Timeline of government archives

This is a page for the chronology of government archives (local and central etc) - dates of founding and other significance (such as the transfer of the Public Records Office from the Chancery Lane website to Kew).

14th century

 * 1318 General Archive of the Crown of Aragon
 * 1371 Stadtarchiv Heilbronn
 * 1378 Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo

15th century

 * 1408 Stadtarchiv Kassel
 * 1451 Archives of the University of Glasgow
 * 1489 Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid

16th century

 * 1540 Archivo General de Simancas

18th century

 * 1756 National Archives of Hungary
 * 1773 Archives of the Republic of Slovenia

19th century

 * 1808 Archivio di Stato di Napoli
 * 1816 National Archives of Finland
 * 1821 General Archive of the Nation (Argentina), State Records Authority of New South Wales, and Maharashtra State Archives
 * 1827 Landesarchiv Berlin
 * 1829 National Archives of Luxembourg
 * 1836 National Archives of Venezuela
 * 1838 Brazilian National Archives
 * 1840 Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba
 * 1852 Archivio di Stato di Firenze
 * 1854 General Register Office for Scotland, Tennessee State Library and Archives
 * 1855 Stadtarchiv Freiburg
 * 1860 Archivio di Stato di Pisa and National Archives of Haiti
 * 1863 General National Archive (Nicaragua)
 * 1868 Archivio di Stato di Mantova
 * 1869 Staatsarchiv Marburg
 * 1870 Egyptian National Library and Archives
 * 1871 Archivio di Stato di Roma
 * 1875 Central Archives of the State (Italy)
 * 1882 National Archives of Iceland
 * 1883 Argyle Township Court House Archives
 * 1884 National Archives of Ecuador
 * 1888 National Archives of Costa Rica
 * 1889 Danish National Archives
 * 1890 National Archives of Afghanistan
 * 1891 National Archives of India
 * 1894 British Columbia Archives
 * 1895 Goa Archives

20th century

 * 1900 National Archives of Serbia
 * February 27, 1901 Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH)
 * 1903 Archives of Ontario, Official Historian of Puerto Rico, State Records Office of Western Australia
 * 1912 Bihar State Archives
 * 1913 Archives nationales du Sénégal
 * 1914 General State Archives (Greece), Regional State Archives in Stavanger and National Archives of Benin
 * 1916 National Archives of Thailand
 * 1918 Georgia Archives - the US state.
 * 1920 Iraq National Library and Archive
 * 1924 National Archives of Panama
 * 1927 National Archives of Chile
 * 1928 Slovak National Archives, Stadtarchiv Stuttgart and Stadtarchive Stuttgart
 * 1933 Kent Archives Office founded.
 * 1938 Gwent Archives and National Archives of the Faroe Islands
 * 1939 National Archives of Namibia
 * 1941 Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
 * 1944 Archivo Histórico Provincial de Badajoz and National Archives and Library of Ethiopia
 * 1945 Archives of the Republic of Slovenia created (based on earlier bodies).
 * 1946 Archivo Histórico Provincial de Córdoba founded.
 * 1947 National Archives of Bosnia-Herzegovina, National Archives of Malawi and Oregon State Archives founded.
 * 1949 Israel State Archives and New York City Municipal Archives
 * 1950 Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cáceres and
 * 1962 Archives nationales du Sénégal becomes the national library of the country.
 * 1965 Archives of the History of American Psychology established
 * 1966 The Alabama Historical Commission created by an act of the state legislature
 * 1967 City of Victoria Archives and National Library & Archives of Bhutan; Pembrokeshire Record Office on its present site.
 * 1968 National Archives of Singapore
 * 1969 Gibraltar National Archives and National Archives of Gabon
 * 1972 Cyprus State Archives, Delhi Archives and Stadtarchiv Mülheim an der Ruhr
 * 1973 City of Melfort & District Museum and National Archives of Pakistan
 * 1974 Tyne and Wear Archives Service
 * 1977 Archivio di Stato di Piacenza, Archivo Central del Ministerio de Cultura, Kreisarchiv Landkreis Diepholz and Sindh Archives opened.
 * 1978 What is now The National Archives (United Kingdom) building at Kew, London, opened. Trail City Archives opened.
 * 1979 Himachal Pradesh State Archives
 * 1982 Manipur State Archives
 * 1985 National Security Archive
 * 1989 National Archives of Ireland
 * 1990 Kent Archives Office and the county's local studies library merged, to form the Centre for Kentish Studies
 * 1991 Archive of the President of the Russian Federation and Nanaimo Archives
 * 1992 State Archive of the Russian Federation
 * 1993 Kreisarchiv Ostprignitz-Ruppin
 * 1994 National Archives of Aruba
 * 1996 Ayrshire Archives and National Archives and Records Service
 * 1997 London Metropolitan Archives and Deseronto Archives
 * July 1998 Archives of Indian Labour established.
 * 1999 National Archives of Estonia and Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
 * 2000 B.C. Central Coast Archives

21st century

 * 2001 National Archives of Japan
 * 2002 Archivo General de La Palma, Archives Lanark and National Archive Department (Azerbaijan)
 * 2003 The National Archives (United Kingdom) created by merging the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The British Columbia Archives merged with the Royal BC Museum
 * 2004 City of Richmond Archives
 * 2005 Archivo Histórico Provincial de Asturias
 * 2007 Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica
 * 2008 Lichfield Record Office closes. March Family Records Centre, Islington, closed. 6 December German Federal Archives made 100,000 photos accessible to the public via Wikimedia Commons
 * 2011 Gwent Archives moves to its current location. Burnaby Archives. November Centre for Kentish Studies closed and reopened Spring 2012 as the Kent History and Library Centre
 * 2013 City of Coquitlam Archives
 * 2019 February City of Coquitlam Archives moves to its current location

See also Timeline of non-government archives and Timeline of libraries