Timeline of Rouen

• 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. • 1090 - Rouen Riot • 1150 - Founding charter. • 1200 - Cathedral burns down. • 1202 - Rouen Cathedral construction begins. • 1204 - Philip II of France in 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) formed. • 1487 - Printing press in operation. • 1499 • Parlement de Normandie begins meeting in Rouen. • 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 - built. • 1758 - Hospital opens. • 1785 - '''' newspaper begins publication. • 1790 - Rouen becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté. • 1793 - Population: 84,323. • 1821 - 12 December: Birth of Gustave Flaubert. • 1825 - Hôtel de Ville completed. • 1828 - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen founded. • 1834 - opens. • 1877 - Trams begin operating. • 1879 - Société de géographie de Rouen founded. • 1880 - Musee-Bibliothèque built. • 1883 - Rouen Orléans station (rail station) opens. • 1888 - (bridge) constructed. • 1891 - Photo-club rouennais formed. • 1892 - Artist Monet begins painting cathedral series. • 1899 - FC Rouen sport club formed. ==20th century==

outside their Nissen hut billets in Rouen, on 18 June 1918 • 1906 - Population: 118,459. • 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 . • August: Subcamp of the V SS construction brigade dissolved. Surviving prisoners deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. • 1965 - Archives department of Seine-Maritime building constructed. • 1966 • University of Rouen founded. • Rouen twinned with Hanover, West Germany. • 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 - becomes mayor. • 1999 • Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum opens. • Population: 106,592. ==21st century==

• 2001 • Transport Est-Ouest Rouennais buses begin operating. • (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: held. • 2015 - December: held. • 2016 • Rouen becomes part of Normandy (administrative region). • Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen. ==See also==