| Chronicle of Vorpommern |
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| 6./7. Jhd. | Slavic Luticians settle West Pomerania. |
| 936 | Region conquered by the German King, later Kaiser Otto I. |
| 1140 | Bishopric of Wollin founded. |
| 1168 | Rügen conquered by the Danes. |
| 1181 | Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa
enfeoffs Pomerania to Duke Bogislaw I. Pomerania elevated to a principality. |
| 1231 | Pomerania enfeoffed to Brandenburg. |
| 1295 | Pomerania divided into the Duchies of Stettin and Wolgast. |
| 1370 | Danish rule over the Baltic
region ended by the Hanseatic League in the Stralsund Pact. |
| 1456 | University of Greifswald founded. |
| 1684 | Pomerania passes to Sweden and Brandenburg in the Westphalian Pact. |
| 1679 | As a result of the Nordic War the Isle of Usedom and Wollin fall to Brandenburg-Prussia. |
| 1815 | The Swedish parts of
Vorpommern and Rügen fall to Prussia after the War of Liberation. |
| 1945 | Division of
Pomerania. East Pomerania placed under Polish administration. Vorpommern and Mecklenburg combined to make the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. |
| 1952 | After new regionalisation of
the state Vorpommern is divided into the GDR districts of Rostock and Neubrandenburg. |
| 1990 | Vorpommern becomes part of the newly formed State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. |