Timeline of Leiden

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Leiden, Netherlands.

Prior to 20th century[]

1323 - School active (approximate date).
1377 - Hooglandse Kerk (church) construction begins.
1390
- Public clock installed (approximate date).^[1]
- Pieterskerk (church) construction begins.
1483 - Printing press in operation.^[2]
1520 - Roman ruin Brittenburg discovered near Leiden.^[3]
1566 - August: Iconoclasm by Protestants.^[4]
1572 - Protestant sermonizing begins at the Vrouwekerk.^[4]
1573 - Siege of Leiden by Spanish forces begins.^[3]
1574 - 3 October: Siege of Leiden ends.^[5]
1575 - Leiden University founded.^[6]
1577 - Flemish textile manufacturers move to Leiden.^[7]
1578 - Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland (water management building) in use.
1580s - "Immigration of Flemings, Walloons, and Brabanters" to Leiden.^[7]
1580 - Printer Elsevier in business.^[8]
1581 - [nl] in use.
1587 - Leiden University Library in use.^[9]
1590 - Hortus Botanicus Leiden (garden) founded.^[10]
1594 - Turkish tulips planted in the Hortus Botanicus.^[11]
1598 - [nl] built.^[12]
1600 - [nl] built.^[3]
1606 - 15 July: Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
1612 - Stads Timmerhuis built.^[3]
1622 - Population: 44,745.^[4]
1630s - Fijnschilders (artists) active.^[13]
1641 - Laecken-Halle (cloth hall) built.^[14]
1648 - Leiden Guild of Saint Luke established.^[15]
1655 - Bibliotheca Thysiana (library) established.^[3]
1658 - Weigh House built.^[3]
1683 - [nl] bookseller in business.^[16]
1723 - [nl] established.^[17]
1745 - Electricity-storing "Leyden jar" invented.
1766 - Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde^[3] and Kunst Wordt door Arbeid Verkreegen literary societies formed.^[18]
1807 - 12 January: Leiden Gunpowder Disaster.
1818 - National Museum of Antiquities established.
1820 - National Museum of Natural History founded.
1837 - National Museum of Ethnology founded.^[19]
1838 - Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden (school) active.
1848 - E. J. Brill publisher in business.^[16]
1851 - Sijthoff publisher in business.
1860 - Leiden Observatory built.^[3]
1864 - Training college for Dutch East Indies civil servants established (later the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies).^[20]
1873 - Remonstrant seminary active.^[3]
1874 - Municipal Museum of Antiquities established.^[14]^[19]
1893 - [nl] (city archive) building constructed.

20th century[]

1904 - [nl] begins publication.
1919 - Population: 61,408.^[21]
1923 - [nl] (bridge) built.^[22]
1928 - University Hospital built.
1940 - Town Hall rebuilt.^{[citation needed]}
1946 - [nl] becomes mayor.
1978 - 1978 Tour de France cycling race starts from Leiden.
1980
- [nl] becomes mayor.
- Population: 103,046 municipality.^[23]
1984 - Leiden Bio Science Park development begins.^[24]

21st century[]

2003 - [nl] becomes mayor.
2006 - Leiden University Medical Center built.
2012 - [nl] built.
2013
- Welch Allyn branch office in business.^[25]
- Population: 119,800 municipality.^[23]
2017 - Asian Library opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.

References[]

^ [de] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Holland: Leiden". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Britannica 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Kooi 2000.
^ "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Lament 1981.
^ Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
^ Elfriede Hulshoff Pol (1975). The First Century of Leiden University Library. Brill.
^ "Garden Search: Netherlands". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ "Unmistakably Dutch", New York Times, 30 July 2000
^ Murray 1881.
^ "Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Leiden Cloth". Leiden: Museum De Lakenhal. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Maarten Prak (2008). "Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age". In S. R. Epstein; Maarten Prak (eds.). Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-47107-7.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Cornelis Dirk Andriesse (2008). Dutch Messengers: A History of Science Publishing, 1930-1980. Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2415-4.
^ "Leiden". Four hundred years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken: Kunsten en wetenschappen (Department of Interior: Arts and Sciences)", [nl] voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 1885 [State Year Book for the Kingdom of the Netherlands] (in Dutch), Utrecht: [nl], 1884
^ Fasseur 1989.
^ "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
^ "Bruggen database: Zuid-Holland: Leiden" [Database of Bridges] (in Dutch). Rijswijk: Nederlandse Bruggenstichting. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region: Municipality Leiden". StatLine. Statistics Netherlands. 2014.
^ Marina Van Geenhuizen; Peter Nijkamp, eds. (2012). Creative Knowledge Cities: Myths, Visions and Realities. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-0-85793-285-3.
^ Welch Allyn Establishes New Regional Headquarters, Operations Center in The Netherlands, Reuters, 6 November 2013^{[dead link]}

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English[]

Published in the 18th-19th c.

Thomas Nugent (1749), "Leyden", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
Abraham Rees (1819), "Leyden", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
"Leyden". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Leyden". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
B.B. Woodward; William L.R. Cates (1872). "Leyden". Encyclopaedia of Chronology. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
"Leyden", Guide to the North of France, ... Belgium and Holland, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1876 – via Internet Archive
"Leiden", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881 (+ 1851 ed.)

Published in the 20th-21st c.

"Leyden". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
"Leyden", Belgium and Holland (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 397759 (+ 1881 ed.)
"Leiden", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Leyden", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
Sterling A. Lament (1981). "The Vroedschap of Leiden 1550-1600: The Impact of Tradition and Change on the Governing Elite of a Dutch City". Sixteenth Century Journal. 12 (2): 15–42. JSTOR 2539499.
C. Fasseur (1989). "Leiden and empire: University and Colonial Office 1825-1925". In Willem Otterspeer (ed.). Leiden Oriental Connections: 1850-1940. Brill. pp. 187–203. ISBN 90-04-09022-3.
Christine Kooi (2000). "Leiden in the Late 16th Century". Liberty and Relligion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11643-5.

in Dutch[]

P.J. Blok. Geschiedenis eener Hollandsche stad (in Dutch). Hague: M. Nijhoff. 1910-1918
Henri Zondervan, ed. (1919), "Leiden", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), 11 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“ (province and city)

External links[]

Europeana. Items related to Leiden, various dates.
Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Leiden, various dates

[Rossum1996-1] [de] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[proctor1898-2] Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Holland: Leiden". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEKooi2000-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Kooi 2000.

[5] "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[Koopmans2007chronology-6] Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.

[FOOTNOTELament1981-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b Lament 1981.

[Koopmans2007-8] Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.

[Pol-9] Elfriede Hulshoff Pol (1975). The First Century of Leiden University Library. Brill.

[botanic-10] "Garden Search: Netherlands". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[11] "Unmistakably Dutch", New York Times, 30 July 2000

[FOOTNOTEMurray1881-12] Murray 1881.

[heilbrunn09euwl-13] "Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[Lakenhal-14] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Leiden Cloth". Leiden: Museum De Lakenhal. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[Prak2008-15] Maarten Prak (2008). "Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age". In S. R. Epstein; Maarten Prak (eds.). Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-47107-7.

[Andriesse2008-16] Jump up to: ^a ^b Cornelis Dirk Andriesse (2008). Dutch Messengers: A History of Science Publishing, 1930-1980. Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2415-4.

[jewry-17] "Leiden". Four hundred years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[parrott-18] Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

[Staatsalmanak1885-19] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken: Kunsten en wetenschappen (Department of Interior: Arts and Sciences)", [nl] voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 1885 [State Year Book for the Kingdom of the Netherlands] (in Dutch), Utrecht: [nl], 1884

[FOOTNOTEFasseur1989-20] Fasseur 1989.

[21] "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.

[bruggendatabase-22] "Bruggen database: Zuid-Holland: Leiden" [Database of Bridges] (in Dutch). Rijswijk: Nederlandse Bruggenstichting. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[StatLine-23] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region: Municipality Leiden". StatLine. Statistics Netherlands. 2014.

[Geenhuizen2012-24] Marina Van Geenhuizen; Peter Nijkamp, eds. (2012). Creative Knowledge Cities: Myths, Visions and Realities. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-0-85793-285-3.

[25] Welch Allyn Establishes New Regional Headquarters, Operations Center in The Netherlands, Reuters, 6 November 2013^{[dead link]}

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Contents

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20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

in English[]

in Dutch[]

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