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4200-1800
BC |
first traces of settlement on Chelmzynskie Lake, |
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1222 |
prince Konrad Mazowiecki granted bishop Chrystian a vast property in Chelmno land incorporating also a colony
Loza, |
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1230 |
the bishop waived a substantial part of his
property, including Loza, to the Teutonic Knights, |
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1243 |
founding Chelmno bishopric
(three years later bishop Heidenryk (Heidenreich), receiving salary from the Teutonic Knights, chose
Loza, referred to in this period Culmense, Culmsee or Culminse, as a new seat of his
diocese), |
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1251 |
granting the city rights
(location on Chelmno law) and initiating the building of a cathedral continued for about 100
years, |
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1260 |
death of hermit Juta
(blessed Juta) whose grave is shrouded in legend until today, |
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1268 |
burning the town by pagans
(Prussian warriors from the tribe Sudaw) , |
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1277 |
failed siege of the town by warriors led by
Skomand, |
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1286 |
the danger of a Tatar raid
dismissed, a fire of the town, |
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1349 |
Chelmza was a place where a synod of bishops was held
(subsequent synods in the town occurred according to the existing sources in: 1402,1416,1438, 1481,1577, 1583 and 1605). |
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1422 |
burning the town by Polish and Lithuanian troops of king Wladyslaw Jagiello supported by Tatars
(next burning happened during the thirty-years war by the army of king Kazimierz
Jagiellonczyk), |
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1466 |
incorporating Chelmza into Poland after the peace treaty signed in
Torun, |
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1531 |
the great fire of the town
which, destroyed the municipal books, |
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1534 |
this year is placed in the oldest preserved book of the existing in the town court of
assessors, |
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1547 |
renovating the destroyed locating privilege of the town by Chelmno bishop Tiedeman Giese, |
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17th c. |
destruction of the town as a result of Swedish
raids, |
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1692 |
completing building the Baroque tower "of
Opalinski" by Lutherans from Torurn to compensate for riots they caused in Torurn four years
before, |
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1762 |
another big fire in the history of the town, |
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1772 |
Chelmza incorporated into the Prussian district of partitioned Poland, |
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1803 |
Evangelical community arose in the town, |
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1807 |
the town incorporated into the Warsaw
Duchy, |
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1813 |
Russian occupation
(two years later the town returned to Prussia) , |
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1824 |
losing the status of the diocese seat and the residence of Chelmno bishop for the benefit of
Pelplin, |
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1827 |
taking the St Nicholas' church over by the Evangelical community
(until 1945), |
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about
1850 |
pulling down municipal walls and expanding the compact settlement outside the hitherto existing area of the town, |
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1865 |
establishing a crediting bank being a property of a Jewish
trader, Casper Gerschon Hirschfeld (9 years later another bank was founded - Culmsee'r Volksbank); 20 years later the bank of Hirschfeld went
bankrupt, |
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1869 |
establishing, existing till
today, the Society of Church Singing under the invocation of St Cecylia, |
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1879 |
locating the regional court of justice in the erected that year building at 2 Sadowa street (at present the police
station), |
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1882 |
economic boom following from opening a railway connection with Torun and
Grudziadz, and building a sugar factory which, expanded after the fire in 1904, became the greatest works of this type in Europe, |
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1896 |
a factory of building paper of brothers Pichert (the contemporary
"Izolacja" Co.) was founded, |
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1900 |
making the decision of building the water supply system (3 depth
walls) and the sewer system, opening the new town hall (at present 2 Hallera
street), |
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1913 |
setting up the first Polish sports club in the town the Football Club
"Warta", |
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1919 |
On 28th January fights between Polish inhabitants of Chelmza and troops of Grenzschutz entering the town occurred as a result of which Polish population was
persecuted, |
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1920 |
On 21st January Polish troops entered the town including it within Polish
borders, |
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1950 |
tragic in its results fire of the cathedral fulfilling the prophesy of a pot thrown from the tower "of
Opalinski". |
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