Timeline of Breda
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Breda, Netherlands.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 1252 - Breda granted city status.[1]
- 1267 - Begijnhof (Breda) founded.
- 1321 - Tuesday market begins.[1]
- 1330 - Building of the city wall started.
- 1350 - Castle built.[2]
- 1534 - Fortification of the city began.[2]
- 1536 - "Poor relief" established.[3]
- 1566 - Iconoclasm by Protestants.[1]
- 1575 - Spanish-Dutch Breda peace conference held in city.[2]
- 1581 - Spanish in power.[2]
- 1590 - 4 March: Capture of Breda (1590) by Dutch-English forces.[4]
- 1624 - 28 August: Siege of Breda begins.
- 1625 - 5 June: Siege of Breda ends; Spanish in power.[4]
- 1637
- 10 October: Breda taken by Dutch forces of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.[5]
- Grote Kerk (church) becomes Protestant.
- 1648 - Breda becomes part of Holland per Treaty of Westphalia.[2]
- 1650 - 1 May: English-Scottish treaty signed in Breda.
- 1660 - April: Charles II of England issues a proclamation while passing through town.[6]
- 1667 - 31 July: Anglo-Dutch treaty signed in Breda.[5]
- 1696 - Castle built.[2]
- 1746 - British-French peace talks begin in Breda.[2]
- 1768 - Breda Town Hall remodeled.[1]
- 1793 - French in power.[6]
- 1813 - French military ousted.[6]
- 1817 - Breda coat of arms adopted.
- 1828 - Royal Military Academy established.[2]
- 1845 - Synagogue built on Schoolstraat.[7]
- 1853 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda established.[8]
- 1855 - Breda railway station opens.
- 1863 - Breda–Eindhoven railway begins operating.[9]
- 1870 - City directory begins publication.[10]
- 1883 - Ginnekensche Tramweg Maatschappij tram begins operating.[11]
- 1886 - Breda courthouse and Koepelgevangenis (prison) built.
- 1890 - Breda-Oudenbosch tram line begins operating.
- 1893 - Breda Haagpoort-Breda SS tram line in operation.
- 1894 - Population: 24,397.[12]
20th century
- 1901 - Tram Breda-Mastbosch begins operating.[11]
- 1907 - Eppo Paul van Lanschot becomes mayor.
- 1919
- Population: 30,044.[13]
- Willem van Sonsbeeck becomes mayor.
- 1920 - Gemeentetram Breda (tram) begins operating.[11]
- 1942 - Ginneken and Princenhage become part of Breda.[1]
- 1944 - De Stem newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1952 - Breda flag design adopted.[1]
- 1953 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Breda built.[15]
- 1955 - Mirabelle (Breda restaurant) in business.
- 1963 - Polish cemetery in Breda established in Princenhage.
- 1975 - Breda railway station rebuilt.
- 1981 - Generaal Maczek Museum established.
- 1990 - Ed Nijpels becomes mayor.
- 1995 - Chassé Theater built.[15]
- 1996 - Chris Rutten becomes mayor.
- 1998 - BN DeStem newspaper in publication.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 160,650.[16]
- 2001
- City joins regional BrabantStad group.
- Moooi in business.
- 2004 - Peter van der Velden becomes mayor.
- 2007 - Redhead Day begins.
- 2014 - Population: 179,665.[16]
- 2015 - Paul Depla becomes mayor.
See also
- Breda history
- History of Breda
- List of mayors of Breda
- List of rijksmonuments in Breda
- Other cities in the Netherlands
- Timeline of Amsterdam
- Timeline of Delft
- Timeline of Eindhoven
- Timeline of Groningen
- Timeline of Haarlem
- Timeline of The Hague
- Timeline of Leiden
- Timeline of Maastricht
- Timeline of Nijmegen
- Timeline of Rotterdam
- Timeline of 's-Hertogenbosch
- Timeline of Utrecht
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Historie". Breda.nl (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham, eds. (1997). Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-80860-1.
- 1 2 "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- 1 2 Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
- 1 2 3 Haydn 1910.
- ↑ "Breda". Four Hundred Years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Netherlands". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ W. J. M. Leideritz (1978). De tramwegen van Noord-Brabant (in Dutch). Brill. ISBN 90-04-05706-4.
- ↑ "Collecties". Stadsarchief Breda (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 J.W. Sluiter (1967). Beknopt overzicht van de nederlandse sppor en tramwegbedrijven [Brief overview of Dutch railway and tramway companies] (in Dutch). Brill.
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1896.
- ↑ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Jan van de Plasse (2005). Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers (in Dutch). Otto Cramwinckel. ISBN 978-90-75727-77-7. (timeline)
- 1 2 Hans van Dijk (1999). Twentieth-century Architecture in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. ISBN 978-90-6450-347-4.
- 1 2 "Feiten en Cijfers". Breda.nl (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- in English
- Thomas Nugent (1749), "Breda", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Breda", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- "Breda". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Breda". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- "Breda", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881
- "Breda". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- "Breda", Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways (3rd ed.), London: A. and C. Black, 1908
- "Breda", Belgium and Holland (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910
- "Breda", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Breda", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- in Dutch
- Thomas Ernst van Goor (1744), Beschryving der stadt en lande van Breda (in Dutch), Hague: Jacobus van den Kieboom, OCLC 19063210 – via Internet Archive
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1840). "Breda". Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden [Geographical dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). 2. Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn – via HathiTrust.
- Henri Zondervan, eds. (1915), "Breda", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), 4 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“
- G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978). "Noord-Brabant: Breda". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill. pp. 279+. ISBN 90-04-05700-5.
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