Timeline of Rouen
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
Prior to 18th century
- 5th century - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created.
- 586 - Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) assassinated.
- 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.
- 911 - Rollo takes power.
- 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.
- 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.
- 1090 - Rouen Riot
- 1150 - Founding charter.
- 1200 - Cathedral burns down.
- 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins.
- 1204 - Philip II of France in power.
- 1210 - Rouen Castle built.
- 1306 - Jews expelled.
- 1318 - Church of St. Ouen construction begins.
- 1382 - Harelle revolt.
- 1389 - Tour de la Grosse Horloge built.
- 1418 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.
- 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.
- 1432 - Church of Saint-Maclou construction begins.
- 1449 - Charles VII of France takes power.
- 1486 - Puy (society) formed.
- 1487 - Printing press in operation.
- 1499
- * Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen.
- * Exchequer of Normandy installed.
- 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
- 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici.
- 1562 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1583 - Codified Norman law published.
- 1591 - Siege of Rouen.
- 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
- 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
- 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.
- 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.
18th-19th centuries
- 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.
- 1734 - School of surgery founded.
- 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.
- 1749 - built.
- 1758 - Hospital opens.
- 1785 - newspaper begins publication.
- 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.
- 1793 - Population: 84,323.
- 1801
- * Cantons of Rouen 1,,, 4, 5, and 6 created.
- * Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
- 1809 - opens.
- 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
- 1825 - Hôtel de Ville completed.
- 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.
- 1834 - opens.
- 1836 - Population: 92,083.
- 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
- 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
- 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens.
- 1851 - Population: 100,265.
- 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published.
- 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established.
- 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens.
- 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.
- 1870 - Prussian occupation.
- 1871 - Rouen Business School established.
- 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.
- 1876 - Population: 104,902.
- 1877 - Trams begin operating.
- 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.
- 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.
- 1883 - Rouen Orléans station opens.
- 1888 - constructed.
- 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.
- 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
- 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.
20th century
- 1906 - Population: 118,459.
- 1911
- * Norman Museum opens.
- * Population: 124,987.
- 1917 - Stadium opens.
- 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.
- 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
- 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
- 1944
- * April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets.
- * 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the.
- * August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
- * August 15: German occupation ends.
- 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
- 1953 - established.
- 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
- 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom.
- 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
- 1966
- * University of Rouen founded.
- * Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany.
- 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.
- 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 - becomes mayor.
- 1999
- * Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens.
- * Population: 106,592.
21st century
- 2001
- * Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
- * opens.
- 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.
- 2007 - Population: 110,276.
- 2008
- * Pont Gustave-Flaubert opens.
- * Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.
- 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.
- 2014 - March: held.
- 2015 - December: held.
- 2016
- * Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region).
- * Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.
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