Timeline of Cluj-Napoca

The following detailed sequence of events covers the timeline of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, Romania.

Cluj-Napoca (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkluʒ naˈpoka] ⓘ, German: Klausenburg; Hungarian: Kolozsvár, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkoloʒvaːr] ⓘ; Medieval Latin: Castrum Clus, Claudiopolis; and Yiddish: קלויזנבורג, Kloiznburg), commonly known as Cluj, is located in the Someșul Mic River valley, roughly equidistant from Bucharest (324 kilometres (201 miles)), Budapest (351 km (218 mi)) and Belgrade (322 km (200 mi)).

In modern times, the city holds the status of municipiu, is the seat of Cluj County in the north-western part of Romania, and continues to be considered the unofficial capital of the historical province of Transylvania.

Cluj continues to be one of the most important academic, cultural, industrial and business centres in Romania.

The current boundaries of the municipality contain an area of 179.52 square kilometres (69.31 sq mi).

Napoca in Roman Dacia
Text of Roman milliarium from 108, describing the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by request of the Emperor Trajan . It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. The complete inscription is: " Imp[erator]/ Caesar Nerva/ Traianus Aug[ustus]/ Germ[anicus] Dacicus/ pontif[ex] maxim[us]/ [ sic ] pot[estate] XII co[n]s[ul] V/ imp[erator] VI p[ater] p[atriae] fecit/ per coh[ortem] I Fl[aviam] Vlp[iam]/ Hisp[anam] mil[liariam] c[ivium] R[omanorum] eq[uitatam]/ a Potaissa Napo/cam / m[ilia] p[assuum] X ".
Napoca in the Roman Dacia fragment of the 1st–4th century AD Tabula Peutingeriana (upper center)
Ruined buildings with hypocaust from the Roman Napoca
Gepid Thesaurus from Apahida
Avars, Slavs and Bulgars in the areas around Transylvania
The Hungarian Conquest in the Illuminated Chronicle
The Hungarians' arrival in the Carpathian Basin depicted in the Illuminated Chronicle
Mongol invasion of the Hungarian Kingdom depicted in Johannes de Thurocz 's Chronica Hungarorum
Seal of Cluj granted in 1377 by King Louis I of Hungary , with the inscription S[igilium] CIVIVM de CLVS WAR
Interior of St. Michael's Church
1617 engraving of Kolozsvár/Klausenburg by Joris Hoefnagel & son
The Kolozsvár/Klausenburg Bridge Gate in 1860
Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, c. 1900
Inauguration of the Matthias Corvinus Monument in 1902
Romanian troops (Regiment 16 Dorobanți "Fălticeni") marching in Cluj, 1918
U Cluj football team on 27 October 1923
Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral in 1940