Timeline of Lyon
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lyon, France.
- This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 15th century
See also: Lugdunum, Lyon in the High Middle Ages and Lyon in the Late Middle Ages
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- 43 BCE - Roman colony of Lugdunum founded.[1]
- 15 BCE - Ancient Theatre of Fourvière built (approximate date).
- 10 BCE - Claudius born.
- 197 CE - Battle of Lugdunum.[2]
- 1170s - Religious Waldensians active.[1]
- 1180 - Lyon Cathedral construction begins.
- 1245 - First Council of Lyon convenes.[2]
- 1272-1274 - Second Council of Lyon convenes.[2]
- 1300 - University of Lyon founded.[3]
- 1307 - Lyon becomes part of France.[2]
- 1381 - Public clock installed.[4]
- 1383 - Lyon astronomical clock in operation in the cathedral (approximate date).
15th-18th centuries
See also: Renaissance in Lyon and Lyon in the French Revolution
- 1420 - Trade fairs authorized.[5]
- 1454 - Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon (hospital) in operation.
- 1473 - Printing press established.
- 1480 - Lyon Cathedral building completed.
- 1498 - Maison du Chamarier built.
- 1506 - Stock exchange opens.[5]
- 1515 - Silk industry in Lyon begins.[2]
- 1519 - Collège de la Trinité founded.
- 1531 - Hospice de la Charite founded.[6]
- 1540 - Printers' strike.[5]
- 1548 - Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici visit city.[7]
- 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.[5]
- 1617 - Hospice de la Charite church built.[6]
- 1651 - City Hall built.
- 1655 - Premiere of Moliere's L'Etourdi .[3]
- 1700 - Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon established.[8]
- 1702 - Chamber of Commerce founded.[9]
- 1704 - Currency court established.
- 1711 - Flood.[10]
- 1724 - Academy of fine arts established.[11]
- 1731 - Lyon Public Library established.[12][13]
- 1744 - "Silkworkers' revolt."[14]
- 1750 - Saint-Clair (quarter) development begins.[14]
- 1761 - Veterinary School of Lyon founded.[15]
- 1771 - Conseil Superieur established.[14]
- 1775 - Saint-Clair bridge opens.[14]
- 1778 - Masonic Rectified Scottish Rite founded in Lyon.
- 1784 - Montgolfiere hot air balloon ascends from Brotteaux.[14]
- 1786 - Weavers' strike.[5]
- 1790 - City becomes part of the Rhône-et-Loire department.
- 1793
- Revolt of Lyon against the National Convention.[1]
- City becomes part of the Rhône (department).
- Population: 102,167.
19th century
See also: Lyon in the French First Republic and Lyon in the French Third Republic
- 1803
- Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon opens.[16]
- Temple du Change (church) active.
- 1806 - Labor court established.
- 1807 - Cemetery of Loyasse established.
- 1814 - March: Austrians in power.[2]
- 1815 - 8 March: Napoleon arrives.[2]
- 1822 - Catholic Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded in Lyon.
- 1825 - Statue of Louis XIV installed in the Place Bellecour.[6]
- 1831 - November-December: Canut revolt.[2]
- 1834 - April: Canut revolt.[2]
- 1835 - Revue du Lyonnais journal begins publication.
- 1836 - Brasserie Georges in business.
- 1840 - 4 November: Flood.[2]
- 1842 - Courthouse built.[17]
- 1848
- Le Salut public newspaper begins publication.[9]
- Église Saint-Georges (church) rebuilt.
- 1849 - June: Canut revolt.[2]
- 1850 - 15 August: "Banquet to Louis Napoleon."[2]
- 1854 - Gare de Lyon-Vaise opens.
- 1855 - Gare de Lyon-Perrache opens.
- 1856
- Flood.[10]
- Society of African Missions founded in Lyon.
- Population: 292,721.
- 1857 - École centrale de Lyon founded.
- 1858 - Lyon–Geneva railway in operation.
- 1859 - Le progrès newspaper begins publication.[18]
- 1860
- Philharmonic Society founded.[19]
- Palais de la Bourse built.
- 1861
- African Museum of Lyon establiahsed.
- Population: 318,803.
- 1862 - Funicular railway begins operating.
- 1863 - Crédit Lyonnais (bank) founded.
- 1864 - Grande synagogue de Lyon built.
- 1875 - Union générale bank and Catholic University of Lyon established.
- 1876 - Gare de Lyon-Saint-Paul opens.
- 1877 - Théâtre des Célestins opens.
- 1879 - Le Nouvelliste de Lyon newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1880 - Le Monde lyonnais newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1883
- Trial of Lyon anarchists
- Église du Bon-Pasteur (church) built.
- 1884 - Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière built.
- 1886 - Population: 401,930.
- 1888 - Association générale des étudiants of Lyon established.[21]
- 1890 - Republican monument erected in Place Carnot.[6]
- 1891 - Croix-Rousse funicular begins operating.
- 1892 - Fontaine Bartholdi installed in Place des Terreaux.
- 1894
- 29 April: Exposition internationale et coloniale (1894) opens.[3]
- 24 June: Assassination of French president Carnot.[1]
- 25 June: "Anti-Italian riots."[2]
- Metallic tower of Fourvière and Théâtre de l’Eldorado built.
- 1899 - Lyon Olympique Universitaire football club formed.
20th century
See also: Lyon during World War II and Lyon since 1944
- 1900 - Statue of Carnot erected in the Place de la République.[6]
- 1902 - Revue d'histoire de Lyon journal begins publication.
- 1903
- July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Lyon.
- Revue musicale de Lyon begins publication.[21]
- 1905
- Orchestre National de Lyon established.
- Édouard Herriot becomes mayor.[1]
- 1906 - Population: 430,186 city; 472,114 commune.[15]
- 1908 - Gare des Brotteaux opens.
- 1914 - Exposition internationale urbaine de Lyon held.
- 1917 - Berliet automobile manufactory in business.
- 1921 - Montluc prison built.
- 1926 - Stade de Gerland (stadium) opens.
- 1933 - Pathe Bellecour cinema opens.[22]
- 1941 - Odeon of Lyon excavation begins.
- 1942 - German occupation begins.
- 1944 - 2 September: Allied forces take city from Germans.[5]
- 1952
- Tunnel de la Croix-Rousse opens.
- Positif film magazine begins publication.
- 1964 - Printing Museum established.
- 1968 - Population: 527,800.
- 1969 - Urban Community of Lyon and Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon established.
- 1971 - Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 established.
- 1973 - Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 established.
- 1975
- Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon building opens.
- Population: 456,716.
- 1978 - Lyon Metro Line A begins operating.
- 1980 - Conservatory of Music and Dance established.
- 1982 - Population: 413,095.
- 1983
- TGV hi-speed railway begins operating.[1]
- Opéra National de Lyon founded.
- Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu opens.
- 1987 - 11 May: Barbie Trial begins.
- 1989 - Michel Noir becomes mayor.[23]
- 1991 - Lyon Metro Line D begins operating.
- 1993 - Opéra Nouvel opens.
- 1995
- Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon building opens.
- Raymond Barre becomes mayor.[1]
- 1997 - Gare de Lyon-Vaise rebuilt.
21st century
- 2001 - Gérard Collomb becomes mayor.
- 2005 - Vélo'v bikeshare begins operating.
- 2008 - Pathe Vaise cinema opens.[22]
- 2011 - Population: 491,268.
- 2012 - Tram-train de l'ouest lyonnais begins operating.
- 2014 - Musée des Confluences opens.
- 2015 - Metropolis of Lyon established.
See also
- History of Lyon
- List of mayors of Lyon
- Other names of Lyon
- Other cities in France
- Timeline of Bordeaux
- Timeline of Lille
- Timeline of Marseille
- Timeline of Montpellier
- Timeline of Nantes
- Timeline of Nice
- Timeline of Paris
- Timeline of Rouen
- Timeline of Strasbourg
- Timeline of Toulouse
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Gino Raymond (2008). Historical Dictionary of France. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6256-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Lyons", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Charles E. Little (1900), "France", Cyclopedia of Classified Dates, New York: Funk & Wagnalls
- ↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). "Diffusion of Public Clocks". History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Lyons". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Lyons", Southern France (6th ed.), Karl Baedeker, 1914
- ↑ "Entry of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici into Lyons (Lyons: September, 1548)". Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Retrieved January 2015.
- ↑ James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Almanach du Lyonnais (in French). Lyon: Legendre. 1903.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Lyons". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- ↑ Abraham Rees (1819), "Lyons", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- ↑ David H. Stam, ed. (2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-244-9.
- ↑ Charles Joseph Chambet (1860). Lyon descriptif, monumental et industriel de la ville de Lyon (in French) (11th ed.).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Pierre Claude Reynard (2009). "Chronological Landmarks". Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-7574-5.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Lyons", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Catalogue sommaire des Musées de la ville de Lyon (in French). 1887.
- ↑ Syndicat d'initiative de Lyon (1906). Lyon pittoresque (in French). J. Poncet.
- ↑ "Lyon (France) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved January 2015.
- ↑ P. Holstein (1904), "Le conservatoire de musique et les salles de concert a Lyon", Revue d'histoire de Lyon (in French)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Sébastien Charléty (1903). Bibliographie critique de l'histoire de Lyon, depuis 1789 jusqu'à nos jours. Annales de l'universite de Lyon (in French).
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Patrimoine ancien et contemporain: Les collections" (in French). Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. Retrieved January 2015.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Movie Theaters in Lyon, France". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 2015.
- ↑ "Lyons Journal; For a Staid City, Neo-Gaullism With Gallic Verve", New York Times, 10 April 1989
Further reading
Main article: Bibliography of the history of Lyon
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