Timeline of Radom
Timeline of the Radom history
Affiliations
Affiliations
Kingdom of Poland 1000s–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1795
Habsburg Monarchy 1795-1804
Austrian Empire 1804-1809
Duchy of Warsaw 1809-1815
Russian Empire 1815–1917
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
General Government 1939–1945
People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
1989–present
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Radom, Poland.[1]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Important dates
Pope John Paul 2 in Radom, 4 VI 1991
- 1155: first mention about Radom (Pope Adrian IV bull)
- before 1300: Old Radom granted with Środa Śląska rights (city rights based on those of Środa Śląska)
- 1233: first written reference to Radom's chief of castle - Marek
- 1340: Casimir III founds New Radom (Nowy Radom)
- 1360–1370: Casimir III founds St. John's Church
- 1364: Radom granted with Magdeburg law
- 1383: Jadwiga of Poland accepted by a Sejm held in Radom as a king of Poland
- 1401: First union of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania signed in Radom
- 1481: Radom becomes a de facto capital of Poland after Casimir IV of Poland moves to Lithuania and his son, Saint Casimir to be, ruled the country in his absence from Radom
- 1489: Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, John von Tieffen pays tribute to Casimir IV of Poland in Radom castle
- 1505: a Sejm in Radom passes the Nihil novi constitution and Łaski's Statute, the first real bill of rights of Poland
- 1564: 1800 inhabitants, 180 houses, 14 butchers' shops, two baths and two wells
- 1613: Radom becomes the place where the Highest Fiscal Courts are held
- 1628: Great fire destroys the town
- 1656: Charles X of Sweden stays in town during The Deluge
- 1660: the city plundered by Sweden; after they leave the town has 395 inhabitants and 37 houses
- 1724: Augustus II the Strong grant to Radom privilege De non tollerandis judaeis
- 1737–1756: Kolegium Pijarów [the Piarists College] school founded
- 1763: Fiscal Tribunal moved to Warsaw; the town has 1370 inhabitants and 137 buildings
- 1795: After the 3rd Partition Radom is annexed by Austria
- 1809: Radom becomes capital of a department of the Duchy of Warsaw
- 1815: Radom, after the Congress of Vienna, becomes part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland
- 1817: First lay school founded
- 1819: Fryderyk August Schnierstein opens a tannery, the date is considered a start of towns industrialisation
- 1844: Radom becomes the capital of Radom-Kielce government
- 1867: Creation of Radom local government; the sewers are built
- 1885: Dęblin–Dąbrowa Górnicza railway opened
- 1901: electricity plant opened
- 1908: Population: 39,981.[2]
- 1911: Radom has 51,934 inhabitants
- 1920–1939: Radom becomes a part of the Central Industrial Area (Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy); Chemical Plant, arms and munitions factory (Łucznik Arms Factory), gas works, telephone and shoe factories are founded
- 1935: Radom–Warsaw railway opened. It significantly shortened rail distance between Warsaw and Kraków
- 1938: 90,059 inhabitants
- 1939–1945: capital of Radom district of the General Government
- 1942–1944: Radom Ghetto
- January 16, 1945: liberation from German occupation
- 1948–1975: Theatre (Teatr Dramatyczny) and an engineering school are opened.
- 1975: the city becomes the capital of Radom Voivodeship
- June 25, 1976: Huge workers' strike against the communist regime; the town becomes one of the main centres of anti-communist opposition in Poland (see June 1976 protests)
- 1996: Radomska Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierska promoted to the rank of a Kazimierz Pułaski Technical University of Radom (Politechnika Radomska)
- 1999: Radom becomes the capital of Radom County of the Masovian Voivodeship
See also
References
- ↑ Official webpage of Radom in English at Radom.pl
- ↑ "Russia: Area and Population: Principal Towns: Poland". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.
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