Timeline of Amsterdam
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13th-15th centuries
- 1270 - Dam built on Amstel River (approximate date)
- 1303 - Siege of Amsterdam
- 1306 - Oude Kerk consecrated
- 1347 - Heilige Stede chapel built
- 1421 - Fire
- 1452 - Fire
- 1470 - Agnietenklooster built
- 1487 - Schreierstoren built
16th century
- 1516 - Montelbaanstoren built
- 1518 - Egelantier formed (approximate date)
- 1566 - Beeldenstorm
- 1568 - Amsterdam supports Catholics in the Dutch Revolt
- 1575 - Erven Lucas Bols in business[1]
- 1578
- 1585 - City expands beyond the Singel
- 1586 - Admiralty of Amsterdam formed
17th century
- 1602 - Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Dutch East India Company founded
- 1606 - Oost-Indisch Huis built
- 1607 - English Reformed Church established[3]
- 1609 - Bank of Amsterdam established[4]
- 1611 - Koopmansbeurs built
- 1614 - Nieuwmarkt created
- 1617
- First Dutch Academy formed
- Korenbeurs built
- Town gate remodeled as Weigh House[5]
- 1619 - Westerhal built[6]
- 1620 - Munttoren[7] and Korenmetershuisje built
- 1621 - Dutch West India Company founded
- 1622 - Cromhouthuizen built
- 1632 - Athenaeum Illustre formed[8]
- 1633 - Oude Lutherse Kerk built
- 1637 - Schouwburg of Van Campen (theatre) built[9]
- 1638 - Accijnshuis built
- 1645 - Nieuwe Kerk rebuilt (approximate date)
- 1651 - St. Peter's Flood
- 1655 - Town hall inaugurated[10]
- 1662
- Trippenhuis built
- Blaeu's Atlas Maior published
- 1663 - Bubonic plague outbreak
- 1665 - New theatre opens[11]
- 1672 - Johannes Hudde becomes mayor
- 1675 - Portuguese Synagogue built[12]
- 1679 - Wynand-Fockink in business[1]
- 1682
- Begijnhof Chapel and Amstelhof built
- Hortus Medicus founded[13]
18th century
- 1718 - City drawing academy founded[15]
- 1748 - Pachtersoproer riots
- 1774 - Theatre opens on the Leidseplein
- 1776 - Felix Meritis society established[16]
- 1780 - Maagdenhuis built
- 1785 - Seamen's Institute, and Society for Public Welfare organized[16]
- 1794 - Metz & Co established
- 1795 - Population: 217,000[17]
19th century
- 1800 - Barrack of St. Charles built[18]
- 1808
- Amsterdam becomes capital of Kingdom of Holland, client state of the French Empire
- Town hall becomes Royal Palace
- Royal Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts founded[19]
- 1814
- Amsterdam becomes capital of the Netherlands
- Rijks-Museum relocates to the Trippenhuis building[2]
- Bank of the Netherlands headquartered in city[4]
- 1824 - Netherlands Trading Society headquartered in city[4]
- 1825 - North Holland Canal constructed[17]
- 1837 - Beurs van Zocher stock exchange built
- 1838 - Zoo opens[16]
- 1839
- Amsterdam–Haarlem railway begins operating
- Arti et Amicitiae society organized[16]
- 1840 - Coster Diamonds founded
- 1843 - Weesperpoort railroad station opens
- 1845 - Exchange opens[2]
- 1852 - Bijbels Museum founded
- 1854 - Royal Asscher Diamond Company founded
- 1855 - Arti et Amicitiae constructed
- 1856
- Amsterdam–Arnhem railway constructed
- De Eendracht war memorial erected
- 1857 - Palace of Industry opens[4]
- 1862 - Bloemenmarkt founded
- 1863
- 1864 - Paleis voor Volksvlijt built
- 1867
- Heineken brewery built
- Amstel Hotel opens[21]
- 1869 - Netherlands Bank building constructed[16]
- 1870 - Rijksakademie, De Bijenkorf, and Amstel Brewery founded
- 1874
- Amsterdam–Zutphen railway constructed
- Amsterdamse Toneelschool established
- 1876 - Population: 281,944[2]
- 1877 - Municipal University of Amsterdam and Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten founded
- 1878 - Den Helder–Amsterdam railway begins operating
- 1880 - Vrije Universiteit established[16]
- 1881 - Stille Omgang revived
- 1882 - Spui square created
- 1883 - International Colonial and Export Exhibition
- 1884 - Amsterdamsch Conservatorium founded
- 1885 - Rijksmuseum opens
- 1886
- 1887 - Orange riots
- 1888 - Concertgebouw built, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra founded
- 1889 - Amsterdam Centraal railway station opens[16]
- 1894 - Stadsschouwburg rebuilt[16]
- 1895 - Willet-Holthuysen Museum established[16]
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900
- Gemeentetram Amsterdam tramway established
- Population: 523,557[16]
- 1903 - Beurs van Berlage built[23]
- 1904 - August: International Socialist Congress held.
- 1906 - Amsterdam Wind Orchestra ATH formed
- 1907 - Noggerath Bioscope Theater opens[24]
- 1911 - Rembrandt House Museum and Pathe cinema open[25]
- 1919
- Public library opens
- Het Schip apartment building erected
- Disteldorp and Vogeldorp areas built in Amsterdam-Noord[26]
- 1920
- Stelling van Amsterdam built
- Muzieklyceum and Rialto Cinema[24] established
- 1921
- Buiksloot, Nieuwendam, Ransdorp, Sloten, and Watergraafsmeer annexed
- Tuschinski cinema built[24]
- 1923 - Tuindorp Oostzaan area built[26]
- 1924
- Institute of Applied Art formed
- National Vocational School for Pastry Chefs opens
- 1925 - Tooneelmuseum (stage museum) founded[27]
- 1926
- Amsterdam Museum established
- Royal Tropical Institute building constructed[28]
- 1927 - American Women's Club Amsterdam founded.[29]
- 1928 - Summer Olympics held
- 1929 - Palace of National Industry burns down[6]
- 1932 - Joods Historisch Museum opens
- 1933 - Alhambra Theater opens.[24]
- 1934 - Allard Pierson Museum opens
- 1935
- International Institute for Social History established[30]
- City Theater opens
- 1936 - Cineac Theatre built[31]
- 1939 - Amsterdam Amstel railway station opens
- 1940 - German occupation begins
- 1941
- February strike
- Het Parool newspaper begins publication
- 1945
- German occupation ends
- Dam Square shooting
- Kriterion Cinema opens.[24]
- 1946 - Dutch Historic Film Archive founded
- 1947 - Holland Festival begins[32]
1950s-1990s
- 1952 - Filmmuseum founded
- 1956 - National Monument (Amsterdam) erected
- 1957 - Horecava hospitality trade fair begins
- 1958 - Netherlands Film and Television Academy founded
- 1960
- Anne Frank House museum established
- Kleinkunstacademie founded
- 1961 - Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre opens
- 1962 - Hilton Hotel in business
- 1966 - Weesperkarspel annexed
- 1968
- Art & Project gallery opens
- Theaterschool founded[33]
- 1969 - March: Bed-In for Peace held
- 1971 - Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station opens
- 1972 - In-Out Centre opens[34]
- 1973 - Van Gogh Museum established
- 1975
- Flag of Amsterdam design adopted
- 1975 - Rainbow Foundation,[35] De Appel art centre, and Other Books and So founded[34][36]
- Amsterdam Marathon and SAIL Amsterdam begin
- 1976 - Sweelinck Conservatorium formed
- 1977
- Amsterdam Metro begins operating
- Uitmarkt begins[37]
- Hotel Polen fire
- 1978 - MonteVideo founded
- 1984 - Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival begins
- 1985 - Annual contemporary art fair begins
- 1986
- Amsterdam–Schiphol railway begins operating
- Muziektheater built
- 1987
- 1988
- 1991
- Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen established
- Museum Jan van der Togt opens
- 1992
- Airplane crash in Bijlmermeer
- Miniature Museum founded
- 1993
- La Rive and Boom Chicago founded
- 1994
- Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Prostitution Information Center founded
- SMART Project Space opens
- 1996
- Amsterdam Gay Pride begins
- Amsterdam Arena built
- 1997 - Henk Sneevlietweg metro station opens
- 1999 - OT301 squat begins
21st century
- 2000 - Euronext founded
- 2001
- Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Heineken Music Hall open
- Job Cohen becomes mayor.[38]
- 2006 - Amsterdam Film eXperience begins
- 2007
- KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival begins
- Diamond Museum Amsterdam opens
- Centrale Bibliotheek moves into new building
- Amsterdam City Archives relocates to De Bazel building
- 2008 - Amsterdam Holendrecht railway station opens
- 2009 - Hermitage Amsterdam opens
- 2010 - Eberhard van der Laan becomes mayor.[38]
- 2012 - Sloterdijk train collision
- 2014 - 2014 Amsterdam drug deaths
See also
- History of Amsterdam
- List of mayors of Amsterdam
- Walls of Amsterdam
- nl:Lijst van straten in Amsterdam (List of streets in Amsterdam, in Dutch)
- nl:Geschiedenis van Amsterdam (History of Amsterdam, in Dutch)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amsterdam", Belgium and Holland (3rd ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1891, OCLC 5624932
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Amsterdam", Handbook for travellers in Holland and Belgium (19th ed.), London: John Murray, 1876, OCLC 221452961
- ↑ Short historical sketch of the English Reformed Church, Bagynhof, Amsterdam. 1907.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Amsterdam", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- ↑ "Waag Society". Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Vanished Amsterdam". Amsterdam Treasures. Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ Ian F. Finlay (July 1953). "The Carillons of Amsterdam". Galpin Society Journal 6.
- ↑ Marco De Waard, ed. (2012). Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9089643672.
- ↑ Angela Vanhaelen (2003), Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754608448
- ↑ "Amsterdam", Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, Thomas Cook and Son, 1874, OCLC 9054680
- ↑ George W. Brandt, ed. (1993). German and Dutch Theatre, 1600-1848. Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521233836.
- ↑ Robert Cohen (1987). ""Memoria Para Os Siglos Futuros": Myth and Memory on the Beginnings of the Amsterdam Sephardi Community". Jewish History 2. JSTOR 20101033.
- ↑ D.O. Wijnands (1983). "Hortus Medicus Amstelodamensis 1682-1710". The Botany of the Commelins. Rotterdam: Balkema. ISBN 9061912628.
- ↑ Angela Vanhaelen (2004). "Local Sites, Foreign Sights: A Sailor's Sketchbook of Human and Animal Curiosities in Early Modern Amsterdam". RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (45). JSTOR 20167631.
- ↑ Jaap van der Tas (1993). "Dilettantism and Academies of Art: the Netherlands Example". In Judith Balfe. Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252020056.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 16.10 "Amsterdam", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 W. Dougill (May 1931). "Amsterdam: Its Town Planning Development". Town Planning Review 14.
- ↑ Francis Coghlan (1863), "Amsterdam", Coghlan's Illustrated Guide to the Rhine (18th ed.), London: Trubner & Co.
- ↑ "History of the Academy". Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ Wessel Krul (November 2009). "Collecting for posterity: Two Dutch art collectors in the nineteenth century and their bequests to the nation". Journal of the History of Collections 21.
- ↑ Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine, London: Adams & Sons, 1895
- ↑ "Civil Unrest". Amsterdam Treasures. Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ C.B. Black (1908). "Amsterdam". Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways (3rd ed.). London: Adam and Charles Black.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 "Movie Theaters in Amsterdam". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ Richard Abel, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. UK: Routledge. ISBN 0415234409.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Marietta Haffner; Marja Elsinga (2009). "Deadlocks and breakthroughs in urban renewal: a network analysis in Amsterdam". Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 24. JSTOR 41107458.
- ↑ "Van Tooneelmuseum naar Theatermuseum" (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Theater Instituut Nederland. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ Paul Groenendijk; Piet Vollaard (2006), Architectural guide to the Netherlands: 1900-2000, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, ISBN 906450573X
- ↑ "International groups & clubs". I amsterdam. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ Peter Beilharz (May 1990). "The Amsterdam Archive". Labour History 58.
- ↑ Helen Searing (1983). "The Dutch Scene: Black and White and Red All over". Art Journal 43. JSTOR 776652.
- ↑ Ian Keown (1973), KLM Guide to Holland's Museums, New York: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, OCLC 4536808
- ↑ De Theaterschool. "Geschiedenis". Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Christine Delhaye (2010), "Towards Cultural Diversity in Amsterdam's Arts", in Liza Nell and Jan Rath, Ethnic Amsterdam: immigrants and urban change in the twentieth century, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 9789089641687
- ↑ "25 jaar Stichting de Regenboog" (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Stichting De Regenboog. Archived from the original on 23 April 2001. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ↑ "Profile: Other Books and so". Umbrella (USA) 1. 1978. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ↑ "Festivities". Amsterdam Treasures. Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 "Mayor of Amsterdam". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.
Further reading
Published in the 18th-19th centuries
- Monsieur de Blainville (1757), "Amsterdam", Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, but especially Italy, Translated by Turnbull, London: John Noon
- Joseph Marshall (1772), "Amsterdam", Travels through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Poland, in the years 1768, 1769, and 1770, London: Printed for J. Almon, OCLC 3354484
- Le Guide d'Amsterdam (in French). Amsterdam: C. Covens. 1802. (Contents)
- "Amsterdam". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Amsterdam", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Amsterdam". Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
- "Some Account of the City of Amsterdam". Saturday Magazine (London) 4. January 1834.
- "Amsterdam", Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (2nd ed.), London: John Murray, 1838, OCLC 2030550
- Francis Coghlan (1847), "Amsterdam", Handbook for European Tourists through Belgium, Holland (2nd ed.), London: H. Hughes
- J. ter Gouw (1879–1893). Geschiedenis van Amsterdam [History of Amsterdam] (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema.
- W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885), "Amsterdam", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "Amsterdam". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
Published in the 20th century
- Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (1903), "Amsterdam", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, &c (4th ed.), Berlin: J.H. Herz, OCLC 36795367
- "Amsterdam". Guide to Holland (5th ed.). London: Ward, Lock and Co. c. 1909.
- "Amsterdam", Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 397759
- Louis Dumont-Wilden (1913). Amsterdam & Harlem. Les villes d'art célèbres (in French). Paris: H. Laurens.
- Esther Singleton (1913), "City of Amsterdam", Great Cities of Europe, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page
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