Brodnica - Important Dates in The History of Brodnica

Important Dates in The History of Brodnica

• 1285–1370 – the construction of the parish church (Gothic Church of St. Catherine)
• 1298 – the foundation of the town of Brodnica
• 1303–1466 – the Michałowo land is occupied by the Teutonic Knights
• 1310–1330 – the construction of the city walls
• 1312–1327 – the construction of a castle for the Teutonic Master
• 1550 – a great fire sweeps through the town and destroys the castle
• 1479–1818 – Michałowo, Brodnica's district at the time, is the seat of the local starost. In 1560 a court district of Michałowo comprising the Lubawa Land with Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is created
• 1807 – Napoleon Bonaparte visits Brodnica
• 1840 – Frederick William IV of Prussia visits Brodnica
• 1850 – a great fire destroys the oldest part of the town
• 18 January 1920 – General Haller's Blue Army arrives to the town
• 15–18 August 1920 – the eastern part of the district is seized by the Red Army, (Polish–Soviet War)
• 18 August 1920 – Battle of Brodnica: great Polish victory over Red Army
• 22 June 1924 – President of the Republic of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski visits Brodnica
• 1919–1939 – Gazeta Brodnicka (Brodnica Newspaper) is published 3 times a week in the Kazimierz Wojciechowski printing house (in 1921 renamed Gazeta Michałowska (Michałowo Newspaper)
• 26 October 1939 – the Germans incorporate Brodnica into the Third Reich: Poles have status of slaves with no human rights
• 23 January 1945 – the Red Army seizes Brodnica, more than 700 inhabitants of the town and neighborhood (mostly Poles) are deported to soviet camps (gulags)
• 2 July 2010 – Marshal of the Sejm Bronisław Komorowski visits Brodnica