Tivoli Timeline 1843 - 2013
Tivoli The World
Tivoli opens 1843
Tivoli Boys Guard founded 1844 Actress Sarah Bernhardt is born
Annual cards introduced 1845
1847 Denmark's first railway opens
Tivoli parts ways with Carstensen 1848 The Three Years' War. Frederik VII becomes king of Denmark
1849 The Danish Constitution
1852 Napoleon 3 is crowned as emperor
Georg Carstensen dies 1857 The Sound Dues are abolished
1861 The American Civil War begins.
Abraham Lincoln assumes office
1864 Denmark loses Northern Sleswick (Southern Jutland)
The current Pantomime Theatre 1874
1875 Hans Christian Andersen dies
The Tivoli Lake is formed.
The grounds are extended 1887
The Nordic Industrial, Agricultural, and
Art exhibition 1888
1889 The Eiffel Tower opens
The current Main Entrance is established 1890
Knud Arne-Petersen Tivoli CEO 1899
The 80 foot tall Japanese Pagoda 1900
1901 Queen Victoria dies
The Glass Hall Theatre is created
during the establishment of a new concert hall 1902 The Sun Chariot of Trundholm from the Bronze Age
is discovered while ploughing
The Glyptotek Entrance opens 1907
1908 The Ford T is introduced
Nimb opens 1909
The entrance opposite the Central
Station opens 1912 The unsinkable ship called the Titanic sinks
Bjergrutschebanen
(The Mountain Roller Coaster) opens 1914 World War I begins
1915 Women win the right to vote in Denmark
Visitor count exceeds 1 million
for the first time 1916 Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.
1920 Reunification (Southern Jutland becomes Danish)
1922 BBC is established
The first bumper cars 1926
1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic in a non-stop flight
1928 First Mickey Mouse cartoon
Ellehammers baby-både
(Ellehammer's baby boats) 1935 Elvis Presley is born
Kjeld Abell Tivoli CEO 1940 Occupation of Denmark Birth of princess Margrethe.
Tivoli's 100 year anniversary 1943
The Schalburg Corps' attack of Tivoli 1944
The Schalburg Corps' attack of
The Apollo Theatre 1945 Germany loses World War II
1947 Frederik IX becomes king
Dansetten 1948
Henning Søager and Inge-Lise Bock
Tivoli CEOs 1950
Smøgen (The Alley) 1952
1953 A change to the constitution makes
Margrethe the crown princess
1955 Disneyland opens in California
Tivoli's current Concert Hall 1956
The Vintage Cars 1959
Boblespringvandet (The Water Fountain) 1961
1963 John F. Kennedy is murdered
Eurovision Song Contest in
The Tivoli Concert Hall 1964 Beatles concert in KB Hallen
Flea circus closes 1965
Vise Vers Huset opens in Smøgen (The Alley) 1966
Plænen (The Open Air Stage) / Perlen 1968 Student riots
1969 The moon landing
1972 Denmark becomes member of EC.
Margrethe II becomes queen
1973 Carl XVI Gustaf becomes king of Sweden
Niels-Jørgen Kaiser, Tivoli CEO 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
The Hans Christian Andersen Castle is acquired 1978
Multi-ride ticket introduced 1983
1989 Homosexuals can enter into registered partnerships in Denmark
1990 German reunification
1992 King Harald V becomes king of Norway
Tivoli A/S buys the Tivoli grounds 1992
Tivoli CEO Lars Liebst 1996
First Fredagsrock (Friday Rock) 1997
The Orient theme area opens 1999 Boris Jeltsin resigns as Russia's president
Skandinavisk Tobak obtain controlling interest 2000 The Øresund Bridge opens
Dæmonen (The Demon) opens 2004
Nimb is renovated 2008 Barack Obama is elected as president of the US
The interactive ride Vertigo 2009 Copenhagen is host to the Climate Change Conference, Cop 15
Tivoli turns 170 on 15 August 2013