Timeline of Marseille
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Marseille, France.
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Prior to 17th century
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- 600 BC - Massalia founded by Greeks.
- 49 BC - Siege of Massilia.
- 415 AD - Abbey of St. Victor founded (approximate date).
- 473 - Town sacked by Saracens.[1]
- 6th century - Port in operation.
- 1214
- Town becomes a republic.[1]
- Notre-Dame de la Garde built.
- 1262 - Revolt against Angevins.
- 1348 - Bubonic plague.
- 1423 - Town sacked by Aragonese.[2]
- 1453 - Fortifications constructed.
- 1481 - Marseille united with Provence.
- 1482 - Marseille becomes part of France.
- 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I.[2]
- 1531 - Château d'If built.
17th-18th centuries
- 1640 - Maison du Refuge established.[3]
- 1660 - Fort Saint-Jean built.
- 1671 - Coffee-house in business.[4]
- 1683 - Hotel de Ville built.[5]
- 1702 - Observatory built.[6]
- 1720 - Great Plague of Marseille
- 1726 - Academy of Science established.[6]
- 1749 - Almshouse built.
- 1778 - Chateau Borely built.[2]
- 1787 - Grand-Théâtre built.
- 1790 - Jacobin Club founded.[7]
19th century
Map of Marseille, 1896
- 1801
- Musée des Beaux-Arts founded.
- Population: 111,100.
- 1803
- Santon Fair begins.
- Cabinet of Natural History founded.[6]
- 1819 - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille founded.
- 1820 - Population: 101,217.[8]
- 1832 - Triumphal arch erected on Place d'Aix.[5]
- 1836 - Population: 148,597.[8]
- 1839 - Porte d'Aix built.
- 1848
- Paris–Marseille railway begins operating.
- Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles opens.
- 1849 - Canal de Marseille opens.
- 1851 - Population: 195,350.
- 1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.[9]
- 1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
- 1856
- Population: 233,817.[8]
- Cimetière Saint-Pierre established.
- 1858 - Marseille–Ventimiglia railway begins initial operation.
- 1860
- Exchange built.[5]
- Race track in business.
- 1862 - Palais de Justice built.[5]
- 1864 - Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.[5]
- 1865 - Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
- 1869 - Palais Longchamp built.[5]
- 1872 - Business school established.
- 1876 - Tram begins operating.
- 1881 - Population: 360,100.
- 1890 - École d'ingénieurs de Marseille founded.
- 1893 - Institut Colonial de Marseille founded.
- 1894 - Monument des Mobiles des Bouces-du-Rhone erected.[5]
- 1896 - Major Cathedral rebuilt.
- 1899
- Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
- 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.[5]
20th century
- 1902 - Population: 494,769.[5]
- 1903 - July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Marseille.
- 1906 - Colonial exhibition held.
- 1922
- Airport opens.
- Colonial exhibition held.
- 1924 - Opera House built.
- 1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
- 1931 - Population: 606,000.
- 1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.
- 1936 - Musée Cantini opens.
- 1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
- 1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
- 1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
- 1942 - November: German occupation begins.
- 1943 - Battle of Marseille
- 1944
- Bombing by Allied forces.
- August: German occupation ends.
- Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
- 1946 - Jean Cristofol becomes mayor.
- 1947 - Michel Carlini becomes mayor.
- 1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.
- 1953 - La Tourette housing complex built.
- 1972 - Ballet National de Marseille founded.
- 1977
- Marseille Metro begins operating.
- CMA CGM shipping company established.
- 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
- 1981 - Rodéo (riot)
- 1983 - Marseille History Museum opens.
- 1986 - Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
- 1987 - Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
- 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
- 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
- 1995
- Jean-Claude Gaudin becomes mayor.[10]
- Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie founded.
21st century
- 2001 - Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
- 2006 - École centrale de Marseille created.
- 2008 - Population: 851,420.
- 2013 - City designated a European Capital of Culture.
See also
- Marseille history
- History of Marseille
- List of mayors of Marseille
- Other cities in France
- Timeline of Bordeaux
- Timeline of Lille
- Timeline of Lyon
- 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 R. T. Claridge (1839), "Marseilles", A guide down the Danube, London: F. C. Westley
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Marseilles", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Mireur, H. (1882). La prostitution à Marseille: histoire, administration et police, hygiène. Marseille: Librairie Marseillaise
- ↑ Coffee; from plantation to cup, New York: American Grocer Publishing Association, 1881
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Marseilles", Southern France, Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers, Karl Baedeker, 1902
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Marseilles", Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 13, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1830
- ↑ Michael Kennedy (Autumn 1972). "Some Journals of the Jacobin Club of Marseille, 1790-1794". French Historical Studies 7.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Frederick Martin (1867), "Marseilles", Commercial handbook of France, London: Longmans, Green, OCLC 4471325
- ↑ C. B. Black (1890), "Marseilles", The Riviera; or, The coast from Marseilles to Leghorn (7th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black
- ↑ "French mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (1816), "Marseille", An Itinerary of France and Belgium, London: Samuel Leigh
- "Marseilles", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202
- "Marseilles", Hand-book for travellers in France (3rd ed.), London: Murray, 1848
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Marseilles", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Published in the 20th century
- T. G. Bonney (1904), "Marseilles", The Mediterranean, its storied cities and venerable ruins, New York: J. Pott
- Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Marseilles", The gourmet's guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards
- United States. Army Service Forces. Information and education division (1944), "Marseille", Pocket guide to the cities of southern France, Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., OCLC 6205223
- "Marseilles". Michelin Green Guide. Michelin. 1991. OL 8836622M.
- Daniel Lord Smail, Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (Ithaca, N.Y., 1999)
- Published in the 21st century
- Alain Motte (2005). "Marseilles-Aix". In Anton Kreukels et al. Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning: Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49606-8.
External links
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- Map of Marseille, 1993
- Map of Marseille, 1999
- Europeana. Items related to Marseille, various dates.
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