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

Contents

Prior to 20th century

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

    • 20th century

  • 1904 - Leiden Yearbook begins publication.
  • 1919 - Population: 61,408.
  • 1923 - Jan van Houtbrug (bridge) built.
  • 1928 - University Hospital built.
  • 1940 - Town Hall rebuilt.
  • 1946 - François Henri van Kinschot becomes mayor.
  • 1978 - 1978 Tour de France cycling race starts from Leiden.
  • 1980
  • Cees Goekoop becomes mayor.
  • Population: 103,046 municipality.
  • 1984 - Leiden Bio Science Park development begins.

    • 21st century

  • 2003 - Henri Lenferink becomes mayor.
  • 2006 - Leiden University Medical Center built.
  • 2012 - Theater Ins Blau built.
  • 2013
  • Welch Allyn branch office in business.
  • Population: 119,800 municipality.

    • References

    Timeline of Leiden Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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