Timeline of Rouen

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.

Prior to 18th century



 * 5th century - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created.
 * 586 - Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) assassinated.
 * 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.
 * 911 - Rollo takes power.
 * 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.
 * 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.
 * 1150 - Founding charter.
 * 1200 - Cathedral burns down.
 * 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins.
 * 1204 - Philip II of France in 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.
 * 1418 - Siege of Rouen.
 * 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.
 * 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.
 * 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.
 * 1487 - Printing press in operation.
 * 1499
 * Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen.
 * Exchequer of Normandy installed.
 * 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
 * 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici.
 * 1562 - Siege of Rouen.
 * 1583 - Codified Norman law published.
 * 1591 - Siege of Rouen.
 * 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
 * 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
 * 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.
 * 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.

18th-19th centuries

 * 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.
 * 1734 - School of surgery founded.
 * 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.
 * 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion built.
 * 1758 - Hospital opens.
 * 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie newspaper begins publication.
 * 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.
 * 1793 - Population: 84,323.
 * 1801
 * Cantons of Rouen Canton of Rouen-1, Canton of Rouen-2, Canton of Rouen-3, 4, 5, and 6 created.
 * Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
 * 1809 - Rouen Public Library opens.
 * 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
 * 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.
 * 1834 - opens.
 * 1836 - Population: 92,083.
 * 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
 * 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
 * 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens.
 * 1851 - Population: 100,265.
 * 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
 * 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established.
 * 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens.
 * 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.
 * 1870 - Prussian occupation.
 * 1871 - Rouen Business School established.
 * 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.
 * 1876 - Population: 104,902.
 * 1877 - Trams begin operating.
 * 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.
 * 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.
 * 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens.
 * 1888 - (bridge) constructed.
 * 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.
 * 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
 * 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.

20th century

 * 1906 - Population: 118,459.
 * 1911
 * Norman Museum opens.
 * Population: 124,987.
 * 1917 - Stadium opens.
 * 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.
 * 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
 * 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
 * 1944
 * April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets.
 * 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.
 * August 15: German occupation ends.
 * 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
 * 1953 - established.
 * 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
 * 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom.
 * 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
 * 1966
 * University of Rouen founded.
 * Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany.
 * 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.
 * 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 - becomes mayor.
 * 1999
 * Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens.
 * Population: 106,592.

21st century

 * 2001
 * Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
 * (concert hall) opens.
 * 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.
 * 2007 - Population: 110,276.
 * 2008
 * Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens.
 * Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.
 * 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.
 * 2014 - March: held.
 * 2015 - December: held.
 * 2016
 * Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region).
 * Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.

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