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• 1802 - Fortifications demolished.^[5]
• 1804 – Kastanienallee laid out.
• 1805
  • Town becomes capital of Grand Duchy of Berg.^[2]
  • Palace art collection relocates to Munich.^[8]
• 1806 – French in power.^[3]
• 1812 – Breidenbacher Hof in business.
• 1813 – Hof-Garten expanded.^[6]
• 1815
  • Prussians in power.^[2]
  • Engelbert Schramm becomes mayor.
• 1818 – Lower Rhenish Music Festival held.
• 1819 – New Kunstakademie Düsseldorf founded as Königlich Preußische Kunstakademie (Royal Prussian Academy of Art); Dusselthal Asylum established.^[3]
• 1829 – Artists' Society for the Rhinelands and Westphalia (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen) founded.^[9]
• 1838 – Bergisch-Märkische railway station opens.
• 1841 – Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway constructed.
• 1845 – Cologne-Minden railway station opens.
• 1846 – Ducal palace restored.^[2]
• 1852
  • August: Singing festival held.^[10]
  • Population: 31,000.^[8]
• 1861 – Malkasten artists' club established.^[11]
• 1864 – Düsseldorfer Symphoniker (orchestra) active.^[12]
• 1867 – Galerie Paffrath in business.^[13]

• 1872 – Electoral palace burns down.^[6]
• 1875
  • Church of St. John built.^[6]
  • City Theatre opens.^[3]
• 1876
  • Trams begin operating.
  • Zoological Gardens established.
• 1877 – Rhenish railway station built.
• 1879 – Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, House of the Rhenish Estates, and Academy of Art building constructed.^[6]
• 1881 – Kunsthalle built.^[3]
• 1884 – Düsseldorf Exchange founded.^[14]
• 1885
  • City public library established.^[15]
  • Population: 115,190.^[2]
• 1891 – Düsseldorf Central Station opens.
• 1893 – Mannesmann (manufacturer) relocates to Düsseldorf.
• 1895 – Population: 175,985.^[2]
• 1896 – Industrial art museum built.^[2]
• 1898 – Road bridge constructed, carries the electric tram-line to "Crefeld".^[2]
• 1899 – Apollo-Theater opens.
• 1900 – Peek & Cloppenburg in business.

• 1902 – Rhine Promenade laid out.^[6]
• 1903 – Great Synagogue built.
• 1904 – Löbbecke Museum opens.
• 1905
  • Schauspielhausgebäude (theatre) opens.
  • Population: 252,630.^[2]
• 1907 – Hospitals built.^[6]
• 1909 – Ceramics museum founded.
• 1910
  • Königsallee Moving Pictures cinema opens.
  • Largest Fair on the Rhine relocates to fairgrounds in Oberkassel district.
• 1911 – Population: 312,000.^[6]
• 1913 - Museum Kunstpalast opened in its current form.^[2]
• 1920 – Labor strike.
• 1921 – Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH relocates to Düsseldorf.
• 1924 – Wilhelm Marx House (high-rise) built.
• 1926 – Planetarium and Rheinstadion built.
• 1927 – Airport opens.
• 1929 – Kaiserswerth becomes part of city.
• 1935
  • Robert Schumann Hochschule formed.
  • Ice stadium opens on Brehmstraße.
• 1936
  • Düsseldorf Central Station rebuilt.
  • 1 October: Consulate of Poland relocated from Essen to Düsseldorf.^[16]

• 1937
  • Reich's Exhibition of a Productive People held.
  • July: Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established (see also Porajmos).^[17]
• 1943
  • 28 May: Kalkum forced labour camp established by the SS. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians, Belgians, Dutchmen and Germans.^[18]
  • 1 November: Berta forced labour camp established by the SS. Its prisoners were mostly Russians, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Yugoslavs.^[19]
• 1944
  • March/April: DESt forced labour camp established by the SS. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians, Belgians, Dutchmen and Germans.^[20]
  • 17 May: Kalkum, Berta and DESt forced labour camps converted into subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp.^[18][19][20]
  • 1 September: Berta II subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians and Czechs.^[21]
• 1945
  • March: Berta, Berta II and DESt subcamps dissolved, prisoners deported to the main Buchenwald camp.^[19][21][20]
  • 10 April: Kalkum subcamp dissolved, prisoners deported to the main Buchenwald camp.^[18]
  • 16 April: German Resistance launches Aktion Rheinland.
  • 17 April: City taken by U.S. 97th Infantry Division.
• 1946
  • City becomes capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Handelsblatt and Rheinische Post newspapers begin publication.
• 1947
  • 28 March: Food protest.^[22]
  • Kom(m)ödchen premieres.
• 1950 – Institut Français Düsseldorf founded.
• 1951 – Drupa printing equipment trade fair begins.
• 1955
  • February–March: City co-hosts the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championships.
  • Deutsche Oper am Rhein established.
• 1956 – Opernhaus Düsseldorf re-opens.
• 1957 – North bridge constructed.
• 1958 – New Synagogue built.
• 1960
  • Willi Becker becomes mayor.
  • Dreischeibenhaus built.
• 1961 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen founded.
• 1962 – Tausendfüßler bridge built.
• 1965 – Marionetten-Theater housed in Palais Wittgenstein.
• 1966 – University of Düsseldorf established.
• 1967 – Kunsthalle Düsseldorf built.
• 1968
  • Düsseldorf Grand Prix tennis tournament begins.
  • Komödie Düsseldorf founded.
• 1969
  • Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus built.
  • Düsseldorf Boat Show begins.
• 1971
  • Fachhochschule Düsseldorf founded.
  • Philips Halle arena opens.
• 1974 – Botanical garden established.
• 1975 – City districts shaped (approximate date).^{[citation needed]}
• 1977 – City hosts the 1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
• 1979 – Tonhalle Düsseldorf^{[citation needed]} and Flehe Bridge open.
• 1981
  • Düsseldorf Stadtbahn (light rail) begins operating.
  • Rheinturm built.
• 1982 – Collections Premieren Düsseldorf clothing trade fair begins.^[23]
• 1984 – Von hier aus art exhibit held.
• 1986 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen building inaugurated.
• 1987 – Aquazoo–Löbbecke Museum opens.
• 1993
  • Polish Institute founded.^[24]
  • Rheinufer Tunnel opens.
• 1994 – Schadow Arkaden shopping mall built.
• 1996
  • 11 April: Düsseldorf Airport fire.
  • Capitol Theater opens.
• 1998 – Neuer Zollhof and Stadttor built.
• 1999 – Joachim Erwin becomes mayor.
• 2000 – Düsseldorf Airport railway station opens.

• 2001
  • Arag-Tower built.
  • Museum Kunstpalast opens.^[25]
• 2002 – Japan Day festival begins.
• 2005
  • Lichtburg Studio Theater opens.
  • AMD Academy of Fashion and Design founded.
• 2006 – ISS Dome arena opens.
• 2007 – Kunst im Tunnel established.
• 2008 – Dirk Elbers becomes mayor.
• 2011
  • Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held.
  • Population: 592,393.
• 2014 – June: Storm.
• 2015 – General-Consulate of China opened.
• 2017 – City hosts the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships.
• 2018 – Honorary Consulate of Monaco opened.

• Düsseldorf history
• List of mayors of Düsseldorf
• Timelines of other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia:^(de) Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Münster

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• History of the city of Düsseldorf (in German)
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• Links to fulltext city directories for Dusseldorf via Wikisource