Timeline of Bonn

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.

Prior to 19th century

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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

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

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]
  • 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
  • 1947 - Kunstmuseum Bonn (art museum) founded.
  • 1949

1950s-1990s

21st century

Aerial view of the city center in 2013

See also

References

  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

in English

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Klaus Flink, ed. (1978), Bonn, Rheinischer Städteatlas (in German), vol. 1 (2nd ed.)

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