Timeline of Kassel
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kassel, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
- 1462 - Martinskirche, Kassel built.
- 1502 - founded.
- 1593 - built.
- 1594 - Printer Wilhelm Wessel in business.
- 1606 - Ottoneum built.
- 1626 - Population: 6,329.
- 1709 - Collegium Carolinum (Kassel) founded.
- 1710 - Karlskirche (Kassel) built.
- 1731 - Casselische Zeitung von Policey begins publication.
- 1761 - Siege of Cassel (1761): Cassel successfully defended by the French.
- 1762 - Siege of Cassel (1762): Cassel was captured by the Germans from the French.
- 1767 - laid out.
- 1768 - laid out.
- 1769 - Opera house built on.
- 1777 - Art school established.
- 1779 - Fridericianum museum opens.
- 1798 - Schloss Wilhelmshöhe built.
19th century
- 1807 - Became the capital of the Kingdom of Westphalia.
- 1810 - Population: 23,068.
- 1813 - Bombarded and captured by the Russian general Chernichev;
- 1836 - Verein für Naturkunde founded.
- 1848 - Kassel–Warburg railway begins operating.
- 1850/51 - Occupied by the Prussians.
- 1866
- * Prussian XI Army Corps headquartered in Kassel.
- * Kassel becomes seat of province Hesse-Nassau in Prussia.
- 1877 - Steam tram begins operating.
- 1880 - Population: 58,290.
- 1885 - Population: 64,083.
- 1895 - Population: 81,752.
- 1899 - becomes part of Kassel.
- 1900 - Population: 106,034.
20th century
- 1905 - Population: 120,446.
- 1906 -,,, and become part of Kassel.
- 1909
- * Neue Hoftheater built.
- * Population: 150,577.
- 1914 - built.
- 1926 - Gutsbezirk Fasanenhof becomes part of Kassel.
- 1928 - Gutsbezirk Oberförsterei Kirchditmold, Kragenhof, Oberförsterei Ehlen, and become part of Kassel.
- 1936
- *, Niederzwehren,,,, and become part of Kassel.
- * Population: 203,418.
- 1939 - Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established.
- 1942 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II begins.
- 1943 - July: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.
- 1944 - October: Several prisoners escaped from the Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald.
- 1945
- * 29 March: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald dissolved. Escape of many prisoners during their deportation to the main Buchenwald camp.
- * 1–4 April: Battle of Kassel (1945); Allied forces win.
- * Hessischen Nachrichten newspaper begins publication.
- 1955
- * National held in Kassel.
- * "Documenta" quinquennial art exhibition begins.
- 1959 - Staatstheater Kassel built.
- 1960
- * Kassel Hauptbahnhof rebuilt.
- * opens.
- 1971 - University of Kassel established.
- 1972 - Kassel (district) formed in the state of Hesse.
- 1976 - New Gallery (Kassel) opens.
- 1977 - Eissporthalle Kassel opens.
- 1981 - National held in Kassel.
- 1985 - Population: 184,466.
21st century
- 2005
- * remodelled.
- * becomes mayor.
- 2007
- * Kassel RegioTram begins operating.
- * Kassel Marathon begins.
- 2013 - opens.
- 2014 - built.
- 2015 - Population: 200,507.