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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Włocławek, Poland.
- 9th century – Establishment of Włocławek.[1]
- 10th century – Włocławek included within the emerging Polish state.[1]
- 1110s – Włocławek first mentioned in the Gesta principum Polonorum chronicle.[2]
- 1136 – Włocławek mentioned in the Bull of Gniezno.[2]
- 1138 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Masovia within Poland.[3]
- 1215 – Local school first mentioned.[4]
- 1231 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Kuyavia within Poland.[1]
- 1255 – Włocławek granted city rights by Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia from the Piast dynasty.
- 1250s – Castellany relocated from Włocławek to Brześć Kujawski.[1]
- 1267 – Włocławek became part of the provincial Duchy of Brześć Kujawski within Poland.[1]
- 1329 – Teutonic raid.[5]
- 1340 – Bishop Maciej of Gołańcz laid the foundation stone of the new Gothic Włocławek Cathedral.[6]
- 1411 – Włocławek Cathedral consecrated by Bishop Jan Kropidło.[6]
- 1480s – Nicolaus Copernicus possibly attended the local cathedral school.
- 1538 – Gothic Saint John the Baptist church consecrated.
- 1569 – August 16: Bishop Stanisław Karnkowski founded a theological seminary in Włocławek, one of the oldest seminaries in Poland.[7][8]
- 1587 – Sigismund III Vasa visited Włocławek on the way to his royal coronation in Kraków.[9]
- 1593 – Visit of King Sigismund III Vasa.[9]
- 1625 – Reformed Franciscans brought to Włocławek by Bishop Andrzej Lipski.[10]
- 1644 – Baroque Reformed Franciscan church consecrated by Bishop Piotr Mieszkowski.[11][10]
- 1790 – Stay of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Włocławek.[12]
- 1793 – City annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland.
- 1794 – Kościuszko Uprising: Dionizy Mniewski sank Prussian ships with ammunition headed for besieged Warsaw.[12]
- 1797 – Salt granaries built.[12]
- 1806 – City captured by the French.[13]
- 1807 – Włocławek becomes part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
- 1815 – Włocławek passes to the Russian Partition of Poland.
- 1832 – Bojańczyk's Brewery founded.
- 1840 – Nadbrzeżna Street (present-day Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards) outlined.
- 1854 – Synagogue built.[14]
- 1862 – Włocławek railway station opened.
- 1863 – 8 November: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.[15]
- 1864 – 17 February: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.[16]
- 1870 – Henryk Sienkiewicz Park founded.
- 1873 – Faience factory established.
- 1886 – Włocławek Rowing Society founded.
- 1901 – Diocesan Museum founded.[17]
- 1907 – Kronika Diecezji Kujawsko-Kaliskiej begins publishing.
- 1908 – Museum of Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Land founded.
- 1909 – Oldest Polish theological journal Ateneum Kapłańskie began publishing.[7]
- 1911 – Building of the former Gdańsk Bank in Włocławek built.
- 1914
- 5 August: World War I: Germans occupy the city.[18]
- 23 August: Russians re-occupy the city.
- 21 September: Germans re-occupy the city.[19]
- 8 November: Russians re-occupy the city.
- 12 November: Germans re-occupy the city.[20]
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- 1918 – Poland regained independence and the Poles disarmed the Germans and liberated the city.[21]
- 1920 – 13–19 August: Successful Polish defense against the invading Russians during the Polish–Soviet War.
- 1927 – City limits greatly expanded by including several settlements as new districts, including Kapitułka, Krzywe Błoto, Lisek, Łęg, Słodowo, Świech and Zazamcze.[22]
- 1937 – Edward Śmigły-Rydz Bridge built.
- 1939
- September: Beginning of German occupation during World War II.
- 9 September: German invaders committed a massacre of a group of local Jews.[23]
- October-November: Einsatzgruppe III carried out mass arrests of local Poles, including teachers, priests, lecturers and students of the seminary and Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek Michał Kozal, during the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign.[7][24][25]
- 29 October: Włocławek became the first city in which the Germans imposed yellow badges on the Jews.[26]
- November-December: SS and Selbstschutz burnt down the Grzywno district and murdered many of its inhabitants in the nearby village of Warząchewka Polska.[25]
- Arrested Polish teachers, landowners and priests from the Włocławek and Lipno counties imprisoned in a local prison by the Germans, with some later deported to concentration camps and murdered.[27]
- Families of deported and murdered Poles, as well as the remaining residents of Grzywno were expelled to the so-called General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[25]
- 1940
- January: The Germans carried out deportations of arrested priests to the Dachau concentration camp, where most were eventually killed.[7][24]
- June, September: The Germans carried out further expulsions of Poles, including owners of shops, workshops and bigger houses, which were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[28]
- Autumn: Jewish ghetto established by the occupiers.
- 1942 – April: Liquidation of the ghetto. surviving Jews deported by the Germans to the Chełmno extermination camp.
- 1945
- 1946 – Włocłavia Włocławek football club founded.
- 1952 – Kujawskie Zakłady Przemysłu Owocowo-Warzywnego Włocławek food company, manufacturer of the Włocławek ketchup, established.
- 1970 – Hydroelectric power plant in Włocławek opened.
- 1973
- Zarzeczewo Marina in Włocławek launched.
- Włocławek became a member of the Federation of Copernican Cities.[29]
- 1975
- Włocławek became capital of the newly formed Włocławek Voivodeship.
- Monument to Polish railwaymen murdered during World War II unveiled.
- 1984 – Assassination of Jerzy Popiełuszko.
- 1986 – Ethnographic Museum in Włocławek opened.
- 1990 – KK Włocławek basketball club founded.
- 1991 – Monument to Priest Jerzy Popiełuszko unveiled.
- 1999 – Włocławek became part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
- 2001 – Hala Mistrzów indoor arena opened.
- 2002 – State Academy of Applied Sciences in Włocławek founded.
- 2003 – Anwil Włocławek won its first Polish basketball championship.
- 2009 – Wzorcownia shopping centre opened.
- 2018 – Jan Długosz Monument unveiled.[30]
- 2022 – Silent Unseen Monument unveiled.[31]
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