Historical timeline of the city of Rijeka
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Rijeka ,
Croatia .
Prior to 19th century
3rd century CE – Roman triumphal arch erected.
799 CE – Town sacked by forces of Charlemagne (approximate date).
1139 – "Counts of Duino" in power.
1377 – Church of the Assumption founded.
1453 – Virgin Mary pilgrimage church established near town.
[3]
1471 – Austrians in power.
1638 –
St. Vitus Cathedral founded.
1722 – Fiume becomes a
free port .
1779 – Town becomes part of the
Kingdom of Hungary .
[3]
1790 –
Church of St. Nicholas built.
19th century
1809 – Town occupied by French forces.
1813 – Town taken by British forces.
1822 – Town ceded to Hungary.
1849 – Town becomes part of Croatia.
1851 - Population: 10,568.
[5]
1856 – Imperial Naval Academy founded.
1870 – Town becomes part of the
Kingdom of Hungary again.
1872 –
Drenova becomes part of Fiume.[
citation needed ]
1873 – Railway begins operating.
1875 –
Whitehead 's torpedo manufactory in operation.
1877 – Port built.
1890 - Population: 30,337.
[7]
1891
Fiume loses
free port status.
June: Austrian emperor visits town.
1898 – October: Flood.
1900 – Population: 38,955.
[7]
20th century
21st century
See also
References
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"Rijeka" , Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World , New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1581,
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Georg Friedrich Kolb [in German] (1862).
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b Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1908).
"Hungary: Principal Towns" .
Statesman's Year-Book . London: Macmillan and Co.
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"Fiume" .
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"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Croatia" . Norway:
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 30 September 2015 .
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"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York:
Statistical Office of the United Nations . 1966.
^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997).
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
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2011 Census , Zagreb:
Croatian Bureau of Statistics
This article incorporates information from the
Croatian Wikipedia ,
German Wikipedia , and
Italian Wikipedia .
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
David Brewster, ed. (1830).
"Fiume" .
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia . Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
"Fiume" , Enciclopedia italiana e dizionario della conversazione (in Italian), vol. 7, Venezia: Girolamo Tasso, 1843
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George Henry Townsend (1867),
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"Austria-Hungary: Fiume" . Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c. of Their Consular Districts . London: Harrison and Sons.
Thomas Graham Jackson (1887),
"Fiume" , Dalmatia , Oxford: Clarendon Press
R. Lambert Playfair (1892),
"Fiume" , Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd ed.), London:
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Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896),
"Fiume" , Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England , Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor,
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Published in 20th century
"Fiume" ,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia , London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
"Fiume" . Illustrierter Führer durch Dalmatien [Illustrated Guide to Dalmatia ] (in German) (5th ed.). Wien: A. Hartleben. 1902.
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Benjamin Vincent (1910),
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Karl Baedeker , 1911
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