Timeline of Düsseldorf

The following is a timeline of the history of Düsseldorf, Germany.

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  • 1186 – Counts of Berg in power.
  • 1285 – St. Sebastianus Bruderschaft Kaiserswerth (militia) formed.[1]
  • 1288 – Town privileges granted by Adolf V of Berg.[2]
  • 1316 – St.-Sebastianus-Schützenvereins Düsseldorf (militia) established.[1]
  • 1385 – Residence of the Counts of Berg established in Düsseldorf.[2]
  • 1567 – Rathhaus built.[3]
  • 1609 – Residence of the Electoral Palatinate relocates to Düsseldorf from Heidelberg.[4]
  • 1629 – Church of St. Andrew built.[3]
  • 1684 – Evangelishche Kirche built.[5]
  • 1710 – Electoral palace remodelled.[3]
  • 1716
  • 1760 – Jagerhof (electors' hunting lodge) built.[6]
  • 1762 – Art Academy founded.
  • 1767 – Hofgarten laid out.[7]
  • 1774 – School of Law established (approximate date).[5]
  • 1787 – Karlstadt laid out.[2]
  • 1794 – Town besieged by French forces.[8]
  • 1800 – Musik-Academie established.[9]

19th century
  • 1802 - Fortifications demolished.[5]
  • 1804 – Kastanienallee laid out.
  • 1805
  • 1806 – French in power.[3]
  • 1812 – Breidenbacher Hof in business.
  • 1813 – Hof-Garten expanded.[6]
  • 1815
  • 1818 – Lower Rhenish Music Festival held.
  • 1819 – New Kunstakademie Düsseldorf founded as Königlich Preußische Kunstakademie (Royal Prussian Academy of Art); Dusselthal Asylum established.[3]
  • 1829 – Artists' Society for the Rhinelands and Westphalia (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen) founded.[9]
  • 1838 – Bergisch-Märkische railway station opens.
  • 1841 – Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway constructed.
  • 1845 – Cologne-Minden railway station opens.
  • 1846 – Ducal palace restored.[2]
  • 1852
    • August: Singing festival held.[10]
    • Population: 31,000.[8]
  • 1860 – Malkasten artists' club established.[11]
  • 1864 – Düsseldorfer Symphoniker (orchestra) active.[12]
  • 1867 – Galerie Paffrath in business.[13]
  • 1872 – Electoral palace burns down.[6]
  • 1875
    • Church of St. John built.[6]
    • City Theatre opens.[3]
  • 1876
    • Trams begin operating.
    • Zoological Gardens established.
  • 1877 – Rhenish railway station built.
  • 1879 – Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, House of the Rhenish Estates, and Academy of Art building constructed.[6]
  • 1881 – Kunsthalle built.[3]
  • 1884 – Düsseldorf Exchange founded.[14]
  • 1885
    • City public library established.[15]
    • Population: 115,190.[2]
  • 1891 – Düsseldorf Central Station opens.
  • 1893 – Mannesmann (manufacturer) relocates to Düsseldorf.
  • 1895 – Population: 175,985.[2]
  • 1896 – Industrial art museum built.[2]
  • 1898 – Bridge constructed.[2]
  • 1899 – Apollo-Theater opens.
  • 1900 – Peek & Cloppenburg in business.

20th century

21st century

See also

References
  1. Hermann Tallau (2008). "Alteste (100) Schützenvereinigungen 799-1392". Ein Kaleidoskop zum Schützenwesen (in German). Duderstadt: Mecke Druck und Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936617-85-6.
  2. Britannica 1910.
  3. "Düsseldorf", The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1882, OCLC 7416969
  4. "Düsseldorf", A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent (17th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1871, OCLC 5358857, OL 6936276M
  5. Karl Stieler (1903), "From Dusseldorf to the Dutch Frontier", The Rhine from its source to the sea, London: William Glaisher, OL 14039550M
  6. "Düsseldorf", The Rhine, including the Black Forest & the Vosges, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 21888483
  7. "Düsseldorf", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1897
  8. "Düsseldorf", Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine, London: J. Murray, 1852, OL 23365744M
  9. Cecelia Hopkins Porter (1989). "The Reign of the "Dilettanti": Düsseldorf from Mendelssohn to Schumann". Musical Quarterly. 73.
  10. Lowell Mason (1854), "Great Musical Festival at Dusseldorf", Musical letters from abroad: including detailed accounts of the Birmingham, Norwich, and Dusseldorf musical festivals of 1852, New York: Mason Brothers
  11. W. Pembroke Fetridge (1874), "Düsseldorf", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
  12. Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
  13. "Galerie Paffrath". Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  14. Americana 1918.
  15. Stadtbuchereien Ladeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. "Geschichte der Stadtbüchereien".
  16. "March 24-April 6, 1947". Chronology of International Events and Documents. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 3. 1947. JSTOR 40545021.
  17. Catherine C. Fraser; Dierk O. Hoffman (2006), Pop Culture Germany, ABC-Clio, ISBN 9781851097388, OL 9491197M, 1851097384
  18. "History". Museum Kunstpalast. Archived from the original on December 29, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2013.

Bibliography

in English

in other languages

  • Nicolas de Pigage (1781), La Galerie électorale, de Dusseldorff, ou, Catalogue raisonné de ses tableaux (in French), Bruxelles: J.B. Jorez, OL 24342357M
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