Timeline of Rouen
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
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Prior to 19th century
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Overview of Rouen, 1572
Map of Rouen, 1657
- 744 AD - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created (approximate date).
- 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.[1]
- 911 - Rollo takes power.[1]
- 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.[2]
- 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.[2]
- 1150 - Founding charter.
- 1200 - Cathedral burns down.[2]
- 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins.
- 1204 - Philip II of France takes power.
- 1210 - Rouen Castle built.
- 1306 - Jews expelled.
- 1318 - Church of St. Ouen construction begins.
- 1382 - Harelle revolt.
- 1389 - Tour de la Grosse Horloge built.[2]
- 1418 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.
- 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.[2]
- 1432 - Church of Saint-Maclou construction begins (approximate date).
- 1449 - Charles VII of France takes power.
- 1482 - Printing press established (approximate date).
- 1499 - Exchequer of Normandy installed.
- 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
- 1562 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1591 - Siege of Rouen.[1]
- 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
- 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
- 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.[3]
- 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.
- 1703 - Norman Chamber of Commerce created.
- 1734 - School of surgery founded.
- 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion built.[2]
- 1758 - Hospital opens.
- 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie newspaper begins publication.
19th century
- 1801 - Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
- 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.
- 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
- 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
- 1847 - Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite opens.
- 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
- 1867 - Gare de Rouen Martinville opens.
- 1870 - Prussian occupation.
- 1871 - Business school established.
- 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.[1]
- 1877 - Trams begin operating.
- 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.[2]
- 1883 - Gare de Rouen Orléans opens.
- 1888 - Pont Boieldieu constructed.
- 1889 - Population: 107,000.[4]
- 1899 - FC Rouen formed.
20th century
Members of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps outside their Nissen hut billets in Rouen, on 18 June 1918
Rouen Cathedral, June 1944
- 1906 - Population: 111,402.[2]
- 1911 - Norman Museum opens.[1]
- 1917 - Stadium opens.
- 1940 - June 9 - German occupation begins.
- 1944
- Battle of Normandy.
- August 15 - German occupation ends.
- 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
- 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
- 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
- 1966 - University of Rouen founded.
- 1979 - Church of St Joan of Arc built.
- 1982 - Dragons de Rouen ice hockey team formed.
- 1984 - City becomes regional capital of Upper Normandy.
- 1985 - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen established.
- 1988 - Rouen Nordic Film Festival begins.
- 1991 - Rouen Airport opens.
- 1992 - Île Lacroix ice rink opens.
- 1994 - Métro begins operating.
- 1995 - Yvon Robert (politician) becomes mayor.
- 1999 - Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens.
21st century
- 2001 - Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
- 2007 - Population: 110,276.
- 2008 - Pont Gustave-Flaubert opens.
- 2010 - City designated seat of Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.
See also
- History of Rouen
- List of heritage sites in Rouen (in French)
- Other cities in France
- Timeline of Bordeaux
- Timeline of Lille
- Timeline of Lyon
- Timeline of Marseille
- Timeline of Montpellier
- Timeline of Nantes
- Timeline of Nice
- Timeline of Paris
- Timeline of Strasbourg
- Timeline of Toulouse
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Rouen", Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris (18th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913, OCLC 255000
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Rouen", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ "Brief History (timeline)", AI Topics (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), retrieved April 2015
- ↑ "Rouen", Northern France, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889
Further reading
- Theodore Alois Buckley (1862), "Rouen", Great Cities of the Middle Ages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
External links
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- Europeana. Items related to Rouen, various dates
Coordinates: 49°26′28″N 1°05′47″E / 49.4412°N 1.0963°E
