{{short description|Timeline of the history of the French city Rouen}}

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France. {{Dynamic list}} {{TOC right}}

==Prior to 18th century== {{History of France}} thumb|right|Overview of Rouen, 1572 thumb|right|Map of Rouen, 1657

* 5th century - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created.<ref name=katolsk>{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/france |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 30 November 2015 }}</ref> * 586 - Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) assassinated.<ref name=Larousse>{{cite web |url=http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/ville/Rouen/141609 |title= Rouen |language=fr |work=Encyclopédie Larousse |publisher=Éditions Larousse |access-date=30 December 2015 }}</ref> * 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.{{sfn|Baedeker|1913}} * 911 - Rollo takes power.{{sfn|Baedeker|1913}} * 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1090 - Rouen Riot<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hollister |first1=C. Warren |title=Henry I |date=1 October 2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-14372-0 |pages=70-72 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Henry_I/TRMaCAAAQBAJ |access-date=5 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> * 1150 - Founding charter. * 1200 - Cathedral burns down.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins. * 1204 - Philip II of France in power.<ref name=Larousse /> * 1210 - Rouen Castle built. * 1306 - Jews expelled. * 1318 - Church of St. Ouen construction begins. * 1382 - Harelle revolt. * 1389 - Tour de la Grosse Horloge built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1418 - Siege of Rouen. * 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.<ref name=lippincott1952>{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |date = 1952 |ol=6112221M }}</ref> * 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1432 - Church of Saint-Maclou construction begins (approximate date). * 1449 - Charles VII of France takes power. * 1486 - Puy (society) {{ill|Confrérie de la Conception de Notre Dame|fr}} formed.<ref name="Dixhoorn2008">{{cite book|editor1=Arjan Van Dixhoorn |editor2=Susie Speakman Sutch |title=The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_bfaRJbXyQC|year=2008|publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-16955-5 }}</ref> * 1487 - Printing press in operation.<ref name="Bouchot1890">{{cite book|author= Henri Bouchot |author-link= :fr:Henri Bouchot |editor=H. Grevel |location=London |title=The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time|year=1890|publisher=H. Grevel & Co. |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5ycxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA371 |chapter=Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established }}</ref> * 1499 ** Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen.<ref name=lippincott1952 /> ** Exchequer of Normandy installed.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} * 1508 - Palais de Justice built. * 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici.<ref>{{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:cestladedvctiond00chap/Cest_la_dedvction_du_sumptueux_ordre_plaisantz_spectacles_et_magnifiqves_theatres_dresses_et_exhibes |title = C'est la deduction du sumpteux order plaisantz spectacles et magnifiques theatres dresses |date = 1551 |publisher = Robert Le Hoy |ol = 26205965M |language=fr }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0020 |title=Entry of Henri II, Catherine de' Medici, the Dauphin (the future Francis II) and Mary Queen of Scots into Rouen (Rouen: September-October, 1550 |work=Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books |publisher=British Library |access-date=30 November 2015 }}</ref> * 1562 - Siege of Rouen.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1583 - Codified Norman law published.{{sfn|Caswell|1977}} * 1591 - Siege of Rouen.{{sfn|Baedeker|1913}} * 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established. * 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille. * 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.<ref name=aitopics>{{citation |url=http://aitopics.org/misc/brief-history |title=Brief History (timeline) |work= AI Topics |publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |access-date=30 April 2015 }}</ref> * 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.

==18th-19th centuries== * 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.<ref name=wolfe1915>{{cite book|author1= United States Department of Commerce |author2= Archibald J. Wolfe |title=Commercial Organizations in France |year=1915 |publisher= Government Printing Office |location=USA |chapter= List of Chambers |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3xHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA34 }}</ref> * 1734 - School of surgery founded.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} * 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.<ref name=savantes>{{cite web |url= http://cths.fr/an/liste.php?sc=ss&nom=&dissoute=&ville=Rouen&departement=&region=0&pays=0&description=&annee_creation=&domaine=0&periode=0 |title= Sociétés savantes de France (Rouen) |publisher=Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques |language=fr |location=Paris |access-date=30 December 2015 }}</ref> * 1749 - {{ill|Porte Guillaume-Lion|fr}} built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1758 - Hospital opens. * 1785 - ''{{ill|Le Journal de Normandie|fr|3=Le Journal de Rouen}}'' newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Frère|1860|p=116}} * 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.<ref name=Cassini>{{Cassini-Ehess|29752 |Rouen}}</ref> * 1793 - Population: 84,323.<ref name=Cassini /> * 1801 ** Cantons of Rouen 1, {{ill|Canton of Rouen-2|fr|3=Canton de Rouen-2|lt=2}}, {{ill|Canton of Rouen-3|fr|3=Canton de Rouen-3|lt=3}}, 4, 5, and 6 created.<ref name=Cassini /> ** Musée des Beaux-Arts founded. * 1809 - {{ill|Rouen Public Library|fr|3=Bibliothèques de Rouen}} opens.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://rnbi.rouen.fr/fr/page-descriptive/historique |access-date=30 December 2015 |language=fr |title=La grande Histoire des bibliothèques de Rouen |publisher= Ville de Rouen |work=Rouen nouvelles bibliothèques }} (timeline)</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Libraries |volume= 16 |last1= Tedder |first1= Henry Richard |author1-link= Henry Richard Tedder |last2= Brown |first2= James Duff |author2-link= James Duff Brown | pages = 545&ndash;577 |quote= see page 565-France.}}</ref> * 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert. * 1825 - Hôtel de Ville completed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://locations.filmfrance.net/location/rouen-city-hall-town-hall |title=Rouen City Hall|date=27 July 2022 |publisher=Film France|access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref> * 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.<ref name=Museofile>{{cite web |url= http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/museo/index.htm |title= (Rouen) |work={{ill|Muséofile|fr}}: Répertoire des musées français |language=fr |publisher={{ill|Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication|fr}} |access-date=30 December 2015 }}</ref> * 1834 - {{Interlanguage link|Musée départemental des antiquités (Rouen)|fr}} opens.<ref name=Museofile /> * 1836 - Population: 92,083.<ref name=Cassini /> * 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens. * 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating. * 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens. * 1851 - Population: 100,265.<ref name=Cassini /> * 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel ''Madame Bovary'' published (set in Rouen). * 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established.<ref name=Museofile /> * 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens. * 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.<ref name=savantes /> * 1870 - Prussian occupation.<ref name=lippincott1952 />{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1871 - Rouen Business School established. * 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.{{sfn|Baedeker|1913}} * 1876 - Population: 104,902.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1882 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= France |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590428 |last1=Hunter |first1=Brian |last2=Paxton |first2=John |last3=Steinberg |first3=S. H. |last4=Epstein |first4=Mortimer |last5=Renwick |first5=Isaac Parker Anderson |last6=Keltie |first6=John Scott |last7=Martin |first7=Frederick }}</ref> * 1877 - Trams begin operating. * 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.<ref name=savantes /> * 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens. * 1888 - {{Interlanguage link|Pont Boieldieu|fr}} (bridge) constructed. * 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.<ref name=savantes /> * 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series. * 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.

==20th century== [[File:Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Q3286.jpg|thumb|right|Members of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps outside their Nissen hut billets in Rouen, on 18 June 1918]] thumb|right|Rouen Cathedral, June 1944 * 1906 - Population: 118,459.<ref name=Cassini /> * 1911 ** Norman Museum opens.{{sfn|Baedeker|1913}} ** Population: 124,987.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= France: Area and Population: Principal Towns |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book }}</ref> * 1917 - Stadium opens. * 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.<ref>{{citation |work=Le Monde |language=fr |title=Rouen: douze sites Seveso… et toujours vulnérable |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/02/04/rouen-douze-sites-seveso-et-toujours-vulnerable_1826613_3244.html |date=4 February 2013 }}</ref> * 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins. * 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Stalag.htm|title=German Stalag Camps|access-date=13 August 2022}}</ref> * 1944 ** April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets.<ref name=alb>{{cite web|url=https://www.aussenlager-buchenwald.de/details.html?camp=123|title=Rouen|website=aussenlager-buchenwald.de|access-date=13 August 2022|language=de}}</ref> ** 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the {{ill|Semaine rouge (Rouen)|fr}}. ** August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.<ref name=alb/> ** August 15: German occupation ends. * 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens. * 1953 - {{Interlanguage link|Musée Jeanne-d'Arc|fr}} established. * 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt. * 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom.<ref name=twin>{{cite web |url=http://www.rouen.fr/taxonomie/general/mairie/international?page=1 |language=fr |access-date=30 December 2015 |work=Rouen.fr |title=International |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222141621/http://www.rouen.fr/taxonomie/general/mairie/international?page=1 |archive-date=22 December 2015 }}</ref> * 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed. * 1966 ** University of Rouen founded. ** Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany.<ref name=twin /> * 1979 - Church of St Joan of Arc built. * 1982 - Dragons de Rouen ice hockey team formed. * 1984 ** City becomes regional capital of Upper Normandy. ** Restaurant Gill in business.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://restaurant.michelin.fr/restaurants/france/76000-rouen/ |title=Rouen |work=Michelin Restaurants |language=fr |access-date=30 December 2015 |quote= Étoiles }}</ref> * 1985 - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen established. * 1988 - Rouen Nordic Film Festival begins. * 1991 - Rouen Airport opens. * 1992 - Île Lacroix ice rink opens. * 1994 - Métro begins operating. * 1995 - {{Interlanguage link|Yvon Robert (politician)|fr|3=Yvon Robert (homme politique)}} becomes mayor. * 1999 ** Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens. ** Population: 106,592.<ref name=Cassini />

==21st century==

* 2001 ** Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating. ** {{Interlanguage link|Zénith de Rouen|fr}} (concert hall) opens. * 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.<ref name=twin /> * 2007 - Population: 110,276. * 2008 ** Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens.<ref name=Larousse /> ** Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.<ref name=twin /> * 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.<ref name=Larousse /> * 2014 - March: {{Interlanguage link|Rouen municipal election, 2014|fr|3=Élection municipale de 2014 à Rouen}} held. * 2015 - December: {{Interlanguage link|Normandy regional election, 2015|fr|3=Élection régionale de 2015 en Normandie}} held. * 2016 ** Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region). ** Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.

==See also== * History of Rouen * {{Interlanguage link|List of mayors of Rouen|fr|3=Liste des maires de Rouen}} * {{Interlanguage link|List of heritage sites in Rouen|fr|3=Liste des monuments historiques de Rouen}} * History of Normandy region

;other cities in the Normandy region * Timeline of Caen * Timeline of Le Havre

==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ''This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.''

==Bibliography== {{Refbegin}}

===in English=== * {{Citation |publisher = Routledge, Warne, & Routledge |location = London |author = Theodore Alois Buckley |title = Great Cities of the Middle Ages |edition=2nd |date = 1862 |chapter= Rouen |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/greatcitiesofmid00buck#page/211/mode/2up |author-link = Theodore Alois Buckley }} * {{cite book |editor= William Henry Overall |editor-link= William Henry Overall |title= Dictionary of Chronology |url= https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofchro00over |year=1870 |publisher=William Tegg |location=London |chapter= Rouen |hdl= 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949 }} * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Rouen |volume= 23 | pages = 768&ndash;770 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}} * {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter=Rouen | ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910}} |hdl = 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776 |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }} * {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Paris and Environs |date = 1913 |edition=18th |oclc = 255000 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/parisenviro00karl#page/452/mode/2up |chapter=Rouen | ref = {{harvid|Baedeker|1913}} }} (+ [https://archive.org/stream/northernfrancef00karl#page/n95/mode/2up 1889 Northern France ed.] * {{cite book |author1= Jean Caswell |author2 = Ivan Sipkov |title= Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography |year= 1977 |publisher=Library of Congress |location=USA |chapter= Normandy | ref = {{harvid|Caswell|1977}} |hdl = 2027/mdp.39015034753866 |isbn = 9780844402321 }} * {{cite book |editor=Trudy Ring |title=Northern Europe |series= International Dictionary of Historic Places |year=1995 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=978-1-136-63944-9 |chapter=Rouen |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yfPYAQAAQBAJ | ref = {{harvid|Ring|1995}} }}

===in French=== * {{cite book |author=Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac |author-link=:fr:Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac |title=Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire |year=1839 |publisher=Perisse frères |chapter= Rouen |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=F-2Gg2ffyKkC&pg=PA336 | ref = {{harvid|Champagnac|1839}} }} * {{cite book |author= Édouard Frère |title=Manuel du bibliographie normand |language=fr |year=1860 |location=Rouen |volume=2 |chapter=Journaux: Seine-Inf. |page= 116 | ref = {{harvid|Frère|1860|p=116}} |hdl=2027/hvd.32044093616647 |author-link=Édouard Frère }} * {{cite book |author= Arthur Giry |title=Les Établissements de Rouen: études sur l'histoire des institutions municipales |series=Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des hautes études... Sciences philologiques et historiques; 55., 59. Fasc. |language=fr |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001669659 |year=1883 |location=Paris |publisher=F. Vieweg |author-link=Arthur Giry }} * {{cite book |title=Rouen |language =fr |series = Guides Joanne |year =1901 |publisher =[Lib.] Hachette [et cie.,] |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100491195 }} * {{cite book |title=Ville de Rouen, bibliothèque publique: cadre de classement du fonds de Normandie |language=fr |year=1901 |publisher=A. Lestringant |chapter= Rouen |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WvLla1ac-wMC&pg=PR32 }} (subject categories)

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