title: Timeline of Rouen
text: # Timeline of Rouen
  
  The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
  
  ## Prior to 18th century
  
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  Ancient Prehistory   Greek colonies 600 BC – 49 BC Celtic Gaul   until 50 BC Roman Gaul 50 BC – 486 AD :
  
  Middle Ages Francia and the Franks   Merovingians 481–751 Carolingians 751–987 Direct Capetians 987–1328 Valois 1328–1498 :
  
  Early modernAncien Régime
  
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  * 5th century - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen created.
  * 586 - Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) assassinated.
  * 841 - Town besieged by Vikings.
  * 911 - Rollo takes power.
  * 912 - Rouen becomes capital of Duchy of Normandy.
  * 1087 - Death of William the Conqueror at Priory of St Gervase.
  * 1150 - Founding charter.
  * 1200 - Cathedral burns down.
  * 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins.
  * 1204 - Philip II of France in power.
  * 1210 - Rouen Castle built.
  * 1306 - Jews expelled.
  * 1318 - Church of St. Ouen construction begins.
  * 1382 - Harelle revolt.
  * 1389 - Tour de la Grosse Horloge built.
  * 1418 - Siege of Rouen.
  * 1419 - Henry V of England takes power.
  * 1431 - Joan of Arc executed.
  * 1432 - Church of Saint-Maclou construction begins (approximate date).
  * 1449 - Charles VII of France takes power.
  * 1486 - Puy (society) Confrérie de la Conception de Notre Dame [fr] formed.
  * 1487 - Printing press in operation.
  * 1499
     * Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen.
     * Exchequer of Normandy installed.
  * 1508 - Palais de Justice built.
  * 1550 - Entry into Rouen of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici.
  * 1562 - Siege of Rouen.
  * 1583 - Codified Norman law published.
  * 1591 - Siege of Rouen.
  * 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established.
  * 1606 - 6 June: Birth of Pierre Corneille.
  * 1642 - Pascal's calculator invented.
  * 1673 - Rouen manufactory of porcelain in operation.
  
  ## 18th-19th centuries
  
  * 1703 - Chamber of Commerce created.
  * 1734 - School of surgery founded.
  * 1744 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen founded.
  * 1749 - Porte Guillaume-Lion [fr] built.
  * 1758 - Hospital opens.
  * 1785 - Le Journal de Normandie [fr] newspaper begins publication.
  * 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté.
  * 1793 - Population: 84,323.
  * 1801
     * Cantons of Rouen 1 [fr], 2 [fr], 3 [fr], 4, 5, and 6 created.
     * Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
  * 1809 - Rouen Public Library [fr] opens.
  * 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert.
  * 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded.
  * 1834 - Musée départemental des antiquités (Rouen) [fr] opens.
  * 1836 - Population: 92,083.
  * 1840 - Jardin des Plantes opens.
  * 1843 - Railway to Paris begins operating.
  * 1847 - Rouen-Rive-Droite station opens.
  * 1851 - Population: 100,265.
  * 1856 - Flaubert's fiction novel Madame Bovary published (set in Rouen).
  * 1864 - Rouen Ceramic Museum established.
  * 1867 - Rouen-Martainville station opens.
  * 1869 - Société de l'histoire de Normandie founded.
  * 1870 - Prussian occupation.
  * 1871 - Rouen Business School established.
  * 1874 - Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen rebuilt.
  * 1876 - Population: 104,902.
  * 1877 - Trams begin operating.
  * 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded.
  * 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built.
  * 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens.
  * 1888 - Pont Boieldieu [fr] (bridge) constructed.
  * 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed.
  * 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series.
  * 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed.
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * 1906 - Population: 118,459.
  * 1911
     * Norman Museum opens.
     * Population: 124,987.
  * 1917 - Stadium opens.
  * 1926 - Rubis Terminal chemical storage site established in Le Grand-Quevilly.
  * 1940 - June 9: German occupation begins.
  * 1942 - Subcamp of the Stalag 356 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
  * 1944
     * April: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Soviets.
     * 30 May-5 June: City bombed during the Semaine rouge (Rouen) [fr].
     * August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
     * August 15: German occupation ends.
  * 1950 - Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack opens.
  * 1953 - Musée Jeanne-d'Arc [fr] established.
  * 1955 - Pont Boieldieu rebuilt.
  * 1959 - Rouen twinned with Norwich, United Kingdom.
  * 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed.
  * 1966
     * University of Rouen founded.
     * Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany.
  * 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.
  * 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 - Yvon Robert (politician) [fr] becomes mayor.
  * 1999
     * Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens.
     * Population: 106,592.
  
  ## 21st century
  
  * 2001
     * Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating.
     * Zénith de Rouen [fr] (concert hall) opens.
  * 2002 - Rouen twinned with Salerno, Italy.
  * 2007 - Population: 110,276.
  * 2008
     * Pont Gustave-Flaubert (bridge) opens.
     * Rouen twinned with Cleveland, USA.
  * 2010 - City becomes part of the Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe.
  * 2014 - March: Rouen municipal election, 2014 [fr] held.
  * 2015 - December: Normandy regional election, 2015 [fr] held.
  * 2016
     * Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region).
     * Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.
  