Chronological Overviews
- 1713 -- marks the first special building established for storage of non-current records from various regions and offices of the Habsburg Empire.
- 1840 -- principle of "respects des fonds" is established by French and,
later, Dutch archivists.
- 1872 -- establishment of the
Dominion Archives
(later Public Archives of Canada/National Archives of Canada/LAC)
- 1881 -- Prussian State Archives contribute the principle of provenance and original order.
- 1898 -- Samuel Muller, J.A. Feith and R. Fruin published the Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives
- 1922 -- Hilary Jenkinson publishes the Manual for Archival Administration.
- 1929 -- the founding of the Annales School of History
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