Timeline of Mannheim

Prior to 19th century

• 1606 - construction begins.
• 1607 - Mannheim granted town privileges by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine.
• 1622 - Thirty Years' War: Capture of Mannheim by Imperial-Spanish forces.
• 1660 - Synagogue built.
• 1688 - Manheim taken by French forces during the Nine Years' War.
• 1689 - Fire.
• 1701 - Almshouse founded
• 1706 - founded.
• 1720 - Residence of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine relocated to Mannheim from Heidelberg.
• 1729 - Population: 15,760.
• 1731 - Mannheim Palace Church built.
• 1756 - Jesuit Church, Mannheim built.
• 1759 - Mannheim Palace completed.
• 1766 - Population: 24,190.
• 1771 - Town Hall built.
• 1774 - Mannheim Observatory tower built.
• 1775 - Deutsche Gesellschaft in Mannheim active.
• 1779
• * built.
• * Mannheim National Theatre founded.
• 1782 - 13 January: Premiere of Schiller's play The Robbers.
• 1788 - Palais Bretzenheim built.
• 1794 - French in power.
• 1795
• * Mannheim besieged during the Campaigns of 1795 in the French Revolutionary Wars.
• * Austrians in power.

19th century

• 1803 - Mannheim becomes part of the Electorate of Baden.
• 1806 - Mannheim becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
• 1819 - March: Writer August von Kotzebue assassinated.
• 1828 - Mannheim Harbour opens on the Rhine river.
• 1837 - newspaper begins publication.
• 1840 - Heidelberg-Mannheim railway begins operating.
• 1849 - Political unrest during the Baden Revolution.
• 1855 - built.
• 1859 - Heinrich Lanz AG machinery manufactory in business.
• 1876 - Mannheim Hauptbahnhof built.
• 1880 - Population: 53,465.
• 1891 - active.
• 1895 - becomes part of Mannheim.
• 1896 - Population: 94,160.
• 1897 - Käfertal becomes part of Mannheim.
• 1899 - becomes part of Mannheim.
• 1900 - Population: 141,131.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1905 - Population: 162,607.
• 1907
• * Industriehafen Mannheim opens on the Neckar river.
• * established.
• * Kunsthalle Mannheim built.
• * SV Waldhof Mannheim formed.
• * Population: 173,424.
• 1910 - becomes part of Mannheim.
• 1911
• * built.
• * Population: 200,285.
• 1912 - built.
• 1913 - and Sandhofen become part of Mannheim.
• 1914 - formed.
• 1919 - Population: 229,576.
• 1924 - Mannheim Hospital opened on the banks of the river Neckar
• 1925 - "" art exhibition held.
• 1926 - Airfield established at Neuostheim.
• 1929 - becomes part of Mannheim.
• 1930
• *,,,, become part of Mannheim.
• * Population: 271,833.
• 1938
• * November: Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.
• * formed.
• * Eisstadion am Friedrichspark built.
• 1940 - Bombing of Mannheim in World War II begins.
• 1944
• * September: Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp established for Poles deported from Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising.
• * 2 October: First attempt to escape from the Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp.
• * 15 December: Three Polish prisoners of the Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp killed in an Allied bombing.
• 1945
• * 4 January: Public execution of a Polish prisoner of the Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp.
• * February: Some prisoners deported from the Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp to forced labour in Kochendorf.
• * March: Remaining prisoners deported to Vaihingen an der Enz and Kochendorf; Mannheim-Sandhofen subcamp dissolved.
• * 29 March: Americans capture the city.
• * 6 April: Prisoner of War Executive Camp No. 1 for liberated Allied POWs established.
• * June: The PWX Camp No. 1 converted into the Polish PWX Camp No. 1.
• * July: United States Coleman Army Airfield begins operating.
• 1946
• * newspaper begins publication.
• * Polish PWX Camp No. 1 converted into the Tadeusz Kościuszko Civilian Guard Training Center, and later renamed to Tadeusz Kościuszko Theater Civilian Guard Training and Replacement Center for former Polish POWs.
• 1947
• * United States military Benjamin Franklin Village established.
• * 8 November: Polish Tadeusz Kościuszko Theater Civilian Guard Training and Replacement Center dissolved.
• 1949 - office established.

1950s-1990s

• 1955 - Free Voters established.
• 1957 - National Theatre Mannheim rebuilt.
• 1959 - Rhine Bridge rebuilt.
• 1961 - Population: 313,890.
• 1967 - University of Mannheim established.
• 1970
• * built.
• * Population: 332,378.
• 1972 - opens.
• 1975
• * Fernmeldeturm Mannheim erected.
• * National held in Mannheim.
• 1976 - Federal electoral districts,, and formed.
• 1979 - Odeon cinema opens.
• 1987 - built on the.
• 1991
• * built.
• * Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway begins operating.
• 1992 - Revised federal electoral districts and formed.
• 1994
• * 5 December: Aircraft crashes into the Fernmeldeturm.
• * Carl-Benz-Stadion opens.
• 1995 - Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque built.

21st century

• 2002 - Revised federal Mannheim (electoral district) formed.
• 2003
• * Popakademie Baden-Württemberg established.
• * memorial erected on the.
• 2004 - opens.
• 2005 - SAP Arena opens.
• 2007
• * Peter Kurz becomes mayor.
• * August: City hosts the 2007 FEI European Jumping Championship.
• 2010
• * May: City co-hosts the 2010 IIHF World Championship.
• * Population: 313,174.
• 2011 - closes.
• 2014 - 25 May: held.
• 2024 Mannheim stabbing
• 2025 Mannheim car attack