History
The timeline below presents the key events in the history of Gdynia, a city built almost from nothing in the 20th century.
On the left there is a title and brief summary of the event, while on the right there is the year and the political entity that administered the city at that time. The length of the vertical line roughly corresponds to the duration between events.
- Treaty of Versailles1920Poland
- First part of the port opens1923Poland
- City rights granted1926Poland
- Invasion and occupation1939Nazi Germany
- Liberation of Gdynia1945Poland
- Modernist city centre inscribed by UNESCO2026Poland