Timeline of Gothenburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Prior to 19th century

1619 - Gothenburg founded by Gustavus Adolphus.^[1]
1621
- Town chartered.^[2]
- Gothenburg stave church completed.
1633 - Gothenburg Cathedral consecrated.^[1]
1650 - Printing press in operation.^[3]
1672 - Gothenburg Town Hall built.^[1]
1680 - Gothenburg and Bohus County established.^{[citation needed]}
1731 - Swedish East India Company headquartered in Gothenburg.
1761 - Göteborgs glasbruk [sv] (glassworks) begins operating.
1762 - East India House (Gothenburg) [sv] built.
1773 - The Vauxhall pleasure gardens is inaugurated.
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 secondary school open to females, is founded.
1797 - Stay of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko in the city following the Partitions of Poland (see also Poland–Sweden relations).^[5]
1800 - Population: 12,804.^[6]

19th century

1802 - 22 December: Fire.^[7]
1807 - Fortifications of Gothenburg demolished.^[1]
1812 - Hotel Götakällare [sv] built.
1813 - Fire.^[1]
1815 - Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola is founded.
1816 - Segerlindska teatern is founded.
1826 - Commercial college founded.^[1]
1829 - Chalmers industrial school founded.
1832
- Göta Canal opens.^[2]
- Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1833 - Kjellbergska flickskolan is founded.
1840 - Population: 21,558.^[6]
1843 - Gumperts Bookshop [sv] in business.
1849 - Bourse (Gothenburg) built.^[1]
1850
- Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad (shipbuilder) in business.
- Population: 26,084.^[9]
1851 - Lindholmens varv (shipyard) begins operating.^[9]
1854 - Statue of Gustavus Adolphus erected in the Stortorget.^[10]
1858
- Gothenburg Central Station opens.
- Göteborgs-Posten newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1859 - Stora Teatern is founded.
1860
- Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club founded.
- Population: 37,043.^[6]
1861 - Göteborg City Museum and Göteborgs folkbibliotek [sv] (library) established.^[11]
1864 - Aron Jonason [sv] photo studio active.
1865 - Population: 43,346.^[6]

1870 - Bräutigams [sv] cafe in business.
1871 - Göteborgs folkbank [sv] (bank) established.^[12]
1874 - Henriksberg [sv] in business.
1882 - Wettergrens [sv] bookshop in business.^{[citation needed]}
1884 - Foundation of the Gothenburg's Women's Association and the local women's movement.
1886 - Hartelius [sv] bookshop in business.^{[citation needed]}
1888 - Göteborgs Aftonblad [sv] newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1892 - Population: 107,965.^[13]
1894 - Hotel Eggers [sv] in business.
1896 - Göteborgs Morgonpost [sv] (newspaper) begins publication.^[8]
1897 - Göteborgs handelsbank [sv] (bank) founded.^[12]
1899
- Illustrated Hvar 8 dag magazine begins publication.
- Grand Hotel Haglund [sv] in business.
1900
- City Library of Gothenburg [sv] built.^[9]
- Statue of John Ericsson erected in Kungsportsavenyen.^[10]
- Population: 130,619.^[6]^[1]

20th century

1900s-1940s

1902
- Göteborgs-Tidningen newspaper begins publication.^[8]
- Göteborgs GK [sv] (golfing club) formed.
1903 - Säröbanan [sv] (railway) begins operating.
1904 - IFK Göteborg (football club) formed.
1905 - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra formed.
1908 - Cosmorama, Gothenburg [sv] cinema in business.
1909 - Population: 163,957.^[6]

1911 - Landsarkivet i Göteborg [no] (regional archives) opens.
1916
- Göteborg radio [sv] begins broadcasting.^{[citation needed]}
- Gamla Ullevi (1916) (stadium) and Lorensbergsteatern [sv] (theatre)^[14] open.
1917
- 1917 Gothenburg bread riot [sv].
- Gothenburg City Theatre established.^[14]
1919 - Palladium Cinema opens.^[15]
1920 - Population: 200,577.^[16]
1922 - Free Port of Gothenburg [sv] opens.^{[citation needed]}
1923
- Gothenburg Tercentennial Jubilee Exposition held; Göteborgs Konsthall built.
- Gothenburg Botanical Garden,^[17] Liseberg amusement park, Gothenburg Natural History Museum [sv], and Slottsskogsvallen open.
1926 - August: 1926 Women's World Games held.
1934 - Gothenburg City Theatre building opens.^[14]
1936 - Gothenburg city hall building expanded.^[18]
1939 - Aveny Cinema [sv] opens.^[15]
1940 - Airport built as a military airbase.^{[citation needed]}
1948 - Polish Veterans Association established by former Polish prisoners of Nazi German concentration camps.^[19]

1950s-1990s

1952
- Folkteatern (theatre) opens.^[20]
- Redesign of coat of arms of Gothenburg adopted.
1954 - University of Gothenburg established.^[21]
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.
1990 - Sister city partnership signed between Gothenburg and Kraków, Poland.^[22]
1993 - Liseberg railway station opens.
1995 - BioPalatset cinema in business.^[15]
1996 - Nils Ericson Terminal for buses opens.
1998 - 29 October: Gothenburg discothèque fire.

21st century

2001 - June: EU summit protest.
2002 - City co-hosts the 2002 European Men's Handball Championship.
2005 - Population: 484,942.
2006
- August: City hosts the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
- December: City co-hosts the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship.
2008 - City hosts the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships.
2009
- Gamla Ullevi (stadium) opens.
- Gothenburg Roller Derby league formed.
2010 - 19 September: Gothenburg 2010 municipal election [sv] held.
2011
- Population: 515,129 city; 930,635 metro.
- City co-hosts the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship.
2013
- 1 January: Gothenburg congestion tax introduced.
- January–February: City co-hosts the 2013 Bandy World Championship.
- March: City hosts the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
- July: City co-hosts the UEFA Women's Euro 2013.
2015
- 19 March: 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting.
- 12 June: Car bombing.
2016 - City co-hosts the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship.
2018 - 13 August: 2018 Sweden vehicle fire attacks
2020 - City co-hosts the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gothenburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 271–272.
^ ^a ^b Elisabeth Elgán; Irene Scobbie (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Sweden (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-5071-0.
^ Henri Bouchot [in French] (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.
^ 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.
^ "Göteborg Tablica Kościuszki" (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Statistisk tidskrift (in Swedish). Kungl. Statistiska centralbyrån. 1911. hdl:2027/uc1.a0001898048.
^ William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Gothenburg". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949 – via HathiTrust.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sveriges dagliga tidningar". Svensk Rikskalender (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag. 1905.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gustav Sundbärg [in Swedish], ed. (1904). Sweden: Its People and Its Industry. Stockholm: Government Printing-Office.
^ ^a ^b "Gotenburg", Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (8th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1903
^ Carl Magnus Carlander [in Swedish] (1904). Svenska bibliotek och ex-libris (in Swedish). Stockholm: Förlagsaktiebolaget Iduna.
^ ^a ^b "Sweden". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
^ "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590535.
^ ^a ^b ^c Martin Banham, ed. (1995). Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Movie Theaters in Gothenburg, Sweden". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
^ "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ "Garden Search: Sweden". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 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.
^ "Polski Związek Kulturalny w Göteborgu" (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.
^ Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Sweden". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780415251570.
^ Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
^ "Göteborg". krakow.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

This article incorporates information from the Swedish Wikipedia and Danish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

"Gothenburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 271–272.

in Swedish

"Göteborg", Historiskt-geografiskt och statistiskt lexikon öfver Sverige [Historical-Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of Sweden] (in Swedish), vol. 3, Stockholm: Hammers Förlag, 1859, OCLC 35756300 – via Internet Archive
Octavia Carlén [in Swedish] (1869). Göteborg: Beskrifning öfver staden och dess närmaste omgifningar [Göteborg: Guidebook] (in Swedish).
Statistisk årsbok Göteborg [Statistical Yearbook of Gothenburg] (in Swedish). 1900-

External links

Europeana. Items related to Gothenburg, various dates
Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Gothenburg, various dates.

[brit1910-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gothenburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 271–272.

[Elgan2015chronology-2] Elisabeth Elgán; Irene Scobbie (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Sweden (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-5071-0.

[Bouchot1890-3] Henri Bouchot [in French] (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.

[McClellan1985-4] 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.

[5] "Göteborg Tablica Kościuszki" (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

[Statistisk1911-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Statistisk tidskrift (in Swedish). Kungl. Statistiska centralbyrån. 1911. hdl:2027/uc1.a0001898048.

[tegg1870-7] William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Gothenburg". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949 – via HathiTrust.

[rikskalendar1905-8] "Sveriges dagliga tidningar". Svensk Rikskalender (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag. 1905.

[Sundbarg1904-9] Gustav Sundbärg [in Swedish], ed. (1904). Sweden: Its People and Its Industry. Stockholm: Government Printing-Office.

[baedeker1903-10] "Gotenburg", Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (8th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1903

[Carlander1904-11] Carl Magnus Carlander [in Swedish] (1904). Svenska bibliotek och ex-libris (in Swedish). Stockholm: Förlagsaktiebolaget Iduna.

[banking1920-12] "Sweden". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.

[13] "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590535.

[Banham1995-14] Martin Banham, ed. (1995). Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.

[cinema-15] "Movie Theaters in Gothenburg, Sweden". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

[16] "Sweden". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[botanic-17] "Garden Search: Sweden". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

[Adams2014-18] 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.

[19] "Polski Związek Kulturalny w Göteborgu" (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

[Rubin1994-20] Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Sweden". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780415251570.

[Ruegg2011-21] Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.

[22] "Göteborg". krakow.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 31 July 2022.

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