Timeline of Włocławek

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

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• 1340 – Bishop Maciej of Gołańcz laid the foundation stone of the new Gothic Włocławek Cathedral.^[6]
• 1411 – Włocławek Cathedral consecrated by Bishop Jan Kropidło.^[6]
• 1480s – Nicolaus Copernicus possibly attended the local cathedral school.

• 1538 – Gothic Saint John the Baptist church consecrated.
• 1569 – August 16: Bishop Stanisław Karnkowski founded a theological seminary in Włocławek, one of the oldest seminaries in Poland.^[7][8]
• 1587 – Sigismund III Vasa visited Włocławek on the way to his royal coronation in Kraków.^[9]
• 1593 – Visit of King Sigismund III Vasa.^[9]
• 1625 – Reformed Franciscans brought to Włocławek by Bishop Andrzej Lipski.^[10]
• 1644 – Baroque Reformed Franciscan church consecrated by Bishop Piotr Mieszkowski.^[11][10]
• 1790 – Stay of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Włocławek.^[12]
• 1793 – City annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland.
• 1794 – Kościuszko Uprising: Dionizy Mniewski [pl] sank Prussian ships with ammunition headed for besieged Warsaw.^[12]
• 1797 – Salt granaries built.^[12]

• 1806 – City captured by the French.^[13]
• 1807 – Włocławek becomes part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
• 1815 – Włocławek passes to the Russian Partition of Poland.
• 1832 – Bojańczyk's Brewery founded.
• 1840 – Nadbrzeżna Street (present-day Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards) outlined.
• 1854 – Synagogue built.^[14]
• 1862 – Włocławek railway station opened.
• 1863 – 8 November: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.^[15]
• 1864 – 17 February: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops during the January Uprising.^[16]
• 1870 – Henryk Sienkiewicz Park founded.
• 1873 – Faience factory established.
• 1886 – Włocławek Rowing Society founded.

• 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]

• 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
  • Zarzeczewo Marina in Włocławek launched.
  • Włocławek became a member of the Federation of Copernican Cities.^[29]
• 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

• 2001 – Hala Mistrzów indoor arena opened.
• 2002 – State Academy of Applied Sciences in Włocławek founded.
• 2003 – Anwil Włocławek won its first Polish basketball championship.
• 2009 – Wzorcownia shopping centre opened.
• 2018 – Jan Długosz Monument unveiled.^[30]
• 2022 – Silent Unseen Monument unveiled.^[31]

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• Przewodnik ilustrowany po Włocławku (in Polish). Włocławek: Księgarnia Powszechna i Drukarnia Diecezjalna we Włocławku. 1922.
• Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN.
• Atlas historyczny miast polskich. Tom II: Kujawy. Zeszyt 4: Włocławek (in Polish). Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika. 2016. ISBN 978-83-231-3551-7.
• Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.