1288 - Holy Cross church founded by High Duke of Poland Henryk IV Probus.
1290 - Death and burial of Henryk IV Probus in the Holy Cross church, that was still under construction, as the second Polish monarch to be buried in Wrocław.
Meeting of the Polish, Bohemian and Hungarian kings in the village of Muchobór Wielki (present-day district of Wrocław), ceasefire signed.
City leaves the Hanseatic League.
1475 - Kasper Elyan [pl] founded the Drukarnia Świętokrzyska [pl] (Holy Cross Printing House), the city's first printing house, which in the same year published the Statuta synodalia episcoporum Wratislaviensium [pl], the first ever incunable in Polish.
1931 - Stahlheim rally, at which its German activists declared their disapproval of the interwar German-Polish order and expressed irredentist claims towards Poland and Lithuania.
September: Mass arrests of Polish activists, Polish organizations banned.
1940
Ausländer-Auffanglagerforced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Frenchmen, Czechs, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, etc. (mostly men, but also women and children)
Rheinmettal–Borsig forced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles (men and women), but also Czechs (men and women), French POWs, Soviet POWs and Jews.
Forced labour camp in Sołtysowice established by the Germans; it housed between 4,000 and 10,000 prisoners, mostly Poles, but also Czechs, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Dutchmen and Russians.
20 April: Forced labour camp for Jewish men established by the Germans in the present-day district of Jerzmanowo.
September: Forced labour camp for Jews established by the Germans in Żerniki.
15 February: Forced labour camp for Jewish men in Jerzmanowo dissolved.
15 July: Execution of Leon Kmiotek [pl], commander of the Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich (Military Organization of the Western Lands) Polish resistance organization by the Germans.
August: AL Breslau-Lissasubcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp established by the Germans, its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Frenchmen, Czechs, Yugoslavs.
1943
April 23: Polish Zagra-Lin attacks Nazi German troop transport.
Dulag 410 transit camp for Allied prisoners of war established by the Germans.
1944
March: Forced labour camp for Jews in Żerniki dissolved.
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