Timeline of Kassel

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 founded.
• 1710 - Karlskirche built.
• 1731 - Casselische Zeitung von Policey begins publication.
• 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

• 1810 - Population: 23,068.
• 1836 - Verein für Naturkunde founded.
• 1848 - Kassel–Warburg railway begins operating.
• 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.
• 1895 - Population: 81,752.
• 1899 - becomes part of Kassel.
• 1900 - Population: 106,034.

  20th century

• 1906 -,,, and becomes 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.
• 1942 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II begins.
• 1945
• * 1–4 April: Battle of Kassel ; Allied forces win.
• * ''Hessischen Nachrichten newspaper begins publication.
• 1960 - Kassel Hauptbahnhof rebuilt.
• 1955
• * National held in Kassel.
• * "Documenta" quinquennial art exhibition begins.
• 1959 - Staatstheater Kassel built.
• 1960 - opens.
• 1971 - University of Kassel established.
• 1972 - Kassel formed in the state of Hesse.
• 1976 - New Gallery 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.

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