Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Timeline of Marseille

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Timeline of Marseille

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

Contents

Prior to 17th century

  • 600 BC - Massalia founded by Phocaean Greeks (approximate date).
  • 49 BC - Siege of Massilia.
  • 1st century AD - Roman Catholic diocese of Marseille established.
  • 415 AD - Abbey of St. Victor founded (approximate date).
  • 470 - Town taken by forces of Visigoth Euric.
  • 6th century - Port in operation.
  • 839 - Town "sacked by Saracens."
  • 1214
  • Town becomes a republic.
  • Notre-Dame de la Garde built.
  • 1252 - Town "taken by Charles of Anjou."
  • 1262 - Revolt against Angevins.
  • 1348 - Bubonic plague outbreak.
  • 1365 - Abbey of St. Victor building constructed.
  • 1423 - Sack of Marseille by Aragonese.
  • 1453 - Fortifications constructed.
  • 1481 - Marseille united with Provence.
  • 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France.
  • 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I.
  • 1531 - Château d'If built.
  • 1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins (church) dedicated.
  • 1593 - Hotel Dieu (hospital) founded.
  • 1599 - Marseille Chamber of Commerce founded.

    • 17th-18th centuries

  • 1619 - Église Saint-Cannat (church) dedicated.
  • 1640 - Maison du Refuge established.
  • 1649 - Plague.
  • 1660 - Fort Saint-Jean built.
  • 1672 - Café in business.
  • 1673 - Marseille City Hall built.
  • 1702 - Marseille Observatory built.
  • 1720-21 - Great Plague of Marseille.
  • 1726 - Academy of Science established.
  • 1749 - Almshouse built.
  • 1770 - City directory published.
  • 1778
  • Chateau Borely built.
  • Fossati fountain erected.
  • 1781 - Navette de Marseille created.
  • 1787 - Grand-Théâtre opens.
  • 1789 - April: "Revolutionary commotions" occur.
  • 1790
  • Marseille becomes part of the Bouches du Rhône souveraineté.
  • Jacobin Club founded.
  • 1793 - August: "Marseilles opposes the revolutionary government, and is reduced."
  • 1796 - Public library founded.

    • 1800s-1840s

  • 1800 - Population: 96,413.
  • 1801
  • Canton of Marseille-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille founded.
  • 1802 - Lycée Thiers (school) and Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel (garden) established.
  • 1803
  • Santon Fair begins.
  • Cabinet of Natural History founded.
  • 1808 - 26 February: Birth of Honoré Daumier.
  • 1810 - Société de médecine de Marseille established.
  • 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.
  • Société de statistique de Marseille established.[1]
  • 1836 - Population: 148,597.
  • 1837 - Porte d'Aix (arch) inaugurated.
  • 1846 - Journal de Marseille newspaper begins publication.
  • 1848
  • Paris–Marseille railway begins operating.
  • Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles opens.
  • 1849 - Canal de Marseille opens.

    • 1850s-1890s

  • 1851
  • Messageries Maritimes shipping company in business.
  • Population: 195,258.
  • 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
  • Population: 233,817.
  • Cimetière Saint-Pierre established.
  • 1857 - Alcazar (Marseille) theatre opens.
  • 1858
  • Marseille–Ventimiglia railway begins initial operation.
  • Palais du Pharo built.
  • 1860
  • Exchange built.
  • Race track in business.
  • 1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.
  • 1863 - Grande synagogue de Marseille built.
  • 1864
  • Rue de la République (Marseille) opens.
  • Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.
  • 1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank) and Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
  • 1866 - Population: 300,131.
  • 1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.
  • 1869 - Palais Longchamp built.
  • 1872 - Business school established.
  • 1876
  • Le Petit Provençal newspaper begins publication.
  • Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
  • 1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.[2]
  • 1878 - Saint-Lazare Convent consecrated.
  • 1881
  • Italian-French ethnic unrest.
  • Population: 360,099.
  • 1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
  • 1884 - Marseille cholera epidemic.
  • 1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.
  • 1891 - École d'ingénieurs de Marseille (school) founded.
  • 1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
  • 1893
  • Marseille Cathedral consecrated.
  • Institut Colonial de Marseille founded.
  • 1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.(fr)
  • 1897 - Excursionnistes Marseillais (hiking club) formed.
  • 1899
  • Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
  • 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.

    • 1900s-1940s

  • 1901
  • "Dock strike."
  • Population: 491,161.
  • 1902 - "Strike of sailors."
  • 1903
  • July: 1903 Tour de France cycling race passes through Marseille.
  • September: Bubonic plague outbreak.
  • 1906 - Exposition coloniale de Marseille (1906) held.
  • 1909
  • "Tigeress escapes; terrorises the town."
  • Société linnéenne de Provence founded.
  • 1911 - Population: 550,619.
  • 1913 - Fountain installed in the Place Castellane.
  • 1916 - Musée Cantini founded.
  • 1917 - Le Petit Nice restaurant in business.
  • 1919 - 13 November: Grand Théâtre burns down.(fr)
  • 1922
  • Marseille Provence Airport opens.
  • Colonial exhibition held.
  • 1923 - Monument aux héros et victimes de la mer erected.
  • 1924 - Opera House built.
  • 1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
  • 1927 - Monument aux morts de l'Armée d'Orient et des terres lointaines erected.
  • 1931 - Population: 800,881.
  • 1933 - Film Studios Pagnol established.
  • 1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.
  • 1936 - Population: 914,232.
  • 1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
  • 1938
  • 21 September: Marseille train robbery.
  • 28 October: Marseille fire (1938).
  • 1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
  • 1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
  • 1941 - Combat (French Resistance) active.
  • 1942 - November: German occupation begins.
  • 1943 - Old Port area evacuated and demolished.
  • 1944
  • Bombing by Allied forces.
  • August: Battle of Marseille; German occupation ends.
  • La Marseillaise newspaper in publication.
  • Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
  • 1946
  • Arrondissements of Marseille created.
  • Jean Cristofol becomes mayor.
  • Population: 636,264.
  • 1947
  • November: Labor unrest.
  • Michel Carlini becomes mayor.

    • 1950s-1990s

  • 1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.
  • 1953
  • Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again (remains in office until 1986).
  • 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.
  • 1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
  • 1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.
  • 1962
  • A50 autoroute opens.
  • Or Thora Synagogue established.
  • Population: 778,071.
  • 1965 - March: Marseille municipal election, 1965 held.
  • 1967 - Marseille Old Port Tunnel opens.
  • 1968
  • A7 autoroute opens.
  • Marseille twinned with Dakar, Senegal.
  • Population: 889,029.
  • 1970 - University of Provence established.
  • 1972
  • A55 autoroute opens.
  • Ballet National de Marseille founded.
  • Marseille twinned with Odessa, Ukraine.
  • 1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.
  • 1975
  • Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.
  • Population: 908,600.
  • 1977
  • Marseille Metro Line 1 begins operating.
  • CMA CGM shipping company established.
  • 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
  • 1981 - Rodéo (riot).
  • 1982
  • PLM Law effected.
  • Marseille becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
  • 1983
  • SNCF TGV Sud-Est train begins operating.
  • Marseille History Museum opens.
  • 1984
  • Marseille Metro Line 2 begins operating.
  • Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.
  • 1986
  • March: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 1986 held.
  • Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
  • 1987
  • Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
  • Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China.
  • 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
  • 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
  • 1993 - Tunnel Prado-Carénage opens.
  • 1995
  • June: Marseille municipal election, 1995 held.
  • Jean-Claude Gaudin becomes mayor.
  • Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie founded.
  • Musée de la Faïence de Marseille opens.
  • 1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
  • 1999 - Population: 795,518.

    • 2000s

  • 2001
  • Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
  • Municipal Archives of Marseille moves to the former Tobacco factory of Marseille.
  • 2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.
  • 2006
  • École centrale de Marseille created.
  • Marseille twinned with Glasgow, UK.
  • 2007
  • Marseille tramway begins operating.
  • Labor strike.
  • 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: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2010 held.
  • Garbage strike occurs.
  • 2011
  • Cornerstone of Grand Mosque of Marseille laid.
  • Population: 850,636.
  • 2012 - Place des Capucines pedestrianized.
  • 2013
  • Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations opens.
  • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
  • 2014 - March: Marseille municipal election, 2014 held.
  • 2015
  • 9 February: Shooting occurs in La Castellane.
  • September: Drug ring trial begins.
  • December: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2015 held.
  • 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.

    • References

    Timeline of Marseille Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics