In December 1805, the Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the "Battle of the Three Emperors," took place east of Brno. The city itself did not join the battle, but the French army temporarily captured it without fighting, and Emperor Napoleon I stayed here several times. For several months, Brno was also assembled by the French Army in 1809, and Napoleon in the city resumed for several days.
In 1817 František's Museum was founded by František's imperial decree, the Moravian Regional Museum, the second largest and the second oldest (after the museum in Opava) museum in the Czech Republic. In 1839 the town was connected with the Vienna Railway. In 1846 the public lighting was introduced with gas lamps and in 1847 a telegraph was introduced into Brno.
In the years 1859-1864, almost the whole city fortifications of Brno were gradually demolished, and only a few sections, adjacent to the streets of Husov, Basta and Denis' Sands, were preserved together with the reconstructed Měnínská gate. After the demolition of the city fortifications, the industrial development of the city began to deteriorate.
In 1881 and 1882, the newly built city theater was illuminated as the first European theater by the electric lamps of T. A. Edison, and the first Czech bookstore Joži Barvic was founded next year.
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