Timeline of Graz

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Graz, Austria.

Prior to 14th century[edit]

1180 – Graz becomes capital of the Duchy of Styria.
1239 – Graz Friary active.

14th–16th centuries[edit]

1379 – Graz becomes capital of Inner Austria;^[1] Leopold III in power.
1438 – Graz Castle built.^{[citation needed]}
1462 – Graz Cathedral built.
1560 – Clock tower built on the Schlossberg.
1585 – University of Graz founded.
1588 – Belltower built on the Schlossberg.
1590 – Dobel Castle built.

17th–18th centuries[edit]

1619 – Habsburg Ferdinand II becomes Holy Roman Emperor; relocates from Graz to Vienna.^[2]
1635 – Eggenberg Palace built (approximate date).
1640 – Mausoleum of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor consecrated.^{[citation needed]}
1645 – Styrian Armoury built.
1652 – Grabenkirche (church) dedicated.
1724 – Mariatrost Basilica (church) built.
1776 – Schauspielhaus Graz (theatre) built.
1780 – Count John D'Alton becomes Governor.
1786 – Catholic See of Seckau prince-bishop residence relocated to Graz.
1794 – Prison in use.
1797 – French in power.^[3]^[4]

19th century[edit]

1809 – June: Battle of Graz.^[5]
1811
- Landesmuseum Joanneum (museum) established.
- Graz University of Technology founded by Archduke John of Austria^[4]
1816 – Music school established.
1823 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).^[6]
1828 – Graz Mutual Insurance Company founded.^{[citation needed]}
1844 – Southern Railway in operation (approximate date).
1847 – Central Railway Station opens.
1850 – Historical Society of Styria founded.^[7]
1855 – Grazer Telegraf newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1864 – Technical High School and Thalía Theatre active.
1872 – Grazer Waggon- & Maschinen-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft (manufacturer) in business.
1876 – Steiermärkische Fechtklub (fencing club) founded.^[9]
1878 – Horse trams begin operating.
1885 – Grazer Congress (concert hall) built.^{[citation needed]}
1887 – Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
1888 - Grazer Alpenclub (hiking club) formed.^[10]
1889 – Club der Amateurfotografen (photography club) founded.^[11]^[12]
1894 – Schlossbergbahn funicular railway begins operating.
1899
- Graz Opera house inaugurated.^[13]
- Electric tram begins operating.
1900 – Population: 138,370.^[4]

20th century[edit]

1900s–1950s[edit]

1902 – Grazer AK (sports club) formed.
1904 – Kleine Zeitung newspaper begins publication.
1909
- SK Sturm Graz (football club) formed.
- Grand Hotel Wiesler in business.^[14]
1912 – LKH-Universitätsklinikum (hospital) built.
1913 – Volkskundemuseum (folkloric museum) opens.
1914 – September: Talerhof concentration camp in operation near city.
1919 – Vinzenz Muchitsch becomes mayor.
1920 - Population: 157,032.^[15]
1925 – Graz Airport active.
1938
- February: City becomes part of Nazi Germany.^[16]
- Julius Kaspar becomes mayor.
1941 – Trolleybuses begin operating.
1945
- Allied occupation of Austria begins; Styria overseen by British forces.
- Eduard Speck becomes mayor.
- Die Wahrheit communist newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1951
- Population: 226,476.
- Die Aula magazine begins publication.
1955 – July: Allied occupation of Austria ends per Austrian State Treaty.

1960s–1990s[edit]

1960
- Gustav Scherbaum becomes mayor.
- Hafnerriegel (residence building) constructed.
- Forum Stadtpark (art gallery) opens.^[17]
1963 – Eisstadion Liebenau (sports arena) built.
1971 – Tramway Museum Graz founded.
1973 – Alexander Götz becomes mayor.
1985 – Alfred Stingl becomes mayor.
1993 – Nausner & Nausner Verlag (publisher) in business.^[18]
1995 – Das Megaphon newspaper begins publication.
1997 – Schwarzenegger-Stadium opens.
1998
- Diagonale film festival active.
- Schreibkraft magazine founded.
1999 – Old Town designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

21st century[edit]

2001
- Magna Steyr automobile manufacturer headquartered in Graz.
- Springfestival begins.^[19]
2002 – Stadthalle Graz (assembly hall) opens.
2003
- Graz Art Museum built.
- City designated a European Capital of Culture.
- Murinsel (amphitheatre) opens.
- Homeless World Cup football contest held.
- Siegfried Nagl becomes mayor.^[20]
2005 – Elevate Festival begins.
2007
- Rondo built.
- Einkaufszentrum Murpark (shopping mall) in business.
2013 – Population: 265,778.
2015 – A van and knife attack kills three and injures 36.
2016 Overnight stays in Graz Hotels exceed 1.1 million for the first time

References[edit]

^ "Short History of the City". City of Graz. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ "World of the Habsburgs". Vienna: Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsgesellschaft. 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Gratz". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
^ ^a ^b ^c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Graz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 395–396.
^ George Henry Townsend (1867), "Gratz (Austria)", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
^ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
^ "Geschichte des Historischen Vereins" (in German). Graz: Historischer Verein Steiermark. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Graz (Austria) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ "Die Geschichte des ÖFV" (in German). Graz: Austrian Fencing Federation. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ A.J. Mackintosh (1907). "Mountaineering Clubs, 1857-1907". Alpine Journal (177). UK. hdl:2027/njp.32101076197365.
^ "Über uns" (in German). Club der Amateurfotografen Graz. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ "Foreign Photographic Societies: Austria". American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897. New York: Scovill & Adams Company. 1896.
^ "Graz". Neuer Theater-Almanach (in German). Berlin: F.A. Günther & Sohn. 1908. hdl:2027/uva.x030515382.
^ Antje Senarclens de Grancy (2001). 'Moderner Stil' und 'Heimisches Bauen': Architekturreform in Graz um 1900 (in German). Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 978-3-205-99284-4.
^ "Austria". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ Evan Burr Bukey (2002). Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938–1945. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-5363-4.
^ Christine Rigler (2002). Forum Stadtpark: die Grazer Avantgarde von 1960 bis heute (in German). Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 978-3-205-99487-9.
^ "Wir über uns" (in German). Graz: Nausner & Nausner Verlag. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ "About Springfestival". Graz: Friends Of Spring Projektentwicklungs. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
^ "Mayors in Europe". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography[edit]

published in 17th-19th centuries

Zeiller, Martin (1649). "Gratz". Topographia Provinciarum Austriacarum Austriae, Styriae, Carinthiae, Carniolae, Tyrolis. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. p. 68+.
"Gratz", Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1863
Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Gratz". English Cyclopaedia. London. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Graz; Geschichte und Topographie der Stadt und ihrer Umgebung (in German), Verlag der Geschäftsführung der 48. Versammlung der deutschen Naturforscher und Ärzte, 1875
W. Pembroke Fetridge (1881), "Gratz", Harper's Hand-book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
Graz, Illustrated Europe, Zürich: Orell Füssli & Co., c. 1890s
Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Gratz", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555

published in 20th century

"Graz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 395–396.
"Gratz", Austria-Hungary (11th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OL 18759934M (+ 1871 ed., 1907 ed.)
William H. Hubbard (1980). "Aspects of Social Mobility in Graz, 1857–1880". Historical Social Research (14): 3–26. JSTOR 20754660.

External links[edit]

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[1] "Short History of the City". City of Graz. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[2] "World of the Habsburgs". Vienna: Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsgesellschaft. 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[brewster1830-3] David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Gratz". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.

[brit1910-4] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Graz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 395–396.

[townsend1867-5] George Henry Townsend (1867), "Gratz (Austria)", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.

[6] Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse

[7] "Geschichte des Historischen Vereins" (in German). Graz: Historischer Verein Steiermark. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[worldcat-8] "Graz (Austria) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[9] "Die Geschichte des ÖFV" (in German). Graz: Austrian Fencing Federation. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[10] A.J. Mackintosh (1907). "Mountaineering Clubs, 1857-1907". Alpine Journal (177). UK. hdl:2027/njp.32101076197365.

[11] "Über uns" (in German). Club der Amateurfotografen Graz. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[12] "Foreign Photographic Societies: Austria". American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897. New York: Scovill & Adams Company. 1896.

[13] "Graz". Neuer Theater-Almanach (in German). Berlin: F.A. Günther & Sohn. 1908. hdl:2027/uva.x030515382.

[Grancy2001-14] Antje Senarclens de Grancy (2001). 'Moderner Stil' und 'Heimisches Bauen': Architekturreform in Graz um 1900 (in German). Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 978-3-205-99284-4.

[15] "Austria". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[Bukey2002-16] Evan Burr Bukey (2002). Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938–1945. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-5363-4.

[Rigler2002-17] Christine Rigler (2002). Forum Stadtpark: die Grazer Avantgarde von 1960 bis heute (in German). Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 978-3-205-99487-9.

[18] "Wir über uns" (in German). Graz: Nausner & Nausner Verlag. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[19] "About Springfestival". Graz: Friends Of Spring Projektentwicklungs. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

[20] "Mayors in Europe". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

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