The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Prior to 19th century
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- 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.
 - 1731 - Swedish East India Company headquartered in Gothenburg.
 - 1761 - Göteborgs glasbruk (glassworks) begins operating.
 - 1762 - East India House (Gothenburg) 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 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 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 (library) established.[11]
 - 1864 - Aron Jonason photo studio active.
 - 1865 - Population: 43,346.[6]
 

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

Gothenburg in the 1910s
- 1911 - Landsarkivet i Göteborg (regional archives) opens.
 - 1916
- Göteborg radio begins broadcasting.
 - Gamla Ullevi (1916) (stadium) and Lorensbergsteatern (theatre)[14] open.
 
 - 1917
- 1917 Gothenburg bread riot.
 - Gothenburg City Theatre established.[14]
 
 - 1919 - Palladium Cinema opens.[15]
 - 1920 - Population: 200,577.[16]
 - 1922 - Free Port of Gothenburg opens.
 - 1923
- Gothenburg Tercentennial Jubilee Exposition held; Göteborgs Konsthall built.
 - Gothenburg Botanical Garden,[17] Liseberg amusement park, Gothenburg Natural History Museum, 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 opens.[15]
 - 1940 - Airport built as a military airbase.
 - 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.
 
 

Gothenburg in the 1970s
- 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 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.
 
See also
- History of Gothenburg
 - Timeline of Gothenburg (in Swedish)
 - Other names of Gothenburg, e.g. Göteborg, Gotenburg
 - Timelines of other municipalities in Sweden: Stockholm, Uppsala
 
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 271–272.
 - 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 [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.
 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
 - 1 2 3 4 5 "Sveriges dagliga tidningar". Svensk Rikskalender (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag. 1905.
 - 1 2 3 Gustav Sundbärg [in Swedish], 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 [in Swedish] (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. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590535.
 - 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 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
 
- . 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-
 
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