Timeline of Hanover

Prior to 19th century

• 1333 - Kreuzkirche consecrated.
• 1347 - Aegidienkirche built.
• 1366 - Marktkirche built.
• 1369 - Welfs in power.
• 1382 - built near city.
• 1400 - Public clock installed.
• 1410 - Town Hall building expanded.
• 1440 - founded.
• 1529 - Hanover Schützenfest established.
• 1550 - established.
• 1670 - Neustädter Kirche built.
• 1676 - Herrenhausen Palace expansion begins.
• 1689
• * Population: 11,373.
• * opens with premiere of Steffani's opera Henrico Leone.
• 1698 - in use.
• 1720 - active.
• 1726 - laid out.
• 1755 - Population: 17,432.
• 1797 - founded.
• 1798 - begins publication.

  19th century

• 1810 - Hanover becomes part of the Kingdom of Westphalia.
• 1815 - City becomes capital of the Kingdom of Hanover.
• 1821 - Population: 33,255.
• 1824 - becomes part of city.
• 1826 - Gas lighting installed.
• 1832 - formed.
• 1835 - founded.
• 1838 - built.
• 1844 - Hanover–Braunschweig Railway in operation.
• 1847
• * Bremen–Hanover railway begins operating.
• * Development of area begins.
• 1851 - Thalia Society founded.
• 1852
• * Royal Theatre built.
• * ' newspaper in publication.
• 1853 - Hanoverian Southern Railway begins operating.
• 1854 - ' newspaper begins publication.
• 1856 - built.
• 1861 - Population: 71,170.
• 1864
• * Hanover–Hamburg railway in operation.
• * and established.
• 1865 - Hanover Zoo established.
• 1866
• * Hanover becomes part of Prussia.
• * active.
• * Welfenschloss built.
• * X Army Corps headquartered in Hanover.
• * established.
• 1870 - built.
• 1871 - Continental rubber manufacturer in business.
• 1872
• * Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
• * built.
• 1879 - Hannover Hauptbahnhof rebuilt.
• 1885 - Population: 139,731.
• 1886 - built.
• 1888 - Photographischer Verein founded.
• 1889
• * opens.
• * Kestner Museum established.
• 1891 -, Herrenhausen,, and become part of city.
• 1893
• * Electric tram begins operating.
• * newspaper begins publication.
• 1895 - and built.
• 1896
• * Hannover 96 football club formed.
• * installed.
• 1897 - Music Conservatory established.
• 1898 - Hannoversche Waggonfabrik in business.

  20th century

1900-1945

• 1902 - Provincial museum built.
• 1903 - opens.
• 1904 - Bismarck Tower erected.
• 1907 -,, Klein-Buchholz,,, Mecklenheide, Stöcken, and become part of city.
• 1908 - Anti-noise society formed.
• 1911 - opens.
• 1913 - New City Hall built in the.
• 1914
• * Stadthalle built.
• * opens.
• 1916
• * Kestnergesellschaft formed.
• * installed in the Neustädter Markt.
• 1918
• * November: German Revolution of 1918–19.
• * becomes mayor.
• 1919
• * Deutsche Luft-Reederei begins operating its Berlin-Hannover airplane route.
• * Population: 310,431.
• 1920
• * Linden becomes part of city.
• * established.
• 1921
• * Nazi Party branch established.
• * Überlandwerke und Straßenbahnen Hannover AG active.
• * in use.
• 1923
• * German Völkisch Freedom Party branch established.
• * Nazi weekly newspaper begins publication.
• 1924 - becomes mayor.
• 1925
• * Arthur Menge becomes mayor.
• * Population: 422,745.
• 1927 - Botanischer Schulgarten Burg established.
• 1936 - Maschsee created.
• 1937 - becomes mayor.
• 1938 - November: Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.
• 1939
• * September: Bombing of Hanover in World War II by Allied forces begins.
• * Population: 472,527.
• 1942 - becomes Staatskommissare.
• 1944
• * 24 June: begins operating.
• * 26 June: Hanover-Misburg subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp established. The prisoners were mostly Polish women.
• * 1 September: Hanover-Limmer concentration camp redesignated a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp.
• * September: begins operating.
• * Late September or early October: Hanover-Langenhagen subcamp of Neuengamme established. The prisoners were mostly Polish women.
• * November: established.
• * becomes Staatskommissare.
• 1945
• * January: Hanover-Langenhagen subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved, surviving prisoners relocated to the Hanover-Limmer camp.
• * February: begins operating.
• * 6 April: Hanover-Limmer and Hanover-Misburg subcamps of Neuengamme dissolved, surviving prisoners sent on a death march.
• * 10 April: Allied forces arrive.
• * April–May: Mayor, Regierungspräsident, and Oberpräsident appointed.

  1946-1990s

• 1946 - February: Flood.
• 1947
• * 1 April: Food protest.
• * Hannover Messe begins.
• 1949
• * Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung in publication.
• * built.
• 1950s - Hannover War Cemetery established.
• 1951 - built.
• 1952
• * established.
• * built.
• 1954
• * Niedersachsenstadion opens.
• * Mannesmann Tower erected.
• * begins.
• * rebuilt.
• 1965 - begins.
• 1965 - Population: 555,228.
• 1969 - built.
• 1970 - Norddeutsche Landesbank headquartered in city.
• 1972 - becomes mayor.
• 1974 - Ahelm, Anderten, Bemerode, Misburg, Vinnhorst, Wettbergen, and become part of city.
• 1975
• * Hanover Stadtbahn begins operating.
• * Eilenriedehalle built in the.
• 1979 - Sprengel Museum opens.
• 1987 - founded.
• 1991 - Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway built.
• 1992 - moves to Bokemahle in.
• 2000
• * June: Expo 2000 opens.
• * Hanover S-Bahn commuter rail begins operating.

  21st century

• 2001 - Gehry Tower built.
• 2002 - built.
• 2005 - Regional established, including its.
• 2006 - Stephan Weil becomes mayor.
• 2008
• * urban planning process begins.
• * Baitus Sami Mosque built.
• 2013 - Stefan Schostok becomes mayor.
• 2014 - Population: 523,642.
• 2019 - Belit Onay becomes mayor.

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