Since the late 1890s, Haarlem has been willing to concede that perhaps Mainz printed earlier, in the person of Johann Gutenberg.

However, as biographer Seymour Slive has pointed out, the Frans Hals in question was not the artist, but another Haarlem resident of the same name.

This fact found in the Haarlem archives has led to speculation that Hals made a self-portrait in his 1639 painting of the St. Joris company, though this has never been confirmed.

The town of Halfweg became a suburb, and Haarlem became a quiet bedroom community, and for this reason Haarlem still has many of its central medieval buildings intact.

Haarlem has had a Christian parish church since the 9th century.

This makes it quite confusing for tourists, because Haarlem also has another Cathedral of Saint Bavo, situated on the Leidsevaart.

The Bishop of Haarlem has a formal residence on the Nieuwe Gracht canal.

The Frans Hals Museum, which was the Haarlem municipal museum, has still in its collection today many pieces confiscated from the churches during the Haarlemse Noon.

* The book The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, père has several scenes in Haarlem, most notably the ending, and it is the Horticultural Society of Haarlem that offers a reward for a black tulip.

Since the 18th century, Haarlem has historically had more museums per inhabitant than any other city of the Netherlands.

On the east of Haarlem, there is Haarlem Spaarnwoude, which has 2 trains per hour to Amsterdam.

Beer brewing has been a very important industry for Haarlem.

Even at that early date Heemstede had already gained the reputation it has today, of being primarily a " bedroom community " for the cities of Haarlem and Amsterdam.

Zandvoort has a station, with half hourly services to Haarlem and Amsterdam, with extra services from Haarlem during the summer.

The Clickburg Webcomic Awards ( also known as " the Clickies ") has been handed out annually since 2005 at the Stripdagen Haarlem comic festival.

The Museum has various paintings by Matthias Stomer and Salomon de Bray, including The Incredulity of Saint Thomas and Judith and Holofernes, as well as still lifes by the most important artists of the Haarlem School: Pieter Claesz, Willem Claesz Heda, and Jan Davidsz de Heem.

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands has set a prize of 100, 000 guilders to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame.

The train station and a bus station from the special bus line from Haarlem to Amsterdam, the Zuidtangent, which has largely its own bus lane, with priority at crossings.

The Haarlem Mill has been mentioned as the possible model for the mill in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.

Willem van Heythuijsen was buried in the Sint-Bavokerk in the center of Haarlem, a practice that resulted in the term stinking rich, until laws forbade burials inside churches for hygienic reasons.

A 1568 history by Hadrianus Junius of Holland claims that the basic idea of the movable type came to Gutenberg from Laurens Janszoon Coster via Fust, who was apprenticed to Coster in the 1430s and may have brought some of his equipment from Haarlem to Mainz.

In the 1981 – 2 season Gullit was in fine form as Haarlem finished 4th and qualified for Europe for the only time in their history.

Also on the Grote Markt, in the cellar of the Vleeshal is the Archeologisch Museum Haarlem, while across the square on Saturdays, the Hoofdwacht building is open with exhibitions on Haarlem history.

The city council then proceeded in the 17th century to rewrite Haarlem history, and purchased various large pieces to decorate the city hall, telling stories such as the legend of Damiate, or the legend of the Haarlem Shield.

Among the more famous paintings on display is a modern exhibit with explanatory text showing the paintings in relation to historical events and the economic history of Haarlem.

Teylers Museum (, ) is an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands.

The Teyler legacy to the city of Haarlem was split into two societies: Teylers First or Theological Society ( Dutch: Teylers Eerste of Godgeleerd Genootschap ), intended for the study of religion and Teylers Second Society ( Dutch: Teylers Tweede Genootschap ), which was to concern itself with physics, poetry, history, drawing and numismatics.

Since 1919 the building is occupied by the historical association Historische vereniging Haerlem, which uses it today for meetings and small public exhibits on the history of Haarlem.

File: Station Haarlem tegeltableau. jpeg | 1900s decoration depicting the history of the Amsterdam-Haarlem train route from the trekschuit to carriageway along the haarlemmertrekvaart.

File: 2004 Haarlem station 100 jaar spoorwegen tegeltableau. JPG | 1939 tile memorial plaque celebrating 100 years of railway history shows accurate early engine on the left.

According to the period history of Haarlem by Pieter Langendijk, the hofje had bleaching fields behind the easternmost cottages and a pavilion on the Spaarne river for the ladies to drink tea in.

He also wrote " Israel en de Volken " ( 2d ed., Haarlem, 1848 – 49 ), a survey of the history of the Jews to the nineteenth century, written from the standpoint of the Church.

The Vleeshal is a historical building dating from 1603 on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

The Hofje van Bakenes, a Hofjes in Haarlem | hofje in Haarlem dating from 1395.

In his first year at Haarlem they finished bottom of the Eredivisie, but bounced back the following season winning the Eerste Divisie.

The heyday of beer brewing in Haarlem goes back to the 15th century, when there were no fewer than 100 breweries in the city.

He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, when he moved back to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands.

In 1632 he is registered in Utrecht ( where, like Jacob Duck, he was probably influenced by the village scenes of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, which were popular in his day ), but in 1634 he was back in Haarlem where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.

In 1661-1670 he is registered in Amsterdam and in 1670 he moved back to Haarlem, but was living back in Amsterdam by 1677, where he died in 1683.

The museum was founded in 1862 in the newly renovated former cloister located in the back of the Haarlem city hall known as the Prinsenhof.

He moved back to Haarlem in 1913, when the orphanage where he grew up was converted to the Frans Hals Museum.

The Haarlem archives mention the followers of Zwingli as far back as 1530.