Torun Timeline

There’s a separate history of Torun.

1220 – Teutonic Knights founded Torun
1231 – Torun Castle constructed
1233 – Torun granted civil privileges
1280 – Torun joined the Hanseatic League
1411 – First Peace of Torun
1454 – Old Town and New Town formally merged
1466 – Second Peace of Torun
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus was born
1506 – Torun became a Royal city
1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus died
1557 – Torun becomes Protestant
1702 – City attacked during Great Northern War
1724 – The Tumult of Torun
1793 – Prussia annexes Torun
1806 – French troops enter Torun
1807 – Napoleon established the Duchy of Warsaw
1812 – Napoleon visited Torun
1813 – Russians attack Torun
1815 – Prussians take over from Russians
1863 – First railway station opens in Torun
1873 – Railway line constructed over the Vistula River
1939 – German troops walk into Torun
1940 – Transit camp established at Umsiedlungslager Thorn
1943 – Umsiedlungslager Thorn transit camp closed
1945 – Soviet troops enter Torun to liberate Torun
1956 – Protests against communist rule
1983 – Poland placed under martial law
1989 – Communist rule in Eastern European collapsed
2004 – Poland joined the European Union
2021 – Work started on expansion of the Piłsudski Bridge