Capital since 1849 Timisoara became a capital, the residence of the Governor of Serbian Voivodina and Timis of Banat, after 1849 [3]. This form of government was abolished in 1860 and the territory went under Hungarian rule (also a part of the Hasburg Empire). In 1918 most of the Banat territory was returned to Romania. In 1857, the railway Szegedin-Timisoara was built, and our hometown was directly linked with Budapest and Vienna. The railway station from Josefin was built during this year, then was modernized between 1896 and 1898; the actual appearance is due to the reconstruction after the bombardment from the second World War. During 1871-1897, the railway network was developed and Timisoara was linked with the following towns from the region: Arad, Caransebes, Orsova, Sinnicolaul Mare, Buzias, Radna, and Modos. Fabric, the East railway station was built in 1876 and remodeled in 1897. The first telegraph office was opened on April 24, 1854, and in the year 1879 the first telephone bell rang the first 52 customers. In 1760 the public lighting was introduced; in 1770 there were 100 street lights. In 1782 the City Hall took over the public lighting and in 1857 Timisoara was the first gas lighted Romanian city. In 1884, the British "International Electric Company Limited" installed 731 electric street lamps and Timisoara became the first European city that used electricity for public lightning. In 1869, the public transit system in Timisoara used tram cars pulled by horses; then, in 1899 the system was modernized and electricity was used on the 10.7 kilometers long network. In 1969 Timisoara celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the tram cars with an original parade of different cars including the one pulled by horses and also customers dressed a la belle =E9poque. The first pharmacy and hospital were built between the years 1735-1737. The hospital inauguration was sponsored by the Misericordian Brothers. Later, during the 1848 revolution both the church and the hospital were caught on fire. A new hospital was rebuilt in 1851. Today, on the same place, there is an ophthalmological hospital. In 1751 the annuaries mention a civic hospital (today the hospital on the Marasesti Street). In 1886 the society "Salvarea", or "The Rescue") was organized, the first on the former kingdom of Hungary. The first newspaper was published in 1771 in Timisoara, in the German language, titled "Temeswarer Nachrichten" ("Timisoranean News"). This was also the first German newspaper from South Eastern Europe. About 13 issues of this newspaper were discovered in the State Archives in Vienna and they constitute the proof of the first published German newspaper in Romania and South Eastern Europe. The scientists doubt the existence of another older publication of the nationals from South Eastern Europe. In 1784, a German calendar was also published in Timisoara. The capital of Banat became an important avanpost for periodicals in the South Eastern part of the empire. In 1784, the :Temeswarer Zeitung" ("The Timisoranean Newspaper") was published also in German. The political magazine "Juzna Pcela" ("The Bee") was published starting from 1851 in Serbian. The first typography was probably opened in 1771 by Mathias Heimerl. Timisoara was the third town from the former kingdom of Hungary to have a permanent theater mentioned in the protocol from 1753. In 1761, the Orthodox Magistrate building, which housed the German theater, was built (today the building of "Lenau" High School). This building was only a theater after the unification of the Orthodox and German Magistrate in 1780 till 1784. This is the building where Franz Liszt gave concerts, Johann Strauss-the son conducted, and the great Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu was a guest as a prompter [4]. In the place where the National Theater and Romanian Opera building is today, in 1875, a new theater was built in Italian Renaissance style after the plans of the renown architects Fellner and Helmer. It is worth to mention that for a three story building placed on marsh terrain, the foundation was a series of difficult problems. That s why the solving was the creation of a foundation built on giant oak pylons; 1600 oak pillars consolidated the construction terrain. The fortress and other important buildings from those times were built in a similar way. After the fire from 1880 the theater building was remodeled until 1882. Until this date all the performances were held in the German language, including the W.A. Mozart "Der Fledermaus". The first Romanian repertoire opened on October 5, 1920, with Alexander Dumas-the son "La Dame aux Camelias". The building caught on fire again on November 2, 1920, was remodeled starting in 1923 after the plans of the architect Duiliu Marcu and reopened in 1928 in the same form as it functions today. After this date all performances were held in the Romanian language, and after the second World War the Romanian Opera operated here. The German and Hungarian theaters operate on a common stage in the same building, Timisoara being the only town in Europe where theater is played in three languages: Romanian, German and Hungarian. The German theater from Timisoara is the only German theater outside the ethnic German sphere. Timisoara was the spiritual center of Banat starting from the XV century, a lot of private schools existed, but we can not speak out of an organized school system. During 164 years of Turk occupation the cultural life suffered a lot, lay and religious problems were solved by traveling monks on transit through Timisoara. After the town liberation from the Turk occupation, the Jesuits got involved and opened the first elementary school in the City. In 1765 there were schools in each district of the town. During those times religion, reading, writing and calligraphy were taught, in the German language in town, in Romanian and Serbian in the country, and in Hungarian starting only in 1791. These schools were not at a contending level, the wealthiest parents hired private teachers [5]. In 1726, the Jesuits opened the first middle school, and the first normal school for the teachers training, in 1775, after the Vienna model. In 1778, the middle school closed and for 10 years Timisoara had no middle school. In 1777, a preparatory course for Romanian teachers was opened. In 1791, the first "Theological Orthodox Institute", of four month duration, [6] was opened. The first Roman Catholic seminary was founded in 1806 by Ladislaus Koszeghy, and in 1846, for a very short period of time, a Law Academy functioned.