990: Piast Duke Mieszko I seizes Silesia, incorporating it into Poland

1000: A bishopric is established on Ostrów Tumski

1163: The city becomes capital of the Duchy of Silesia
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1241: Mongols devastate the city, the market square is laid out, Germans become the dominant ethnic group

1335: Silesia is incorporated into the Kingdom of Bohemia

1418: The city’s guilds revolt, beheading the mayor and six members of City Council

1453: John of Capistrano leads inquisition against Jewish population who are executed or forced to convert to Christianity

1526: The Austrian Habsburg dynasty absorbs Bohemia, including Silesia
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1702: Founding of the Jesuit Academy, today’s Wrocław University

1741: Breslau becomes part of Prussia

1807: Napoleon captures the city and its medieval defences are destroyed

1871: Unification of the German Empire; Breslau enters as its third most prominent city

1913: The Centennial Hall (Hala Stulecia) is built

1933: The Nazis comes to power in Germany

1938: Kristallnacht – Jewish synagogues torched, homes looted and burned

1944: Festung Breslau – the city is declared a closed fortress and prepares for Soviet bombardment

1945: Breslau capitulates on May 6th, WWII ends and Lower Silesia becomes part of Poland

1947: Communists consolidate power after rigged elections

1948: Wrocław hosts the Recovered Territories Exhibition

1980: The Solidarity trade union initiates strikes across Poland

1981: The Polish military imposes Martial Law. Solidarity activists are arrested and interned

1983: Martial Law lifted

1989: First free post-war elections in PL

1997: The Odra and Oława rivers overflow flooding a third of downtown Wrocław
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1999: Poland joins NATO

2004: Poland joins the EU

2010: President Lech Kaczyński and 95 other Polish delegates die in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia

2012: Wrocław hosts the Euro 2012 Football Championships

2016: Wrocław is 'European Capital of Culture'