Timeline of Lübeck

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• 1138 – Town sacked.[1]
• 1143 – New town founded by Adolf II of Holstein near site of old town.[1]
• 1158 – Town ceded by Adolf II of Holstein to Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony.[2]
• 1160 – Seat of Catholic diocese of Lübeck relocated to Lübeck from Oldenburg in Holstein.[3]
• 1173 – Lübeck Cathedral construction begins.[4]
• 1177 – Benedictine St.-Johannis-Kloster (Lübeck) founded.[4]
• 1188 – Town charter issued by Henry the Lion.[1]

• 1201 – Danes in power.[4]
• 1210 – Lübeck Cathedral construction completed (approximate date).[4]
• 1226 – Lübeck becomes an Imperial Free City.[5]
• 1250 – Petrikirche (Lübeck) (church) built.[6]
• 1310 – Marienkirche (church) built (approximate date).[7][8]
• 1312 – Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Lübeck) founded.[9]
• 1356 – St. Catherine's Church built (approximate date).
• 1368 – Hanseatic League adopts Lübeck's city seal.[1]
• 1379 – Circle Company founded.[10]
• 1408 – Uprising.[11]
• 1420 - Paper mill established.[12]
• 1442 – Lübeck Town Hall built.[5]
• 1444 – Burgtor (city gate) built.
• 1450 – Merchants Company founded (approximate date).[10]
• 1462 – Hinrich Castorp becomes mayor.
• 1463 – Bernt Notke creates Dance of Death artwork for the Marienkirche.[13]
• 1475 - Printing press in operation.[14]
• 1477
  • Crucifix created by Bernt Notke erected in Lübeck Cathedral.
  • Holstentor (city gate) built.[9]
• 1491 – Artist Hans Memling creates triptych for the Lübeck Cathedral.[9]

• 1515 – St. Anne's Priory built.
• 1530 – Protestant reformation.[4]
• 1531 – Katharineum (school) opens.[15]
• 1533 – Jürgen Wullenwever becomes mayor.[15]
• 1535 – Shipowners' Guild house built.[9]
• 1586 – Outer Holstentor (city gate) built.
• 1630 – Last Hanseatic Diet meets at Lübeck.[1]
• 1668 – Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche.[16]
• 1697 – Buthman's Bierstube (tavern) in business.[17]
• 1793 – Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit (charitable society) established.

Battle of Lübeck

• 1801 – City "temporarily occupied" by Danes.[1]
• 1802 – Town walls dismantled.[7]
• 1806 – 6 November: City captured by French forces.[4]
• 1810 – 12 November: City becomes part of the French Empire.[5]
• 1813 – French occupation ends.
• 1815
  • Recognized as a free city by the Congress of Vienna.
  • Joins the German Confederation.
• 1825 – Navigation School founded.[15]
• 1832 – Lübecker General-Anzeiger newspaper begins publication.
• 1835 – Lübeckische Blätter (newspaper) in publication.
• 1851 – Population: town 26,093; territory 54,166.[2]
• 1857 - Population: town 30,717; territory 49,324.[18]
• 1866 – Joins the North German Confederation.[7]
• 1867 – Wilhelm-Theater opens.[19]
• 1868
  • Joins the German Customs Union.[7]
  • Schiffergesellschaft (restaurant) in operation.[17]
• 1871 – Joins the German Empire.
• 1874 – Aegidienkirche (Lübeck) (church) restored.[9]
• 1875 – Population: 44,799.[7]
• 1890 – Population: town 63,590; territory 76,485.[7]
• 1891 – Sacred Heart Church consecrated.
• 1893 – Museum am Dom (Lübeck) built.
• 1900 – Elbe-Trave canal opens.[1]

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

• 1904 – City Theatre opens.[19]
• 1905 – Population: town 91,541; state 105,857.[4]
• 1915 – St. Anne's Museum opens.
• 1917 – Lübeck Airport constructed.
• 1919
  • Lübeck joins the Weimar Republic.
  • Ballsportverein Vorwärts Lübeck (sport club) formed.
  • Population: town 113,071.[20]
• 1921 – Sportvereinigung Polizei Lübeck (sport club) formed.
• 1924 – Stadion an der Lohmühle (stadium) opens.
• 1937 – The Greater Hamburg Act merges Lübeck into the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and it loses its status as an independent free city.
• 1940 – Oflag X-C prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers established.
• 1942 – Bombing of Lübeck in World War II.
• 1945
  • 2 May: City captured by British forces. Oflag X-C POW camp liberated.
  • VfB Lübeck sport club formed.
• 1946 - Lübecker Nachrichten and Lübecker Freie Presse newspapers begin publication.[21]
• 1948 – Lübecker Kantorei (choir) founded.
• 1973 – Lübeck Academy of Music founded.
• 1982
  • Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets established.
  • Lübeck Cathedral reconstructed.
• 1987 – City centre becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 2000 – Bernd Saxe becomes mayor.

• 2001 – International School of New Media established.
• 2005 – Herren Tunnel opens.
• 2012 – Population: 211,713.

• Lübeck history
• History of Lübeck (includes timeline)
• List of mayors of Lübeck

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