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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.
• 1621
  • Town chartered.
  • Gothenburg stave church completed.
• 1633 - Gothenburg Cathedral consecrated.
• 1650 - Printing press in operation.
• 1672 - Gothenburg Town Hall built.
• 1680 - Gothenburg and Bohus County established.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1800 - Population: 12,804.

19th century

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

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

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1902
  • Göteborgs-Tidningen newspaper begins publication.
  • 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.

• 1911 - Landsarkivet i Göteborg [no] (regional archives) opens.
• 1916
  • Göteborg radio [sv] begins broadcasting.
  • Gamla Ullevi (1916) (stadium) and Lorensbergsteatern [sv] (theatre) open.
• 1917
  • 1917 Gothenburg bread riot [sv].
  • Gothenburg City Theatre established.
• 1919 - Palladium Cinema opens.
• 1920 - Population: 200,577.
• 1922 - Free Port of Gothenburg [sv] opens.
• 1923
  • Gothenburg Tercentennial Jubilee Exposition held; Göteborgs Konsthall built.
  • Gothenburg Botanical Garden, 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.
• 1936 - Gothenburg city hall building expanded.
• 1939 - Aveny Cinema [sv] opens.
• 1940 - Airport built as a military airbase.
• 1948 - Polish Veterans Association established by former Polish prisoners of Nazi German concentration camps.

1950s-1990s

• 1952
  • Folkteatern (theatre) opens.
  • Redesign of coat of arms of Gothenburg adopted.
• 1954 - University of Gothenburg established.
• 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.
• 1993 - Liseberg railway station opens.
• 1995 - BioPalatset cinema in business.
• 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.

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. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gothenburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 271–272.
2. ^ Elisabeth Elgán; Irene Scobbie (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Sweden (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-5071-0.
3. Henri Bouchot (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.
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.
6. ^ Statistisk tidskrift (in Swedish). Kungl. Statistiska centralbyrån. 1911. hdl:2027/uc1.a0001898048.
7. William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Gothenburg". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949 – via HathiTrust.
8. ^ "Sveriges dagliga tidningar". Svensk Rikskalender (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag. 1905.
9. ^ Gustav Sundbärg , ed. (1904). Sweden: Its People and Its Industry. Stockholm: Government Printing-Office.
10. ^ "Gotenburg", Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (8th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1903
11. Carl Magnus Carlander (1904). Svenska bibliotek och ex-libris (in Swedish). Stockholm: Förlagsaktiebolaget Iduna.
12. ^ "Sweden". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
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14. ^ Martin Banham, ed. (1995). Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.
15. ^ "Movie Theaters in Gothenburg, Sweden". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
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17. "Garden Search: Sweden". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
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.
20. Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Sweden". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780415251570.
21. Walter Rüegg , 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.
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This article incorporates information from the Swedish Misplaced Pages and Danish Misplaced Pages.

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 (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.

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