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
17th-18th centuries
19th century
Map of Marseille, 1896
1800s-1840s
- 1800 - Population: 96,413.[14]
- 1801
- 1802 - Lycée Thiers (school) and Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel (garden)[18] established.
- 1803
- Santon Fair begins.
- Cabinet of Natural History founded.
- 1808 - 26 February: Birth of Honoré Daumier.
- 1810 - Société de médecine de Marseille established.[19]
- 1811 - Obelisk erected in the Place Castellane.
- 1819 - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille founded.
- 1820 - Population: 101,217.
- 1827
- Le Sémaphore newspaper begins publication.[21]
- Société de statistique de Marseille established.[19]
- 1836 - Population: 148,597.
- 1837 - Porte d'Aix (arch) inaugurated.
- 1846 - Journal de Marseille newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1848
- 1849 - Canal de Marseille opens.
1850s-1890s
- 1851
- 1852 - Prison Chave built on Boulevard Chave.
- 1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.
- 1854 - Jardin zoologique de Marseille (zoo) opens.
- 1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
- 1856
- 1857 - Alcazar (Marseille) theatre opens.
- 1858
- 1860
- 1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.
- 1863 - Grande synagogue de Marseille built.[9]
- 1864
- 1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank)[25] and Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
- 1866 - Population: 300,131.[26]
- 1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1869 - Palais Longchamp built.
- 1872 - Business school established.
- 1876
- 1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.[19]
- 1878 - Saint-Lazare Convent consecrated.
- 1881
- Italian-French ethnic unrest.
- Population: 360,099.[14]
- 1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
- 1884 - Marseille cholera epidemic.
- 1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1891 - École d'ingénieurs de Marseille (school) founded.
- 1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
- 1893
- 1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.(fr)
- 1897 - Excursionnistes Marseillais (hiking club) formed.[27]
- 1899
20th century
1900s-1940s
1950s-1990s
- 1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.[4]
- 1953
- Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again (remains in office until 1986).[4]
- La Tourette housing complex built.
- 1955 - Affaire du Combinatie vendetta killings of the criminal Marseille milieu occur.
- 1958 - Marseille twinned with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Antwerp, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Genoa, Italy; Haifa, Israel; and Hamburg, Germany.[35]
- 1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
- 1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.[35]
- 1962
- 1965 - March: Marseille municipal election, 1965 held.
- 1967 - Marseille Old Port Tunnel opens.
- 1968
- 1970 - University of Provence established.[37]
- 1972
- 1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.[38]
- 1975
- Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.[39][40]
- Population: 908,600.[14]
- 1977
- 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
- 1981 - Rodéo (riot).
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- Marseille Metro Line 2 begins operating.
- Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.[35]
- 1986
- 1987
- 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
- 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
- 1993 - Tunnel Prado-Carénage opens.
- 1995
- 1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
- 1999 - Population: 795,518.[14]
21st century
2000s
- 2001
- 2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.[35]
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008 - Population: 851,420.
- 2009 - Collège Ibn Khaldoun opens.
2010s
- 2010
- March: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2010 held.
- Garbage strike occurs.
- 2011
- Cornerstone of Grand Mosque of Marseille laid.[44][45]
- Population: 850,636.[46]
- 2012 - Place des Capucines pedestrianized.
- 2013
- 2014 - March: Marseille municipal election, 2014 held.
- 2015
- 9 February: Shooting occurs in La Castellane.
- September: Drug ring trial begins.[47]
- December: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2015 held.[46]
- Marseille tramway Line 3 begins operating.
- Cantons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 created per 2014 France cantonal redistricting.
- 2016 - Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.
See also
- Marseille history
- History of Marseille
- Urban planning in Marseille
- List of mayors of Marseille
- List of mayors of Marseille sectors
- List of heritage sites in Marseille
- History of Provence region
- Timeline of Provence region
- other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
References
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- 1 2 "Culture: Les musées de Marseille". Marseille.fr. Ville de Marseille. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "Garden Search: France". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved December 2015.
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Étoiles
- ↑ "Histoire du cinéma à Marseille". Marseille.fr (in French). Ville de Marseille. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "Marseille". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "November 10-23, 1947". Chronology of International Events and Documents (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs) 3. 1947. JSTOR 40545111.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Villes jumelées" (PDF). Marseille.fr (in French). Ville de Marseille. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
- ↑ Mahfoud Bennoune (January 1975). "Maghribin Workers in France". MERIP Reports (USA: Middle East Research and Information Project) (34). JSTOR 3011470.
- ↑ France, Muslims in the EU: Cities Report, USA: Open Society Institute, 2007 (Marseille section)
- ↑ Jocelyne Cesari (1994). Etre musulman en France: associations, militants et mosquées. Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-501-1.
- ↑ "French mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ↑ "(Marseille)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "Information of the Municipal Archives of Marseilles". International Council on Archives. Retrieved May 2015.
- ↑ "Marseille's Muslims need their Grand Mosque – why is it still a car park?", The Guardian, 3 March 2015
- ↑ "Marseille's plans for a Grand Mosque stall", Public Radio International (USA), 19 February 2015
- 1 2 "Données du Monde: Marseille", Le Monde (in French), retrieved December 2015
- ↑ "Marseille in spotlight once again as La Castellane drug trial begins", The Guardian, 16 September 2015
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
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in English
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- Published in the 20th century
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- Published in the 21st century
- Daniel Lord Smail (2000). Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3626-5.
- Sheila Crane (2005), "Mutable Fragments: Destructive Preservation and the Postwar Rebuilding of Marseille", Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 2, JSTOR 25834956
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in French
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