Timeline of Bruges

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

Prior to 18th century[]

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• 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 –  [nl] 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 –  [nl] (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1369 –  [nl] (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1390 – Public clock installed (approximate date).^[5]
• 1398 – Tower built on the  [nl].^[3]
• 1399 –  [nl] built on the  [nl].
• 1417 –  [nl] 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 –  [nl] dug.^{[citation needed]}

18th–19th centuries[]

• 1719 – Academy of Art established.^[3]
• 1743 – Lawyer's guild established.^[9]
• 1786 –  [nl] demolished.
• 1787
  •  [nl] established.
  • Cloth Hall demolished.^[3]
• 1794 – French in power.^[4]
• 1798 –  [nl] (library) opens.
• 1799 – St. Donatian's Cathedral demolished.^[2]
• 1815 – Bruges becomes part of the Netherlands.^[4]
• 1821 –  [nl] built on the  [nl].^[1]
• 1830 – Bruges becomes part of Belgium.^[4]
• 1837 – French-language newspaper begins publication.^[10]
• 1838 – Brugge railway station opens.
• 1839 –  [fr] founded.
• 1846 – Statue of Stevin erected on  [nl].^[3]
• 1855 –  [nl] 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 –  [nl] (canal) dug.
• 1907 – Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge opens.^[13]
• 1912 –  [nl] established in the  [nl].
• 1919 – Population: 53,489.^[14]
• 1924 –  [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1928 – Hollywood Cinema opens.^[15]
• 1930 – Groeningemuseum opens on the  [nl].
• 1953 –  [nl] (bridge) built on the  [nl] (Sluis-Bruges).
• 1958 – Procession of the Golden Tree revived.
• 1960 – Musica Antiqua Bruges festival begins.
• 1963 –  [nl] established.
• 1973 – Koninklijk Atheneum Vijverhof (school) established in Sint-Michiels.
• 1975 – Jan Breydel Stadium opens.
• 1977 –  [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1982 –  [nl] of music begins.
• 1983 – De Karmeliet restaurant in business.
• 1984 –  [nl] (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 –  [nl] established on the  [nl].
• 1995 –  [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1998 – Start of annual Tour of Flanders cycling race moves to Bruges.

21st century[]

• 2002 –  [nl] opens on the  [nl].
• 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 [nl]
• List of mayors of Bruges
•  [nl]
• Timelines of other municipalities in Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Liège
• History of urban centers in the Low Countries

References[]

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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