Timeline of Utrecht
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Prior to 18th century
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- ~50 CE - Roman fortress built on what is now the Dom square as part of the Limes Germanicus. Named traiectum to signify it was at a crossing of what was at that time the main branch of the Rhine (now the Oude Gracht)
- ~200 CE - Wooden fortress walls upgraded to imported tuff stone. Parts of these wall survive to date
- ~270 CE - Limes Germanicus including the fortress at Trajectum abandoned due to continued invasions.
- 636 - Chapel built by Dagobert I within the walls of the abandoned Roman fortress.[1]
- 695 - Catholic diocese of Utrecht established.[2]
- 720 - St. Martin's church founded by Willibrord (approximate date).[1]
- 918 - Balderic becomes bishop.[1]
- 1122
- 22 June: Town privileges confirmed by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.[1]
- Oudegracht (canal) construction begins.
- 1145 - Smeetoren (tower) built (approximate date).
- 1267 - St. Martin's Cathedral built.[1]
- 1279 - Buurkerk (church) rebuilding begins.
- 1370 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[3]
- 1382 - St. Martin's Cathedral tower built.[4]
- 1393 - Nieuwegracht (Utrecht) (moat) constructed.
- 1432 - Kleine Vleeshal built.
- 1440
- Guildhall St. Eloy's Hospice in use.
- Illuminated manuscript Hours of Catherine of Cleves created in Utrecht (approximate date).[5]
- 1455 - 13 September: David of Burgundy becomes bishop of Utrecht.[6]
- 1471 - Printing press in operation (approximate date).[7]
- 1517 - Paushuize (residence) built.[1]
- 1528 - Lordship of Utrecht established.
- 1532 - Vredenburg (castle) built.
- 1550 - St. Catherine Cathedral built (approximate date).[1]
- 1577 - Demolition of Vredenburg castle begins.
- 1579 - 23 January: Treaty unifying northern provinces of the Netherlands signed in Utrecht.[1]
- 1584 - Catholic property secularized.[8]
- 1586 - Calvinists in power.[8]
- 1620s - Utrecht Caravaggisti artists active.[9]
- 1636 - Utrecht University[4] and its library established.[10]
- 1637 - Grote Vleeshuis built.[1]
- 1644 - Schilders-Collegie founded.[11]
- 1672-3 - Occupation by French forces.[8][12]
- 1674 - 1 August: 1674 Netherlands storm. Major damage to several landmark building, most notably the collapse of the nave of the Dom church.[8]
18th-19th centuries
- 1713 - International peace treaty signed in Utrecht.[1]
- 1773 - Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences founded.[13]
- 1787 - 9 May: Prussians in power.[14]
- 1795 - 18 January: Utrecht "acquired by the French."[14]
- 1807 - Genootschap Kunstliefde (art society) formed.
- 1808 - Jewish cemetery, Utrecht established.[15]
- 1813 - Jan van den Velden becomes mayor.
- 1816 - Utrechtsch Studenten Corps (student society) founded.
- 1823
- Abstede, Catharijne, Lauwerecht, and Tolsteeg become part of city.
- Oorsprongpark (Utrecht) opens.
- 1830 - Utrecht City Hall built.[4]
- 1838 - City Museum of Antiquities opens.
- 1843 - Utrecht Centraal railway station opens.
- 1853 - Sonnenborgh Observatory established.
- 1866 - Population: 58,607 in city; 172,487 in province.[16]
- 1872 - Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum opens.[17]
- 1873 - Museum Kunstliefde established.[17]
- 1879 - Regional Utrecht State Archives established.[18]
- 1884
- Utrechtsch Museum van Kunstnijverheid (applied arts museum) opens.
- Population: 74,364.[19]
- 1892 - Public library established.[10]
- 1893 - Utrechts Nieuwsblad (newspaper) begins publication.
- 1894 - Utrecht City Orchestra founded.
- 1898 - Wilhelminapark (Utrecht) opens.
20th century
- 1902 - Aartsbisschoppelijk Paleis van Utrecht built.
- 1906 - Gemeentetram Utrecht (electric tram) begins operating.
- 1908 - Bioscoop Vreeburg (cinema) opens.
- 1913 - Rembrandt Bioscoop-Theater (cinema) opens.[20]
- 1914 - Old Catholic St. Gertrude's Cathedral built.
- 1916 - Nationale Bankvereeniging (bank) established.[21]
- 1919 - Population: 138,334.[22]
- 1921 - Centraal Museum established.
- 1924 - Rietveld Schröder House built in the De Stijl design mode.
- 1927 - Louis Hartlooper Complex construction begins (approximate date).
- 1940 - Population: 165,029.
- 1950 - Population: 193,190.
- 1954 - Oudenrijn (section) and Zuilen become part of city.
- 1960 - Population: 254,186.
- 1961 - Neudeflat built.
- 1967 - 12 June: 1967 Utrecht explosion in Lage Weide.
- 1968 - Sarasani cannabis coffee shop in business.
- 1970 - Football Club Utrecht formed.
- 1976 - Westraven hi-rise built.
- 1978 - Springhaver cinema opens.[20]
- 1979 - Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (concert hall) and Museum Catharijneconvent open.
- 1980 - Population: 237,037 municipality.[23]
- 1985 - May: Catholic pope visits Utrecht.
- 1998 - City Utrecht Archive established.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 233,667.
- 2001 - Vleuten-De Meern becomes part of city.
- 2002 - Regio Randstad regional governance group formed.[24]
- 2006 - Dick Bruna House museum opens.[25]
- 2008 - Galghenwert hi-rise built.
- 2011 - Rabobank Bestuurscentrum hi-rise built.
- 2012 - Utrecht befriends the city of Portland, Oregon, USA.[26]
- 2013 - Population: 321,916 municipality.[23]
- 2014
- TivoliVredenburg concert hall opens.
- Jan van Zanen becomes mayor.
- 2015 - July: 2015 Tour de France cycling race starts from Utrecht.
See also
- Utrecht history
- History of Utrecht
- List of mayors of Utrecht
- List of bishops of Utrecht
- List of rijksmonuments in Utrecht (city)
- List of tallest buildings in Utrecht (city)
- History of Utrecht province
- Other cities in the Netherlands
- Timeline of Amsterdam
- Timeline of Breda
- Timeline of Delft
- Timeline of Eindhoven
- Timeline of Groningen
- Timeline of Haarlem
- Timeline of The Hague
- Timeline of Leiden
- Timeline of Maastricht
- Timeline of Nijmegen
- Timeline of Rotterdam
- Timeline of 's-Hertogenbosch
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Netherlands". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
- 1 2 3 William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Utrecht". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- ↑ "Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
- ↑ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Holland: Utrecht". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 3 4 Ring 1995.
- ↑ "Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- 1 2 Paul Schneiders (1998). "Libraries in the Netherlands" (PDF). IFLA Journal. International Federation of Library Associations. 24.
- ↑ Claartje Rasterhoff (2014). "The spatial side of innovation: the local organization of cultural production in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1800". In Karel Davids; Bert De Munck. Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities. Ashgate. pp. 161–188. ISBN 978-1-4724-3989-5.
- ↑ "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- 1 2 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Utrecht", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via HathiTrust
- ↑ "Utrecht". Four hundred years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
- 1 2 "Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken: Kunsten en wetenschappen (Department of Interior: Arts and Sciences)", Staatsalmanak voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 1885 [State Year Book for the Kingdom of the Netherlands] (in Dutch), Utrecht: Broese, 1884
- ↑ "Rijksarchief in de provincie Utrecht", Het Utrechts Archief (in Dutch), retrieved 30 October 2015
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Utrecht, Netherlands". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ "The Netherlands". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 "Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region: Municipality Utrecht". StatLine. Statistics Netherlands. 2014.
- ↑ Randstad Holland, Netherlands. OECD Territorial Reviews. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2007. ISBN 978-92-64-00793-2.
- ↑ Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
- ↑ "Sister Cities". USA: City of Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.
Bibliography
Published in the 18th-19th century
- in English
- Thomas Nugent (1749), "Utrecht", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
- "Utrecht". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London: John Stockdale. 1800. OCLC 79519893.
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Utrecht", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- "Utrecht". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
- "Utrecht", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881 – via HathiTrust (+ 1851 ed.)
- W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885). "Utrecht". Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- in other languages
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1848). "Utrecht". Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden [Geographical dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). 11. Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn – via HathiTrust.
- Volledig adresboek der stad Utrecht ... 1863-1864 [Directory of the City of Utrecht] (in Dutch). J. Van Boekhoven.
- Samuel Muller Fz. (1878). Catalogus van den topographischen atlas der provincie Utrecht (in Dutch). Beijers. (bibliography)
- H. T. Luks (1891). "Utrecht". Belgien und Holland. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German) (5th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt.
Published in the 20th century
- in English
- "Utrecht". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- "Utrecht", Jewish Encyclopedia, 12, New York, 1907
- Charles Bertram Black (1908), "Utrecht", Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways (3rd ed.), London: A. and C. Black (+ 1876 ed.)
- George Wharton Edwards (1909). "Utrecht". Holland of To-day. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company.
- "Utrecht". Belgium and Holland (15th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1910. OCLC 397759. (+ 1881 ed.)
- "Utrecht (city)", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- "Archdiocese of Utrecht", Catholic Encyclopedia, New York, 1913
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Utrecht". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 762+. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- in Dutch
- Henri Zondervan, ed. (1922), "Utrecht", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), 16 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“
- G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978). "Utrecht". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill. ISBN 90-04-05700-5.
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