Timeline of Bruges

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Bruges, Belgium.

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Prior to 18th century

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18th–19th centuries

  • 1719 - Academy of Art established.[3]
  • 1743 - Lawyer's guild established.[9]
  • 1786 - St. Christopher's Church, Bruges demolished.
  • 1787
    • Bruge Central Cemetery established.
    • Cloth Hall demolished.[3]
  • 1794 - French in power.[4]
  • 1798 - Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (library) opens.
  • 1799 - St. Donatian's Cathedral demolished.[2]
  • 1815 - Bruges becomes part of the Netherlands.[4]
  • 1821 - Fish Market, Bruges built on the Steenhouwersdijk.[1]
  • 1830 - Bruges becomes part of Belgium.[4]
  • 1837 - Journal de Bruges French-language newspaper begins publication.[10]
  • 1838 - Brugge railway station opens.
  • 1839 - Société d'émulation de Bruges founded.
  • 1846 - Statue of Stevin erected on Simon Stevinplein (Brugge).[3]
  • 1855 - Ringvaart, Bruges canal commissioned.
  • 1863 - Population: 50,986.[11]
  • 1887 - Monument to Breydel/de Coninck erected in the Grote Markt.[3]
  • 1891
    • Club Brugge KV football club formed.
    • Post and Telegraph office built on the Grote Markt.[3]
  • 1892 - Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte published.[12]
  • 1899 - Cercle Brugge K.S.V. football club formed.
  • 1900 - Bruges derby football rivalry active.

20th century

21st century

  • 2002 - Concert Hall, Bruges opens on the 't Zand, Bruges.
  • 2008 - Frietmuseum opens in the Saaihalle.
  • 2010 - April: Catholic bishop Vangheluwe resigns.[17]
  • 2013

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 New York Times 1997.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hourihane 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Baedeker 1910.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Chambers 1901.
  5. ↑ (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
  6. 1 2 "Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  7. ↑ (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel. The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
  8. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Belgium". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Arjan Van Dixhoorn; Susie Speakman Sutch, eds. (2008). The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Brill. ISBN 90-04-16955-5.
  10. ↑ "200 jaar kranten in Brugge" [200 years of newspapers in Bruges], Historische Bronnen Brugge (in Dutch), Erfgoedcel Brugge, retrieved 30 October 2015
  11. ↑ "Belgium". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
  12. ↑ Alan Hollinghurst (28 January 2005), "Bruges of sighs", The Guardian
  13. ↑ "Portrait of a Medieval City", New York Times, September 1986
  14. ↑ "Belgium". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  15. ↑ "Movie Theaters in Bruges, Belgium". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Prime ministers' speeches on Europe", BBC News, January 2013
  17. ↑ Belgian bishop resigns over abuse of boy, Reuters, 23 April 2010

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Bibliography

In English

  • Thomas Nugent (1749), "Bruges", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
  • "Bruges". Gazetteer of the Netherlands. Attributed to Clement Cruttwell. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. 1794.
  • Abraham Rees (1819), "Bruges", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
  • David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bruges". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
  • "Bruges", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881
  • The visitors universal handybook and guide to Antwerp, Brussels, Waterloo, Ghent, Bruges, Liège, etc. etc (5th ed.). Antwerp: John De Wit & Joris. 1884.
  • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885), "Bruges", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "Bruges". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
  • Ernest Gilliat-Smith (1909), Bruges, Mediaeval Towns, London: J.M. Dent & Co., OCLC 150311124
  • "Bruges", Belgium and Holland, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1910 + 1881 ed.
  • "Bruges". Handbook to Belgium and the Battlefields (7th ed.). London: Ward, Lock & Co. 1921.
  • de Roover, Raymond. Money, Banking and Credit in Mediaeval Bruges: Italian Merchant-Bankers Lombards and Money-Changers: A Study in The Origins of Banking (Harvard U.P. 1948)
  • "Bruges, the City the Sea Forgot", National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 107, 1955
  • Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Bruges". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
  • "Bruges in the Silent Hours", New York Times, 2 March 1997
  • Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Bruges". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

In other languages

  • Marie-Nicolas Bouillet; L.G. Gourraigne (1914). "Bruges". Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie (in French) (34th ed.). Paris: Hachette.
  • Henri Zondervan, ed. (1915), "Brugge", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), 4 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“
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