Timeline of Bourges

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bourges, France.

Prior to 20th century

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History of France

Prehistory

Ancient

Greek colonies
Celtic Gaul	until 50 BC
Roman Gaul	50 BC – 486 AD

Early Middle Ages

Franks
Merovingians	481–751
Carolingians	751–987

Middle Ages

Direct Capetians	987–1328
Valois	1328–1498

Early modern

Ancien Régime

Valois-Orléans	1498–1515
Valois-Angoulême	1515–89
Bourbon	1589–1792

Long 19th century

French Revolution	1789–1799
Kingdom of France	1791–92
First Republic	1792–1804
First Empire	1804–14
Restoration	1814–30
July Monarchy	1830–1848
Second Republic	1848–52
Second Empire	1852–70
Third Republic	1870–1940

20th century

Third Republic	1870–1940
Free France Vichy France	1940–44
Provisional Republic	1944–46
Fourth Republic	1946–58
Fifth Republic	1958–present

Timeline

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475 CE - Visigoths in power.^[1]
2nd-3rd century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Bourges established.^[2]
1195 - Bourges Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).
1225 - Religious Council of Bourges held.
1312 - Coutume de Berry (law) written (approximate date).^[3]
1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[4]
1412 - Siege of Bourges (1412) during the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1424 - Bourges astronomical clock installed in the cathedral.^[4]
1438 - Religious council held.^[1]
1463 - University of Bourges founded.^[1]
1487 - Bourges fire of 1487.
1492 - Hôtel des Échevins (town hall) built.^[5]
1510 - Hôtel Lallemant built.^[6]
1528 - Religious council held.^[1]
1573 - Collège des jésuites de Bourges founded.
1584 - Religious council held.^[7]
1645 - Hôtel de Bourbon built.^[5]
1790 - Bourges becomes part of the Cher souveraineté.^[8]
1793 - Population: 15,964.^[8]
1796 - Archives départementales du Cher established.^[9]
1831 - Canal de Berry constructed.
1834 - Musée du Berry (museum) founded.^[6]
1866 - Société des antiquaires du Centre founded.^[10]
1875 - Société de géographie de Bourges formed.^[10]
1886 - Population: 42,829.^[11]
1893 - Dépêche du Berry newspaper begins publication.^[12]
1898 - Tramway de Bourges begins operating.

20th century

1911 - Population: 45,735.^[13]
1927 - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bourges opens.^[6]
1928 - Bourges Airport opens.
1944 - 36 Jews are taken from Bourges by the Milice in a rafle under the command of Joseph Lécussan and buried alive in the countryside.^[14]
1961 - Comédie de Bourges (theatre group) formed.
1963 - Maison de la culture de Bourges opens.
1964 - Société d'archéologie et d'histoire du Berry founded.^[10]
1966 - Bourges 18 football club formed.
1975 - Population: 77,300.^[8]
1977 - Printemps de Bourges music festival begins.
1985 - Hôtel de ville de Bourges (city hall) built.
1986 - Conservatoire national du Pélargonium (garden) established.^[15]
1989 - Transports en commun de Bourges (transit entity) established.
1991 - Stade des Grosses Plantes (stadium) opens.
1995 - Serge Lepeltier becomes mayor.

21st century

2006 - Auditorium de Bourges opens.
2014 - Pascal Blanc becomes mayor.

References

1 2 3 4 Britannica 1910.
↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
↑ Caswell 1977.
1 2 Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
1 2 "Patrimoine architectural (Bourges)". Base Mérimée (in French). France: Minister of Culture (France). Retrieved 3 November 2016.
1 2 3 "(Bourges)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
↑ Charles Daniel (1903). "Conciles particuliers". Manuel des sciences sacrées (in French). Paris: Delhomme & Briguet. (chronological list)
1 2 3 "Notice communale: Bourges". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
↑ Charles-Victor Langlois; Henri Stein (1891), "Archives départementales: Cher", Les archives de l'histoire de France (in French), Paris: Alphonse Picard
1 2 3 "Sociétés savantes de France (Bourges)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
↑ "Villes, villages: Bourges". Presse locale ancienne (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
↑ Ousby, Ian Occupation The Ordeal of France, 1940–1944, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000 page 275.
↑ "Garden Search: France". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 3 November 2016.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Eugène-Oscar Lami (1881). "Bourges". Dictionnaire encyclopédique et biographique de l'industrie et des arts industriels (in French). 1. Paris. OCLC 26948816.
Alphonse Buhot de Kersers (1883). Histoire et statistique monumentale du Cher (in French). Pigelet & Tardy.
Edmond Charlemagne (1889). Les anciennes institutions municipales de Bourges (in French). Tardy-Pigelet.
"Bourges". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
"Bourges", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 01820283
"Bourges", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
Caswell, Jean; Sipkov, Ivan (1977). "Berry". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress. (+ Bourges)
Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Bourges". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

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Timeline of Bourges

Prior to 20th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

Bibliography

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