Timeline of Bruges explained

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

Prior to 18th century

• 865 Fort built by Margrave Baldwin I of Flanders.
• 1000 Regional Brugse Vrije established (approximate date).
• 1127 Count Charles I of Flanders assassinated.
• 1134 Storm creates Zwin inlet, connecting Bruges to the North Sea.
• 1146 Eekhout Abbey active (approximate date).
• 1150 St. John's Hospital founded (approximate date).
• 1157 Chapel of the Holy Blood built (approximate date).
• 1180 Damme harbour built near Bruges.
• 1223 St. Salvator's Church rebuilt.
• 1240 Belfry of Bruges built in the Markt (approximate date).
• 1244 Ten Wijngaerde Béguinage founded (approximate date).
• 1294 built on the Grote Markt.
• 1297
  • Area of Bruges expanded.
  • Church of Our Lady tower built.
• 1302
  • 18 May: Bruges Matins (massacre) occurs.
  • French-Flemish Battle of the Golden Spurs fought in Kortrijk; Flemish win.
• 1303 Procession of the Holy Blood instituted.
• 1323–1328 The Flemish revolt spread to Bruges.
• 1364 Les Halles built on the Grote Markt.
• 1368 (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1369 (city gate) rebuilt.
• 1390 Public clock installed (approximate date).^[1]
• 1398 Tower built on the .
• 1399 built on the .
• 1417 built (approximate date).
• 1421 Bruges City Hall built.
• 1425 Artist Jan van Eyck active in Bruges.^[2]
• 1430 Order of the Golden Fleece founded in Bruges.
• 1434 Grafenburg (castle) dismantled.
• 1465 Artist Hans Memling active in Bruges (approximate date).
• 1468 July: Wedding of Burgundian duke Charles and Margaret of York.
• 1475 Printing press in operation.^[3]
• 1488 Political unrest.
• 1489 Memling paints the St. Ursula Shrine in St. John's Hospital.
• 1505 Fuggers move from Bruges to Antwerp.
• 1545 Hanseatic enterprise moves from Bruges to Antwerp.
• 1559 Roman Catholic Diocese of Bruges established.^[4]
• 1623 dug.

18th–19th centuries

• 1719 Academy of Art established.
• 1743 Lawyer's guild established.^[5]
• 1786 demolished.
• 1787
  • established.
  • Cloth Hall demolished.
• 1794 French in power.
• 1798 (library) opens.
• 1799 St. Donatian's Cathedral demolished.
• 1815 Bruges becomes part of the Netherlands.
• 1821 built on the .
• 1830 Bruges becomes part of Belgium.
• 1837 Journal de Bruges French-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1838 Brugge railway station opens.
• 1839 founded.
• 1846 Statue of Stevin erected on .
• 1855 canal commissioned.
• 1863 Population: 50,986.^[6]
• 1887 Monument to Breydel/de Coninck erected in the Grote Markt.
• 1891
  • Club Brugge KV football club formed.
  • Post and Telegraph office built on the Grote Markt.
• 1892 Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte published.
• 1899 Cercle Brugge K.S.V. football club formed.
• 1900 Bruges derby football rivalry active.

20th century

• 1905 (canal) dug.
• 1907 Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge opens.
• 1912 established in the .
• 1919 Population: 53,489.^[7]
• 1924 becomes mayor.
• 1928 Hollywood Cinema opens.^[8]
• 1930 Groeningemuseum opens on the .
• 1953 (bridge) built on the (Sluis-Bruges).
• 1958 Procession of the Golden Tree revived.
• 1960 Musica Antiqua Bruges festival begins.
• 1963 established.
• 1973 Koninklijk Atheneum Vijverhof (school) established in Sint-Michiels.
• 1975 Jan Breydel Stadium opens.
• 1977 becomes mayor.
• 1982 of music begins.
• 1983 De Karmeliet restaurant in business.
• 1984 (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.
• 1990 established on the .
• 1995 Patrick Moenaert becomes mayor.
• 1998 Start of annual Tour of Flanders cycling race moves to Bruges.

21st century

• 2002 opens on the .
• 2008 Frietmuseum opens in the Saaihalle.
• 2010 April: Catholic bishop Vangheluwe resigns.
• 2013
  • Renaat Landuyt becomes mayor.
  • Population: 117,170.

See also

• Bruges history
  • List of mayors of Bruges
  • 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

• • Book: Gazetteer of the Netherlands. Attributed to Clement Cruttwell. G.G.J. and J. Robinson. London. 1794. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mv1WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA19. Bruges.
  • Book: William Blackwood . 1830 . Edinburgh . Edinburgh Encyclopædia . David Brewster . Bruges . https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo05edinuoft#page/10/mode/2up . Edinburgh Encyclopædia .
  • Book: The visitors universal handybook and guide to Antwerp, Brussels, Waterloo, Ghent, Bruges, Liège, etc. etc. . John De Wit & Joris . Antwerp . 5th . 1884 .
  • Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia . London . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t81j9pj6k?urlappend=%3Bseq=508 . Bruges . 1901 . . Chambers's Encyclopaedia . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t81j9pj6k?urlappend=%3Bseq=508 .
  • + 1881 ed.
• Book: Handbook to Belgium and the Battlefields . Ward, Lock & Co. . London . 1921 . 7th . Bruges . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b412881?urlappend=%3Bseq=135 . Ward Lock travel guides . 2027/uc1.$b412881?urlappend=%3Bseq=135 .
• 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)
  • Book: Trudy Ring. Northern Europe . International Dictionary of Historic Places. 1995 . Fitzroy Dearborn . 978-1-136-63944-9 . Bruges . https://books.google.com/books?id=yfPYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA115 .
  • Book: Colum Hourihane . Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture . 2012. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-539536-5 . Bruges . https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA442 . .

In other languages

• Book: fr . Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie . Marie-Nicolas Bouillet . L.G. Gourraigne . Hachette . Paris . 1914 . 34th . Bruges . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=321 . Dictionnaire Bouillet . 2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=321 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum .

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   . History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders . 1996. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-15510-4 .
2. Web site: Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events . Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York . 30 October 2015 .
3. Book: Henri Bouchot .

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   . H. Grevel . London . The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. 1890. H. Grevel & Co. . https://books.google.com/books?id=5ycxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 . Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established .
4. Web site: Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Belgium . . Norway . 30 October 2015 .
5. Book: Arjan Van Dixhoorn . Susie Speakman Sutch . The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 2008. Brill . 978-90-04-16955-5 .
6. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1869 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Belgium . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590337?urlappend=%3Bseq=68 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/nyp.33433081590337?urlappend=%3Bseq=68 .
7. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Belgium . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=743 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=743 .
8. Web site: Movie Theaters in Bruges, Belgium . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . 30 October 2015 .