Timeline of Rouen
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
Prior to 18th century[edit]
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- 5th century - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created.[1]
- 586 - Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) assassinated.[2]
- 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.[3]
- 911 - Rollo takes power.[3]
- 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.[4]
- 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.[4]
- 1150 - Founding charter.
- 1200 - Cathedral burns down.[4]
- 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins.
- 1204 - Philip II of France in power.[2]
- 1210 - Rouen Castle built.
- 1306 - Jews expelled.
- 1318 - Church of St. Ouen construction begins.
- 1382 - Harelle revolt.
- 1389 - Tour de la Grosse Horloge built.[4]
- 1418 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.[5]
- 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.[4]
- 1432 - Church of Saint-Maclou construction begins (approximate date).
- 1449 - Charles VII of France takes power.
- 1486 - Puy (society) Confrérie de la Conception de Notre Dame formed.[6]
- 1487 - Printing press in operation.[7]
- 1499
- Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen.[5]
- Exchequer of Normandy installed.[citation needed]
- 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
- 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici.[8][9]
- 1562 - Siege of Rouen.[4]
- 1583 - Codified Norman law published.[10]
- 1591 - Siege of Rouen.[3]
- 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
- 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
- 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.[11][1]
- 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.
18th-19th centuries[edit]
- 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.[12]
- 1734 - School of surgery founded.[citation needed]
- 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.[13]
- 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion built.[4]
- 1758 - Hospital opens.
- 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.[15]
- 1793 - Population: 84,323.[15]
- 1801
- Cantons of Rouen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.[15]
- Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
- 1809 - Rouen Public Library opens.[16][17]
- 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
- 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.[18]
- 1834 - Musée départemental des antiquités (Rouen) opens.[18]
- 1836 - Population: 92,083.[15]
- 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
- 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
- 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens.
- 1851 - Population: 100,265.[15]
- 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
- 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established.[18]
- 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens.
- 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.[13]
- 1870 - Prussian occupation.[5][4]
- 1871 - Rouen Business School established.
- 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.[3]
- 1876 - Population: 104,902.[19]
- 1877 - Trams begin operating.
- 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.[13]
- 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.[4]
- 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens.
- 1888 - Pont Boieldieu (bridge) constructed.
- 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.[13]
- 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
- 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.
20th century[edit]
- 1906 - Population: 118,459.[15]
- 1911
- 1917 - Stadium opens.
- 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.[21]
- 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
- 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.[22]
- 1944
- April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets.[23]
- 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the Semaine rouge (Rouen).
- August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.[23]
- August 15: German occupation ends.
- 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
- 1953 - Musée Jeanne-d'Arc established.
- 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
- 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom.[24]
- 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
- 1966
- University of Rouen founded.
- Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany.[24]
- 1979 - Church of St Joan of Arc built.
- 1982 - Dragons de Rouen ice hockey team formed.
- 1984
- City becomes regional capital of Upper Normandy.
- Restaurant Gill in business.[25]
- 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.
- Population: 106,592.[15]
21st century[edit]
- 2001
- Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
- Zénith de Rouen (concert hall) opens.
- 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.[24]
- 2007 - Population: 110,276.
- 2008
- Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens.[2]
- Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.[24]
- 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.[2]
- 2014 - March: Rouen municipal election, 2014 held.
- 2015 - December: Normandy regional election, 2015 held.
- 2016
- Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region).
- Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.
See also[edit]
- other cities in the Normandy region
References[edit]
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Rouen". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Baedeker 1913.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, OL 6112221M
- ^ Arjan Van Dixhoorn; Susie Speakman Sutch, eds. (2008). The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16955-5.
- ^ Henri Bouchot [in French] (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
- ^ C'est la deduction du sumpteux order plaisantz spectacles et magnifiques theatres dresses (in French), Robert Le Hoy, 1551, OL 26205965M
- ^ "Entry of Henri II, Catherine de' Medici, the Dauphin (the future Francis II) and Mary Queen of Scots into Rouen (Rouen: September-October, 1550". Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ Caswell 1977.
- ^ "Brief History (timeline)", AI Topics, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 30 April 2015
- ^ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b c d "Sociétés savantes de France (Rouen)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Frère 1860, p. 116.
- ^ a b c d e f g Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Rouen, EHESS (in French).
- ^ "La grande Histoire des bibliothèques de Rouen". Rouen nouvelles bibliothèques (in French). Ville de Rouen. Retrieved 30 December 2015. (timeline)
- ^ Tedder, Henry Richard; Brown, James Duff (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 545–577.
see page 565-France.
- ^ a b c "(Rouen)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1882). "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590428.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ^ "Rouen: douze sites Seveso… et toujours vulnérable", Le Monde (in French), 4 February 2013
- ^ "German Stalag Camps". Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Rouen". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d "International". Rouen.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "Rouen". Michelin Restaurants (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2015.
Étoiles
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography[edit]
in English[edit]
- Theodore Alois Buckley (1862), "Rouen", Great Cities of the Middle Ages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Rouen". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 768–770.
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Rouen", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776
- "Rouen", Paris and Environs (18th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913, OCLC 255000 (+ 1889 Northern France ed.
- Jean Caswell; Ivan Sipkov (1977). "Normandy". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress. hdl:2027/mdp.39015034753866. ISBN 9780844402321.
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Rouen". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
in French[edit]
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac [in French] (1839). "Rouen". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire. Perisse frères.
- Édouard Frère (1860). "Journaux: Seine-Inf.". Manuel du bibliographie normand (in French). Vol. 2. Rouen. p. 116. hdl:2027/hvd.32044093616647.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Arthur Giry (1883). Les Établissements de Rouen: études sur l'histoire des institutions municipales. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des hautes études... Sciences philologiques et historiques ;55., 59. Fasc. (in French). Paris: F. Vieweg.
- Rouen. Guides Joanne (in French). [Lib.] Hachette [et cie.,]. 1901.
- "Rouen". Ville de Rouen, bibliothèque publique: cadre de classement du fonds de Normandie (in French). A. Lestringant. 1901. (subject categories)
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