Timeline of Leiden
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Leiden, Netherlands.
Prior to 20th century
- 11th C. - Burcht van Leiden.
- 1323 - School active.
- 1377 - Hooglandse Kerk construction begins.
- 1390
- * Public clock installed.
- * Pieterskerk construction begins.
- 1420 - Leiden#Siege of 1420 Siege of 1420.
- 1483 - Printing press in operation.
- 1520 - Roman ruin Brittenburg discovered near Leiden.
- 1566 - August: Iconoclasm by Protestants.
- 1572 - Protestant sermonizing begins at the Vrouwekerk.
- 1573 - Siege of Leiden by Spanish forces begins.
- 1574 - 3 October: Siege of Leiden ends.
- 1575
- * Leiden University founded.
- * Leiden University Library founded.
- 1577 - Flemish textile manufacturers move to Leiden.
- 1578 - Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland purchased.
- 1580s - "Immigration of Flemings, Walloons, and Brabanters" to Leiden.
- 1580 - Printer Elsevier in business.
- 1581 - in use.
- 1587 - Hortus Botanicus Leiden founded.
- 1594
- * Leiden anatomical theatre established.
- * Turkish tulips planted in the Hortus Botanicus.
- 1598 - built.
- 1600 - built.
- 1606 - 15 July: Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
- 1612 - Stads Timmerhuis built.
- 1622 - Population: 44,745.
- 1630s - Fijnschilders active.
- 1633 - Leiden Observatory established.
- 1639 - Marekerk founded.
- 1640 - Population: 100,000.
- 1641 - Laecken-Halle built.
- 1648 - Leiden Guild of Saint Luke established.
- 1655 - Bibliotheca Thysiana established.
- 1658 - Weigh House built.
- 1683 - bookseller in business.
- 1723 - established.
- 1745 - Electricity-storing "Leyden jar" invented.
- 1766 - Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde and Kunst Wordt door Arbeid Verkreegen literary societies formed.
- 1800 - Population: 30,000.
- 1807 - 12 January: Leiden Gunpowder Disaster.
- 1818 - National Museum of Antiquities established.
- 1820 - National Museum of Natural History founded.
- 1837 - National Museum of Ethnology founded.
- 1838 - Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden active.
- 1842 - Leiden Centraal railway station opened.
- 1848 - E. J. Brill publisher in business.
- 1851 - Sijthoff publisher in business.
- 1860 - Leiden Observatory re-built in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.
- 1864 - Training college for Dutch East Indies civil servants established.
- 1873 - Remonstrant seminary active.
- 1874 - Municipal Museum of Antiquities established.
- 1893 - building constructed.
20th century
- 1904
- * begins publication.
- * Population: 56,044.
- 1919 - Population: 61,408.
- 1923 - built.
- 1925 - St. Joseph, Leiden built.
- 1928 - University Hospital built.
- 1931
- * Leidse Hout opened.
- * Museum Boerhaave established.
- 1940 - Town Hall rebuilt.
- 1946 - becomes mayor.
- 1978 - 1978 Tour de France cycling race starts from Leiden.
- 1980
- * becomes mayor.
- * Population: 103,046 municipality.
- 1984 - Leiden Bio Science Park development begins.
21st century
- 2003 - becomes mayor.
- 2006 - Leiden University Medical Center built.
- 2012 - built.
- 2013
- * Welch Allyn branch office in business.
- * Population: 119,800 municipality.
- 2017 - Asian Library opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.
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