Besieged. Conquered.
Never defeated.
Timișoara has reinvented itself each time stronger, more innovative.
The first city with electric street lighting in continental Europe. The only city with three state theaters each performing in their own language. The first city free of communism in Romania.
For more info on our history visit Wikipedia.
1266
Stephen, King of Hungary, donates the Rety land of Timis to Count Parabuch
1316
The Hungarian King Charles Robert of Anjou establishes his residence in Timișoara, in a castle built for this purpose, on the site of today's Huniade Castle
1552
Conquest of the city by the Ottomans. It becomes the capital of the Pashalik of Timișoara
1716
Conquest of the city by Habsburg imperial troops led by Prince Eugene of Savoy
1718
The first and oldest brewery in current day Romania is built here
1728
Regulating the use of the Bega and Timis rivers. Until 1988, the Bega Canal was the only navigable inland canal in Romania and the first of its kind in south-eastern Europe
1771
The first printed newspaper in present-day Romania
1781
Timișoara becomes a Free Royal City, by a Diploma issued by Emperor Joseph II
1884
The first city with public electric street lighting in continental Europe. Initially 300 were installed, later the number growing to 731
1869
The first horse-drawn tramway in present-day Romania is put into service
1936
Construction begins on the Metropolitan Cathedral. At 90m tall, it was the tallest church in Romania, until 2018
1953
Becomes the only city in Europe with three state theatres in three different languages (Romanian, German, Hungarian) in the same building
1989
16-20.12.1989 The 1989 Anti-Communist Revolution begins; Timișoara proclaims itself the first city free of communism in Romania
1990
The Timișoara Proclamation, the political programme of the December 1989 Anti-Communist Revolution
2023
Timișoara is European Culture Capital
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Timișoara is home to more than 300,000 inhabitants, plus a vibrant student community. More than 40,000 young people study in Timișoara’s universities.
