Timeline of Wrocław

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Silesians until 985
POL Przemysl II 1295 COA.svg Duchy of Poland 985–1025
POL Przemysl II 1295 COA.svg Kingdom of Poland 1025–1038
Premyslovci erb.svg Duchy of Bohemia 1038–1054
POL Przemysl II 1295 COA.svg Kingdom of Poland 1054–ca. 1320
POL wojewodztwo dolnoslaskie COA.svg Duchy of Silesia 1320–1348
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Kingdom of Bohemia 1348–1469
Flag of Matthias I of Hungary.svg Kingdom of Hungary 1469–1490
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Kingdom of Bohemia 1490–1526
Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Habsburg monarchy 1526–1742
Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1750-1801).svg Kingdom of Prussia 1742–1871
Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire 1871–1918
Flag of Germany.svg Weimar Germany 1918–1933
Flag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Nazi Germany 1933–1945
Flag of Poland.svg People's Republic of Poland 1945–1989
Flag of Poland.svg  Republic of Poland 1989–present

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

Prior to 16th century

Romanesque church of St. Giles, the oldest preserved church of Wroclaw SM Wroclaw Kosciol sw Idziego 2016 ID 598584.jpg
Romanesque church of St. Giles, the oldest preserved church of Wrocław
The oldest printed text in the Polish language in the Statuta Synodalia Episcoporum Wratislaviensis, printed in Wroclaw by Kasper Elyan, 1475 Modlitwy drukowane po polsku w r. 1475.JPG
The oldest printed text in the Polish language in the Statuta Synodalia Episcoporum Wratislaviensis, printed in Wrocław by Kasper Elyan, 1475

16th–18th centuries

19th century

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Wrocław Opera
Market Square with the Old Town Hall around 1900 Breslau um 1900.jpg
Market Square with the Old Town Hall around 1900

20th century

1900–1939

Wroclaw Market Hall in 1909 Market Hall in Wroclaw nr. 1 1909.jpg
Wrocław Market Hall in 1909
Part of the Workplace and House Exhibition WuWA 37 Ogrod.jpg
Part of the Workplace and House Exhibition

World War II (1939–1945)

Monument to the Polish Olimp resistance organization in Wroclaw Organizacja Olimp-pomnik1.JPG
Monument to the Polish Olimp resistance organization in Wrocław

1946–1990s

National Museum, Wroclaw Wroclaw Muzeum Narodowe (cropped).jpg
National Museum, Wrocław
1997 Central European flood in Wroclaw Powodz 1997 Wroclaw 009.jpg
1997 Central European flood in Wrocław

21st century

New Horizons Film Festival, 2009 ERA New Horizons (3773535062).jpg
New Horizons Film Festival, 2009
Stadion Miejski Wroclaw Munincipal Stadium 2019.jpg
Stadion Miejski
Wroclaw Old Town in 2017 Wroclaw square.jpg
Wrocław Old Town in 2017

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This article incorporates information from the Polish Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

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