Timeline of Breda

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Breda, Netherlands.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 1252 - Breda granted city status.[1]
• 1267 - Begijnhof (Breda) [nl] founded.
• 1321 - Tuesday market begins.[1]
• 1330 - Building of the city wall started.
• 1350 - Breda Castle built.[2]
• 1351 - Polanen Castle besieged.[2]
• 1394 - Polanen Castle demolished.
• 1410 - Grote Kerk (Breda) begun.[2]
• 1534 - Fortification of the city began.[2]
• 1536 - "Poor relief" established.[3]
• 1547 - Grote Kerk finished.[2]
• 1566 - Iconoclasm by Protestants.[1]
• 1575 - Spanish-Dutch Breda peace conference [nl] held in city.[2]
• 1581 - Capture of Breda by Spanish troops.[2]
• 1590 - 4 March: Capture of Breda (1590) by Maurice, Prince of Orange [2] and Dutch-English forces.[4]
• 1624 - 28 August: Siege of Breda begins.
• 1625 - 5 June: Siege of Breda ends; Spanish in power.[4][2]
• 1637
  • 21 July: Siege of Breda by Dutch forces begins.
  • 10 October: Siege of Breda ends; Breda taken by Dutch forces of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.[5][2]
  • Grote Kerk (church) becomes Protestant.
• 1648 - Breda becomes part of Holland per Treaty of Westphalia.[2]
• 1650 - 1 May: English-Scottish treaty signed in Breda.
• 1660 - April: Charles II of England proclaims the Declaration of Breda while passing through town.[6][2]
• 1667 - 31 July: Anglo-Dutch treaty signed in Breda.[5]
• 1696 - Breda Castle built by William, prince of Orange.[2]
• 1746/48 - British-French bilateral negotiations at the Congress of Breda.[2]
• 1768 - Breda Town Hall [nl] remodeled.[1]
• 1793 - Siege of Breda; French in power.[6]
• 1813 - Siege of Breda; French military ousted.[6]
• 1817 - Breda coat of arms [nl] adopted.
• 1828 - Royal Military Academy established.[2]
• 1837 - St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral built.
• 1845 - Synagogue built on Schoolstraat.[7]
• 1853 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda established.[8]
• 1855 - Breda railway station opens.
• 1863 - Breda–Eindhoven railway begins operating.[9]
• 1870 - City directory begins publication.[10]
• 1883 - Ginnekensche Tramweg Maatschappij [nl] tram begins operating.[11]
• 1886 - Breda courthouse [nl] and Koepelgevangenis (prison) built.
• 1890 - Breda-Oudenbosch tram line [nl] begins operating.
• 1893 - Breda Haagpoort-Breda SS tram line [nl] in operation.
• 1894 - Population: 24,397.[12]
• 1900 - Population: 26,296.[2]

20th century

• 1901 - Tram Breda-Mastbosch begins operating.[11]
• 1907 - Eppo Paul van Lanschot [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1912 - NAC Breda football club founded.
• 1919
  • Population: 30,044.[13]
  • Willem van Sonsbeeck [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1920 - Gemeentetram Breda (tram) begins operating.[11]
• 1921 - NAC Breda wins its first Dutch football championship.
• 1940 - German occupation during World War II begins.
• 1942 - Ginneken and Princenhage become part of Breda.[1]

Polish soldiers welcomed by the residents of Breda following the liberation, 1944

• 1944
  • City liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division of General Stanisław Maczek.
  • De Stem newspaper begins publication.[14]
• 1952 - Breda flag [nl] design adopted.[1]
• 1953 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Breda [nl] built.[15]
• 1955 - Mirabelle (Breda restaurant) in business.
• 1963 - Polish cemetery in Breda [nl] established in Princenhage.^[citation needed]
• 1966 - Breda University of Applied Sciences established
• 1975 - Breda railway station rebuilt.
• 1981 - Generaal Maczek Museum [nl] established.[16]
• 1990 - Ed Nijpels becomes mayor.
• 1991 - Sister city partnership signed between Breda and Wrocław, Poland.
• 1995 - Chassé Theater [nl] built.[15]
• 1996
  • Rat Verlegh Stadion opened.
  • Chris Rutten [nl] becomes mayor.
• 1998 - BN DeStem newspaper in publication.
• 2000 - Population: 160,650.[17]

21st century

Grote Markt and Grote Kerk in 2014

• 2001
  • City joins regional BrabantStad group.[18]
  • Moooi in business.
• 2004 - Peter van der Velden [nl] becomes mayor.
• 2007 - Redhead Day begins.
• 2014 - Population: 179,665.[17]
• 2015 - Paul Depla [nl] becomes mayor.

See also

• Breda history
• History of Breda [nl]
• List of mayors of Breda [nl]
• List of rijksmonuments in Breda [nl]
• Timelines of other municipalities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Delft, Eindhoven, Groningen, Haarlem, The Hague, 's-Hertogenbosch, Leiden, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Utrecht

References

1. "Historie". Breda.nl (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham, eds. (1997). Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-80860-1.
4. "Timeline Dutch History". Rijksmuseum. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
5. Joop W. Koopmans; Arend H. Huussen Jr. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6444-3.
6. Haydn 1910.
7. "Breda". Four Hundred Years of Dutch Jewry. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
8. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Netherlands". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
9. W. J. M. Leideritz (1978). De tramwegen van Noord-Brabant (in Dutch). Brill. ISBN 90-04-05706-4.
10. "Collecties". Stadsarchief Breda (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
11. J.W. Sluiter (1967). Beknopt overzicht van de nederlandse sppor en tramwegbedrijven [Brief overview of Dutch railway and tramway companies] (in Dutch). Brill.
12. "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1896. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590543.
13. "Netherlands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
14. Jan van de Plasse (2005). Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers (in Dutch). Otto Cramwinckel. ISBN 978-90-75727-77-7. (timeline)
15. Hans van Dijk (1999). Twentieth-century Architecture in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. ISBN 978-90-6450-347-4.
16. "The start and history of the General Maczek Museum in Breda". Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
17. "Feiten en Cijfers". Breda.nl (in Dutch). Gemeente Breda. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
18. "BrabantStad Facts & Figures". Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

This article incorporates information from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Thomas Nugent (1749), "Breda", The Grand Tour, vol. 1: Netherlands, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762598
• Abraham Rees (1819), "Breda", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4vh5t74q
• "Breda". Galignani's Traveller's Guide through Holland and Belgium (4th ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1822. hdl:2027/njp.32101073846667.
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Breda". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
• "Breda", Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (20th ed.), London: John Murray, 1881, hdl:2027/hvd.hn2ha2
• "Breda". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t81j9pj6k.
• "Breda", Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways (3rd ed.), London: A. and C. Black, 1908
• "Breda", Belgium and Holland (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/uc1.b3129294
• "Breda" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 486.
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Breda", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t

in Dutch

• Thomas Ernst van Goor (1744), Beschryving der stadt en lande van Breda (in Dutch), Hague: Jacobus van den Kieboom, OCLC 19063210, OL 6970701M
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1840). "Breda". Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden [Geographical dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Vol. 2. Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn. hdl:2027/mdp.39015039363968 – via HathiTrust.
• Henri Zondervan, ed. (1915), "Breda", Winkler Prins' Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (in Dutch), vol. 4 (4th ed.), Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy „Elsevier“, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068310153
• G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978). "Noord-Brabant: Breda". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill. pp. 279+. ISBN 90-04-05700-5.

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