Timeline of Rouen
Timeline of the history of the French city Rouen
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Prior to 18th century
- 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 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 built.[4]
- 1758 - Hospital opens.
- 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie newspaper begins publication.[15]
- 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.[16]
- 1793 - Population: 84,323.[16]
- 1801
- Cantons of Rouen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.[16]
- Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
- 1809 - Rouen Public Library 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) 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 (bridge) constructed.
- 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.[14]
- 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
- 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.
20th century
- 1906 - Population: 118,459.[16]
- 1911
- 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).
- 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 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) 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 (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 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
- History of Rouen
- List of mayors of Rouen
- List of heritage sites in Rouen
- History of Normandy region
- other cities in the Normandy region
