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[]
18th century[]
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