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Timeline of Oslo

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Oslo, Norway.

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Prior to 1537

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  • 1000 - St. Clement's Church built (approximate date).[http://norske-kirkebygg.origo.no/-/bulletin/show/438163_clemenskirken-oslo St. Clement's Church on Norske kirkebygg] Norske-kirkebygg
  • 1050
  • Oslo founded by Harald Hardrada (approximate date),{{cite book|editor= Knut Helle|editor-link= Knut Helle|title= Cambridge History of Scandinavia |volume=1: Prehistory to 1520 |year= 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47299-9 |chapter=Urbanization |author=Hans Andersson |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFBtfXG6fXAC&pg=PA326 }} according to Snorre's saga.
  • Mariakirken built (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
  • 1070 - Catholic diocese of Oslo established (approximate date).{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Norway |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/norway |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
  • 1080 (approximate) Old Aker Church erected (still existing)
  • 1153 - Oslo Cathedral School established.
  • 1240 - Battle in Oslo 1240
  • 1290s - Akershus Fortress construction begins (approximate date).
  • 1299 - Norwegian capital relocated to Oslo from Bergen.{{cite book|author=Jan Sjåvik|title=Historical Dictionary of Norway|year= 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6408-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf6xAAAAQBAJ }}
  • 1308 - Akershus fortress withstands attack by Duke Erik Magnusson
  • 1314 - Haakon V of Norway declared that the provost of St Mary's church should be chancellor of Norway for ever (was abolished in 1679).
  • 1349 - Black Death plague.
  • 1352 - St. Hallvard's Cathedral and the other Sogne Churches are burned to the ground in a major fire.

After 1537

  • 1537 - Reformation, Norway became a client kingdom under the Danish crown, most of the government administration moved to Copenhagen
  • 1567 - city destroyed during Nordic Seven Years' War
  • 1624 - {{Interlanguage link multi|1624 Oslo fire|no|3=Bybrannen i Oslo 1624}}; settlement relocated to newly founded "Christiania,"{{cite book|author=Jan Sjåvik|title=Historical Dictionary of Norway|year= 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6408-5 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR17 }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} "Oslo" remained the name of a village outside the city
  • 1639 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Holy Trinity Cathedral (Oslo)|no|3=Hellig Trefoldigheds kirke}} built.{{cite book|editor= Andrew Spicer |title= Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe|year=2012|publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-0-7546-6583-0 |chapter=State church and church state: churches and their interiors in post-Reformation Norway, 1537-1705 |author=Øystein Ekroll |author-link=:no:Øystein Ekroll |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GyErqszUsFYC&pg=PA277 }}
  • 1641 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Gamle rådhus|no}} (town hall) built.
  • 1643 - Printing press in operation.{{cite book|author= Henri Bouchot|author-link= Henri Bouchot|editor=H. Grevel |location=London |title=The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time|year=1890|publisher=H. Grevel & Co. |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5ycxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 |chapter=Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established }}
  • 1654 - Vaterland Bridge built.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
  • 1686 - Fire ruins ¼ of the city.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
  • 1697 - Domkirken (church) built.
  • 1716 - City occupied by forces of Charles XII of Sweden.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1769 - first census held and recorded 7469 inhabitants{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
  • 1771 - The first public theatre is inaugurated.
  • 1780 - Deichman Library founded.{{Citation | publisher = Karl Baedeker | location = Leipzig | title = Norway and Sweden | date = 1882 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUDargJZzsIC |chapter=Christiania }}
  • The Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded.

19th century

20th century

  • 1901 - Nobel Peace Prize ceremony begins.
  • 1904 - Norwegian Nobel Institute established.
  • 1905 - Haakon VII became first king of independent Norway
  • 1907 - Norwegian School of Theology established.
  • 1908 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Oslo Chamber of Commerce|no|3=Oslo Handelskammer}} established.
  • 1910 - Population: 241,834.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Norway |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1184 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1184 }}
  • 1912 - Kjeller Airport begins operating.
  • 1913 - Det Norske Teatret opened
  • 1914 - 1914 Jubilee Exhibition held.
  • 1916 - City Parks Department established.{{sfn|Luccarelli|2012}}
  • 1920 - Synagogue built.
  • 1925 - City renamed "Oslo," the "Oslo" suburb renamed "Old Town" (Gamlebyen){{citation |work=BBC News |title=Norway Profile: Timeline |date=17 April 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17746861 |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
  • 1926 - Ankerbrua (bridge) rebuilt.
  • 1928
  • Underground Oslo Metro begins operating.
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Ulvøybrua|no}} (bridge) built.
  • 1929
  • Det Nye Teater opens.{{cite book |title=World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe |editor=Don Rubin |year=1994 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415251570 |chapter=Norway |pages=616+ |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fDaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA616 |display-editors=etal |url=https://archive.org/details/worldencyclopedi0002unse_j6c2 |url-access=registration }}
  • Eldorado Cinema (Oslo) in business.{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/norway/oslo?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Oslo |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
  • 1932 - Oslo breakfast introduced in schools.
  • 1934
  • Railway Sognsvann Line begins operating.{{sfn|Luccarelli|2012}}
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Saga Kino|no}} (cinema) opens.
  • 1940 - 9 April: German occupation begins, King and cabinet escaped
  • 1941
  • September: Milk strike occurs.
  • Bredtvet concentration camp in operation.
  • 1942
  • 25 September: Oslo Mosquito raid by British forces.
  • 26 November: Norwegian Jews deported to Auschwitz from Oslo harbour
  • 1943 - 19 December: 1943 Filipstad explosion.
  • 1944 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Monolitten|no}} (sculpture) unveiled in Frogner Park.
  • 1945
  • 8 May German capitulation
  • 7 June King Haakon returned to Oslo and Allied occupation ended
  • 1946
  • Armed Forces Museum (Norway) established.
  • Population: 417,238.{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |ol=6112221M |date = 1952 |page=1396 |url= https://archive.org/stream/columbialippinco00selt }}
  • 1948 - Aker becomes part of city.
  • 1950 - Oslo City Hall completed after 19 years construction.
  • 1952 - February: 1952 Winter Olympics held in Oslo.
  • 1954 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Monolittrennet|no}} (ski race) begins.
  • 1959
  • Peace Research Institute Oslo founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations |title=Organizations |work= International Relations and Security Network |location=Switzerland |publisher=Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Sagkrakken Bridge|no|3=Sagkrakken gangbru}} built.
  • 1963
  • Club 7 active.
  • Munch Museum opens.
  • 1972 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Fiskevollen Bridge|no|3=Fiskevollen bru}} built.
  • 1973 - Oslo Airport location controversy.
  • 1977 - Oslo Concert Hall opens.
  • 1980
  • Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies established.
  • Oslo Central Station, Nationaltheatret Station, and Oslo Tunnel open.
  • 1982 - Blitz (movement) begins.
  • 1990
  • Oslo Spektrum (arena) opens.
  • Festningstunnelen opened
  • 1992
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Oslo byarkiv|no}} (city archives) established.{{cite web |url=https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/Forside:Oslo_byarkiv |title=Oslo byarkiv |work=Lokalhistoriewiki |publisher=Norwegian Institute of Local History |language=no |access-date=30 September 2015 }}{{rs|date=February 2023}}
  • Ann-Marit Sæbønes becomes mayor.
  • 1993
  • Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations ("Oslo Accords") take place in Oslo.
  • Islamic Council Norway headquartered in city.{{cite book|editor= Jørgen S. Nielsen|editor-link= Jørgen S. Nielsen|title=Yearbook of Muslims in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia5AAQAAQBAJ|year= 2013 |volume=5|publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-25586-9 |chapter=Norway |display-editors=etal}}
  • 1994
  • Oslo Courthouse built.
  • Stenersen Museum opens.
  • 1995
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Lodalsbruene|no}} (bridge) built.
  • Per Ditlev-Simonsen becomes mayor.
  • 1998
  • Rikshospitalet (hospital) opens.
  • Railway Gardermoen Line begins operating.
  • 2000 - City celebrates thousand-year jubilee.

21st century

  • 2001 - January: Demonstration following Hermansen murder.
  • 2002
  • June: World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests.
  • Population: 516,467 city;{{cite web |url=http://www.ssb.no/a/english/kortnavn/folkendrkv_en/tables.html |title=Population Statistics |publisher= Statistics Norway |access-date=30 September 2015 }} 783,829 metro.
  • 2003
  • Oslo Bysykkel (bikeshare) begins operating.{{cite web |url=http://www.nybikeshare.org/explore/ |title=Exploring Bike-Shares In Other Cities |work=New York Bike Share Project |publisher=Storefront for Art and Architecture |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
  • 2004
  • 22 August: Robbery takes place at the Munch Museum.
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Rabita-moskeen|no}} (mosque) established.
  • 2006 - Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat (mosque) opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.islam.no/islam_i_norge.aspx?category=&z=OSLO |access-date=30 September 2015 |title= Islam i Norge: Oslo |trans-title=Islam in Norway: Oslo |work= Islam.no |language=no |publisher= Den Islamske Informasjonsforeningen |location=Oslo }}
  • 2007 - Fabian Stang becomes mayor.
  • 2008 - Oslo Opera House opens.
  • 2009 - Stian Berger Røsland becomes governing mayor.
  • 2011
  • FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
  • 22 July: 2011 Norway attacks, consisting of a bombing in Regjeringskvartalet, and a massacre on the nearby Utøya island, causing 77 deaths combined (67 from the massacre, 7 from the bombing, and 2 indirectly).
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Akrobaten|no}} (bridge) and {{Interlanguage link multi|Nordenga Bridge|no|3=Nordenga bru}} built.
  • 2012 - 16 April: Breivik trial begins.
  • 2014
  • March: Bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics submitted.
  • Future Library project organized.{{citation |work=The Atlantic |date=June 2015 |location=USA |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/future-library-century-camera-art/395675/ |title= The Value of Art No One Alive Will Ever Experience }}
  • Population: 647,676 city; 942,084 metro.
  • 2015
  • September: {{Interlanguage link multi|2015 Oslo municipal election|no|3=Oslo bystyre 2015–2019}} held.
  • 22 July Information Center opens.
  • 2018
  • December: The city's urban area passed one million people for the first time.
  • 2022
  • June: A terrorist mass shooting occurs in Oslo, killing two and injuring 21.

See also

References

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This article incorporates information from the Norwegian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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Published in the 19th century

  • {{Cite book |publisher =William Blackwood |date = 1830 |location = Edinburgh |title = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |title-link = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |editor=David Brewster |chapter=Christiania |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo06edinuoft#page/354/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = H.G. Bohn |location = London |author = John Thomson |title = New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary |date = 1845 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00thomuoft#page/277/mode/1up |chapter=Christiania }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |author-link = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates |date = 1867 |edition=2nd |chapter= Christiania |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/248/mode/1up |via=Internet Archive }}
  • {{cite book|editor= William Henry Overall|editor-link= William Henry Overall|title= Dictionary of Chronology|year=1870|publisher=William Tegg |location=London |chapter= Christiania |hdl= 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=162|chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=162 |via=HathiTrust }}
  • {{cite book |title=Traveler's Guide in Sweden and the Most Interesting Places in Norway |location=Stockholm |year=1871 |publisher=Adolf Bonnier |chapter=Description of Christiania |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYU2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA211 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Norway: illustrated handbook for travellers |publisher=Chr. Tønsberg |location= Christiania |year= 1875 |chapter=Christiania |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081580908?urlappend=%3Bseq=80 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081580908?urlappend=%3Bseq=80 }}
  • {{Citation |title = A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation |date = 1880 |publisher = Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London |chapter=Christiania |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryprac00mccu#page/293/mode/1up |author=John Ramsay McCulloch |author-link=John Ramsay McCulloch |editor=Hugh G. Reid }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Hand-book for Travellers in Norway |title-link = Murray's Handbooks for Travellers |edition=7th |date = 1880 |chapter=Christiania |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5MINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT126 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Ticknor and Company |location = Boston |author = Maturin Murray Ballou |author-link = Maturin Murray Ballou |date = 1887 |title = Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia |chapter=Capital of Norway |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/duenorthorglimps00ballrich#page/56/mode/2up }}
  • Hunger. Knut Hamsun (1890). The ultimate book set in Oslo, "this wondrous city that no one leaves before it has made its marks upon him".
  • {{cite book |title=Christiania and its environs: illustrated hand-book for travellers |year=1894 |location=Christiania |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100619825 |author= Yngvar Nielsen |author-link= Yngvar Nielsen }}

Published in the 20th century

  • {{cite book |chapter=Christiania |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822038219101?urlappend=%3Bseq=72 |title=Bennett's Handbook for Travellers in Norway | series=Cover title:Bennett's Norway |location= Christiana |publisher= T. Bennett & Sons |year= 1902 | hdl=2027/uc1.31822038219101?urlappend=%3Bseq=72 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Capitals of the World, and Overland Guide to India, Persia, and the Far East |title-link=Bradshaw's Guide |publisher=Henry Blacklock |location = London |year=1903 |chapter=Christiania |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W1YoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 }}
  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Christiania |volume= 6 | page = 279 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter=Christiania |hdl = 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776?urlappend=%3Bseq=327 |chapter-url =http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776?urlappend=%3Bseq=327 |via=HathiTrust }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Doubleday, Page |location = Garden City, N.Y. |author = Esther Singleton |title = Great Cities of Europe |date = 1913 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatcitiesofeur00singiala#page/250/mode/2up |chapter=City of Christiania }}
  • The Big Foxhunt. Ingvar Ambjørnsen (1983). Set in the late 1970s, telling the story of a young hash dealer.
  • Beatles. Lars Saabye Christensen (1984). About growing up in the 1960s.
  • Shyness and Dignity. Dag Solstad (1994).

Published in the 21st century

  • {{cite book

|editor1=Mark Luccarelli |editor2=Per Gunnar Røe |title=Green Oslo: Visions, Planning and Discourse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Um4R7CN40ZcC|year=2012 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-1-4094-7351-0

| ref = {{harvid|Luccarelli|2012}}

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External links

{{Commons category|Oslo}}

  • [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/norway.html Map of Oslo], 1981
  • Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=oslo+OR+christiania+OR+kristiania&rows=96 Items related to Oslo], various dates
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=oslo+OR+christiania+OR+kristiania Items related to Oslo], various dates.

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