Timeline of Łódź

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

Timeline of the Łódź history
Affiliations

Kingdom of Poland 1300s–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1793
Kingdom of Prussia 1793–1807
Duchy of Warsaw 1807-1815
Congress Poland (Russian Empire) 1815–1916
Kingdom of Poland 1916–1918
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
Nazi Germany 1939–1945
People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
 Republic of Poland 1989–present

Prior to 19th century
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Prehistory and protohistory
Middle Ages
Piast period10th century–1385
Jagiellonian period1385–1572
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Early elective monarchy1572–1648
Deluge and decline1648–1764
Three partitions1764–1795
Modern
Partitioned Poland1795–1918
World War I1914–1918
Second Republic1918–1939
World War II1939–1945
Communist Poland1945–1989
Contemporary
Third Republic1989–present

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19th century

20th century

1900s–1930s
Plac Wolności ("Freedom Square") with the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument and the Holy Spirit Church in 1930

World War II (1939–1945)
Invading German troops in Łódź in September 1939
  • 1939
    • 2 September: Germany carried out first air raids, bombing the airport and the Łódź Kaliska train station.[18]
    • 3 September: Further air raids carried out by Germany. The Germans bombed a railway station in the Widzew district, a power plant, a gas plant, a thread factory and many houses.[18]
    • 5 September: The Germans air raided the airport again.[18]
    • 6 September: The Germans air raided a historic palace which housed the command of the Polish Łódź Army.[18]
    • 6 September: the Citizens' Committee of the City of Łódź established.[19]
    • 6–8 September: Battle of Łódź during the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
    • 9 September: German troops entered the city, beginning of the German occupation.[19]
    • 11 September: The Germans issued the first occupation decrees.[19]
    • 12 September: The German Einsatzgruppe III entered the city to commit various crimes against the population.[20]
    • 12–15 September: The Germans carried out searches of local county offices and Polish police buildings.[20]
    • 16 September: Local administration took over by a German official, D. Leiste from Rhineland.[19]
    • 21 September: The Germans carried out mass searches in the present-day district of Chojny.[20]
    • September: The Germans carried out first arrests of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion and established first prisons for arrested Poles.[21]
    • 12 October – 4 November: City becomes seat of Nazi German General Government of occupied Poland.
    • 31 October: A German transit camp for Poles arrested in the Intelligenzaktion established in the present-day district of Ruda Pabianicka.[21]
    • November: Radogoszcz concentration camp established by the Germans. Its prisoners were mostly people from Łódź, Pabianice and other nearby settlements.[21]
    • 9 November: City annexed directly into Nazi Germany; the Germans destroyed the monument of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.[19]
    • 9 November: First prisoners detained in the Radogoszcz concentration camp.[21]
    • November: Hundreds of Poles from Łódź and the region massacred by the Germans in the forest in the present-day district of Łagiewniki as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[22]
    • City renamed "Litzmannstadt" to erase traces of Polish origin.
    • 11 December: The Germans massacred 70 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
    • 13 December: The Germans massacred 40 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.[22]
    • December: 65 prisoners from the transit camp in Pabianice deported to the Radogoszcz concentration camp and then massacred in Łagiewniki.[21]
    • 31 December: First expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego carried out.[23]
    • Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
Łódź Ghetto in 1940
  • 1940
    • 14–15 January: German police and Selbstschutz carried out mass expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego.[25]
    • February: More prisoners from the liquidated transit camp in Pabianice imprisoned in the Radogoszcz camp; Radogoszcz camp converted into the Radogoszcz prison.[21]
    • February: Łódź Ghetto formed.[26]
    • Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.[24]
    • March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the Okręglik forest near Zgierz.[24]
    • April–May: The Russians committed the large Katyn massacre, among the victims of which were over 1,200 Poles, who either were born or lived in Łódź or the region before the war.[27]
  • 1941
Public execution of Poles in German-occupied Łódź in 1942
  • 1942
  • 1943 - The Germans established a forced labour camp for around 800 English prisoners of war in the Olechów neighbourhood.[18]
  • 1944
    • August: Łódź Ghetto liquidated.
    • September: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated.
  • 1945
    • German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children disestablished.[28]
    • 17 January: City taken by the Soviet Army and afterwards restored to Poland.

1945–2000
National Film School in Łódź
Grand Theatre, Łódź

21st century
Piotrkowska Street in 2011

See also

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  22. Wardzyńska, p. 204
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