The most important premieres that are related

to Timisoara and Banat.

1718 - attestation of the oldest brewery in Romania;

1718 - the opening of the first elementary school in

Cetate, the first in Romania;
1728 - the beginning of the Bega sewerage, the first

navigable canal in Romania;

1745 - construction of the municipal hospital, the
first in Romania (24 years before Vienna and 34 years
before Budapest);
1753 - Timisoara, a city with a permanent theatrical
season (the third city in the Habsburg monarchy, after
Vienna and Budapest);
1760 - the first city of the monarchy with street-lit
streets;
1771 - publishing the first newspaper in Romania and
also the first German newspaper in Southeast Europe:
"Temeswarer Nachrichten";
1815 - the library of Josef Klapka, the first public
loan library in the Habsburg Empire, the Kingdom of
Hungary and the Romanian territories;
1819 - for the first time in Central Europe, the
smallpox vaccine is administered in Timisoara;
1823 - in Timişoara, Bolyai Janos announces the
discovery of the first non-Euclidean geometry in the
world;
1847 - Johann Strauss's son's first concert outside
Vienna takes place in the courtyard of the brewery;
1855 - the first city of the Habsburg monarchy with
gas-lit streets;
1884 - the first city on the European continent with
electrically lit streets, with 731 lamps;
1886 - the first rescue station in Hungary and Romania;
1895 - the first asphalted street in Romania;
1899 - the first electric tram in Romania;
1938 - world premiere, the first machine for welding
railway and tram rails, invention of prof. Corneliu
Micloşi;
1953 - the only European city with three state theaters
in Romanian, Hungarian and German;

1969 - Prof. Dr. Ghermănescu publishes the first

encyclopedic treatise on functional equations in the
world;
1989 - the first free of communism city in Romania;