Timeline of Nîmes

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

Prior to 18th century

Nîmes in the 16th century

18th-19th centuries

  • 1703 - April: Agau massacre of Protestants occurs near Nîmes, during the War of the Camisards.[5]
  • 1790
  • 1800 - Population: 39,594.[6]
  • 1801 - Canton de Nîmes-1, Canton de Nîmes-2, Canton de Nîmes-3 created.[6]
  • 1803
    • Nîmes Chamber of Commerce established.
    • Nîmes Municipal Theatre opens.
  • 1815
  • 1821 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes founded.
  • 1846 - Nîmes courthouse built.
  • 1851 - Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle (Nîmes) created.[9]
  • 1852 - Railway Tarascon-Sète-Ville line construction completed.[10]
  • 1871 - Société d'étude des sciences naturelles de Nîmes et du Gard founded.[4]
  • 1874 - Antoninus sculpture installed in the Square Antonin.
  • 1876 - Population: 63,001.[11]
  • 1877 - Journal du Midi newspaper begins publication.[12]
  • 1880 - Nîmes Tramway begins operating.
  • 1886 - Population: 69,898.[13]
  • 1895 - Nîmes Natural History Museum founded.[14]

20th century

21st century

  • 2001 - Jean-Paul Fournier becomes mayor.
  • 2012
    • Nîmes BRT Line T1 begins operating.
    • Population: 146,709 in city; 538,211 in arrondissement.
  • 2014 - March: Nîmes municipal election, 2014 held.
  • 2015
    • March: Gard department election, 2015 held.
    • December: Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées regional election, 2015 held.[17]
    • Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes construction begins.
  • 2016 - Nîmes becomes part of the Occitanie region.

See also

Other cities in the Occitanie region:

References

  1. Baedeker 1914.
  2. Britannica 1910.
  3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. "Sociétés savantes de France (Nîmes)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. W. Gregory Monahan (2014). Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-100212-0.
  6. "Notice communale: Nîmes". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. Pontécoulant 1820.
  8. Paul R. Hanson (2015). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7892-1.
  9. Peyre 1903.
  10. Ministère des travaux publics (France) (1893). Statistique des chemins de fer français (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882.
  12. A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
  13. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
  14. Charles-Roux 1908.
  15. Zaretsky 1995.
  16. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  17. "Données du Monde: Nimes", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015

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