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BANAT'S HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY FOR THE LAST MILLENNIUM

XIX CENTURY

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1800	Emperor Francisc I visit Banat and Timisoara.
1802	650 schools in Banat.
1803	Flood in Banat. Ludovic Haidenreich, doctor from Arad, publish at Timisoara his work on the causes of scurvy.
1806	Set up of the Roman-Catholic theological seminar in Timisoara. It was closed in 1950.
1806.04.18	Birth of Pavel Vasici [D 1881], the first romanian darwinist doctor from Banat, publicist and writer.
1806.04.23-25	Snowed all over Banat.
1806-'07	Easy winter.
1807.05.22	Birthday of painter Karl Brocky.
1807	Grigore Obradovici, the director of the romanian schools from Banat, publish at Buda his book on farming [it is a translation from serbian language].
1807.summer	Emperor Francisc I and Archduke Carol visit Timisoara. They stayed at the “La Trompetistul” [The Trumpet Player] road house.
1807.09.19	The Giovanni comet can be observed in Banat.
1808	The civil militia is organized in Banat.
1808	Heavy winter; a lot of cows will die.
1809	The imperial treasure is held in Timisoara.
1810	The first choir in Banat was set up in Lugoj.
1810.05.10	Big storm in the South of Banat.
1811	The big "I Flaugergues" comet is observed in Banat.
1811	Devaluation: 25 and 50 Gulden worth 5 and respectively 10 Gulden.
1812	The big "I Flaugergues" comet is observed in Banat.
1813-1814	Big famine in Banat.
1814	Plague in Banat.
1815	Printer Joseph Klapka – the future mayor – sets up in Timisoara the first borrowing library in a Hungarian town.
1816 .01.16/17	Big winter storm [minus 35^o C] in the central Banat. A lot of stock and people died frozen. In February big floods. Very hot and dry summer.
1817	Famine in Banat.
1817	At Arad is build -by Iacob Hirschl, a very wealthy textile merchant- the oldest theatre building still functioning from Romania. Hirschl came to Arad from Vienna in 1787 and received the approval for this building in 1812.
1817.06._	Storm with hail stone damaged Banat.
1818-1821	The Garrison's Hospital is enlarged to 2 levels with 300 bad.
1819	Joseph Klapka becomes mayor of Timisoara.
1819	Buzias is declared spa.
1819.03.25	The anti-smallpox vaccine is administrated in Banat for the first time in Central Europe.
1819.07.21	Birth of Claudiu Marius Babes, poet and novelist.
1820.04.07	Birth of General Georg Klapka.
1820-1830	The colonization of Banater Bergland.
1821.06.14	Big flood on Mures river.
1822.06.4	A big storm -named Trasnu- will kick heavily Banat.
1823.03.03	Birthday of historian Pesty Frigyes.
1823.11.03	In his letter addressed from Timisoara to his father in Targu Mures, mathematician Janos Bolyai mentions that he discovered the principles of the non-Euclidean geometry.
1823.11.25	Johanna von Greth [born d'Honrath on 1.08.1770 in Köln, married in 1788 with Captain Karl von Greth], the first love of Johann von Beethoven is dying in Timisoara. In 1823, Beethoven, in his conversions book, will note: "Address of captain von Greth, commandant in Timisoara".
1824	Set up of the parish of the “united” protestant church in Timisoara.
1824	Big dryness -between 20.06.-20.08; the springs will dry.
1825	Opening in Timisoara of the Protestant School with classes in Hungarian language.
1827	In the church books/KBs have been introduced new rubrics and it was ordered the keeping in two copies.
1828	Census [Conscriptio Regnicolaris/Landeskonskription].
1828	The oldest glass factory still functional in Romania is established in Tomesti.
1828.02.28	1pm Earthquake in Banat/Caras-Severin.
1829.02._	Winter storm, frost, snow; many people and stocks will die.
1829.11.14	2pm Earthquake in Banat.
1829.11.29 old 12.11 new	Earthquake in Banat.
1830.07._	Cholera in Banat.
1831	Laying of the head stone of the “united” evangelic church in Timisoara. Cholera epidemic in Banat. At the building of the bridge on Timis River at Lugoj are used, for the first time in today Romania, metallic beams.
1831-1832	Cholera makes many victims in Timisoara. Only here are 1361 deaths.
1831-1848	The newspaper “Temeswarer Wochenblatt” appears in this period.
1836	Early spring followed by snow and cold.
1836.07.21	2 am Two earthquakes in Banat.
1835-'36	Asiatic Cholera epidemic in Banat.
1836.12.22	Birth of Armand Papadopol, romanian poet, novelist and playwright.
1837-1839	Raising of the first Evangelical Reformed church in Timisoara.
1838 .01.11/01.12	The big earthquake from Eastern Europe was noticed in Banat also.
1838.09.12	Frost in Banat.
1838	The first hydro-metric observations in today Romania at Orsova followed in 1858 at Drencova.
1839.06.13	Floods in Banat.
1841	In the spring, the flood on Mures river will determine the rising of the dolma in Arad. Dry summer.
1841.02.11	The first performance in Timisoara with "Anna Bolena" by Giacomo Donizetti.
1842	The theatre from Lugoj played in romanian language.
1843.02.9	Very hot weather in North of Banat.
1843.08.08-12	Congress of the Society of Hungarian Doctors and naturalists in Timisoara.
1844	Writer and historian Johann Nepomuk Preyer becomes mayor of Timisoara. He led the town up to 1858 and will write it’s first monography.
1845.02._	Mures river will flooded Arad.
1846	Very hot spring and summer. Insects will eat the corn.
1846	The Roman-Catholic Bishop Joseph Lonovics sets up in Timisoara the first educational institution, the law faculty.
1846.04.06	The First Economy Institution/bank from Timisoara helds its set up general meeting [Timisoara's First Saving House]
1846	Composer and pianist Franz Liszt halts in Timisoara and performs three concerts in the Theater’s hall.
1847	Famine in Banat. Johann Strauss Jr., the “king of waltz”, performs in Timisoara with his orchestra. Timisoara has 22.560 inhabitants.
1847.02.05	At the Military Hospital in Timisoara is performed the first anestesy with ether from Romania [the world premiere was on 16.10.1846 in Boston].
1848.03.18	The news about the revolution in Pesta aroused the organization of many popular meetings in front of the city hall. The Parade Square gets the name of Liberty Square.
1848	Serfdom is abolished in Banat, but the land reform took place only in 1920.
1848.10.10	Field marshal-lieutenant baron Georg of Rukavina, Timisoara's fortress commander, besieges the town.
1849.03.04	New Imperial Constitution.
1849 .04.26-.08.08.	Timisoara is attacked by troops of the Hungarian revolutionaries lead by general Vécsey. The longest siege -107 days- in Timisoara's history.
1849.05.03	In the camp located in the Fabric district of Timisoara, General Josef Bem promotes poet Sandor Petofi to the position of major. Presently, there is a monument.
1849.08.09	The troops of the Hungarian revolutionary army are defeated on the battlefield between Dudestii Noi, Sanandrei and Becicherecul Mic. The battle held between 8 am to 4 pm. Receiving the news in Timisoara, General Artur Gorgey surrenders in Siria/Hellburg/Vilagos. The Austrian general Julius Haynau enters successfully in Timisoara.
1849.10.2	The schwab inhabitants of Gertjanosch, Groß-Jetscha, Klein-Jetscha, Hatzfeld, Grabatz, Lowrin, Billed, Nakofalva, Csatat, Bogarosch, Gottlob, Alexanderhausen, Ostern addressed to emperor Franz Josef a document which is considered the first political document/manifestation of the schwabs from Banat: the "Petition von Bogarosch". A second document was elaborated on 8.11.1849 in Jimbolia. None will receive any answer.
1849-1860	Timisoara is the capital of the Serbian Voivodina and Timis's Banat/Serbische Wojwodina und Temescher Banat, actually of the entire new created Austrian imperial region which contained the counties of: Timis, Torontal, Caras-Severin, Bács-Bodrog, Srem. The military border was not included in this region. Banat is ruled directly by the imperial administration from Vienna.
1850	The first postal stamps were used in Banat. The floods and the hails stone will produce big damages.
1850. Autumn -1851	Census.
1850.10.01	The Chamber of Commerce/Gewerbe Kammer was founded in Timisoara.
1851	"Juuna Pcela", the first newspaper in serbian language was published in Timisoara. Later the name of the paper became "Narodni Glasnik". The last number issued in 1880. "Banater Telegraph", german newspaper is published twice a week [up to 1852]. At Arad is setup the first alcohol plant in today Romania. At Resita are produced for the first time rails for railroads.
1851.06.22	Four comets [in total between 1850-1852 existed 11 comets that could be seen on the sky] could be observed in Banat.
1851.07.01	Custom Union inside the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1851.12.31	Imperial Patent; the starting of the neo-absolute regime. The constitution from March 1849 is abolished.
1852.01.15	The "Temesvarer Zeitung", official daily newspaper published by the governor of “Vojvodatu Serbico et Temesiensi Banatu”/Serbische Wojwodina und Temescher Banat. The newspaper appeared in german language under Andrea's Blatt's leadership. In 1912 the newspaper's name became Neue Temesvarer Zeitung.
1852.06.16	The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I visits Timisoara for the first time.
1852	Timisoara is linked with Vienna trough the telegraph electric line. This is the first line in today Romania.
1853	It was proclaimed for Banat also the imperial disposition for the recognition of serfdom's abolishment. Rainy summer [June-July].
1853	Issue of the town’s first monography, entitled “Monographie der koeniglichen Freistadt Temeswar” [monography of the imperial independent town Timisoara] written by Johann N. Preyer, the town’s mayor.
1854.04.24	Inauguration of the telegraph; the first telegraph is set up connecting Timisoara to Vienna.
1854.08.20	Inauguration of the first railroad -named Kohlenbahn and compared with the line Semmering from Austria- in today Romania: Lisava-Oravita-Iam/Jassenova-Bazias/78,5 km. This was the second mountain railroad in Europe.
1854.12._	StEG/Kaiserliche und Königliche privilegierte Österreichische Staatseisenbahngesellschaft is set-up in Vienna.
1855.01.01	StEG is buying 133.168 ha of land [from which 90.000 ha were forests] mainly in Banat Bergland.
1855.02.09	Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opening night in Timisoara.
1855.03.20	Violent storm will produce big loses -destroy of houses, churches- in Banat. Another big storm on 8.12.
1855	Summer-Autumn Cholera in Banat.
1855-1860	Construction of the Dicasterial Palace in Timisoara for being used as residence of the government of the Serbian Voivodina and Timis Banat.
1857-'58	In North of Banat was the most heavy winter in the last 30 years.
1857 .10.31-12.31	The first modern census on populations and animals in the Monarchy. The last census performed by the imperial authorities.
1857.11.15	Inauguration of the first railroad in the Banat's plain: Szeged-Kikinda-Jimbolia-Timisoara [112 km]. To travel from Timisoara to Budapest it was needed 26h and from Timisoara to Vienna 36h. The first railroads station is opened in Timisoara.
1857.11.01	The public gas lightening is introduced. Timisoara is the first illuminated [with gas] city in today Romania.
1858-1861	Historian Pesty Frigyes issues the weekly newspaper “Delejtü”, the first publication of Hungarian language in Timisoara.
1858 .07_/.08.30	Timisoara-Jebel-Voiteni-Stamora Moravita-Jassenovo railroad [94 km].
1859	Floods in spring in Banat. Aprox. 500,000 ha of land were flooded in Timis and Torontal Counties. Famine. Handicraftsmen’s guilds are abolished.
1860	New law on the liberty of practice professions.
1860.10.20	The liberal diploma.
1860.12.27- -1919	Banat was formally a part of Hungary [starting 1868 inside the imperial dualism of Austro-Hungary Monarchy].
1861.02._	New constitution.
1861	In the summer the "1861 I Thatcher" comet could be observed in Banat.
1861- -1863.12.15	Building of the Oravita-Lisava-Anina [33,4 km] railroad which had 14 tunnels/2084 m and 10 viaducts/843 m. The longest tunnel, near Garliste, had 676,62 m. These are the oldest tunnels from Romania.
1863	The 'year of need'. Extreme dryness. The Arad-Oradea railroad line is build. At Jimbolia is set-up the first brick and tile plant from Banat.
1864.06._	The Mures river will flooded twice.
1865.02.24	First performance of "Faust" by Gounod in Timisoara.
1865-1866	Ioan Slavici, the future romanian writer, studies at the Piarist gymnasium.
1866.01.13	First performance of "Tanhäuser" by Richard Wagner in Timisoara.
1866	Ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza stops in Timisoara on his way in the exile. He stays at the “Trompetistul” road house. Extreme heat in summer, wells dried up. Epidemic.
1867	A brick plant is functioning in Timisoara.
1867-1868	Ausgleich. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy is formed.
1867	Jimbolia had its first bank. First tour in Banat of the romanian theater group led by Mihail Pascaly. The romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu was the group’s prompter.
1868.02.03	Birth of architect Ernst Theodor Foerk.
1869.07.02	The National Conference of the Romanians from Hungary takes place in Timisoara.
1869.07.08	The first horse-tramway is inaugurated in Timisoara [at only 15 years from the world’s debut in Paris]. The line is 6,6 km long. The wagon had 4,5 m long and 16 seats. The first 21 wagons were bought from Vienna. One wagon was restored and could be seen today in a special museum.
1869.07._	Regular passenger's traffic on the Bega river. Timisoara was the first romanian town to use water transportation.
1869	Plaque of mosquitoes, mice and hamsters. Floods.
1870.01.01.	Census on people and animals.
1870	Railroad linking Sannicolau Mare and Valcani and with another link to Becicherecul Mare and Szegedin. Renewed flooding of most of the village. Franz Josef I is visiting Timisoara and the german high school.
1870-1871	The first metallic bridge [the Bem bridge] is build on Bega Channel. During the time, only in Timisoara, on Bega were build 71 bridges. Today in Timisoara exists 13 bridges.
1871.04.06	Timisoara-Arad railroad.
1871.08.20	The theater group led by Mihail Pascaly is in Timisoara again with a series of performances.
1871.10.21	Set up of the Philharmonic Association of Timisoara.
1872-1875	Construction in Timisoara of the new/today theater building according to the plans drawn up by the design company Ferdinand Fellner & Hermann Helmer from Vienna.
1872	Flooding; ferries operated between Klein-Betschkerek and Billed.
1872.05.01	Foundation of the first daily newspaper in Hungarian language called “Temesi Lapok”, which later changed its name into “Delmagyarorszagi Kozlony”. It appeared up to 1920.
1872	Set up in Timisoara of the Association for History and Archeology in Southern Hungary. Handicraftsmen’s guilds are abolished.
1872-1874	At Resita are build the first 3 locomotives from Hungary and today Romania.
1872.11._	Very hot period; some trees will bear fruits for the second time in Banat.
1873	Cholera in Banat. Only in Jimbolia will die 1067 people. The statue of Floriani, the patron of firemen's, was build in Jimbolia with this occasion. Set up of the “Romanian Reading Association of Timisoara”. Financial crisis.
1874	Set up in Timisoara of the “Association for Biology” from Southern Hungary. Opening of the meteorology station.
1874.06._	The Coggia comet could be observed in Banat.
1874-1875	Pavel Rotariu issues the romanian literary-humorous magazine “Priculiciu”.
1875	The Caransebes's Hospital is opened. Other villages were existed hospitals [starting XIX Century]: Lugoj, Varadia, Jamul Mare, Moravita, Oravita, etc.
1875	Set up of the “Hatzfelder/Jimbolia Volunteer Fire Brigade”.
1875.09.22	Festive inauguration of the theater in Timisoara with the comedy “Domnia femeilor” [Women’s Rule] by Ede Szigligeti, performed by the team of the National Theatre from Budapest.
1876.01.01	The new metrical system of measurement is introduced in Banat.
1876	The military reservist doctor Martin Parlaghy sets up the first sports association in Timisoara, called “The Skating Association”.
1876	New public health law.
1876.10.23	Timisoara-Lugoj-Caransebes railroad. The second railroad station is raised in Timisoara. Today exists 3 distinct railroad stations in the city.
1877	The natural museum is opened in Timisoara due the efforts of L. Kuhn.
1877.05._	Mures river will food and destroy 31 houses and the damages crossed several millions florins.
1877.05.28	Stephan Jäger's birth in Cenei. He will die on 16.02.1962 in Jimbolia. In 1910 on his first important painting exhibition in Carpinis, Stephan Jäger had a tremendous success. He will keep focus his work on the life of schwabs in Banat in all aspects: daily life, customs, history. The picture which will bring him celebrity is the "triptych" [6m/1,4m] which represents 3 episodes of the colonization of the schwabs in Banat: the journey, the arriving and the house billing [today the painting can be seen at the Adam Müller Guttenbrunn House in Timisoara]. In 1969, the Jäger Museum was opened in Jimbolia.
1877-1887	Máté Bereczki [1824-1895], a fruit tree growing specials from Banat but well known in whole Europe, publish at Arad his books [4 volumes in which he will describe 1075 different sorts of trees]. He is the author of the Bereczki quince tree sort known worldwide. He worked around Cenad.
1878.05.20	Caransebes-Orsova railroad.
1879.04.5, 04.10.	Earthquakes in Banat.
1879.04._	Floods in Tisa Plain;
1879.05.21	In South Banat hail stone.
1879	Start of the works on the town’s telephone network [first 52 subscribers] in Timisoara. The network was build as a private enterprise by Ignatiu Leyritz.
1879.05.01	Trough Orsova-Varcioroba railroad the link between Banat and Romania was made. Bucuresti is linked with Paris trough Timisoara-Budapesta-Vienna.
1879 .09.25-.10.26	Daily earthquakes in Banat [Moldova Noua region]. The November 20 earthquake damaged several buildings in Timisoara. Between 31.10.-19.11. strong earthquakes in Banat.
1879-'80	Heavy winter in South Banat; dry spring.
1879.05.01	Link between Orsova-Varciorova railroad.
1879.09.15	Recital of Johannes Brahms and Joseph Joachim in Timisoara.
1880-1894	Lawyer Pavel Rotariu issues the political newspaper “Luminatorul”.
1880	At Recas is also set up a volunteer fire brigade. Up to 1933 the fire brigade was formed only by schwabs. Between 1933-1955 only 3 romanians were members of this brigade. Today, only 5 of the 28 fireman's are romanians. The brigade still has a fireman Ford machine which was bought in USA in 1932. The old Ford is still functioning.
1881 .01.01-10	Census.
1881	In spring the Mures river flooded. In summer heat up to 45^o C.
1881	The hungarian Parliament issued a law to limit the activity of the emigration agents. These were obliged to have the approval [which, regularly, was not given!] of the Interior Ministry for their activity.
1881.03.25	The well-known composer and pianist Bela Bartok was born in Sannicolau Mare. His father, born in Ujvar, dies in Sannicolau Mare – he was the director of the Agricultural School and his mother was a teacher. Bela Bartok’s first concert [in 1903] will take place in Sannicolau Mare. In 1940 Bartok emigrates in the USA, where he’ll die on 26.09.1945, being buried in New York.
1881	Construction of the educational complex and monastery of the Community of the “Notre Dame” Roman-Catholic Nuns located in the Iosefin district, according to the plans of architect Eduard Reiter.
1882	The railroads Sannicolau Mare-Timisoara and Sannicolau Mare-Arad are built. In Caransebes the electric light is used for house lighting. The City Museum of Vrsac/Werschetz is established.
1883	The Nako family builds in Sannicolau Mare a hospital – The Berta Public Hospital [located on the former hunting pavilion in memory of Kalman Nako and his wife, Gyertyanffy Berta]. The hospital was built also with donations from the Torontal County. At the beginning, the hospital had only 6 beds. The first doctor was the Nako family’s doctor, dr. Lovenstein. In 1896-'97 the hospital is widened up to 30 beds. The present hospital building was built in 1908-'10 [100 beds], project financed by Nako Sandor. In the 1970's the hospital’s capacity increases to over 300 beds.
1883.06.05.	The Orient Express Train is launched passing trough Banat: Szeged-Kikinda-Jimbolia-Timisoara-Caransebes-Orsova.
1884.12.01	Earthquake in South-East Banat.
1884.11.12	For the first time in Europe the streets of a town/Timisoara are lightened with electric energy [731 lamps]. Also, the Timisoara's railroad station is the fist railroad station in Europe lightened with electric energy. In Timisoara is setup on of the first european electric plants.
1884.12.16	Birth of Karoly Kos – writer, architect, drawer and politician.
1885	The first museum is established in Timisoara.
1885	31.01.; 25-26.02. Earthquakes around Timisoara.
1885.03.09	Karoly Telbisz is elected mayor of Timisoara and fulfils this duty up to 1914.
1885.10.01	Karl Schaffer opens the private school for deaf-mute children in Timisoara.
1885.11.15	between 6pm-10pm A spectacular star rain could be seen in Banat.
1885-'86	Long winter in Banat.
1886.01.10	Earthquake in South-East Banat.
1886.11.13/14	Earthquakes around Timisoara.
1886.11.23	Earthquake in South-East Banat.
1886	Dray and cold spring in Banat. The Leyritz telephone network has 90 subscribers and was 201,480 m in length. At Ruschita/Caras-Severin County is opened the marble career. The quality of the marble is one of the best in the world.
1886.12.02	Set up of the “Ambulance” service of Timisoara. This is the first ambulance station in Hungary and today Romania.
1886-1894	The Aranca River is regularized and becomes a channel.
1887	Timisoara-Cruceni railroad.
1887.04.01	The schwab poet Peter Jung is born in Jimbolia. He will die on 24.06.1966 in the same town.
1887.07.10	Big earthquake in Banat in Timisoara-Arad region.
1887.08.6/18	In South Banat hail stone as big as the chicken egg.
1887-'88	Heavy, cold and snowy winter in Banat.
1888	Very dry summer in Timis County; some rivers will dry out. In Caras County hail stone 1/2 kg heavy that destroyed houses and will injured people. Periam-Varias railroad. In Caransebes is functioning a thermoelectric plant [100 CP]. It is the first in today Romania and one of the first in the world.
1890	In Banat existed 253 postal offices and 48 telegraph offices: in Timis County 78-18; Torontal 116-19; Caras-Severin 61-11. Their activity: -3,500,000 letters -5,500,000 money orders paid off -170,000 telegrams sanded and 200,000 received. In Timisoara the horse-tramway had 711,393 customers [109,830 routes/362,448 km]. Only on the 9 main railroads in Banat existed in this year 1,113,264 passengers. Jebel-Giera railroad.
1890.12.30	Set up of the independent Lutheran/Calvinist church in Timisoara. In the whole year, in Banat existed 238 labor conflicts.
1891 .01.01-01.10	Census.
1891 .07.19-.09.30	National Exhibition For Industry and Agriculture [20.000 m²] held in Timisoara.
1891.08.10	A meteorite will fall in Caras region.
1891.08.26	The first permanent museum is opened in Timisoara.
1891.09.16	Emperor Franz Joseph I visited the exhibition.
1892.05.08	Birth of Arnold Hauser, well-known aesthetician and sociologist of arts.
1893	Toplet/Caras-Severin County is the first electrified village in Romania. Census on the gypsies from Banat, Transylvania and Hungary.
1893.03.27	Balkan earthquake felt in Banat.
1893.12.03	The telephone network from Timisoara is linked with Arad-Szeged-Budapesta and became a long distance network.
1893 .12.25-26	In South Banat a big storm.
1894	Drilling of the mineral water well in the Dome Square [presently: Unirii Square] in Timisoara. The railroads Zrenjanin-Pancevo-Vrsac-Kovin, Timisoara-Buzias, Caransebes-Hateg, Gavojdia-Nadrag are built. Ports on Bega channel: Timisoara, Sanmihaiu Roman, Uivar, Otelec, Itebej, Begejci, Zitiste, Zrenjanin and Ecka-Perlas.
1895.06.16	11am Balkan earthquake felt in Banat.
1895	Ludwig Ybl and Kovacs Sebestyen Aladar draw up the Timisoara’s plans. Timisoara-Lovrin-Sannicolau Mare-Cenad railroad. Oravita-Berzovia; Gataia-Jamu Mare; Lugoj-Gataia; Timisoara-Buzias railroads.
1896	Laying of the head stone of the “Millenium” church in the Fabric district. Floods in some places in Banat in summer. The Leyritz telephone network in Timisoara has more than 2000 subscribers. Telephone networks are introduced also in Vrsac, Pancevo and Zrenjanin.
1896.11.15	The Zsombolyai Körkörhas/Jimbolia's "Community Hospital" known also as the "Elisabetha" Hospital is opened [90 bad; 40 for surgery]; it is still functioning today. The founder of this hospital was Karl DIEL [B 14.02.1855, Jimbolia; D 1.05.1930, Jimbolia], which studied in Budapest between 1872-1878 and during his career performed more than 50.000 surgeries. In 1909 the surgery's section of the hospital had 100 bad and was equipped at the highest level [same as the big hospitals in Vienna and Budapest]. In 1940 the Jimbolia's inhabitants will raise a statute for Dr. Diel in front of the mayoralty.
1897.01.01	The first cinema films are presented in the “Redout” hall in the Cetate district and the “Curtea Fabricii” hall in the Fabric district.
1897.01.17	Birth of Karl Kerényi, well-known mythologist and religion historian.
1897	In Caras-Severin County will rain 6 weeks. In February Mures river fooded Arad City.
1897.10.03	Inauguration of the Superior State Gymnasium [presently: Theoretical High School “C.D. Loga”] in Timisoara. The construction was based on architect Ignac Alpar’s plans.
1897	The first romanian electrified railroad between Arad-Podgoria [58 km].
1898	Lugoj-Ilia railroad. At Balta Sarata, near Caransebes, is build the first plywood plant in Romania.
1898-1899	Hungarian writer Ady Endre is clerk at the Timisoara Court of Law.
1899-1913	Approximately 92.000 schwabs will emigrate in USA. Bruno Walter is the conductor of the German theatre orchestra in Timisoara.
1899.06.25	The first football/soccer mach in today Romania was held in Timisoara between the schoolboys of the Piarist High-school lead by Carol Müller, gymnastic professor.
1899.07.24	Put in function of the electric tram [10,7 km] in Timisoara.
1899-1902	Parts of the defense works from Timisoara's fortress are demolished.

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