Timeline of Breda
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Breda, Netherlands.
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.