Timeline of Gothenburg
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- 1619 - Gothenburg founded.[1]
- 1621 - Town chartered.[2]
- 1633 - Gothenburg Cathedral consecrated.[1]
- 1650 - Printing press in operation.[3]
- 1672 - Gothenburg Town Hall built.[1]
- 1680 - Gothenburg and Bohus County established.
- 1731 - Swedish East India Company headquartered in Gothenburg.
- 1761 - Göteborgs glasbruk (glassworks) begins operating.
- 1762 - East India House (Gothenburg) built.
- 1778 - Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg active.[4]
- 1779 - Comediehuset, the first theater in the city, is established.
- 1786 - Societetsskolan, the first school open to females, is founded.
19th century
- 1800 - Population: 12,804.[5]
- 1802 - 22 December: Fire.[6]
- 1807 - Fortifications of Gothenburg demolished.[1]
- 1812 - Hotel Götakällare built.
- 1813 - Fire.[1]
- 1815 - Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola is founded.
- 1826 - Commercial college founded.[1]
- 1829 - Chalmers industrial school founded.
- 1832
- Göta Canal opens.[2]
- Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1833 - Kjellbergska flickskolan is founded.
- 1840 - Population: 21,558.[5]
- 1843 - Gumperts Bookshop in business.
- 1849 - Bourse (Gothenburg) built.[1]
- 1850
- Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad (shipbuilder) in business.
- Population: 26,084.[8]
- 1851 - Lindholmens varv (shipyard) begins operating.[8]
- 1854 - Statue of Gustavus Adolphus erected in the Stortorget.[9]
- 1858
- Gothenburg Central Station opens.
- Göteborgs-Posten newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1860
- Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club founded.
- Population: 37,043.[5]
- 1861 - Göteborg City Museum and Göteborgs folkbibliotek (library) established.[10]
- 1864 - Aron Jonason photo studio active.
- 1865 - Population: 43,346.[5]
- 1870 - Bräutigams cafe in business.
- 1871 - Göteborgs folkbank (bank) established.[11]
- 1874 - Henriksberg in business.
- 1882 - Wettergrens bookshop in business.
- 1886 - Hartelius bookshop in business.
- 1888 - Göteborgs Aftonblad newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1892 - Population: 107,965.[12]
- 1894 - Hotel Eggers in business.
- 1896 - Göteborgs Morgonpost (newspaper) begins publication.[7]
- 1897 - Göteborgs handelsbank (bank) founded.[11]
- 1899
- Illustrated Hvar 8 dag magazine begins publication.
- Grand Hotel Haglund in business.
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900
- City Library of Gothenburg built.[8]
- Statue of John Ericsson erected in Kungsportsavenyen.[9]
- Population: 130,619.[5]
- 1902
- Göteborgs-Tidningen newspaper begins publication.[7]
- Göteborgs GK (golfing club) formed.
- 1903 - Säröbanan (railway) begins operating.
- 1904 - IFK Göteborg (football club) formed.
- 1905 - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra formed.
- 1908 - Cosmorama, Gothenburg cinema in business.
- 1909 - Population: 163,957.[5]
- 1911 - Landsarkivet i Göteborg (regional archives) opens.
- 1916
- Göteborg radio begins broadcasting.
- Gamla Ullevi (1916) (stadium) and Lorensbergsteatern (theatre)[13] open.
- 1917
- 1917 Gothenburg bread riot.
- Gothenburg City Theatre established.[13]
- 1919 - Palladium Cinema opens.[14]
- 1920 - Population: 200,577.[15]
- 1922 - Free Port of Gothenburg opens.
- 1923
- Gothenburg Tercentennial Jubilee Exposition held; Göteborgs Konsthall built.
- Gothenburg Botanical Garden,[16] Liseberg amusement park, Gothenburg Natural History Museum, and Slottsskogsvallen open.
- 1926 - August: 1926 Women's World Games held.
- 1934 - Gothenburg City Theatre building opens.[13]
- 1936 - Gothenburg city hall building expanded.[17]
- 1939 - Aveny Cinema opens.[14]
- 1940 - Airport built as a military airbase.
1950s-1990s
- 1952
- Folkteatern (theatre) opens.[18]
- Redesign of coat of arms of Gothenburg adopted.
- 1954 - University of Gothenburg established.[19]
- 1958
- Nya Ullevi (stadium) opens.
- June: Part of the 1958 FIFA World Cup held in Gothenburg.
- 1960
- Gothenburg commuter rail begins operating.
- Population: 443,843.
- 1971
- Gothenburg District Court established.
- Scandinavium arena opens.
- 1972 - Göteborg Marathon begins.
- 1977 - Göteborg Horse Show begins.
- 1985 - May: Eurovision Song Contest 1985 held.
- 1993 - Liseberg railway station opens.
- 1995 - BioPalatset cinema in business.[14]
- 1996 - Nils Ericson Terminal for buses opens.
- 1998 - 29 October: Gothenburg discothèque fire.
21st century
- 2001 - June: EU summit protest.
- 2005 - Population: 484,942.
- 2009
- Gamla Ullevi (stadium) opens.
- Gothenburg Roller Derby league formed.
- 2010 - 19 September: Gothenburg 2010 municipal election held.
- 2011 - Population: 515,129 city; 930,635 metro.
- 2013 - Gothenburg congestion tax introduced.
- 2015 - 19 March: 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting.
See also
- History of Gothenburg
- Timeline of Gothenburg (in Swedish)
- Other names of Gothenburg, e.g. Göteborg, Gotenburg
- Other cities in Sweden
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gothenburg", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 Elisabeth Elgán; Irene Scobbie (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Sweden (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-5071-0.
- ↑ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel. The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
- ↑ James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Statistisk tidskrift (in Swedish). Kungl. Statistiska centralbyrån. 1911.
- ↑ William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Gothenburg". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Sveriges dagliga tidningar". Svensk Rikskalender (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag. 1905.
- 1 2 3 Gustav Sundbärg, ed. (1904). Sweden: Its People and Its Industry. Stockholm: Government Printing-Office.
- 1 2 "Gotenburg", Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (8th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1903
- ↑ Carl Magnus Carlander (1904). Svenska bibliotek och ex-libris (in Swedish). Stockholm: Förlagsaktiebolaget Iduna.
- 1 2 "Sweden". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
- ↑ "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894.
- 1 2 3 Martin Banham, ed. (1995). Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.
- 1 2 3 "Movie Theaters in Gothenburg, Sweden". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 2015.
- ↑ "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Sweden". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved September 2015.
- ↑ Nicholas Adams (2014). Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe. USA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-06523-6.
- ↑ Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Sweden". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780415251570.
- ↑ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
This article incorporates information from the Swedish Wikipedia and Danish Wikipedia.
Further reading
- in Swedish
- "Göteborg", Historiskt-geografiskt och statistiskt lexikon öfver Sverige [Historical-Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of Sweden] (in Swedish) 3, Stockholm: Hammers Förlag, 1859, OCLC 35756300 – via Internet Archive
- Octavia Carlén (1869). Göteborg: Beskrifning öfver staden och dess närmaste omgifningar [Göteborg: Guidebook] (in Swedish).
- Statistisk årsbok Göteborg [Statistical Yearbook of Gothenburg] (in Swedish). 1900-
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