Timeline of Bruges
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Bruges, Belgium.
Prior to 18th century
- 865 Fort built by Margrave Baldwin I of Flanders.
- 1000 Regional Brugse Vrije established.
- 1127 Count Charles I of Flanders assassinated.
- 1134 Storm creates Zwin inlet, connecting Bruges to the North Sea.
- 1146 Eekhout Abbey active.
- 1150 St. John's Hospital founded.
- 1157 Chapel of the Holy Blood built.
- 1180 Damme harbour built near Bruges.
- 1223 St. Salvator's Church rebuilt.
- 1240 Belfry of Bruges built in the Markt.
- 1244 Ten Wijngaerde Béguinage founded.
- 1294 built on the Grote Markt.
- 1297
- * Area of Bruges expanded.
- * Church of Our Lady tower built.
- 1302
- * 18 May: Bruges Matins (massacre) occurs.
- * French-Flemish Battle of the Golden Spurs fought in Kortrijk; Flemish win.
- 1303 Procession of the Holy Blood instituted.
- 1323–1328 The Flemish revolt spread to Bruges.
- 1364 Les Halles built on the Grote Markt.
- 1368 rebuilt.
- 1369 rebuilt.
- 1390 Public clock installed.
- 1398 Tower built on the.
- 1399 built on the.
- 1417 built.
- 1421 Bruges City Hall built.
- 1425 Artist Jan van Eyck active in Bruges.
- 1430 Order of the Golden Fleece founded in Bruges.
- 1434 Grafenburg dismantled.
- 1465 Artist Hans Memling active in Bruges.
- 1468 July: Wedding of Burgundian duke Charles and Margaret of York.
- 1475 Printing press in operation.
- 1488 Political unrest.
- 1489 Memling paints the St. Ursula Shrine in St. John's Hospital.
- 1505 Fuggers move from Bruges to Antwerp.
- 1545 Hanseatic enterprise moves from Bruges to Antwerp.
- 1559 Roman Catholic Diocese of Bruges established.
- 1623 dug.
18th–19th centuries
- 1719 Academy of Art established.
- 1743 Lawyer's guild established.
- 1786 demolished.
- 1787
- * established.
- * Cloth Hall demolished.
- 1794 French in power.
- 1798 opens.
- 1799 St. Donatian's Cathedral demolished.
- 1815 Bruges becomes part of the Netherlands.
- 1821 built on the.
- 1830 Bruges becomes part of Belgium.
- 1837 Journal de Bruges French-language newspaper begins publication.
- 1838 Brugge railway station opens.
- 1839 founded.
- 1846 Statue of Stevin erected on.
- 1855 canal commissioned.
- 1863 Population: 50,986.
- 1887 Monument to Breydel/de Coninck erected in the Grote Markt.
- 1891
- * Club Brugge KV football club formed.
- * Post and Telegraph office built on the Grote Markt.
- 1892 Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte published.
- 1899 Cercle Brugge K.S.V. football club formed.
- 1900 Bruges derby football rivalry active.
20th century
- 1905 dug.
- 1907 Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge opens.
- 1912 established in the.
- 1919 Population: 53,489.
- 1924 becomes mayor.
- 1928 Hollywood Cinema opens.
- 1930 Groeningemuseum opens on the.
- 1953 built on the .
- 1958 Procession of the Golden Tree revived.
- 1960 Musica Antiqua Bruges festival begins.
- 1963 established.
- 1973 Koninklijk Atheneum Vijverhof established in Sint-Michiels.
- 1975 Jan Breydel Stadium opens.
- 1977 becomes mayor.
- 1982 of music begins.
- 1983 De Karmeliet restaurant in business.
- 1984 built.
- 1986 De Werf cultural centre founded.
- 1987 6 March: Ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the port.
- 1988 20 September: British prime minister gives speech in city.
- 1990 established on the.
- 1995 Patrick Moenaert becomes mayor.
- 1998 Start of annual Tour of Flanders cycling race moves to Bruges.
21st century
- 2002 opens on the.
- 2008 Frietmuseum opens in the Saaihalle.
- 2010 April: Catholic bishop Vangheluwe resigns.
- 2013
- * Renaat Landuyt becomes mayor.
- * Population: 117,170.
In English
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- de Roover, Raymond. Money, Banking and Credit in Mediaeval Bruges: Italian Merchant-Bankers Lombards and Money-Changers: A Study in The Origins of Banking