Timeline of Roubaix
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Roubaix, France.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1469 - "Factory franchise granted."[1]
- 1790 - Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.[2]
- 1793 - Population: 9,120.[2]
- 1843 - fr textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix.[3]
- 1846 - Population: 31,039.[2]
- 1848 - fr remodelled.[4]
- 1866 - Population: 65,091.[5]
- 1867 - fr and fr created.[2]
- 1868 - Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.[6]
- 1872 - Chamber of Commerce established.[7]
- 1878 - fr[4] and fr (mansion) built.
- 1880 - fr (mansion) built.
- 1886 - Population: 100,299.[8]
- 1888 - Gare de Roubaix (rail station) built.
- 1889 - École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (school) established.
- 1891 - Chambre syndicale métallurgique de Roubaix established.[9]
- 1892 - fr created.[2]
- 1894 - fr established.
- 1895 - RC Roubaix football club formed.
- 1896
- Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
- Population: 124,661.[2]
20th century
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- 1909 - fr begins operating.
- 1911
- 1920 - fr brewery in business.
- 1928 - Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
- 1967 - Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
- 1968 - Population: 114,547.[2]
- 1982
- 1983
- 1993
- fr performance space opens.
- Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.[citation needed]
- 1994 - fr becomes mayor.
- 1996
- March: Police raid house of criminal Gang de Roubaix.[12]
- Part of city designated an "urban tax-free zone."[13]
- 1999
21st century
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- 2000 - La Piscine Museum opens.
- 2001 - "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.[15]
- 2008 - fr website published.
- 2012
- 2014
- 2015
- 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
- December: fr held.
- 2016 - Roubaix becomes part of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region.
See also
References
- ^ Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Notice communale: Roubaix". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved December 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Michael Stephen Smith (2006). The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3.
- ^ a b "Patrimoine architectural (Roubaix)". Base Mérimée (in French). France: Minister of Culture (France). Retrieved December 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Sociétés savantes de France (Roubaix)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved December 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ 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) - ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Ministère du Commerce 1903.
- ^ "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) - ^ Villes lainières 2005.
- ^ "French court links armed robbers to terrorist network", The Guardian, 8 February 2001
- ^ Colomb 2011.
- ^ Garbaye 2008.
- ^ Miot 2012.
- ^ a b "Les six mosquées de Roubaix en pleine reconstruction", La Voix du Nord (in French), 7 March 2014
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- "Roubaix", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 01820283
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Roubaix", 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) - Romain Garbaye (2008). "Roubaix, 1980s-2001". Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities. Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-4820-7.
- Claire Colomb (2011). "Culture in the city, culture for the city? The political construction of the trickle-down in cultural regeneration strategies in Roubaix, France". Town Planning Review (82.1).
- Yoan Miot (2012). "Housing strategies for a shrinking French city: the case of Roubaix (France)". In Martinez-Fernandez; et al. (eds.). Demographic Change and Local Development: Shrinkage, Regeneration and Social Dynamics. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ISBN 978-92-64-18046-8.
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in French
- Ministère du Commerce (1903). "Nord: Roubaix". Annuaire des syndicats professionels, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "Roubaix". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Roubaix-Tourcoing et les villes lainières d'Europe: découverte d'un patrimoine industriel (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2005. ISBN 978-2-85939-918-4.
- Michel David; et al., eds. (January 2006). Roubaix: cinquante ans de transformations urbaines et de mutations sociales (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-926-9.
{{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|editor=(help) - Chantal Petillon (2006). La population de Roubaix: industrialisation, démographie et société 1750-1880 (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-917-7.
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