Timeline of Copenhagen

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1167 – Absalon's Castle founded.
1238 – Franciscan monastery founded.
1254 – Copenhagen receives city charter.
1294 – Wednesdays and Saturdays designated market days.^[1]
1296 – House of the Holy Ghost founded.
1388 – Church of Our Lady rebuilt.
1417 – Eric of Pomerania takes Copenhagen Castle.
1479
- City hall built at Gammeltorv.
- University of Copenhagen founded.
1493 - Govaert van Ghemen sets up printing press.^[2]
1583 – Dyrehavsbakken founded near Copenhagen.

1604 – Christian IV's Arsenal built.^[3]
1608 – Caritas Well built.
1610
- City hall rebuilt.
- Nytorv created.
1611 – Leda and the Swan statue erected.
1618 – Brewery built.^[3]
1624 – Rosenborg Castle built.
1625 – Copenhagen Stock Exchange founded.
1626 – Citadel built.
1634 - 5 October: Great wedding (1634) [da] of Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony and Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark takes place.
1640 – Børsen built.
1648 – Royal Danish Library founded.
1659 – Assault on Copenhagen
1661 – Coat of arms of Copenhagen granted.
1666 – Holmens Cemetery established.
1670 – Kongens Nytorv laid out.
1671 – Garnisons Cemetery inaugurated.
1673 – Sophie Amalienborg built.
1683 – Palace built for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve.
1686 – Thott Palace built.
1695 – Church of Our Saviour built.

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1711 – Plague.
1722 - The first public theater, Lille Grønnegade Theatre, is founded.
1728
- Fire.
- City hall rebuilt between Gammeltorv and Nytorv.
1742 - Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters established.^[4]
1745 – Christiansborg Palace built.
1748 – Royal Danish Theatre founded.
1751 – Mastekranen built.
1752 – Oeder's Garden planted.
1757 – Frederiks Hospital opens.
1758 – Christian's Church built.
1760
- Amalienborg Palace built.
- Assistens Cemetery inaugurated.
- Moses & Søn G. Melchior in business.
1769 - Population: 82,086.^(da)
1770 - City directory published.^[5]
1771 – Royal Danish Ballet founded.
1775
- Royal Porcelain Factory founded.
- P.F. Suhm library opens.^[6]
1777 – Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded.
1781 – Vestindisk Pakhus built.
1785 – Heering House built.
1787 – J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole, the first secondary school for girls, is founded.
1791 – Døtreskolen af 1791 is founded.
1793 – Royal Danish Library opened to the public.^[6]
1795 – Fire.

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1801 – Battle of Copenhagen.
1807
- Battle of Copenhagen
- Royal Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities established.^[7]
1815 – Copenhagen Court House (with city hall) built at Nytorv.
1825
- Royal Danish Academy of Music founded.
- Kunstforeningen founded.
1828 – Christiansborg Palace rebuilt.
1829 – Church of Our Lady rebuilt.
1835 - Andersen's Fairy Tales published.^[8]
1840 - Population: 120,819.^(da)
1843
- Tivoli Gardens opens.
- Tivoli Orchestra formed.
1845 – Copenhagen co-host a nordic student meeting with Lund.
1846 – Den højere Dannelsesanstalt for Damer is founded.
1847
- Railway station built.
- Carlsberg brewery founded.
1848 – Thorvaldsen Museum built.
1850s – Edition Wilhelm Hansen music publisher in business.^[9]
1856 – Royal School of Library and Information Science founded.^[6]
1857
- Folketeatret founded.
- Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition begins.^{[citation needed]}
1859 – Copenhagen Zoo founded.

1860 – City gates dismantled.
1862 – Copenhagen co-host a nordic student meeting with Lund.
1865 – Hansen Writing Ball typewriter invented in Copenhagen.^[10]
1870
- La Glace [da] (confectionery) in business.
- Østre Anlæg and Vestre Cemetery established.
- Population: 202,327.^(da)
1874 – Botanical Garden glasshouses built.
1879
- Dansk Fotografisk Forening (photo society) headquartered in city.^[11]
- Vesterfælledvej truant school founded.^[12]
1881 – Children's playground constructed.^[13]
1882 – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek established.
1883 - Dagmarteatret [da] (theatre) opens.
1884 – Dagbladet Politiken newspaper begins publication.
1890 - Population: 367,262.^(da)
1894 – Frederik's Church, popularly known as the "Marble Church", opens.
1895 - Copenhagen Women's Exhibition
1896 – Statens Museum for Kunst established.
1897
- Østerport Station opens.
- Coast Line railway begins operating.

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1900s-1940s

1901
- City expands.
- Museum of Copenhagen and International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres^[14] founded.
- Population: 468,936.^(da)
1905 – Copenhagen City Hall built on City Hall Square.
1907 – Medical Museion established.
1910
- Rigshospitalet built.^{[citation needed]}
- International socialist women's conference held.^[14]
1911
- Copenhagen Central Station, Idrætsparken, and Hirschsprung Collection open.
- Population: 584,089.^(da)
1912 – Theatre Museum in the Court Theatre founded.
1913
- Dansk Statens Arkiv for Historiske Film og Stemmer (film archive) founded.^[10]
- The Little Mermaid (statue) unveiled.
1915 - January: Conference of Socialist Parties of Neutral Countries held in Copenhagen.
1917 - Munksgaards Forlag [da] (publisher) in business.^[15]
1924 – Alexandra Teatret (cinema) opens.^[16]
1925
- Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup and Bakkehuset museum open.
- Danish National Symphony Orchestra founded.
1926 – Forum Copenhagen built.
1927 – Grundtvig's Church inaugurated.
1928
- Tøjhus Museum established.
- Christiansborg Palace rebuilt.
1929 – Søndermark Cemetery established.
1938 – Palladium (Copenhagen) [da] cinema built.^[16]
1940 – April: German occupation begins.^[17]
1943
- 3 September: Stalag 391 prisoner-of-war camp for Danish POWs established by the Germans.^[18]
- 8 November: Stalag 391 POW camp dissolved.^[18]
1945
- 5 May: German occupation ends.^[17]
- Dagbladet Information (newspaper) begins publication.
- Population: 731,707.^[17]
1948 – David Collection opens.

1950s-1990s

1950 – Ryvangen Memorial Park officially inaugurated.^[19]
1951 - 24 September: World's first successful sex reassignment surgery performed at Gentofte Hospital.
1957 – World Santa Claus Congress begins near city.^[20]
1958 - "Egg" and "swan" chair designs introduced.
1962 – Strøget pedestrian zone laid out.
1971
- Weekendavisen newspaper begins publication.^[21]
- Freetown Christiania founded.
1973 – Roskilde Airport opens.
1974 - Greater Copenhagen Council created.^[22]
1975 - Vester Vov Vov [da] cinema opens.^[16]
1976
- Royal Danish Naval Museum established.
- Population: 1,292,647 urban area.^(da)
1977
- 12 December: World's "first AIDS victim" dies in Copenhagen.^[23]
- Frieboeshvile restored.
1978 – Danish Design Centre opens.
1979 – Copenhagen Jazz Festival begins.
1980 – Copenhagen Marathon begins.
1983 – Radio Rosa begins broadcasting.
1984 – Valby-Hallen opens.
1986
- Fotografisk Center and Rhythmic Music Conservatory established.
- Worker's Museum opens.
1992 – Parken Stadium built.
1995
- Copenhagen City Bikes launched.
- Danish Architecture Centre founded.
1996 – National Museum of Photography and Cisternerne – Museum for moderne Glaskunst founded.
1998 – Copenhagen Distortion begins.
1999 – Black Diamond (library) built.
2000
- Øresund Bridge opens to Malmö, Sweden.^[24]
- Copenhagen Harbour Buses begin operating.

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2000s

2001 – Copenhagen Free University established.
2002 – Copenhagen Metro and Copenhagen Harbour Baths inaugurated.
2003
- Copenhagen International Documentary Festival and Start! Festival begin.
- North Atlantic House cultural centre^[25] and Noma (restaurant) open.
2004
- Copenhagen Opera House and Danish Jewish Museum open.
- Natural History Museum of Denmark formed.^[6]
2005 – VM Houses built.
2006 – DieselHouse opens.
2007
- City becomes part of the Capital Region of Denmark.
- Karriere Bar and Geranium (restaurant) open.
- Fictional The Killing (TV series) begins broadcasting.
- Homeless World Cup football contest held.
2008
- Royal Danish Playhouse opens in Frederiksstaden.
- 21st European Film Awards held.
- Mountain Dwellings built.
2009
- United Nations Climate Change Conference held.
- CPH:PIX film festival begins.

2010s

2010 – 8 House built.
2011
- Torvehallerne (market) in business.^[26]
- MAD Symposium begins.
2012
- Bicycle superhighway opens.^[27]
- Population: 1,213,882 urban area.^(da)
2014 - Cykelslangen (bike bridge) opens in Havneholmen.
2015 – 14–15 February: 2015 Copenhagen shootings occur, killing two civilians and wounding five police officers. The suspected perpetrator was later shot and killed by police.^[28]

2020s

2022
- 3 July: The Field's mall shooting occurs, killing multiple people.^[29]

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History of Copenhagen
List of lord mayors of Copenhagen
Copenhagen metropolitan area
Urban area of Copenhagen
Timelines of other cities in Denmark: Aarhus

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[1] [1]
Karen J. Friedmann (1976). "Food Marketing in Copenhagen 1250–1850". Agricultural History. 50 (2): 400–413. JSTOR 3741339.

[proctor1898-2] [2]
Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Denmark". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450632 – via HathiTrust.

[hammond2005-3] [3]
Susan Lewis Hammond (2005). "Italian Music and Christian IV's Urban Agenda for Copenhagen". Scandinavian Studies. 77 (3): 365–382. JSTOR 40920604.

[McClellan1985-4] [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] [5]
A. V. Williams (1913). Development and Growth of City Directories. Cincinnati, USA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[bates2010-6] [6]
Jens Thorhauge; et al. (2010), "Denmark: Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Marcia J. Bates (ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127

[7] [7]
Danish National Museum General Guide, Copenhagen: The Museum, 1900, OL 7080820M

[8] [8]
"Timeline". Hans Christian Andersen. Online Exhibitions. British Library. 2005.

[9] [9]
Chester L. Alwes (2012). "Choral Music in the Culture of the 19th Century". In André de Quadros (ed.). Cambridge Companion to Choral Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11173-7. Music publishers of the 18th to the early 20th c. (chronological list)

[anzovin2000-10] [10]
Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.

[anthony1890-11] [11]
"Continental Photographic Societies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1890

[12] [12]
Ning de Coninck-Smith (1992). "Copenhagen Children's Lives and the Impact of Institutions, c. 1840–1920". History Workshop (33): 57–72. JSTOR 4289139.

[13] [13]
Ning de Coninck-Smith (1990). "Where Should Children Play? City Planning Seen From Knee-Height: Copenhagen 1870 to 1920". Children's Environments Quarterly. 7 (4): 54–61. JSTOR 41514760.

[Docherty2006-14] [14]
James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.

[15] [15]
Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Blackwell Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014 – via Northern Illinois University.

[CinemaTreasures-16] [16]
"Movie Theaters in Copenhagen, Denmark". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

[webster1960-17] [17]
Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M

[ushm-18] [18]
Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.

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[Robertson2011-23] [23]
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[27] [27]
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[Register2016-28] [28]
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