Timeline of Toulouse
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Toulouse, France.
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Prior to 18th century
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- 106 BCE - Romans in power.[1]
- 3rd century CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Toulouse established.
- 413 CE - Toulouse taken by forces of Visigoth Ataulf.[2][3]
- 419 CE - Toulouse becomes capital of Visigothic Kingdom.[2]
- 508 - Clovis I in power.[2]
- 631 - Toulouse becomes capital of the Duchy of Aquitaine.[4]
- 721 - Battle of Toulouse (721).
- 778
- Torson becomes duke of Toulouse.[5]
- Toulouse becomes capital of the County of Toulouse.[2]
- 850 - Troubadours active (approximate date).[4]
- 1060 - Basilica of St. Sernin construction begins.[6]
- 1180 - Daurade Bridge opens (approximate date).[7]
- 1218 - Siege of Toulouse (1217–18).
- 1219 - Siege of Toulouse (1219) .
- 1229
- University of Toulouse established.[4]
- Inquisition begins.[4]
- 1286 - Augustinian convent (Toulouse) founded.
- 1302 - Parliament established.[4]
- 1323 - Consistori del Gay Saber founded.
- 1324 - Floral Games poetry contest begins.[8]
- 1332 - Population: 45,000 (approximate).[7]
- 1347 - Black Death plague.[8]
- 1463 - Fire.[9][8]
- 1529 - Toulouse Municipal Archives housed in a tower at the Capitole.[10]
- 1562 - 1562 Riots of Toulouse.
- 1632 - Pont Neuf (bridge) built.
- 1681 - Canal du Midi begins operating.[11]
18th-19th centuries
- 1746 - Académie royale des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres established.[12]
- 1754 - Jardin Royal (Toulouse) and Grand Rond (Toulouse) created.
- 1760 - Capitole de Toulouse rebuilt.[11]
- 1776 - Canal de Brienne begins operating.
- 1781 - Parc de Reynerie created.
- 1794 - Jardin des Plantes established.
- 1795 - Musée des Augustins opens.
- 1814 - 10 April: Battle of Toulouse (1814).[4]
- 1818 - Théâtre du Capitole opens.
- 1828 - France Meridionale newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1844 - Pont Saint-Michel (Toulouse) (bridge) built.
- 1851 - Population: 95,277.[14]
- 1852 - Pont Saint-Pierre de Toulouse (bridge) built.
- 1862 - Toulouse tramway (1862) begins operating.[14]
- 1865 - Natural history Muséum de Toulouse opens.
- 1870 - La Dépêche de Toulouse newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1874 - Le Florida cafe established.[15]
- 1886 - Population: 147,617.[4]
- 1895 - Croix du Midi newspaper begins publication.
20th century
- 1903
- July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Toulouse.
- Toulouse Business School established.
- 1906 - Population: 125,856 town; 149,438 commune.[16]
- 1910 - Café Bibent built.
- 1937
- Toulouse Football Club formed.
- Stadium Municipal opens.
- 1953 - Toulouse–Blagnac Airport terminal opens.
- 1964 - Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Théâtre Sorano established.
- 1968 - Toulouse Space Center established in nearby Montaudran.
- 1970 - Toulouse FC (football team) formed.
- 1971 - Pierre Baudis becomes mayor.
- 1978 - Toulouse Graphic Arts Center established.
- 1981 - Toulouse Japanese garden
- 1982 - Nouveau théâtre Jules-Julien established.
- 1983 - Dominique Baudis becomes mayor.
- 1988 - Théâtre Garonne opens.
- 1993
- Toulouse Metro begins operating.
- Utopia (cinema) opens.
- 1994 - Bemberg Foundation moves into the Hôtel d'Assézat.
- 1997 - Cité de l'espace theme park opens.
- 1999 - Zénith de Toulouse auditorium opens.
21st century
- 2001 - Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse created.
- 2004 - Médiathèque José Cabanis (library) opens.
- 2009
- Urban community of Greater Toulouse created.
- Aeronautical literary festival begins.
- 2010 - Toulouse tramway begins operating.
- 2012
- 11 March: 2012 Toulouse shooting.[17]
- Population: 461,190.
- 2014 - Jean-Luc Moudenc becomes mayor.
See also
- History of Toulouse
- List of counts of Toulouse 770s-1270s
- List of mayors of Toulouse
- Other cities in France
- Timeline of Bordeaux
- Timeline of Lille
- Timeline of Lyon
- Timeline of Marseille
- Timeline of Montpellier
- Timeline of Nantes
- Timeline of Nice
- Timeline of Paris
- Timeline of Rouen
- Timeline of Strasbourg
References
- ↑ William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Toulouse". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Georges Goyau (1912). "Toulouse". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
- ↑ "Liste chronologique et historique des rois visigots dans le Languedoc". L'Art de vérifier les dates (in French). Paris. 1750 – via Hathi Trust.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Toulouse", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ "Liste chronologique et historique des comtes ou ducs de Toulouse". L'Art de vérifier les dates (in French). Paris. 1750.
- ↑ John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. London: J. Murray.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 John Hine Mundy (1997). Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. ISBN 978-0-88844-129-4.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Robert Alan Schneider (1989). Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789: From Municipal Republic to Cosmopolitan City. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2191-8.
- ↑ Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Toulouse". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 124+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
- ↑ "Pour mieux connaître les Archives" (in French). Archives municipales de Toulouse. Retrieved January 2015.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Toulouse". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Louis Ariste; Louis Braud (1898). "Toulouse-journaux". Histoire populaire de Toulouse (in French). Toulouse: Midi Républicain. pp. 876+.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Louis Ariste; Louis Braud (1898). "Toulouse statistique". Histoire populaire de Toulouse (in French). Toulouse: Midi Républicain. pp. 827–875.
- ↑ Toulouse (in French). Petit Futé. 2010. ISBN 2-7469-2748-9.
- ↑ "Toulouse", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ France Profile: Timeline, BBC News, retrieved January 2015
Further reading
- Jean Florent Baour (1782). Almanach historique de la ville de Toulouse (in French). (began annual publication in the 1750s)
- "Toulouse", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
- "Toulouse", Southern France (6th ed.), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914
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