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

18th-19th centuries

• 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.^[12]
• 1734 - School of surgery founded.
• 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.^[13]
• 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion built.^[4]
• 1758 - Hospital opens.
• 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie newspaper begins publication.^[14]
• 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.^[15]
• 1793 - Population: 84,323.^[15]
• 1801
  • Cantons of Rouen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.^[15]
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
• 1809 - Rouen Public Library opens.^[16][17]
• 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
• 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.^[18]
• 1834 - Musée départemental des antiquités (Rouen) opens.^[18]
• 1836 - Population: 92,083.^[15]
• 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
• 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
• 1847 - Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite opens.
• 1851 - Population: 100,265.^[15]
• 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
• 1864 - Musée de la céramique de Rouen established.^[18]
• 1867 - Gare de Rouen Martinville opens.
• 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.^[13]
• 1870 - Prussian occupation.^[5]
• 1871 - Business school established.
• 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.^[3]
• 1876 - Population: 104,902.^[19]
• 1877 - Trams begin operating.
• 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.^[13]
• 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.^[4]
• 1883 - Gare de Rouen Orléans (rail station) opens.
• 1888 - Pont Boieldieu (bridge) constructed.
• 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.^[13]
• 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.^[15]
• 1911
  • Norman Museum opens.^[3]
  • Population: 124,987.^[20]
• 1917 - Stadium opens.
• 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.^[21]
• 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
• 1944
  • 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the Semaine rouge (Rouen).
  • 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.^[22]
• 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
• 1966
  • University of Rouen founded.
  • Rouen twinned with Hanover, Germany.^[22]
• 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.^[23]
• 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.^[15]

21st century

• 2001
  • Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
  • Zénith de Rouen (concert hall) opens.
• 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.^[22]
• 2007 - Population: 110,276.
• 2008
  • Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens.^[2]
  • Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.^[22]
• 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 (French region).

See also

• Rouen history
• List of mayors of Rouen
• List of heritage sites in Rouen
• History of Normandy region

other cities in the Normandy region

• Timeline of Caen
• Timeline of Le Havre

References

1. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved November 2015.
2. "Rouen". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved December 2015.
3. Baedeker 1913.
4. Britannica 1910.
5. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, OL 6112221M
6. Arjan Van Dixhoorn and Susie Speakman Sutch, ed. (2008). The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Brill. ISBN 90-04-16955-5.
7. Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel. The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
8. C'est la deduction du sumpteux order plaisantz spectacles et magnifiques theatres dresses (in French), Robert Le Hoy, 1551
9. "Entry of Henri II, Catherine de' Medici, the Dauphin (the future Francis II) and Mary Queen of Scots into Rouen (Rouen: September-October, 1550". Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Retrieved November 2015.
10. Caswell 1977.
11. "Brief History (timeline)", AI Topics (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), retrieved April 2015
12. United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
13. "Sociétés savantes de France (Rouen)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved December 2015.
14. Frère 1860, p. 116.
15. "Notice communale: Rouen". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved December 2015.
16. "La grande Histoire des bibliothèques de Rouen". Rouen nouvelles bibliothèques (in French). Ville de Rouen. Retrieved December 2015. (timeline)
17. Henry R. Tedder; E.C. Thomas (1882), "Libraries: France", Encyclopaedia Britannica 14 (9th ed.), New York (list of cities)
18. "(Rouen)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved December 2015.
19. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882.
20. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
21. "Rouen: douze sites Seveso… et toujours vulnérable", Le Monde (in French), 4 February 2013
22. "International". Rouen.fr (in French). Retrieved December 2015.
23. "Rouen". Michelin Restaurants (in French). Retrieved December 2015. Étoiles

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.
• "Rouen", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Rouen", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• "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.
• 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 (1839). "Rouen". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire. Perisse frères.
• Édouard Frère (1860). "Journaux: Seine-Inf.". Manuel du bibliographie normand (in French) 2. Rouen. p. 116.
• Arthur Giry (1883). Les Établissements de Rouen: études sur l'histoire des institutions municipales (in French). Paris: F. Vieweg.
• Rouen. Guides Joanne (in French). 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).

Coordinates: 49°26′28″N 1°05′47″E / 49.4412°N 1.0963°E