Timeline of Włocławek

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Włocławek, Poland.

Middle Ages

Gothic Włocławek Cathedral, seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek

16th to 18th centuries

19th century

20th century

  • 1901 – Diocesan Museum founded.[17]
  • 1907 – Kronika Diecezji Kujawsko-Kaliskiej [pl] begins publishing.
  • 1908 – Museum of Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Land founded.
  • 1909 – Oldest Polish theological journal Ateneum Kapłańskie [pl] 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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Włocławek in the interbellum
  • 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
    • 4 April: Seminary resumed activities in Lubraniec.[7]
    • May: Seminary relocated from Lubraniec back to Włocławek.[7]
  • 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
  • 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

21st century

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