May: The Russians committed the large Katyn massacre, among the victims of which were over 1,200 Poles, who either were born or lived in Łódź or the region before the war.[27]
- 1941
- March: German transit prisoner-of-war camp Dulag 240 established.[28]
- June: German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft II relocated from Barth to the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka.[29]
- July: Dulag 240 camp relocated to Jabłonna.[28]
- November: 5,007 Romani people deported by the Germans from German-occupied Burgenland to Łódź and imprisoned in a new German camp.[26]
- 1942
- January: The Germans dissolved the camp for Romani people and exterminated its prisoners in the Chełmno extermination camp.[26]
- 9 October: Two prisoners of war escaped from the Stalag Luft II in the only known case of a successful escape from the camp.[29]
- German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children of 2 to 16 years of age established in the city.[30] It was nicknamed "little Auschwitz" due to its conditions.[30]
- 1943
- April: Subcamp of the Stalag XXI-D POW camp established.[31]
- The Germans established a forced labour camp for around 800 English prisoners of war in the Olechów neighbourhood.[18]
- 1944
- August: Łódź Ghetto liquidated.
- September: Most POWs transported from Stalag Luft II to the Stalag Luft III camp in Żagań.[29]
- 21 November: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated.[29]
- 1945
- German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children disestablished.[30]
- 17 January: City taken by the Soviet Army and afterwards restored to Poland.
1945–2000
edit- 1945
- Łódź University of Technology, University of Łódź and Public Academy of Arts established.
- Dziennik Łodzki newspaper begins publication.[32]
- 1946 - Retkinia included within city limits.
- 1947 - Animation studio Se-ma-for founded in Łódź.
- 1948 - National Film School in Łódź established.
- 1950 - Medical Academy of Łódź established.
- 1953 - ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish men's basketball championship.
- 1957 - Russkiĭ Golos newspaper begins publication.[33]
- 1958
- Łódź Heat Power Stations commissioned.
- ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish football championship.
- 1960 - Central Museum of Textiles established.
- 1967
- ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's basketball championship.
- Grand Theatre opens.[34]
- 1968
- Ballet festival begins.[34]
- Start Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship.
- 1973 - National choreographic competition begins.[34]
- 1974 - Population: 784,000.[35]
- 1975
- Stadion ŁKS (stadium) built.
- Museum of the City of Łódź active.[36]
- 1978 - Monument of writer Władysław Reymont unveiled.
- 1981
- April: Łódź co-hosts the 1981 European Wrestling Championships.
- Widzew Łódź wins its first Polish football championship.
- Protest against food shortage.
- 1983
- Anilana Łódź wins its first Polish men's handball championship.
- ŁKS Łódź wins its first Polish women's volleyball championship.
- Budowlani Łódź wins its first Polish rugby championship.
- 1984 - Monument of Stanisław Staszic unveiled in the Staszic Park in the city center.
- 1991 - 2 October: Visit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[37]
- 1992 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Łódź promoted to archdiocese.
- 1996 - KP Łódź beach soccer team founded.
- 1998 - Higher School of Art and Design established.
- 2000 - Monument of Pope John Paul II unveiled at the Piotrkowska Street.
21st century
edit- 2001 - Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and Örebro, Sweden.[38]
- 2002
- Jerzy Kropiwnicki becomes mayor.
- Population: 785,134; province 2,612,900.[32]
- 2004 - Łódź Biennale active.[39]
- 2006 - Manufaktura shopping mall opens.
- 2008
- 19 May: Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and Szeged, Hungary.[40]
- September: Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture opened.
- 2009
- Arena Łódź opens.
- Łódź co-hosts the EuroBasket 2009.
- 2010 - Hanna Zdanowska becomes mayor.
- 2011 - Łódź co-hosts the EuroBasket Women 2011.
- 2013
- Rail freight transport between Łódź and China started.[41]
- 10 November: Khachkar commemorating the victims of the Armenian genocide unveiled.[42]
- 2014 - Łódź co-hosts the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
- 2015 - Twin town partnership signed between Łódź and Chengdu, China.[41]
- 2017
- June: Łódź hosts the 2017 Łódź Sevens tournament of the 2017 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series.
- December: Łódź co-hosts the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.
- 2018 - Łódź hosts the first ever Mixed Doubles Łódź curling tournament.
- 2019
- May–June: Łódź co-hosts the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
- November: Honorary Consulate of Armenia opened in Łódź.[43]
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editReferences
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in other languages
edit- Oskara Flatt (1853). Opis miasta Łodzi: pod względem historycznym, statystycznym i przemysłowym [Description of Łódź: historical, statistical and industrial] (in Polish). Warszawa: Drukarni gazety codziennej.
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External links
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- "History". City of Łódź.
- Europeana. Items related to Łódź, various dates.
- Map of Łódź, 1967