PERIOD 1851–1950
1851 – The Kuhlmann brothers establish a glove factory on St John’s Hill.
1852 – The Montanistic Society is founded. Uranium ore costs 500 guilders per hundredweight.
1853 – Industrial uranium mining begins; 1,500 kg of uranium yellow are produced.
1855 – The Imperial Tobacco Factory is founded.
1864 – A warm spring is discovered in the Svornost mine; the mine floods. First electrical blasting is carried out.
1873 – On 31 March, the town is completely destroyed by fire within four hours.
1884 – Opening of the lookout tower on Klínovec.
1896 – Railway connection to Ostrov is opened.
1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie request uranium-processing waste; 120 mg of radium are isolated.
1902 – Electric lighting introduced.
1908 – Construction of the municipal power plant.
1911 – Opening of the Spa House (Agricola).
1912 – Austria-Hungary becomes sole owner of the uranium mines.
1918 – Establishment of Czechoslovakia.
1925 – Visit of Marie Curie-Skłodowska.
1938 – Annexation by Nazi Germany.
1939 – Radium production ceases.
1945 – Soviet control of the mines begins.
1946 – Creation of the national enterprise Jáchymov Mines.
1949 – Labour camps established; thousands of prisoners forced to work in the mines.
1950 – 5,846 inhabitants; 8,570 prisoners working in uranium mining.
