Timeline of Nantes
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nantes, France.
Prior to 19th century
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- 374 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes established.[1]
- 445 - Nantes besieged by Huns.[2]
- 453 - Desiderius becomes Roman Catholic Bishop of Nantes.[3]
- 548 - Félix of Nantes becomes Catholic bishop.[3]
- 992 - Nantes taken by forces of the Duke of Brittany.[2]
- 1118 - Fire.[2]
- 1434 - Nantes Cathedral construction begins.
- 1460 - University of Nantes founded.
- 1466 - Château des ducs de Bretagne rebuilt.
- 1493 - Printing press in operation.[4]
- 1598 - Edict of Nantes, granting rights to Protestants, signed in the Château des ducs de Bretagne.
- 1640 - Nantes Stock Exchange established.
- 1720 - Street signs introduced.(fr)
- 1753 - Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes (library) opens.[5]
- 1788 - Théâtre Graslin inaugurated.
- 1790 - Nantes becomes part of the Loire-Inférieure souveraineté.[6]
- 1793 - 29 June: Battle of Nantes.
19th century
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- 1800 - Population: 77,162.[6]
- 1803 - Chamber of Commerce established.[7]
- 1806 - Municipal botanical garden established.
- 1808 - Lycée of Nantes inaugurated.
- 1815 - Palais de la Bourse (Nantes) built.
- 1817 - Slave trade officially banned.[8]
- 1827 - Passage d'Orléans shopping arcade built.
- 1830 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes opens.
- 1843 - Passage Pommeraye shopping arcade built.
- 1846
- Lefèvre-Utile biscuit company in business.
- Notre-Dame de Bon-Port church built.
- 1848 - Labor unrest; crackdown.[2]
- 1851 - Angers-Nantes railway begins operating.[9]
- 1852 - Nantes Courthouse built.[10]
- 1856 - Population: 108,530.[6]
- 1858 - Nantes-Brest canal opens.
- 1869 - Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes (church) built.
- 1875 - Natural History Museum of Nantes opens.
- 1876 - Population: 122,247.[6]
- 1881 - Societe Nantaise de Photographie founded.[11]
- 1895 - La Cigale (brasserie) in business.
20th century
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- 1900 - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes established.
- 1903 - July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Nantes.
- 1906 - Population: 118,244 town; 133,247 commune.[12]
- 1911 - Population: 170,535.[13]
- 1937 - Stade Malakoff (stadium) opens.
- 1941 - Pont de la Rotonde (bridge) rebuilt.
- 1943
- 1946
- 1951 - Nantes Atlantique Airport begins commercial flights.
- 1955 - Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé (apartment building) constructed.
- 1965 - André Morice becomes mayor.
- 1966 - Pont Aristide-Briand (bridge) built.
- 1968 - Gare de Nantes (rail station) opens.
- 1971 - Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire established.
- 1973 - Palais des Sports de Beaulieu (arena) built.
- 1975 - Pont Anne-de-Bretagne (bridge) built.
- 1976 - Tour Bretagne built.
- 1977
- Socialist Alain Chénard becomes mayor.
- Socialist Party national congress held in Nantes.
- 1978 - Jules Verne Museum founded.
- 1979
- Pont Haudaudine (bridge) built.
- Three Continents Festival of film begins.
- 1980
- Planetarium of Nantes established.
- Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.[15]
- 1982 - Nantes becomes part of the Pays de la Loire region.
- 1983 - Michel Chauty becomes mayor.[16]
- 1984 - Stade de la Beaujoire (stadium) opens.
- 1985 - Nantes tramway begins operating.
- 1988 - École de design Nantes Atlantique and Théâtre de Poche Graslin established.
- 1989
- Royal de Luxe marionette street theatre active.
- Jean-Marc Ayrault becomes mayor.
- 1990 - École des mines de Nantes established.
- 1991
- École centrale de Nantes active.
- Les Anneaux de la Mémoire nonprofit headquartered in Nantes.
- 1992 - Nantes Events Center opens.
- 1995 - La Folle Journée music festival begins.
- 1998 - Théâtre du Cyclope established.
- 1999 - Population: 270,251.[6]
21st century
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- 2000 - Utopiales science fiction festival begins.
- 2001
- Nantes.fr municipal website in operation.[17]
- Soy Festival of music begins.
- 2005 - Navibus (water bus) begins operating.
- 2006 - Nantes Busway begins operating.
- 2007
- Machines of the Isle of Nantes exhibit opens.
- Estuaire (biennale) art exhibit begins in Nantes vicinity.
- 2009 - Nantes Derby Girls (rollerderby league) formed.
- 2011 - Population: 287,845.[18]
- 2014
- March: Nantes municipal election, 2014 held.
- Johanna Rolland becomes mayor.
- 22 December: 2014 Nantes attack.
- 2015 - December: Pays de la Loire regional election, 2015 held.[18]
See also
- Nantes history
- History of Nantes
- List of mayors of Nantes
- Urban planning in Nantes
- History of Loire-Atlantique department
- History of Pays de la Loire region.
- other cities in the Pays de la Loire region
References
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d Townsend 1867.
- ^ a b Goyau 1911.
- ^ Malcolm Walsby (2011). The Printed Book in Brittany, 1484-1600. Brill. ISBN 90-04-20451-2.
- ^ "Historique de la bibliothèque". Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes (in French). Ville de Nantes. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "Notice communale: Nantes". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Nantes Journal; Unhappily, a Port Confronts Its Past: Slave Trade". New York Times. 17 December 1993.
- ^ "Railways of France", Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, New York, December 1853
- ^ Murray 1861.
- ^ "Continental Photographic Societies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1890
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Britannica 1910.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, OL 6112221M
- ^ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "French Provinces Turn Noses Up at Left's Culture". New York Times. 10 October 1983.
- ^ "A Focus on Attracting Residents". New York Times. 29 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Données du Monde: Nantes", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (1816), "Nantes", An Itinerary of France and Belgium, London: Samuel Leigh
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Nantes". Handbook for Travellers in France. London: John Murray. 1861.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - George Henry Townsend (1867), "Nantes", Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Nantes". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Nantes". Guide to the North of France. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1876.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Nantes", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Nantes". Northern France. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1899. OCLC 2229516.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Nantes", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Georges Goyau (1911). "Nantes". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Nantes". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Angela Fahy (2002). "Demographic change and social structure: the workers and the bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848". In Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee (ed.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.
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in French
- Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1723). "Commerce de Nantes". Dictionnaire universel du commerce (in French). Paris: Jacques Estienne.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Nantes". De Paris à Nantes. Guides Joanne (in French).
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) circa 1856 - "Nantes". Basse-Loire. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1901. OCLC 457600236.
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