Timeline of Rouen

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

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Prior to 18th century

Overview of Rouen, 1572

Map of Rouen, 1657

• 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]
• 1090 - Rouen Riot ^[5]
• 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. ^[6]
• 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  [ fr ] formed. ^[7]
• 1487 - Printing press in operation. ^[8]
• 1499
  • Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen. ^[6]
  • Exchequer of Normandy installed.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
• 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici. ^{[9] [10]}
• 1562 - Siege of Rouen. ^[4]
• 1583 - Codified Norman law published. ^[11]
• 1591 - Siege of Rouen. ^[3]
• 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
• 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
• 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented. ^[12]
• 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.

18th-19th centuries

• 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created. ^[13]
• 1734 - School of surgery founded.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded. ^[14]
• 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion  [ fr ] built. ^[4]
• 1758 - Hospital opens.
• 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie  [ fr ] newspaper begins publication. ^[15]
• 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté. ^[16]
• 1793 - Population: 84,323. ^[16]
• 1801
  • Cantons of Rouen 1  [ fr ], 2  [ fr ], 3  [ fr ], 4, 5, and 6 created. ^[16]
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
• 1809 - Rouen Public Library  [ fr ] opens. ^{[17] [18]}
• 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
• 1825 - Hôtel de Ville completed. ^[19]
• 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded. ^[20]
• 1834 - Musée départemental des antiquités (Rouen)  [ fr ] opens. ^[20]
• 1836 - Population: 92,083. ^[16]
• 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
• 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
• 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens.
• 1851 - Population: 100,265. ^[16]
• 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
• 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established. ^[20]
• 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens.
• 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded. ^[14]
• 1870 - Prussian occupation. ^{[6] [4]}
• 1871 - Rouen Business School established.
• 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt. ^[3]
• 1876 - Population: 104,902. ^[21]
• 1877 - Trams begin operating.
• 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded. ^[14]
• 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built. ^[4]
• 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens.
• 1888 - Pont Boieldieu  [ fr ] (bridge) constructed.
• 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed. ^[14]
• 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
• 1899 - FC Rouen sport club 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: 118,459. ^[16]
• 1911
  • Norman Museum opens. ^[3]
  • Population: 124,987. ^[22]
• 1917 - Stadium opens.
• 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly. ^[23]
• 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
• 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans. ^[24]
• 1944
  • April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets. ^[25]
  • 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the Semaine rouge (Rouen)  [ fr ].
  • August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. ^[25]
  • August 15: German occupation ends.
• 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
• 1953 - Musée Jeanne-d'Arc  [ fr ] established.
• 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
• 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom. ^[26]
• 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
• 1966
  • University of Rouen founded.
  • Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany. ^[26]
• 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. ^[27]
• 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)  [ fr ] becomes mayor.
• 1999
  • Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens.
  • Population: 106,592. ^[16]

21st century

• 2001
  • Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
  • Zénith de Rouen  [ fr ] (concert hall) opens.
• 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy. ^[26]
• 2007 - Population: 110,276.
• 2008
  • Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens. ^[2]
  • Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA. ^[26]
• 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe. ^[2]
• 2014 - March: Rouen municipal election, 2014  [ fr ] held.
• 2015 - December: Normandy regional election, 2015  [ fr ] held.
• 2016
  • Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region).
  • Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.

See also

• History of Rouen
• List of mayors of Rouen  [ fr ]
• List of heritage sites in Rouen  [ fr ]
• History of Normandy region

other cities in the Normandy region

• Timeline of Caen
• Timeline of Le Havre

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4. Britannica 1910.
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11. Caswell 1977.
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16. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Rouen , EHESS (in French).
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This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• 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.
• "Rouen"  . 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

• 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.
• 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)

External links

• Items related to Rouen, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Rouen, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).

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