Timeline of Leiden

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

Prior to 20th century

• 11th C. - Burcht van Leiden (an old shell keep).
• 1323 - School active (approximate date).
• 1377 - Hooglandse Kerk (church) construction begins.
• 1390
• Public clock installed (approximate date).
• Pieterskerk (church) construction begins.
• 1420 - Leiden#Siege of 1420 Siege of 1420.
• 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.
• Leiden University Library founded.
• 1577 - Flemish textile manufacturers move to Leiden.
• 1578 - Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland (water management building) purchased.
• 1580s - "Immigration of Flemings, Walloons, and Brabanters" to Leiden.
• 1580 - Printer Elsevier in business.
• 1581 - in use.
• 1587 - Hortus Botanicus Leiden (garden) founded.
• 1594
• Leiden anatomical theatre established.
• Turkish tulips planted in the Hortus Botanicus.
• 1598 - built.
• 1600 - built.
• 1606 - 15 July: Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
• 1612 - Stads Timmerhuis built.
• 1622 - Population: 44,745.
• 1630s - Fijnschilders (artists) active.
• 1633 - Leiden Observatory established.
• 1639 - Marekerk (a Protestant church) founded.
• 1640 - Population: 100,000. (estimate)
• 1641 - Laecken-Halle (cloth hall) built.
• 1648 - Leiden Guild of Saint Luke established.
• 1655 - Bibliotheca Thysiana (library) established.
• 1658 - Weigh House built.
• 1683 - bookseller in business.
• 1723 - established.
• 1745 - Electricity-storing "Leyden jar" invented.
• 1766 - Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde and Kunst Wordt door Arbeid Verkreegen literary societies formed.
• 1800 - Population: 30,000. (estimate)
• 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.
• 1838 - Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden (school) active.
• 1842 - Leiden Centraal railway station opened.
• 1848 - E. J. Brill publisher in business.
• 1851 - Sijthoff publisher in business.
• 1860 - Leiden Observatory re-built in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.
• 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 - (city archive) building constructed.

20th century

• 1904
• begins publication.
• Population: 56,044.
• 1919 - Population: 61,408.
• 1923 - (bridge) built.
• 1925 - St. Joseph, Leiden (Roman Catholic parish church) built.
• 1928 - University Hospital built.
• 1931
• Leidse Hout (public urban park) opened.
• Museum Boerhaave established.
• 1940 - Town Hall rebuilt.
• 1946 - becomes mayor.
• 1978 - 1978 Tour de France cycling race starts from Leiden.
• 1980
• becomes mayor.
• Population: 103,046 municipality.
• 1984 - Leiden Bio Science Park development begins.

21st century

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

See also

• Leiden history
• of other municipalities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Breda, Delft, Eindhoven, Groningen, Haarlem, The Hague, 's-Hertogenbosch, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Utrecht

References

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 18th-19th c.

• (+ 1851 ed.)

Published in the 20th-21st c.

• (+ 1881 ed.)

in Dutch

• 1910–1918
• (province and city)

External links

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