Timeline of Bergen
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bergen, Norway.
Prior to 19th century
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- 1070s CE – Bergen founded by Olaf Kyrre (approximate date).[1][2][3]
- 1080 – Catholic diocese of Bergen established (approximate date).[4]
- 1153 – Bergen Cathedral School founded.
- 1163 – Coronation of Magnus V of Norway.
- 1180 – St Mary's Church, Bergen built (approximate date).
- 1181
- Battle of Bergen (1181) occurs.[5]
- First recorded historical reference to Bergen Cathedral.[3]
- 1194 – 29 June: Coronation of Sverre of Norway.[6]
- 1247 – 29 July: Coronation of Haakon IV of Norway.
- 1261
- 11 September: Magnus-Ingeborg wedding party takes place in Haakon's Hall.[7]
- 14 September: Coronation of Magnus VI of Norway.
- 1280 – Coronation of Eric II of Norway.
- 1350s – Hanseatic merchants set up kontor in Bryggen.[7]
- 1393 – Sacking of Bergen (1393).
- 1429 – Battle of Bergen (1429) occurs.
- 1531 – Christ Church, Bergen demolished.
- 1665 – 2 August: Naval Battle of Vågen occurs.[3]
- 1684 – Birth of Ludvig Holberg, writer and poet.[3]
- 1702 – Fire.[3]
- 1721 – Peter Nørvig printer in business.[8][9]
- 1769 – Population: 18,827.[10]
- 1764 – End of membership of the Hanseatic League.[3]
- 1794 – Foundation of the local branch of the theatrical society Det Dramatiske Selskab.
- Birgithe Kühle publishes the magazine Provincial-Lecture.
19th century
[edit]- 1800 – The first theater, Komediehuset på Engen, is built.
- 1807 – Birth of Johan Sebastian Welhaven, "one of the greatest figures in Norwegian literature".[3]
- 1825 – Bergen Museum founded.[11][3]
- 1837 – Carsten B. Conradi becomes mayor.
- 1838 – Bergen Art Union founded.[11]
- 1843 – Birth of Edvard Grieg, future composer and pianist.[3]
- 1850 – Det norske Theater (Bergen) opens.[11]
- 1851 – Bergen Steamship Company in business.
- 1853 – Stølen School established.[12][13]
- 1855
- Fire.[3]
- Bergens Privatbank[14] and Bergen Mekaniske Verksted (shipyard)[citation needed] established.
- 1867 – Bergen kretsfengsel (prison) built.
- 1868
- Bergens Tidende (newspaper) begins publication.[9]
- Christiestøtten (monument) erected.
- 1872 – Hanseatic Museum established.[15]
- 1873 – Causative agent of leprosy, the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, identified by Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen.[16]
- 1875 – Population: 54,436.[10][17]
- 1876 – Bergens Kreditbank established.[14]
- 1882
- Bergen Telefonkompani (phone company) begins operating.[7]
- Bergens Moralvernforening ("moral protection" group) founded.
- 1883 – Voss Line railway begins operating.[7]
- 1887 – West Norway Museum of Decorative Art established.
- 1890 – Gulating Court of Appeal established.[citation needed]
- 1894 – Bergen Historical Society founded.[18]
- 1900 – Population: 72,179.[3]
20th century
[edit]- 1905 – Arbeidsstuer for barn i Bergen (teaching facility) established.
- 1909
- Den Nationale Scene (theatre) built.
- Bergen Kunsthåndverksskole (school) founded.[citation needed]
- 1910
- Braille library established.[19]
- Population: 104,224.[10][20]
- 1915 – Bergen Chamber of Commerce founded.[9]
- 1916 – January: Bergen fire of 1916.
- 1917 – Grieg statue erected in Byparken (Bergen).
- 1919 – Protestant Dagen newspaper begins publication.[9]
- 1920 – Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (utility) established.[9]
- 1927 – Bergensavisen newspaper in publication.[9]
- 1929 – Grand Hotel Terminus built.
- 1930 – Chr. Michelsen Institute established.[citation needed]
- 1933 – Bergen Courthouse built.
- 1935
- Fana Gymnas (school) active.
- Asbjørn Stensaker becomes mayor.
- 1936 – Norwegian School of Economics established.
- 1944
- 20 April: Harbour explosion in Bergen 1944.
- 4 October: Bombing of Laksevåg near Bergen.
- Submarine "Operation Guidance" occurs in harbour.
- 1945 – Nils Handal becomes mayor.
- 1946
- University of Bergen established.[21]
- Forum kino (cinema) built.
- 1949 – Gamle Bergen Museum established.
- 1950 – Population: 162,381.[10]
- 1955 – Medieval Bryggen inscriptions discovered.
- 1967 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.[22]
- 1970
- 29 November: Body of Isdal Woman found.
- Population: 209,066.[10]
- 1972 – Arna, Åsane, Fana, and Laksevåg become part of city.[7]
- 1973
- Vestlandets kunstakademi (art school) opens.
- Eilert Eilertsen becomes mayor.
- 1974 – Bergen City Hall built.
- 1975 – Bergen Bank established.
- 1976 – Muslim Association of Bergen founded.[23]
- 1979
- Bergen byarkiv (city archives) established.
- Bryggen designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 1982 – Studentradioen i Bergen (radio) begins broadcasting.
- 1986
- 3 May: Eurovision Song Contest 1986 held.
- Electronic toll collection introduced.
- 1992
- TV 2 (Norway) begins broadcasting.[9]
- Islamic Cultural Centre established.[23]
- 1996 – Bergen National Academy of the Arts established.
21st century
[edit]- 2001
- Bergen Kunsthall (art space) active.
- Population: 232,989.[10]
- 2002
- Hordaland Police District headquartered in Bergen.
- Bergen Program for Transport, Urban Development and the Environment begins.
- 2005
- 14 September: Hatlestad mudslide occurs.
- Bergen City Museum foundation established.
- 2006 – 1 September: Musical group Rolling Stones perform.[24]
- 2009
- November: Gingerbread house sacked.[25]
- Bergensbanen minutt for minutt slow television programme created.[26]
- 2010 – Bergen Light Rail begins operating.
- 2011 – Trude Drevland becomes mayor.
- 2015 – 2015 Bergen municipal election held.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Jan Sjåvik (2008). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Norway. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6408-5.
- ↑ Hans Andersson (2003). "Urbanization". In Knut Helle (ed.). Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Vol. 1: Prehistory to 1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47299-9.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 772–773.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Norway". Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Charles Francis Keary (1892). Norway and the Norwegians. London: Percival & Co.
- ↑ Sigvart Sörensen (1899). Norway. New York: P. F. Collier.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Bergen: historie". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 September 2015. (includes timeline)
- ↑ Gina Dahl (2011). Books in Early Modern Norway. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-20720-2.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Norway". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kommune: Bergen: Tabeller" (PDF), Folke- og boligtelling 2001 (in Norwegian), Statistics Norway, 2007
- 1 2 3 Christian Koren-Wiberg (1912). By og brygge: billeder fra Bergen (in Norwegian). Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co.
- ↑ "Bergen Map". Bergen: Histos. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "Publikasjoner". Bergen Byarkiv (in Norwegian). Bergen Kommune. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- 1 2 "Norway". International Banking Directory. Bankers Publishing Company. 1920.
- ↑ "Store norske leksikon" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Irgens L (2002). "The discovery of the leprosy bacillus". Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 122 (7): 708–9. PMID 11998735.
- ↑ Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1885). "Norway". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590469.
- ↑ "Bergens Historiske Forening" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ World Guide to Special Libraries. K. G. Saur Verlag. 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-091785-7.
- ↑ "Norway". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ↑ Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
- ↑ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- 1 2 Göran Larsson, ed. (2009). Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-01292-3.
- ↑ Ivar Peersen (21 September 2015), "Insider's cultural guide to Bergen", The Guardian, UK
- ↑ Cops on trail of 'gingerbread town' vandals, Reuters, 23 November 2009
- ↑ "Big in Norway: Slow TV", The Atlantic, USA, January 2014
This article incorporates information from the Norwegian Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
[edit]- in English
- W. Pembroke Fetridge (1883), "Bergen", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (22nd ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588371.
- "Bergen", Hand-book for Travellers in Norway (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 772–773.
- "Bergen", Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912, hdl:2027/uva.x030531120
- United States Secretary of the Navy (1932), "Bergen Havn", Sailing directions for the southwest and south coasts of Norway, H.O.; no. 140 (3rd ed.), U.S. Govt. Print. Off., hdl:2027/uc1.31822033787201 (fulltext)
- in Norwegian
- Bergens fundas, 1560
- Yngvar Nielsen (1877). Bergen fra de ældste tider indtil nutiden (in Norwegian). Christiania: C. Tønsberg.
- Henrik Jæger (1889). Bergen og Bergenserne (in Norwegian). Bergen: F. Beyer.
- "Skrifter Udgivne af Bergens Historiske Forening" [Publications of the Bergen Historical Society] (in Norwegian). 1895 – via HathiTrust.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) 1895- - Norway. Statistisk sentralbyrå (1899). "Bergen". Norges officielle statistik (in Norwegian). Kristiania: Statistiske Centralbureau.
External links
[edit]- Europeana. Items related to Bergen, various dates
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Bergen, various dates.
