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

• 865 – Fort built by Margrave Baldwin I of Flanders.[1]
• 1000 – Regional Brugse Vrije established (approximate date).
• 1127 – Count Charles I of Flanders assassinated.[2]
• 1134 – Storm creates Zwin inlet, connecting Bruges to the North Sea.[2]
• 1146 – Eekhout Abbey active (approximate date).
• 1150 – St. John's Hospital founded (approximate date).[1]
• 1157 – Chapel of the Holy Blood built (approximate date).
• 1180 – Damme harbour built near Bruges.[2]
• 1223 – St. Salvator's Church rebuilt.[3]
• 1240 – Belfry of Bruges built in the Markt (approximate date).
• 1244 – Ten Wijngaerde Béguinage founded (approximate date).
• 1294 – Waterhalle built on the Grote Markt.
• 1297
  • Area of Bruges expanded.[3]
  • Church of Our Lady tower built.[3]
• 1302
  • 18 May: Bruges Matins (massacre) occurs.
  • French-Flemish Battle of the Golden Spurs fought in Kortrijk; Flemish win.[1]
• 1303 – Procession of the Holy Blood instituted.
• 1364 – Les Halles built on the Grote Markt.[4]
• 1368 – Smedenpoort (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1369 – Ezelpoort (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1390 – Public clock installed (approximate date).[5]
• 1398 – Tower built on the Minnewater.[3]
• 1399 – Saaihalle built on the Old Beursplein.
• 1417 – Poortersloge built (approximate date).
• 1421 – Bruges City Hall built.[3]
• 1425 – Artist Jan van Eyck active in Bruges.[6]
• 1430 – Order of the Golden Fleece founded in Bruges.[1]
• 1434 – Grafenburg (castle) dismantled.[3]
• 1465 – Artist Hans Memling active in Bruges (approximate date).[6]
• 1468 – July: Wedding of Burgundian duke Charles and Margaret of York.
• 1475 – Printing press in operation.[7]
• 1488 – Political unrest.[4]
• 1489 – Memling paints the St. Ursula Shrine in St. John's Hospital.[3]
• 1505 – Fuggers move from Bruges to Antwerp.[3]
• 1545 – Hanseatic enterprise moves from Bruges to Antwerp.[3]
• 1559 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Bruges established.[8]
• 1623 – Ghent-Bruges Canal dug.

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

• 1905 – Boudewijnkanaal (canal) dug.
• 1907 – Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge opens.[13]
• 1912 – Bruges State Archives established in the Poortersloge.
• 1919 – Population: 53,489.[14]
• 1924 – Victor Van Hoestenberghe becomes mayor.
• 1928 – Hollywood Cinema opens.[15]
• 1930 – Groeningemuseum opens on the Dijver.
• 1953 – Dudzelebrug (bridge) built on the N376 (Sluis-Bruges).
• 1958 – Procession of the Golden Tree revived.
• 1960 – Musica Antiqua Bruges festival begins.
• 1963 – Bruges Provincial Library and Archives established.
• 1973 – Koninklijk Atheneum Vijverhof (school) established in Sint-Michiels.
• 1975 – Jan Breydel Stadium opens.
• 1977 – Frank Van Acker becomes mayor.
• 1982 – Cactusfestival of music begins.
• 1983 – De Karmeliet restaurant in business.
• 1984 – Dampoortbruggen, Bruges (bridges) 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.[16]
• 1990 – Brouwerijmuseum Brugge established on the Walplein.
• 1995 – Patrick Moenaert becomes mayor.
• 1998 – Start of annual Tour of Flanders cycling race moves to Bruges.

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
  • Renaat Landuyt becomes mayor.
  • Population: 117,170.

See also

• Bruges history
• History of Bruges
• List of mayors of Bruges
• List of protected heritage sites in Bruges
• Timelines of other municipalities in Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Liège
• History of urban centers in the Low Countries

References

1. New York Times 1997.
2. Hourihane 2012.
3. Baedeker 1910.
4. Chambers 1901.
5. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
6. "Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
7. Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). 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 978-90-04-16955-5.
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.CS1 maint: others (link)
• 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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