| 1158 | Heinrich der Löwe (Henry the Lion) founds Munich |
| 1255 | Munich becomes residential town of the Wittelsbacher |
| 1327 | Munich destroyed by a disastrous fire |
| 1429 | Another serious fire in Munich |
| 1506 | Herzog Albrecht IV makes Munich to the capitol of whole Bavaria |
| 1632 | The Swedish under King Gustav Adolf occupy Munich |
| 1634 | The pest kills more than one third of Munich residents |
| 1704-1714 | Bavaria is occupied by Austria as a result of the Spanish Succession War |
| 1705 | Massacre while farmers are rioting (so called Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, the Sendlinger murder Christmas) |
| 1806 | Bavaria becomes a kingdom. Elector Maximilian IV becomes Bavaria’s first King (Maxmilian I. Joseph) |
| 1810 | First Oktoberfest on 17th October |
| 1826 | First University |
| 1839 | First railway between Munich and Augsburg (1st September) |
| 1846 | Munich has 100.000 residents |
| 1848 | The Märzunruhen (“March turbulences”) and the affair with Lola Montes force King Ludwig I to resign. |
| 1901 | Munich has 500.000 residents. |
| 1918 | November revolution in Munich. The last Wittelsbacher king escapes. Kurt Eisner (a socialist) proclaims the "free peoples state Bavaria". |
| 1919 | Proclamation of Bavarian Räte-republic, leader Kurt Eisner murdered |
| 1923 | National Socialists try to coup at the Feldherrnhalle |
| 1933 | Takeover by the National Socialist Party. |
| 1939 | Assassination in the Bürgerbräukellerfails on Adolf Hitler. |
| 1945 | End of WW II. Munich occupied by US troops. |
| 1957 | 1 Million residents in Munich at 15th December. |
| 1958 | Crash of an airplain in Munich. The soccer team of Mancherster United is part of the victims. |
| 1971 | First underground ("U-Bahn") |
| 1972 | The XX Olympic Summer games in Munich. |
| 1974 | Germany wins in the Munich Olympic station the soccer world championship for the second time. |
| 1989 | 200 years English Garden, 400 years Hofbräuhaus Munich |
| 1992 | The new Airport “Franz-Josef-Strauss” replaces the old one. |
| 1994 | 500 years Frauenkirche, Munichs landmark. |
| 1998 | New fairgrounds in Riem. |