~50 AD - Roman fortress built on what is now the
Dom square as part of the
Limes Germanicus. Named
Traiectum to signify it was at a crossing of what was at that time the main branch of the
Rhine (now the
Oude Gracht)
~200 AD - Wooden fortress walls upgraded to imported
tuff stone. Parts of these wall survive to date
~270 AD - Limes Germanicus including the fortress at Trajectum abandoned due to continued invasions.
636 - Chapel built by
Dagobert I within the walls of the abandoned Roman fortress.[1]
1459 - 2 March: Adriaan Florensz, the later
Pope Adrian VI born.
1470-4 -
First Utrecht Civil War to quell continued opposition to his rule David of Burgundy imprisons Gijsbrecht van Brederode leading to the first Utrecht civil war.
"Utrecht". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London:
John Stockdale. 1800.
OCLC79519893.
W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885).
"Utrecht". Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New York: Harper & Brothers.
In other languages
Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1848).
"Utrecht". Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden [Geographical dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Vol. 11.
Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn – via HathiTrust.
G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978).
"Utrecht". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill.
ISBN90-04-05700-5.
~50 AD - Roman fortress built on what is now the
Dom square as part of the
Limes Germanicus. Named
Traiectum to signify it was at a crossing of what was at that time the main branch of the
Rhine (now the
Oude Gracht)
~200 AD - Wooden fortress walls upgraded to imported
tuff stone. Parts of these wall survive to date
~270 AD - Limes Germanicus including the fortress at Trajectum abandoned due to continued invasions.
636 - Chapel built by
Dagobert I within the walls of the abandoned Roman fortress.[1]
1459 - 2 March: Adriaan Florensz, the later
Pope Adrian VI born.
1470-4 -
First Utrecht Civil War to quell continued opposition to his rule David of Burgundy imprisons Gijsbrecht van Brederode leading to the first Utrecht civil war.
"Utrecht". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London:
John Stockdale. 1800.
OCLC79519893.
W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885).
"Utrecht". Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New York: Harper & Brothers.
In other languages
Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1848).
"Utrecht". Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden [Geographical dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Vol. 11.
Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn – via HathiTrust.
G. van Herwijnen, ed. (1978).
"Utrecht". Bibliografie van de stedengeschiedenis van Nederland [Bibliography of Urban History in the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Brill.
ISBN90-04-05700-5.