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Information Centre
Horní náměstí (Upper Square)
Town Hall's archway
779 11 Olomouc
Opening hours: daily 9:00am –7:00pm
Tel.: (+420) 585 513 385, 392
E-mail: infocentrum@olomouc.eu
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City History
Olomouc History in dates
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1017 | Moravia annexed to the Czech Přemyslid state, a new Olomouc Castle Castle built by the first Moravian appanage prince Břetislav |
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1055 | emergence of Olomouc appanage principality, the first mention of the Olomouc Castle, recorded in the Cosmas Chronicle |
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1063 | new Moravian Diocese founded by Prince Vratislav in Olomouc |
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1078 | the first monastery in Moravia (the Hradisko Monastery) founded by Prince Otto Sličný |
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1131 | consecration of the new Episcopal Church of St. Wenceslas by Bishop Jindřich Zdík |
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1239–1246 | presumed date of Olomouc obtaining the royal city status |
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1306 | King Wenceslas III., the last Přemyslid, was assassinated in the house of the Cathedral Dean |
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1352 | Olomouc identified as the capital of Moravia in a privilege issued by Margrave Jost |
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1469 | Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus was elected King of Bohemia – in the St.Wenceslas Cathedral |
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1573 | the College was raised to the status of a university, the second in the Czech lands |
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1620 | St. Jan Sarkander tortured to death in the town prison |
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1642–1650 | Olomouc occupied by Swedish troops led by Count Torstensson. |
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1655 | Olomouc declared a fortress town by Emperor Ferdinand III. |
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1709 | great fire destroyed 350 buildings and damaged interiors of several churches |
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1713–1715 | great plague |
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1741–1742 | Olomouc occupied by Prussian troops |
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1754 | ordination Holy Trinity Column |
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1758 | Olomouc fortress withstood siege Prussian troops |
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1762 | Maria Theresia confirmed the Olomouc privilege to use the title Royal Capital City |
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1767 | the eleven year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed Symphony No. 6 in F major in Olomouc |
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1770 | establishment of a permanent theater |
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1773 | banishment of the Jesuit order and the nationalization of the University |
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1777 | Diocese of Olomouc elevated to an Archdiocese |
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1794–1797 | French General J. P.Lafayette imprisoned in casemates of the Olomouc fortress |
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1841 | the first train arrives into town - Olomouc becomes a station of The North railway |
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1848 | a temporary relocation of the Imperial Court from Vienna to Olomouc, Emperor Franz Joseph I. elevated to the throne |
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1850–1866 | extension of fortifications, construction of forts around the city |
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1860 | abolition of the University |
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1919 | the so called „Greater Olomouc“ arose by absorbing 2 towns and 11 villages |
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15. 3. 1939 | Olomouc occupied by the German army |
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8. 5. 1945 | liberation of the city |
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1946 | restoration of the univerzity of Olomouc |
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1947–1955 | >the Olomouc Astronomical Clock was transformed by Karel Svolinský in the socialist realism style |
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1971 | Olomouc declared an urban conservation area |
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21. 5. 1995 | visit of Pope John Paul II. in Olomouc, canonization of St. Jan Sarkander and St. Zdislava in the St.Wenceslas Cathedral, the pilgrimage church on The Holy Hill elevated to Minor Basilica |
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2000 | the Holy Trinity Column was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List |
