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Timeline of Tours

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

Contents

Prior to 18th century

  • 1st century – Construction of the Tours amphitheatre. Population approx. 6,000.
  • 2nd century – Tours amphitheatre expanded
  • 3rd century – Roman Catholic diocese of Tours established.
  • 250 – Tours Amphitheatre turned into a fortification
  • 4th century – Cathedral built by Litorius (bishop).
  • 360 – Castrum added to the area around the fortified amphitheatre.
  • 371 – Martin of Tours becomes bishop.
  • 5th century – Caesarodunum renamed "Civitas Turonorum."
  • 435 – Tours "affiliated to the Armorican confederation." Ecclesiastical province of Tours established.
  • 461 – Religious Council of Tours held.
  • 473 – Visigoths in power.
  • 567 – Council of Tours held.
  • 573 – Gregory of Tours becomes bishop.
  • 732 – Battle of Tours fought nearby.
  • 796 – Marmoutier Abbey scriptorium active (approximate date).
  • 813 – Council of Tours (813) held.
  • 10th century – City walls of Châteauneuf built around basilica of St. Martin.
  • 998 – Fire.
  • 11th century – Château de Tours built.
  • 11th–12th century – Church of St Martin built.
  • 1034 – Pont d'Eudes (bridge) built (approximate date).
  • 1055 – Council of Tours held.
  • 1163 – Council of Tours (1163) held.
  • 1170 – Tours Cathedral construction begins.
  • 1203 – Livre tournois became the official currency of the kingdom.
  • 1236 – Council of Tours (1236) held.
  • 1308 – Estates General of Tours (1308) held.
  • 1444 – Treaty of Tours. Tours became capital de facto of France.
  • 1460 – Touraine customary laws codified.
  • 1464 – Louis XI, the "universal spider", created the system of royal postal roads, first roads started from Tours.
  • 1468 – Estates General of Tours (1468) held.
  • 1484 – Estates General of Tours (1484) held.
  • 1506 – Estates General of Tours (1506) held.
  • 1542 – Généralité of Tours created (included Touraine, Maine and Anjou).
  • 1562 – Religious unrest.
  • 1589 – Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours.
  • 1594 – Parliament of Tours returned to Paris. Kings definitely returned to Paris area.

    • 18th century

  • 1761 – Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Touraine established.
  • 1778 – Stone Bridge built.
  • 1790 – Tours becomes part of the Indre-et-Loire souveraineté.
  • 1798 – Church of St Martin demolished.
  • 1799 – 20 May: Birth of Honoré de Balzac.

    • 19th century

  • 1800 – Population: 20,240.
  • 1801 – Canton of Tours-Sud, -Centre, and -Nord created.
  • 1803 – Chamber of Commerce established.
  • 1840 – Société archéologique de Touraine founded.
  • 1843 – Jardin botanique de Tours (garden) founded.
  • 1858 – Tours–Le Mans railway begins operating.
  • 1861 – Population: 41,061.
  • 1867 – Union Libérale newspaper begins publication.
  • 1870 – Tours becomes temporary "seat of French government, during siege of Paris."
  • 1872 – Tours Municipal Theatre built.
  • 1877 – Tours tramway (1877) begins operating.
  • 1886 – Population: 59,585.
  • 1889 – Grand Théâtre de Tours rebuilt.
  • 1898 – Gare de Tours (rail station) built.

    • 20th century

  • 1904 – Tours City Hall built.
  • 1911 – Population: 73,398.
  • 1917 – American Expeditionary Forces' "chief supply base" set up at Tours (approximate date), during World War I.
  • 1924 – Basilica of St. Martin, Tours rebuilt.
  • 1949 – Tours trolleybus begins operating.
  • 1957 – Bibliothèque municipale de Tours (library) built.
  • 1962 – Population: 92,944.
  • 1968 – Musée du Compagnonnage established.
  • 1969 – François Rabelais University founded.
  • 1978
  • April: Collapse of Wilson Bridge (Tours).(fr)
  • Stade de la Vallée du Cher (stadium) opens.
  • Musée des Equipages Militaires et du Train (museum) established.
  • 1982 – Tours becomes part of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
  • 1999 – Population: 132,820.

    • 21st century

  • 2011 – Population: 134,633.
  • 2013 – Tours tramway begins operating.
  • 2014
  • March: Tours municipal election, 2014 held.
  • Serge Babary becomes mayor.

    • References

    Timeline of Tours Wikipedia
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