Timeline of Cluj-Napoca
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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- 1178 - Site "colonized by Saxons" in Transylvania.[1]
- 1408 - Cluj becomes a free city.[2]
- 1430s - St. Michael's Church built.[1]
- 1541 - City became part of the independent Principality of Transylvania after the Ottoman Turks occupied the central part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
- 1543 - Bonțida Bánffy Castle built near city.
- 1550 - Printing press established by Gáspár Heltai.[3][4]
- 1565 - Witch trials begin (approximate date).[5]
- 1572 - Filstich Wolf House built on Unirii Square.
- 1581 - Gymnasium (school) founded.[6]
- 1695 - Hungarian Szakácskönyv (cookbook) published.[3][7]
- 1699 - City becomes part of the Habsburg Monarchy per Treaty of Karlowitz.
- 1715 - Citadel (Cluj-Napoca) construction begins.[1]
- 1785
- Bánffy Palace built.
- Gherla prison begins operating in vicinity.
- 1790 - City becomes capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania.
- 1792 - Hungarian Theatre founded.
- 1798 - Fire.[1]
- 1803 - Bob Church consecrated.
- 1812 - Reduta Palace built.
- 1828 - Josika Palace expanded.
- 1829 - Cluj-Napoca Evangelical Church built.
- 1830s - Cluj-Napoca Central Park / Népkertnek (park) opens.
- 1845 - Town Hall built.[8]
- 1848 - 25 December: City taken by Hungarian forces.[9]
- 1869 - Institute of Agronomic Studies founded.
- 1870
- 1872 - Franz Joseph University[10] and Botanical Garden founded.
- 1880 - Population: 29,923 (70% of Hungarian ethnicity).[4]
- 1887 - Neolog Synagogue built.
- 1890 - Population: 32,739.[11]
- 1895 - New York Café (Cluj-Napoca) built.
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 46,670.[1]
- 1902
- Palace of Justice built.
- Matthias Corvinus Monument unveiled in Unirii Square.[4]
- 1906 - Cluj-Napoca National Theatre opens.
- 1907 - CFR Cluj (football club) formed.
- 1910 - Hungarian Theatre of Cluj building constructed.
- 1911 - Stadionul Ion Moina (stadium) opens.
- 1913 - Sebestyén-palota built on Unirii Square.
- 1918 - 24 December: City taken by Romanian forces; Hungarian rule ends.[4]
- 1919
- Iulian Pop becomes mayor.
- U Cluj football club formed.
- Gheorghe Dima Music Academy founded.
- 1920
- City becomes part of Romania.[2]
- Population: 85,509.
- 1921 - Capitoline Wolf Statue unveiled in Unirii Square.[4]
- 1922 - Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania founded.
- 1925 - Fine Arts School founded.
- 1930
- Greek Catholic Diocese of Cluj-Gherla established.[12]
- Population: 100,844.[4]
- 1933 - Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral built.[4]
- 1934 - Goldmark Jewish Symphonic Orchestra founded.[13]
- 1940 - City becomes part of Hungary again.[2]
- 1944
- 1948
- Protestant Theological Institute established.
- Population: 117,915.[2]
- 1966 - Population: 185,663 (56% of Romanian ethnicity; 42% of Hungarian ethnicity).[4]
- 1968 - Echinox literary magazine begins publication.
- 1973 - CFR Cluj Stadium opens.
- 1974 - City renamed "Cluj-Napoca."
- 1977 - Population: 262,858.[4]
- 1989 - December: Romanian Revolution.
- 1992
- Gheorghe Funar becomes mayor.
- Population: 328,602 (75% of Romanian ethnicity).[4]
- 1994 - Association for Interethnic Dialogue established in Cluj.[14]
21st century
- 2001 - Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania founded.[15]
- 2004 - Emil Boc becomes mayor.
- 2008
- Sorin Apostu becomes mayor.
- Cluj-Napoca metropolitan area created.
- 2011 - Population: 324,576 city; 411,379 metro.
- 2012 - Emil Boc becomes mayor again.
- 2016 - Emil Boc becomes mayor yet again.
See also
- History of Cluj-Napoca
- Historical chronology of Cluj (in Romanian)
- List of mayors of Cluj-Napoca
- Other names of Cluj-Napoca
- List of places in Cluj-Napoca
- Timeline of Romanian history
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Kolozsvár", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 3 4 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Cluj", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 421, OL 6112221M
- 1 2 "Magyaroszagi regi nyomtatvanyok 1473-1711: Kolozsvar (Hungarian printing 1473-1711)". Kalauz az Orsz. Magy. Iparművészeti Muzeum részéről rendezett könyvkiállitáshoz [Guide to the Museum of Applied Arts] (in Hungarian). Budapest. 1882.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rogers Brubaker; et al. (2006). Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12834-0. (about Cluj)
- ↑ Brian P. Levack, ed. (2013). Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-164884-7.
- ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich (in German). Vienna: Kaiserlich-königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1856.
- ↑ Alan Davidson (2014). "Hungary". Oxford Companion to Food (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-104072-6.
- ↑ Ágnes Flóra & Alan Campbell (2012). "Symbols, Virtues, Representation. The Early Modern Town Hall of Kolozsvár as a Medium of Display for Municipal Government". Hungarian Historical Review. 1. JSTOR 42568570.
- 1 2 George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Klausenburg". American Cyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
- ↑ Paul Robert Magocsi (2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8486-6.
- ↑ "Klausenburg", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 – via Hathi Trust
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Romania". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ↑ "Cluj". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ↑ Henry F. Carey, ed. (2004). Romania Since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0592-4.
- ↑ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Hungarian Wikipedia and Romanian Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- John Paget (1855), "Klausenburg in Winter", Hungary and Transylvania (New ed.), London: John Murray
- A.A. Paton (1861). "Clausenburg". Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic. Leipzig: Brockhaus.
- Charles Boner (1865), "Klausenburg", Transylvania, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, OCLC 4572134
- David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Klausenburg", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Published in the 20th century
- "Klausenburg", Türkei, Rumänien, Serbien, Bulgarien [Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria], Meyers Reisebücher (in German) (6th ed.), Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1902
- Corneliu Diaconovich, ed. (1904). "Cluj". Enciclopedia Română [Romanian Encyclopedia] (in Romanian). 1. Sibiiu: W. Krafft.
- "Klausenburg", Austria-Hungary, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 344268
- Mathias Eisler (1907), "Klausenburg", Jewish Encyclopedia, 7, New York
- Ștefan Pascu (1974). Istoria Clujului [History of Cluj] (in Romanian). OCLC 3550425.
- Published in the 21st century
- Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Cluj-Napoca". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 359+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
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