Time machine

Slovak currency minting began

Attempts of direct leaching and surface extraction of lean gold-silver ores

Renewal of the geological survey in the quarry Šturec

First year of the festival of satire and humor Kremnické gagy took place

First year of cross-country skiing competition Biela Stopa SNP (White track of SNP)

Underground mining of gold and silver ceased in Kremnica

Establishment of the School of Applied Arts with the subjects of - engraving, smithery, casting, jewellery

Opening of the psychiatric hospital

Mint lost its monopoly on purifying precious metals

Retreating German army burned parts of the town with phosphor

Opening of the 100m long swimming pool, the only one in Czecho-Slovakia

First Czecho-Slovak president T.G.Masaryk visited the town

New machinery for minting Czecho-Slovak coins was installed

First Hungary-wide competition in cross-country skiing and ski jumping took place>

Unique underground power-plant was built in the shaft No. IV in the depth of 245m

Another health care institute was established - Hearing impaired institute>

Stagnation and crisis of mining in Kremnica lead to the notion of selling or renting the Kremnica mining company

Establishment of National History Museum

Mining engineer and inventor Pavol Križko installed the public electrical lighting - the first in Hungary and the first public phone

During the great reconstruction of the mint, new buildings of the rolling mill, metallurgical workshops, purification and hardening plants and boiler house were added to the medieval buildings

Church of Virgin Mary on the square was demolished due to the problems with statics, undermining

The town won a lawsuit with the state over the forests

Parent to all sport societies, the Ice-skating society was established

Composer Ján Levoslav Bella composed a symphonic poem Destiny and ideal in Kremnica

Together with the painter Béla Angyal new artistic movements came into town

Kremnica was connected to the railway Budapest - Bohumín

Mining doctor and writer Gustáv Kazimír Zechenter-Laskomerský came into the town, where he lived and died in 1908

Grammar school in Kremnica was established

Emperor Franz Joseph I visited the town

Juraj Langsfeld, the Slovak volunteering officer was executed in Kremnica

Clash between Austrian and Hungarian Honvéd armies took place near Dolný Turček

Establishment of Casino society, who’s members were busy with reading and playing parlor games

For 90 years the Main dedičná shaft was dug to conduct mining waters to the river Hron

Machines were installed in the paper-mill thus becoming the first Hungarian paper factory

The poet Ján Kollár studied at the evangelical grammar school>

The largest fire in the town’s history destroyed all the churches and buildings on the square together with fortification towers

Famous stoneware manufacture was opened and operated until 1956

Duke of Austria Maximilian visited Kremnica

Opening of the catholic grammar school lead by Franciscans

Sculptors Dionysus Staneti, Martin Vögerle and Anton Mayer worked on the construction of the monumental plaque column

The town welcomed the king Joseph II and his brother Leopold

Calvary with a small church of st. Cross was built on the hill Schulersberg west of the town

Charles de Montesquieu, the famous French philosopher visited Kremnica

Plaque raged in the town and its surroundings

After the departure of Rákoci’s rebels the local churches were returned to the catholics

Kremnica fell into the hands of Rákoci’s rebels for the period of 5 years

Turks invaded Kunešov, Lúčky and Veterník taking at least 30 people captive

Tököli’s rebels besieged Kremnica

From this year come the oldest statutes of the burghers’ shooting society

Edward Brown, the famous English scholar visited Kremnica

Meeting of Wesselény anti-Habsburg rebels in Turčianske Teplice, which belonged under Kremnica

Franciscans arrived to Kremnica and built a church and monastery starting a re-catholicization

50 miners died in a great fire in Altermann’s shaft

Bočkaj’s rebels invaded the Lower street and surrounding villages killing many, arresting some and selling them to the Turkish capture

Introduction of a new type of the mining carriage, so called “riesen” transport spreading to other parts of Europe from here

Great fire destroyed 2 churches and 64 houses

Official declaration of the protestant creed of the central Slovakian mining towns (Confesio heptapolitana)

Kremnica was visited by the famous humanist and alchemist Paracelsus

Foundation of the state Royal gold mining company (Goldkunsthandlung) taking over most of the private mines

The oldest codification of the town’s rights

The oldest mention of the famous protestant town school

First lutheran preacher Konrád Cordatus in the town

Construction of Turček waterline feeding the water from Turec to Kremnica’s mining and minting plants

The oldest documented guild of Kremnica - the regulations of the shoemaker journeymen guild

Czech Hussites unsuccessfully attacked Kremnica, but looted the outskirts

King Sigismund sold 4 villages belonging to the royal chamber to Kremnica - Kunešov, Lúčky, Horná Ves and Šváb, thus completing the town estate

Kremnica was awarded the right for markets, according to which the markets could take place in town for two days in a week

Kremnica was granted the capital right - the right to judge and punish criminals and bandits

The oldest preserved document of Kremnica minters’ privileges

First council of the Union of the central Slovakian mining towns in Banská Štiavnica lead by Kremnica

Dedičná shaft used for draining the mining works mentioned for the first time

At the southern border of the town the oldest town hospital with the gothic church of St. Elisabeth1385Dedičná shaft used for draining the mining works mentioned for the first time

Building of the town castle with defense bastions, ecclesiastic buildings (St. Catharine church, St. Michael’s rotunda) and administrative buildings (town hall, school, parish)

In the oldest preserved town document the ironworks, mining and stumping mills are mentioned