Timeline of Utrecht

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

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Prior to 18th century
Document confirming Utrecht town privileges, 1122
According to tradition Trijn van Leemput initiated demolition of Vredenburg castle in 1577
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Map of Utrecht, around 1714.

18th-19th centuries
  • 1713 - International peace treaty relating to the War of the Spanish Succession signed in Utrecht.[1]
  • 1773 - Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences founded.[13]
  • 1787 - 9 May: Prussians in power.[14]
  • 1795 - 18 January: Utrecht "acquired by the French."[14]
  • 1807 - Genootschap Kunstliefde (art society) formed.
  • 1808 - Jewish cemetery, Utrecht established.[15]
  • 1813 - Jan van den Velden becomes mayor.
  • 1816 - Utrechtsch Studenten Corps (student society) founded.
  • 1823
  • 1830 - Utrecht City Hall built.[4]
  • 1838 - City Museum of Antiquities opens.
  • 1843 - Utrecht Centraal railway station opens.
  • 1853 - Sonnenborgh Observatory established.
  • 1866 - Population: 58,607 in city; 172,487 in province.[16]
  • 1872 - Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum opens.[17]
  • 1873 - Museum Kunstliefde established.[17]
  • 1879 - Regional Utrecht State Archives established.[18]
  • 1884
    • Utrechtsch Museum van Kunstnijverheid (applied arts museum) opens.
    • Population: 74,364.[19]
  • 1892 - Public library established.[10]
  • 1893 - Utrechts Nieuwsblad (newspaper) begins publication.
  • 1894 - Utrecht City Orchestra founded.
  • 1898 - Wilhelminapark (Utrecht) opens.

20th century

21st century

See also

References
  1. Britannica 1910.
  2. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Netherlands". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (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)
  4. William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Utrecht". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
  5. "Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  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.
  7. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Holland: Utrecht". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
  8. Ring 1995.
  9. "Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  10. Paul Schneiders (1998). "Libraries in the Netherlands" (PDF). IFLA Journal. International Federation of Library Associations. 24.
  11. Claartje Rasterhoff (2014). "The spatial side of innovation: the local organization of cultural production in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1800". In Karel Davids; Bert De Munck (eds.). Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities. Ashgate. pp. 161–188. ISBN 978-1-4724-3989-5.
  12. "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  13. Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  14. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Utrecht", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via HathiTrust
  15. "Utrecht". Four hundred years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  16. "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
  17. "Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken: Kunsten en wetenschappen (Department of Interior: Arts and Sciences)", Staatsalmanak voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 1885 [State Year Book for the Kingdom of the Netherlands] (in Dutch), Utrecht: Broese, 1884
  18. "Rijksarchief in de provincie Utrecht", Het Utrechts Archief (in Dutch), retrieved 30 October 2015
  19. "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
  20. "Movie Theaters in Utrecht, Netherlands". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  21. "The Netherlands". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
  22. "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
  23. "Joining the circle: Utrecht removes road to be ringed by water once more". DutchNews.nl. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  24. "Utrecht restores historic canal made into motorway in 1970s". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  25. "Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region: Municipality Utrecht". StatLine. Statistics Netherlands. 2014.
  26. "Leefbaarheidsbudget Participatory Budgeting (Utrecht, Netherlands)". Participedia. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  27. Randstad Holland, Netherlands. OECD Territorial Reviews. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2007. ISBN 978-92-64-00793-2.
  28. Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
  29. "Sister Cities". USA: City of Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  30. "Utrecht eerste gemeente met proef 'regelarme bijstand'", NRC (in Dutch), Amsterdam, 20 February 2017
  31. Dutch build vital new infrastructure: world's biggest bike parking lot, Reuters, 21 August 2017

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 18th-19th century

in English
  • Thomas Nugent (1749), "Utrecht", The Grand Tour, 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt
  • "Utrecht". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London: John Stockdale. 1800. OCLC 79519893.
  • Abraham Rees (1819), "Utrecht", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
  • "Utrecht". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822.
  • "Utrecht", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881 – via HathiTrust (+ 1851 ed.)
  • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885). "Utrecht". Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New York: Harper & Brothers.
in other languages

Published in the 20th century

in English
in Dutch
  • Henri Zondervan, ed. (1922), "Utrecht", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), 16 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“
  • G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978). "Utrecht". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill. ISBN 90-04-05700-5.

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