A few history highlights by codrutz
Bucharest appears for the first time in one paper issued by Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), in the autumn of the year 1459. Since then, Bucharest is now enlarged to 228 sq.km and over 2.300.000 people lives here.
During the years, and especially in the second half of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century, buildings, streets and monuments gave Bucharest the nickname of The Little Paris. Here are some essential moments in the history of the city:
1740 - first private owned pharmacy
1779 - first pumps with with drinking water
1789 - first administrative distribution of the city: 5 divisions, 80 neighbourhoods and 6006 households
1814 - public lighting with candles
1816 - swiching to public lighting with knapsack oil
1820 - first hotel - Hotel Brenner - on Smardan St
1826 - first library - owned by the french Thierin de Meronville
1829 - first newspaper - Romanian Courier of Ion Heliade Radulescu and Constantin Moroiu
1869 - first railway - Bucharest-Giurgiu, first trainstation - Filaret and first train, made-up from three cars and the engine named Mihai Bravu
1872 - first tramway
1880 - The National Bank of Romania was established
1900 - first automobile in Bucharest
1908 - the Bucharest Observatory was built