Timeline of Toulon
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Toulon, France.
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Prior to 20th century
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1901 - Canton de Toulon-1, Canton de Toulon-2, Canton de Toulon-3, and Canton de Toulon-4 created.[3]
- 1908 - Société des sciences naturelles et d'archéologie de Toulon et du Var founded.[8]
- 1911 - Population: 104,582.[11]
- 1912 - Société des Amis du Vieux Toulon et de sa Région established.
- 1920 - Stade Mayol (stadium) opens.
- 1936 - Population: 150,310.[3]
- 1940 - 12-13 June: Bombing of Toulon by Italian forces.
- 1942 - 27 November: Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon.
- 1944 - Sporting Toulon Var football club formed.
- 1948 - Bazeille apartment building constructed in Port Marchand.[12]
- 1949 - Toulon trolleybus begins operating.
1950s-1990s
21st century
- 2001 - Hubert Falco becomes mayor.
- 2002
- Toulon tunnel opens on the A50 autoroute.
- Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Toulon (school) established.
- 2003
- Regional Réseau Mistral bus begins operating.
- Mosque established.
- 2006 - Palais des Sports de Toulon opens.
- 2010 - June: 2010 Var floods occur in vicinity of Toulon.[21]
- 2011
- Théâtre Liberté opens.
- Population: 163,974.[22]
- 2014 - 23 March: Toulon municipal election, 2014 held.
- 2015 - December: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2015 held.[22]
See also
- other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
References
- ↑ "Patrimoine de caractère". Toulon.fr (in French). Mairie de Toulon. Retrieved November 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Notice communale: Toulon". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Retrieved November 2015.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved November 2015.
- ↑ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
- 1 2 A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
- 1 2 "Sociétés savantes de France (Toulon)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
- ↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ Jean-Charles Bruno (ed.). "Chronologie". Ensembles et résidences de la période 1945/1975 sur le territoire de Toulon Provence Méditerranée (in French). France: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "2-15 February 1950". Chronology of International Events and Documents (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs) 6. 1950. JSTOR 40545261.
- ↑ "Musées et galeries". Toulon.fr (in French). Mairie de Toulon. Retrieved November 2015.
- ↑ Mahfoud Bennoune (January 1975). "Maghribin Workers in France". MERIP Reports (USA: Middle East Research and Information Project) (34). JSTOR 3011470.
- ↑ "French Book Fair Writhes, Poisoned by Politics", New York Times, 22 November 1996
- ↑ Police say 13 die in explosion, United Press International, 16 February 1989
- ↑ "French Cold-Shoulder Riviera City", New York Times, 26 August 1995
- ↑ "Historique" (in French). Fête du livre du Var. Archived from the original on October 2011.
- ↑ "Annuaire des structures (Ville: Toulon)" (in French). Aix-en-Provence: Agence régionale du Livre Paca. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ French storms and floods kill 15, Reuters, 16 June 2010
- 1 2 "Données du Monde: Toulon", Le Monde (in French), retrieved December 2015
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Toulon". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson.
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Toulon", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- "Toulon", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Toulon". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- C. B. Black (1896), "Toulon", The Riviera (9th ed.), London: Adam & Charles Black
- "Toulon". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- "Toulon", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Toulon", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- "Toulon", Southern France (6th ed.), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914
- Daniel C. Haskell, ed. (1922), "Provencal literature and language, including the local history of southern France", Bulletin of the New York Public Library 26,
Local history: Toulon
- Malcolm Crook (1991). Toulon in War and Revolution: From the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, 1750-1820. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-3567-8.
in French
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