Timeline of Luxembourg City

The following is a timeline of the history of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

Prior to 19th century

963 - Castle built atop Bock cliffs by Siegfried of Luxembourg.
987 - Church of the Redemption consecrated.
1120 - Church of St. Peter built.^[1]
1320 - Saint Michael's Church built (approximate date).^[2]
1340
- New city fortifications constructed.
- Schobermesse (tent fair) begins.^[2]
1390 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[3]
1443 - Burgundians under Philip the Good conquer city.^[4]
1554 - Fire in Ville Haute.
1563 - La Fontaine Castle construction begins.
1572 - City Hall built.
1603 - Collège des Jésuites founded.
1606 - Neimënster Abbey built.
1613 - Church of Notre Dame cornerstone laid.
1623 - Capuchin monastery built.
1644 - Tunnels built.^{[citation needed]}
1671 - Place d'Armes laid out (approximate date).
1684 - French in power.^[1]
1685 - Lambert Fortress built.
1693 - Jean-Bernard Knepper becomes mayor.
1697 - Spaniards in power per Treaty of Ryswick.^[1]
1714 - Austrians in power.^[5]
1732 - Fort Thüngen built.
1784 - Château de Septfontaines built outside city (in Rollingergrund).
1794 - November 22: Siege of Luxembourg by French forces begins.
1795
- June 7: Siege of Luxembourg ends.
- City becomes préfecture of the Forêts département of the French First Republic.
1798 - Municipal Library active.^{[citation needed]}
1800 - François Scheffer becomes mayor.

19th century

1815 - Prussians in power per Treaty of Paris.
1821 - Luxemburger Wochenblatt newspaper begins publication.^[6]
1827 - Journal de la ville et du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg newspaper in publication.^[6]
1833 - Roman Catholic diocese of Luxembourg established.^[7]
1838 - City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) completed.^[2]
1848 - Luxemburger Wort newspaper begins publication.
1850 - Society of the Natural Sciences established.
1855 - Pescatore Institute (charity) founded.^[8]
1858 - Population: 13,129.^[9]
1859 - Luxembourg railway station opens.
1860 - Hall of the Chamber of Deputies.
1861 - Viaduct built over Petrusse valley.^[10]
1867
- Luxembourg Crisis.
- Fortress dismantled per Treaty of London.^[2]
1868 - Royal-Grand Ducal Institute established.
1872
- Municipal Park laid out.^[8]
- Pescatore Museum opens.^[11]
1882 - Casino Bourgeois opens.
1884 - William II monument erected in Place Guillaume II.^[8]
1890 - City becomes part of independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
1892 - Museum of Natural History opens in Pfaffenthal.
1894 - Émile Mousel becomes mayor.
1895 - Ons Hemecht begins publication.^[12]^[13]

20th century

1903 - Adolphe Bridge built.^[8]
1904 - Alphonse Munchen becomes mayor.
1905 - Population: 20,984.^[2]
1906 - Conservatoire de Luxembourg founded.
1910 - Cercle Municipal building inaugurated.
1913 - Luxembourg railway station rebuilt.
1914 - German occupation begins.^[14]
1918 - German occupation ends.^[15]
1919 - Football Club Amis des Sports Lëtzebuerg-Fëschmaart founded.
1920
- Dommeldange, Eich, Hamm, Hollerich, and Rollingergrund incorporated into city.
- Villa Louvigny built.
1921 - Gaston Diderich becomes mayor.
1923 - Gëlle Fra war memorial erected.
1930s - Sandweiler Airport opens.
1933 - Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra founded.^[16]
1940
- May 10: German occupation begins.^[15]
- August 18: Volksdeutsche Bewegung rally held.^[17]
1944
- September 10: German occupation ends.^[15]
- Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial established.^[18]
- December: City besieged by German V-3 cannon.
1945 - January: City besieged by German V-3 cannon.
1946 - Émile Hamilius becomes mayor.
1952 - European Coal and Steel Community, European Commission, and European Court of Justice headquartered in city.
1953 - European School of Luxembourg I established.
1964 - Municipal Theatre built.
1966
- Alcide De Gasperi building constructed.
- Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge opens.
1968 - European Investment Bank headquarters relocates to Luxembourg.
1970 - Colette Flesch becomes mayor.
1973
- National Library of Luxembourg relocates to former Athénée building.
- Rugby Club Luxembourg formed.
1975 - European Court of Auditors headquartered in city.
1976 - Municipal Hospital opens.
1979 - Ons Stad [lb] begins publication.
1982
- Lydie Polfer becomes mayor.
- St. Peter and Paul Church consecrated.
1984
- Photothèque opens.
- Hilton Luxembourg hotel built.
1991 - BGL Luxembourg Open tennis tournament begins.
1993 - Am Tunnel art gallery opens.
1994
- Arboretum Kirchberg [nl] opens.^[19]
- European Investment Fund headquartered in city.
1995
- City designated a European Capital of Culture.
- Den Atelier music venue opens.
1996
- Luxembourg City History Museum founded.
- Utopolis Kirchberg cinema multiplex (since renamed Kinepolis Kirchberg) and Casino Luxembourg open.
1999 - Paul Helminger becomes mayor.

21st century

2001
- City website online (approximate date).^[20]^{[chronology citation needed]}
- Lycée Aline Mayrisch established.
2002 - National Museum of History and Art building expands.
2004 - Football Club FC RM Hamm Benfica formed.
2005
- Philharmonie Luxembourg concert hall opens.
- Racing Football Club Union Luxembourg formed.
2006 - Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art inaugurated.
2007 - The city is designated as European Capital of Culture for the secon time.
2008 - Judiciary City inaugurated.
2010 - Villeroy & Boch porcelain factory closes.
2011 - Xavier Bettel becomes mayor.
2013 - Lydie Polfer becomes mayor.
2015 - The Hamilius building complex and bus station is demolished.
2017 - Line T1 of the Luxembourg City tramway opens, alongside Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station and the Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg funicular.
2019 - The National Library of Luxembourg's new site on the Kirchberg opens.
2020 - Public transport is made free in Luxembourg City alongside the rest of the country.
2021 - The Stade de Luxembourg is inaugurated, replacing the Stade Josy Barthel as Luxembourg's national stadium.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Murray 1838.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Britannica 1910.
^ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
^ Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Luxemburg (duchy)", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776
^ Baedeker 1910.
^ ^a ^b "Quotidiens et hebdomadaires" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Luxembourg". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d George Renwick (1913), Luxembourg: the Grand Duchy and its People, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, OCLC 5627617, OL 24661367M
^ Georg Friedrich Kolb [in German] (1862). "Deutschland: Luxemburg". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.
^ Cook 1921.
^ Auguste Dutreux (1872). "Catalogue des objets d'art composant le Musée J. - P. Pescatore" (in French) (2nd ed.). Europeana. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
^ Pé́porté 2010.
^ Ons Hemecht: Organ des Vereins Luxemburger Geschichte Litteratur und Kunst. 1907.
^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Luxembourg Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
^ Willard Allen Fletcher (1970). "The German Administration in Luxemburg 1940-1942: Toward a 'De Facto' Annexation". The Historical Journal. 13.
^ American Battle Monuments Commission (1961), Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, Washington, DC, OCLC 616684, OL 5840965M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Garden Search: Luxembourg". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ "Ville de Luxembourg" (in French). Archived from the original on 2001-02-22 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, and Luxembourgish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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External links

"Luxembourg-Ville". Collection de cartes postales (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg.

49°36′42″N 6°07′48″E / 49.611667°N 6.13°E / 49.611667; 6.13

[FOOTNOTEMurray1838-1] Murray 1838.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] Britannica 1910.

[Rossum1996-3] Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.

[haydn1910-4] Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Luxemburg (duchy)", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776

[FOOTNOTEBaedeker1910-5] Baedeker 1910.

[BNL-quotitiens-6] "Quotidiens et hebdomadaires" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg. Retrieved 2013-01-06.

[katolsk-7] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Luxembourg". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[renwick1913-8] George Renwick (1913), Luxembourg: the Grand Duchy and its People, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, OCLC 5627617, OL 24661367M

[Kolb1862-9] Georg Friedrich Kolb [in German] (1862). "Deutschland: Luxemburg". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.

[FOOTNOTECook1921-10] Cook 1921.

[11] Auguste Dutreux (1872). "Catalogue des objets d'art composant le Musée J. - P. Pescatore" (in French) (2nd ed.). Europeana. Retrieved 2013-01-06.

[FOOTNOTEPé́porté2010-12] Pé́porté 2010.

[13] Ons Hemecht: Organ des Vereins Luxemburger Geschichte Litteratur und Kunst. 1907.

[14] Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.

[bbc-profile-15] "Luxembourg Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[Lawson2003-20th-16] Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.

[17] Willard Allen Fletcher (1970). "The German Administration in Luxemburg 1940-1942: Toward a 'De Facto' Annexation". The Historical Journal. 13.

[18] American Battle Monuments Commission (1961), Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, Washington, DC, OCLC 616684, OL 5840965M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[botanic-19] "Garden Search: Luxembourg". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[20] "Ville de Luxembourg" (in French). Archived from the original on 2001-02-22 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.

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