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Register/History

History

1,723
Events
28
Periods
647–2027
Span

When it happened.

1723 dated events, 647 to 2027. Every one names at least one entry in the register, and links to it; the fourteen that do not are industry-level and say so.

The base is uneven and the shape of it is the point. The early centuries are thin because the chronology was built from verified entries rather than from a reading list, and the recent decades are dense for the same reason. A missing event is more visible than a missing entry, which is why this section has become the Library’s best instrument for finding what is absent.

Periods run by century to 1849 and by decade from 1850, because that is where the record thickens. Dates carrying ⚑ are claimed by a house rather than established — three of them, and one house says so itself.

600–699
1 events
700–799
A single dated survivor.
3 events
1200–1299
2 events
1300–1399
3 events
1400–1499
4 events
1500–1599
The first coffee reaches Europe.
5 events
1600–1699
Coffee houses and the first restaurants.
14 events
1700–1799
Cafés, confectioners, and the first hotel built as one.
41 events
1800–1849
Steam, spas and the grand tour.
34 events
1850–1859
Railways, casinos and the invented season.
19 events
1860–1869
Monte-Carlo, the Suez Canal, and a wager in St. Moritz.
25 events
1870–1879
The Riviera, the sleeping car, and the first grand hotels of the East.
43 events
1880–1889
Penang, Singapore, the Orient Express and the Place Vendôme in prospect.
41 events
1890–1899
The Savoy, the Ritz, the Taj — the modern luxury hotel is assembled.
56 events
1900–1909
Statler, the Michelin guide, and a bathroom in every room.
69 events
1910–1919
War, the Singapore Sling, and the pink hotel.
62 events
1920–1929
The Riviera summer, Le Bristol, and the American in Paris.
61 events
1930–1939
Depression, the Waldorf on Park Avenue, and the Savoy Cocktail Book.
51 events
1940–1949
War, requisition, and the end of the casino era in Brazil.
35 events
1950–1959
Relais de Campagne, the Marbella Club, and the chain becomes a portfolio.
61 events
1960–1969
Four Seasons, Novotel, Byblos — the modern industry starts.
88 events
1970–1979
Sherwood buys a hotel and two railway carriages; Kurumba opens.
105 events
1980–1989
Morgans, Amanpuri, Regent Hong Kong.
85 events
1990–1999
Chiva-Som, Banyan Tree, the George V rebuilt.
151 events
2000–2009
Consolidation, Cheval Blanc, and the rise of sovereign capital.
216 events
2010–2019
LVMH takes Belmond; the palaces change hands.
332 events
2020–2029
Closure, reopening, and the Library itself.
116 events
EVERY EVENTone page, 1723 rows

The complete timeline in one scroll, filterable by kind: all 1723 events.

Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.