Timeline of Breda

Prior to 20th century

• 1252 - Breda granted city status.
• 1267 - founded.
• 1321 - Tuesday market begins.
• 1330 - Building of the city wall started.
• 1350 - Breda Castle built.
• 1351 - Polanen Castle besieged.
• 1394 - Polanen Castle demolished.
• 1410 - Grote Kerk (Breda) begun.
• 1534 - Fortification of the city began.
• 1536 - "Poor relief" established.
• 1547 - Grote Kerk finished.
• 1566 - Iconoclasm by Protestants.
• 1575 - Spanish-Dutch held in city.
• 1581 - Capture of Breda by Spanish troops.
• 1590 - 4 March: Capture of Breda (1590) by Maurice, Prince of Orange and Dutch-English forces.
• 1624 - 28 August: Siege of Breda begins.
• 1625 - 5 June: Siege of Breda ends; Spanish in power.
• 1637
• * 21 July: Siege of Breda by Dutch forces begins.
• * 10 October: Siege of Breda ends; Breda taken by Dutch forces of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.
• * Grote Kerk becomes Protestant.
• 1648 - Breda becomes part of Holland per Treaty of Westphalia.
• 1650 - 1 May: English-Scottish treaty signed in Breda.
• 1660 - April: Charles II of England proclaims the Declaration of Breda while passing through town.
• 1667 - 31 July: Anglo-Dutch treaty signed in Breda.
• 1696 - Breda Castle built by William, prince of Orange.
• 1746/48 - British-French bilateral negotiations at the Congress of Breda.
• 1768 - remodeled.
• 1793 - Siege of Breda; French in power.
• 1813 - Siege of Breda; French military ousted.
• 1817 - adopted.
• 1828 - Royal Military Academy established.
• 1837 - St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral built.
• 1845 - Synagogue built on Schoolstraat.
• 1853 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda established.
• 1855 - Breda railway station opens.
• 1863 - Breda–Eindhoven railway begins operating.
• 1870 - City directory begins publication.
• 1883 - tram begins operating.
• 1886 - and Koepelgevangenis built.
• 1890 - begins operating.
• 1893 - in operation.
• 1894 - Population: 24,397.
• 1900 - Population: 26,296.

20th century

• 1901 - Tram Breda-Mastbosch begins operating.
• 1907 - becomes mayor.
• 1912 - NAC Breda football club founded.
• 1919
• * Population: 30,044.
• * becomes mayor.
• 1920 - Gemeentetram Breda begins operating.
• 1921 - NAC Breda wins its first Dutch football championship.
• 1940 - German occupation during World War II begins.
• 1942 - Ginneken and Princenhage become part of Breda.
• 1944
• * City liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division of General Stanisław Maczek.
• * De Stem newspaper begins publication.
• 1952 - design adopted.
• 1953 - built.
• 1955 - Mirabelle (Breda restaurant) in business.
• 1963 - established in Princenhage.
• 1966 - Breda University of Applied Sciences established
• 1975 - Breda railway station rebuilt.
• 1981 - established.
• 1990 - Ed Nijpels becomes mayor.
• 1991 - Sister city partnership signed between Breda and Wrocław, Poland.
• 1995 - built.
• 1996
• * Rat Verlegh Stadion opened.
• * becomes mayor.
• 1998 - BN DeStem newspaper in publication.
• 2000 - Population: 160,650.

21st century

• 2001
• * City joins regional BrabantStad group.
• * Moooi in business.
• 2004 - becomes mayor.
• 2007 - Redhead Day begins.
• 2014 - Population: 179,665.
• 2015 - becomes mayor.