Timeline of Leiden
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leiden, Netherlands.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 1323 - School active (approximate date).
- 1377 - Hooglandse Kerk (church) construction begins.
- 1390
- Public clock installed (approximate date).[1]
- Pieterskerk (church) construction begins.
- 1483 - Printing press in operation.[2]
- 1520 - Roman ruin Brittenburg discovered near Leiden.[3]
- 1566 - August: Iconoclasm by Protestants.[4]
- 1572 - Protestant sermonizing begins at the Vrouwekerk.[4]
- 1573 - Siege of Leiden by Spanish forces begins.[3]
- 1574 - 3 October: Siege of Leiden ends.[5]
- 1575 - Leiden University founded.[6]
- 1577 - Flemish textile manufacturers move to Leiden.[7]
- 1578 - Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland (water management building) in use.
- 1580s - "Immigration of Flemings, Walloons, and Brabanters" to Leiden.[7]
- 1580 - Printer Elsevier in business.[8]
- 1581 - Academy Building, Leiden in use.
- 1587 - Leiden University Library in use.[9]
- 1590 - Hortus Botanicus Leiden (garden) founded.[10]
- 1594 - Turkish tulips planted in the Hortus Botanicus.[11]
- 1598 - Leiden Town Hall built.[12]
- 1600 - Latin School, Leiden built.[3]
- 1606 - 15 July: Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
- 1612 - Stads Timmerhuis built.[3]
- 1622 - Population: 44,745.[4]
- 1630s - Fijnschilders (artists) active.[13]
- 1641 - Laecken-Halle (cloth hall) built.[14]
- 1648 - Leiden Guild of Saint Luke established.[15]
- 1655 - Bibliotheca Thysiana (library) established.[3]
- 1658 - Weigh House built.[3]
- 1683 - Luchtmans bookseller in business.[16]
- 1723 - Synagogue, Leiden established.[17]
- 1745 - Electricity-storing "Leyden jar" invented.
- 1766 - Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde[3] and Kunst Wordt door Arbeid Verkreegen literary societies formed.[18]
- 1807 - 12 January: Leiden gunpowder explosion.[3]
- 1818 - National Museum of Antiquities established.
- 1820 - National Museum of Natural History founded.
- 1837 - National Museum of Ethnology founded.[19]
- 1838 - Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden (school) active.
- 1848 - E. J. Brill publisher in business.[16]
- 1851 - Sijthoff publisher in business.
- 1860 - Leiden Observatory built.[3]
- 1864 - Training college for Dutch East Indies civil servants established (later the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies).[20]
- 1873 - Remonstrant seminary active.[3]
- 1874 - Municipal Museum of Antiquities established.[19][14]
- 1893 - Gemeentearchief Leiden (city archive) building constructed.
20th century
- 1904 - Leiden Yearbook begins publication.
- 1919 - Population: 61,408.[21]
- 1923 - Jan van Houtbrug (bridge) built.[22]
- 1928 - University Hospital built.
- 1940 - Town Hall rebuilt.
- 1946 - François Henri van Kinschot becomes mayor.
- 1978 - 1978 Tour de France cyling race starts from Leiden.
- 1980
- Cees Goekoop becomes mayor.
- Population: 103,046 municipality.[23]
- 1984 - Leiden Bio Science Park development begins.[24]
21st century
- 2003 - Henri Lenferink becomes mayor.
- 2006 - Leiden University Medical Center built.
- 2012 - Theater Ins Blau built.
- 2013
- Welch Allyn branch office in business.[25]
- Population: 119,800 municipality.[23]
See also
- Leiden history
- History of Leiden
- List of mayors of Leiden
- List of rijksmonuments in Leiden
- Other cities in the Netherlands
- Timeline of Amsterdam
- Timeline of Breda
- Timeline of Eindhoven
- Timeline of Groningen
- Timeline of Haarlem
- Timeline of The Hague
- Timeline of Maastricht
- Timeline of Nijmegen
- Timeline of Rotterdam
- Timeline of 's-Hertogenbosch
- Timeline of Utrecht
References
- ↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
- ↑ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Holland: Leiden". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 Kooi 2000.
- ↑ "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 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.
- 1 2 Lament 1981.
- ↑ Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
- ↑ Elfriede Hulshoff Pol (1975). The First Century of Leiden University Library. Brill.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Netherlands". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved October 2015.
- ↑ "Unmistakably Dutch", New York Times, 30 July 2000
- ↑ Murray 1881.
- ↑ "Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved October 2015.
- 1 2 "Leiden Cloth". Leiden: Museum De Lakenhal. Retrieved October 2015.
- ↑ Maarten Prak (2008). "Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age". In S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak. Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-47107-7.
- 1 2 Cornelis Dirk Andriesse (2008). Dutch Messengers: A History of Science Publishing, 1930-1980. Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2415-4.
- ↑ "Leiden". Four hundred years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved October 2015.
- ↑ Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Retrieved October 2015.
- 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
- ↑ Fasseur 1989.
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ "Bruggen database: Zuid-Holland: Leiden" [Database of Bridges] (in Dutch). Rijswijk: Nederlandse Bruggenstichting. Retrieved October 2015.
- 1 2 "Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region: Municipality Leiden". StatLine. Statistics Netherlands. 2014.
- ↑ Marina Van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp, ed. (2012). Creative Knowledge Cities: Myths, Visions and Realities. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-0-85793-285-3.
- ↑ Welch Allyn Establishes New Regional Headquarters, Operations Center in The Netherlands, Reuters, 6 November 2013
This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Published in the 18th-19th c.
- Thomas Nugent (1749), "Leyden", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Leyden", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- "Leyden". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Leyden". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- B.B. Woodward; William L.R. Cates (1872). "Leyden". Encyclopaedia of Chronology. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
- "Leyden", Guide to the North of France, ... Belgium and Holland, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1876 – via Internet Archive
- "Leiden", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881 (+ 1851 ed.)
- Published in the 20th-21st c.
- "Leyden". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- "Leyden", Belgium and Holland (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 397759 (+ 1881 ed.)
- "Leiden", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Leyden", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Sterling A. Lament (1981). "The Vroedschap of Leiden 1550-1600: The Impact of Tradition and Change on the Governing Elite of a Dutch City". Sixteenth Century Journal 12. JSTOR 2539499.
- C. Fasseur (1989). "Leiden and empire: University and Colonial Office 1825-1925". In Willem Otterspeer. Leiden Oriental Connections: 1850-1940. Brill. pp. 187–203. ISBN 90-04-09022-3.
- Christine Kooi (2000). "Leiden in the Late 16th Century". Liberty and Relligion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11643-5.
in Dutch
- P.J. Blok. Geschiedenis eener Hollandsche stad (in Dutch). Hague: M. Nijhoff. 1910-1918
- Henri Zondervan, ed. (1919), "Leiden", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch) 11 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“ (province and city)
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