Timeline of Coimbra

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Coimbra, Portugal.

Prior to 20th century

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ca.563 CE – Roman Catholic Diocese of Coimbra established.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/portugal |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 12 November 2017 }}
714 CE – Muslims in power.{{cite web |url=https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/index.php/municipio/municipio/historia-da-cidade |title= História da Cidade |work=Cm-coimbra.pt |publisher=Câmara Municipal de Coimbra |language=pt |access-date= 12 November 2017 }}
1064 – Coimbra taken by Christian forces of Ferdinand I.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1139 – Coimbra becomes seat of Kingdom of Portugal (until 1385).{{cite book|author1=Douglas L. Wheeler|author2=Walter C. Opello Jr.|title=Historical Dictionary of Portugal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7075-8 |edition=3rd |year= 2010 }}
1169 – San Salvador church established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1211 – {{illm|Cortes of Coimbra, 1211|pt|Cortes de Coimbra de 1211|lt=Cortes}} (assembly) held in Coimbra.
1286 – Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1308 – University moves to Coimbra from Lisbon.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}{{cite web |url= http://www.uc.pt/sobrenos/historia|title=História da Universidade |publisher=Universidade de Coimbra |language=pt |access-date= 12 November 2017 }} (Includes chronology)
1316 – Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha construction begins.{{citation |title=Portugal: Architecture |work=Oxford Art Online }} Retrieved 12 November 2017
1338 – University moves away from Coimbra back to Lisbon.
1354 – University again moves to Coimbra from Lisbon.
1355 – Queen consort Inês de Castro murdered at Quinta das Lágrimas.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1377 – University again moves away from Coimbra back to Lisbon.
1385 – {{illm|Cortes of Coimbra, 1385|pt|Cortes de Coimbra de 1385|lt=Cortes}} held in Coimbra.{{cite book|editor=E. Michael Gerli|title=Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QlpKAgAAQBAJ|year= 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn= 0-415-93918-6 }}
1398 – {{illm|Cortes of Coimbra, 1398|pt|Cortes de Coimbra de 1398|lt=Cortes}} held in Coimbra.
1472 – {{illm|Cortes of Coimbra, 1472-1473|pt|Cortes de Coimbra de 1472-1473|lt=Cortes}} held in Coimbra.
1481 – Poet Francisco de Sá de Miranda born in Coimbra.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1536 – Printing press in operation.{{cite book|author= Henri Bouchot|author-link= Henri Bouchot|location=London |title=The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time|year=1890|publisher=H. Grevel & Co. |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5ycxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 |chapter=Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established }}
1537 – University once again moves to Coimbra from Lisbon.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1580/98 – New Cathedral of Coimbra construction begins.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1728 – Casa da Livraria (library) built.
1733 – University clocktower built.{{cite web |url= https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/eusi.html |title= Iberian Peninsula, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date= 12 November 2017 }}
1755 – 1 November: Earthquake.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1810 – Coimbra "sacked by the French under Marshal Massena."{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1812 – {{illm|Jornal de Coimbra|pt}} (newspaper) begins publication.{{citation |url= http://bdigital.sib.uc.pt/bg4/UCBG-RP-2-1-1812-1_16/UCBG-RP-2-1-1812-1_16_master/UCBG-RP-2-1-1814-6/UCBG-RP-2-1-1814-6_item1/index.html |title=Jornal de Coimbra |via=Universidade de Coimbra, Biblioteca Geral Digital }}, 1812–
1834 – Miguel I of Portugal, makes the city his headquarters.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1835 – Town becomes part of newly created administrative Coimbra district.{{sfn|Sousa Henriques Secco|1853}}
1846 – "Miguelist insurrection" occurs.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1852 – {{illm|Instituto de Coimbra|pt}} founded.{{cite book |title=Historia dos estabelecimentos scientificos, litterarios e artisticos de Portugal |editor=José Silvestre Ribeiro |publisher=Academia Real das Sciencias |language=pt |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001378834 |year= 1871–1893 }}
1874 – Horsecar tram begins operating.
1885 – {{illm|Coimbra Station|pt|Estação Ferroviária de Coimbra}} opens; Ramal da Coimbra (railway) begins operating.
1887 – Coimbra Academic Association student union formed.
1900 – Population: 18,144.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

20th century

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1906 – {{illm|Ponte Ferroviária de Dueça 1|pt}} and {{illm|Ponte José Luciano de Castro|pt}} (bridges) open.
1910 – Ancient Roman Conímbriga ruins near Coimbra designated a national monument.
1911
Electric trams begins operating.
Population: 20,581.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Portugal |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1249 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1249 }}
1930
Diário de Coimbra newspaper begins publication.
City coat of arms redesign adopted.
1947 – Trolleybus begins operating.
1954 – Ponte de Santa Clara (bridge) opens.
1958 – University-related {{illm|Centro de Estudos Cinematográficos (Coimbra)|pt|lt=Centro de Estudos Cinematográficos }} active.
1962 – University of Coimbra General Library rebuilt.
1963 – Coimbra University Stadium opens.
1970 – May: Student unrest.{{citation |work=New York Times |date= 15 May 1970 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/15/archives/portuguese-will-investigate-clash-at-coimbra-university.html |title= Portuguese Will Investigate Clash at Coimbra University }}
1981 – {{illm|Açude-ponte de Coimbra|pt}} (bridge) opens.
1982 – City joins the regional Associação Informática da Região Centro.{{cite web |url=http://www.airc.pt/historia-e-marcos |title= Associação Informática da Região Centro |location=Coimbra |language=pt |access-date= 14 November 2017 }}
1986 – Coimbra University Radio begins broadcasting.
1996 – Metro Mondego transit entity formed to plan regional light rail system (as of 2017 unrealized).
1998 – Cm-coimbra.pt website online (approximate date).{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981212023844/https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/ |url=https://www.cm-coimbra.pt |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 December 1998 |title=Cm-coimbra.pt |publisher=Câmara Municipal de Coimbra |language=pt |via=Wayback Machine }}

21st century

2001
{{illm|Carlos Encarnação|pt}} becomes mayor.^(pt)
Population: 104,489.{{cite book |title= Europa World Year Book 2004 |isbn=1857432533 |publisher= Europa Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C |year=2004 |chapter=Portugal }}
2002 - Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição (stadium) built.
2003 - Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (stadium) opens.
2004
Ponte Rainha Santa Isabel (bridge) opens.
Part of UEFA Euro 2004 football contest played in Coimbra.
2005 – August: Wildfire burns in area around city.{{citation |work=New York Times |date= 22 August 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/world/europe/fires-blaze-out-of-control-across-portugal.html |title= Fires blaze out of control across Portugal }}
2007 – Pedro e Inês footbridge opens.
2010
City joins the {{illm|União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas|pt}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.uccla.pt/membro/coimbra |title=Membros: Coimbra |work=Uccla.pt |language=pt |access-date= 12 November 2017 }}
João Paulo Barbosa de Melo becomes mayor.^(pt)
2011 – July: {{illm|Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses|pt}} meets in Coimbra.{{cite web |url=http://www.anmp.pt/index.php/22-congressos/4-congressos |title= Congressos da ANMP |publisher=Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses |language=pt |access-date= 14 November 2017 }}
2013 – Manuel Machado becomes mayor.^(pt)
2017
June: June 2017 Portugal wildfires burn in region near city.
October: {{illm|Coimbra local election, 2017|pt|Eleições autárquicas de 2017 em Coimbra}} held.

References

:This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

;in English

{{Citation |publisher = Adam & Charles Black |location = Edinburgh |editor=John Lomas |title = O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal |edition=8th |date = 1889

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/osheasguidetospa00osherich#page/544/mode/2up

|chapter= Coimbra

}}

{{cite book

|hdl=2027/njp.32101065312884?urlappend=%3Bseq=356 | ref = {{harvid|Chambers|1901}}

}}

{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Coimbra |volume= 6 | page = 653 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
{{cite book |title=Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History .... in the Newberry Library |publisher= Newberry Library |location= Chicago |via= HathiTrust |year= 1953

|chapter=Local History, Portugal: Coimbra

|hdl= 2027/mdp.39015023946240?urlappend=%3Bseq=140 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015023946240?urlappend=%3Bseq=140

}} {{free access}} (Bibliography)

{{cite book

|editor=Trudy Ring |title=Southern Europe |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |volume=3

|year= 1996

| ref = {{harvid|Ring|1996}}

}}

;in Portuguese

{{citation |author=Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Coimbra |title= Vereações |language=pt }}
[https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/index.php/servicos/documentacao-geral/menu-area-de-ficheiros/cultura-1/8140-vereacoes-n-1/file no.1], ca. 1491; [https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/index.php/servicos/documentacao-geral/menu-area-de-ficheiros/cultura-1/8172-vereacoes-n-3/file no.3], ca. 1518; etc.
{{cite book |title=Diccionario geografico, ou, Noticia historica de todas as cidades...de Portugal |editor=Luís Cardoso |publisher=Regia Officina Sylviana and Academia Real da História Portuguesa |location=Lisbon |oclc=987786218 |language=pt |year= 1751

|chapter=Coimbra |volume=2

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/diccionariogeogr02card#page/664/mode/1up

}}

{{cite book |title=Anais do Município de Coimbra |trans-title=Annals of Coimbra |language=pt

}} ca. 1840–

{{cite book |title=Memoria historico-chorographica dos diversos concelhos do districto administrativo de Coimbra |author=Antonio Luiz de Sousa Henriques Secco |url=https://archive.org/details/memoriahistorico00sous |language=pt |year= 1853

|ref= {{harvid|Sousa Henriques Secco|1853}}

}}

{{cite book |title=Guia historico do viajante em Coimbra |author=Augusto Mendes Simões de Castro |location=Coimbra |publisher= Imprensa da Universidade |url=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000191813 |language=pt |year= 1867

}}

{{cite book|editor=António Francisco Barata |title=Historia breve de Coimbra |url=https://archive.org/details/historiabrevedec00brit |edition=2nd |location=Lisbon |publisher=Imprensa Nacional |language=pt |year= 1873

}}

{{cite book |author=Pinho Leal |title=Portugal Antigo e Moderno: Diccionario.... |publisher=Mattos Moreira |language=pt |year= 1874

|chapter= Coimbra

|pages= 314+ |volume= 2

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125005925470#page/n319/mode/2up

}}

{{cite book |title=Diccionario encyclopedico ou novo diccionario da lingua portugueza |oclc=14951122 |publisher= Francisco Arthur da Silva |location=Lisbon |language=pt |edition=4th |year= 1874

|chapter= Coimbra |volume=1

|hdl=2027/uc1.l0063741581?urlappend=%3Bseq=743 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.l0063741581?urlappend=%3Bseq=743

}}

{{cite book |title=Diccionario Popular |editor=Manuel Pinheiro Chagas |publisher= Diario Illustrado |location=Lisbon |language=pt |year= 1878

|chapter= Coimbra

|chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433004957100?urlappend=%3Bseq=808

|volume=3

|hdl=2027/nyp.33433004957100?urlappend=%3Bseq=808 |ref= {{harvid|Pinheiro Chagas|1878}}

}}

{{citation |title=Almanach Commercial de Lisboa |language=pt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86ILAQAAIAAJ |editor= Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos |year= 1886

|chapter= Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Coimbra

|pages=233–235

}}

{{cite book |title=Guia de Coimbra |author= Eugénio de Castro |date= 1900 |author-link= Eugénio de Castro |url=https://archive.org/details/guiadecoimbra00cast |language=pt

}} circa 1900

{{cite book|editor1= Esteves Pereira |editor2= Guilherme Rodrigues |title=Portugal: Diccionario Historico.... |publisher= Joao Romano Torres |location=Lisbon |oclc=865826167 |language=pt |year=1906

|chapter= Coimbra |volume= 2

|hdl= 2027/nyp.33433004990440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1079 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433004990440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1079

}}

{{cite book |title=Guia do forasteiro em Coimbra |author= Agostinho Rodrigues d'Andrade |location=Porto |url=https://archive.org/details/guiadoforasteiro00andr |language=pt |year= 1906

}}

{{cite book|author= Jorge de Alarcão|author-link= Jorge de Alarcão|title=Coimbra: a montagem do cenário urbano|publisher=Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |isbn=978-989-8074-30-0 |language=pt |year=2008

}}

{{cite thesis |type=PhD |author=Margarida Isabel Barreto Relvão Calmeiro |title=Urbanismo antes dos Planos: Coimbra 1834‐1934 |publisher=Universidade de Coimbra |language=pt |year=2014

|hdl=10316/27732 }} {{free access}}

External links

{{citation |title=Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Coimbra |url=https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/index.php/servicos/documentacao-geral/menu-area-de-ficheiros/cultura-1/arquivo-historico-municipal |work= Cm-coimbra.pt |language=pt }} (city archives)
{{cite web |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=Coimbra |title= (Coimbra) |via= Europeana }}
{{cite web |url= https://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=Coimbra+Portugal&utf8=✓ |title= (Coimbra) |via= Digital Public Library of America }}

Coimbra

Category:Years in Portugal

Timeline of Coimbra

Prior to 20th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

Bibliography

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