Timeline of Marseille
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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 Phocaean Greeks (approximate date).[1]
- 49 BC - Siege of Massilia.[1]
- 1st century AD - Roman Catholic diocese of Marseille established.[2]
- 415 AD - Abbey of St. Victor founded (approximate date).
- 470 - Town taken by forces of Visigoth Euric.[3]
- 6th century - Port in operation.
- 839 - Town "sacked by Saracens."[3]
- 1214
- Town becomes a republic.[3]
- Notre-Dame de la Garde built.
- 1252 - Town "taken by Charles of Anjou."[1]
- 1262 - Revolt against Angevins.
- 1348 - Bubonic plague outbreak.[4]
- 1365 - Abbey of St. Victor building constructed.
- 1423 - fr by Aragonese.[5]
- 1453 - Fortifications constructed.
- 1481 - Marseille united with Provence.
- 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France.[1]
- 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I.[5]
- 1531 - Château d'If built.
- 1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins (church) dedicated.
- 1593 - Hotel Dieu (hospital) founded.
- 1599 - fr founded.[6]
17th-18th centuries
- 1619 - Église Saint-Cannat (church) dedicated.
- 1640 - Maison du Refuge established.[7]
- 1649 - Plague.[3]
- 1660 - Fort Saint-Jean built.
- 1672 - Café in business.[8]
- 1673 - fr built.[9]
- 1702 - Marseille Observatory built.[10]
- 1720-21 - Great Plague of Marseille.[3]
- 1726 - Academy of Science established.[11]
- 1749 - Almshouse built.
- 1770 - City directory published.[12]
- 1778
- 1781 - fr created.
- 1787 - Grand-Théâtre opens.[13]
- 1789 - April: "Revolutionary commotions" occur.[3]
- 1790
- Marseille becomes part of the Bouches du Rhône souveraineté.[14]
- Jacobin Club founded.[15]
- 1793 - August: "Marseilles opposes the revolutionary government, and is reduced."[3]
- 1796 - Public library founded.[16]
19th century
1800s-1840s
- 1800 - Population: 96,413.[14]
- 1801
- Canton of Marseille-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.[14]
- Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille founded.[17]
- 1802 - fr (school) and Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel (garden)[18] established.
- 1803
- 1808 - 26 February: Birth of Honoré Daumier.
- 1810 - Société de médecine de Marseille established.[19]
- 1811 - Obelisk erected in the fr.
- 1819 - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille founded.
- 1820 - Population: 101,217.[20]
- 1827
- 1836 - Population: 148,597.[20]
- 1837 - Porte d'Aix (arch) inaugurated.
- 1846 - Journal de Marseille newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1848
- Paris–Marseille railway begins operating.
- Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles opens.
- 1849 - Canal de Marseille opens.
1850s-1890s
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- 1851
- Messageries Maritimes shipping company in business.[22]
- Population: 195,258.[14]
- 1852 - fr built on Boulevard Chave.[13]
- 1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.[5]
- 1854 - fr (zoo) opens.
- 1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
- 1856
- Population: 233,817.[20]
- Cimetière Saint-Pierre established.
- 1857 - fr theatre opens.
- 1858
- Marseille–Ventimiglia railway begins initial operation.
- fr built.
- 1860
- Exchange built.[23]
- Race track in business.
- 1862 - fr built.[23]
- 1863 - fr built.[9]
- 1864
- fr opens.[24]
- Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.[23]
- 1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank)[25] and Priory of St. Madeleine[citation needed] founded.
- 1866 - Population: 300,131.[26]
- 1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1869 - Palais Longchamp built.[23]
- 1872 - Business school established.
- 1876
- Le Petit Provençal newspaper begins publication.[21]
- Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
- 1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.[19][2]
- 1878 - fr consecrated.
- 1881
- 1883 - fr design adopted.
- 1884 - fr.
- 1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1891 - fr (school) founded.
- 1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
- 1893
- Marseille Cathedral consecrated.[3]
- Institut Colonial de Marseille founded.
- 1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.(fr)[23]
- 1897 - fr (hiking club) formed.[27]
- 1899
- Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
- 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.[23]
20th century
1900s-1940s
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- 1901
- 1902 - "Strike of sailors."[3]
- 1903
- July: 1903 Tour de France cycling race passes through Marseille.
- September: Bubonic plague outbreak.[3]
- 1906 - fr held.
- 1909
- 1911 - Population: 550,619.[28]
- 1913 - Fountain installed in the Place Castellane.
- 1916 - Musée Cantini founded.[17]
- 1917 - fr restaurant in business.[29]
- 1919 - 13 November: Grand Théâtre burns down.(fr)
- 1922
- Marseille Provence Airport opens.
- Colonial exhibition held.
- 1923 - fr erected.[9]
- 1924 - Opera House built.
- 1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
- 1927 - fr erected.[9]
- 1931 - Population: 800,881.[14]
- 1933 - Film Studios Pagnol established.[30]
- 1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.[31]
- 1936 - Population: 914,232.[14]
- 1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
- 1938
- 1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
- 1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
- 1941 - Combat (French Resistance) active.[32]
- 1942 - November: German occupation begins.
- 1943 - Old Port area evacuated and demolished.[33]
- 1944
- Bombing by Allied forces.
- August: Battle of Marseille; German occupation ends.
- fr newspaper in publication.
- Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
- 1946
- Arrondissements of Marseille created.
- Jean Cristofol becomes mayor.
- Population: 636,264.[14]
- 1947
- November: Labor unrest.[34]
- Michel Carlini becomes mayor.
1950s-1990s
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- 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 - fr vendetta killings of the criminal fr 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
- A50 autoroute opens.[36]
- Or Thora Synagogue established.
- Population: 778,071.[14]
- 1965 - March: fr held.
- 1967 - fr opens.[36]
- 1968
- A7 autoroute opens.[36]
- Marseille twinned with Dakar, Senegal.[35]
- Population: 889,029.[14]
- 1970 - University of Provence established.[37]
- 1972
- A55 autoroute opens.[36]
- Ballet National de Marseille founded.
- Marseille twinned with Odessa, Ukraine.[35]
- 1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.[38]
- 1975
- 1977
- Marseille Metro Line 1 begins operating.[36]
- CMA CGM shipping company established.
- 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
- 1981 - Rodéo (riot).
- 1982
- fr effected.
- Marseille becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
- 1983
- SNCF TGV Sud-Est train begins operating.[36]
- Marseille History Museum opens.[32]
- 1984
- 1986
- March: fr held.
- Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
- 1987
- Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
- Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China.[35]
- 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
- 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
- 1993 - fr opens.[36]
- 1995
- June: fr held.
- Jean-Claude Gaudin becomes mayor.[41]
- Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie founded.
- Musée de la Faïence de Marseille opens.[42]
- 1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
- 1999 - Population: 795,518.[14]
21st century
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2000s
- 2001
- Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
- fr moves to the former fr.[43]
- 2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.[35]
- 2006
- École centrale de Marseille created.
- Marseille twinned with Glasgow, UK.[35]
- 2007
- Marseille tramway begins operating.
- Labor strike.[4]
- Construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor begins in Cadarache, in vicinity of Marseille.
- 2008 - Population: 851,420.
- 2009 - Collège Ibn Khaldoun opens.
2010s
- 2010
- March: fr held.
- Garbage strike occurs.
- 2011
- 2012 - fr pedestrianized.
- 2013
- Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations opens.
- City designated a European Capital of Culture.
- 2014 - March: fr held.
- 2015
- 2016 - Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.
See also
- Marseille history
- fr
- fr
- fr
- fr
- fr
- History of Provence region
- fr region
- other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
References
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- ↑ Mireur 1882.
- ↑ Teissier 1878.
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- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 1830.
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- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Martin 1867.
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- ↑ Masson 1906.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 Baedeker 1902.
- ↑ Detaille 1998.
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External links
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