Timeline of Tours

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• 1st century – Construction of the Tours amphitheatre. Population approx. 6,000.[1]
• 2nd century – Tours amphitheatre expanded
• 3rd century – Roman Catholic diocese of Tours established.[2]
• 250 – Tours Amphitheatre turned into a fortification
• 4th century – Cathedral built by Litorius (bishop).[3]
• 360 – Castrum added to the area around the fortified amphitheatre.
• 371 – Martin of Tours becomes bishop.[4]
• 5th century – Caesarodunum renamed "Civitas Turonorum."[3]
• 435 – Tours "affiliated to the Armorican confederation."[3] Ecclesiastical province of Tours established.
• 461 – Religious Council of Tours held.[5]
• 473 – Visigoths in power.[3]
• 567 – Second Council of Tours held.[5]
• 573 – Gregory of Tours becomes bishop.[6]
• 732 – Battle of Tours fought nearby.[7]
• 796 – Marmoutier Abbey scriptorium active (approximate date).[6]
• 813 – Third Council of Tours held.[4]
• 10th century – City walls of Châteauneuf built around basilica of St. Martin.
• 998 – Fire.[3]
• 11th century – Château de Tours built.
• 11th–12th century – Church of St Martin built.[8]
• 1034 – Pont d'Eudes (bridge) built (approximate date).[9]
• 1055 – Council of Tours held.[5]
• 1163 – Council of Tours (1163) held.[5]
• 1170 – Tours Cathedral construction begins.[3]
• 1203 – Livre tournois became the official currency of the kingdom.
• 1236 – Council of Tours (1236) held.[5]
• 1308 – Estates General of Tours (1308) held.
• 1444 – Treaty of Tours. Tours became capital de facto of France.
• 1460 – Touraine customary laws codified.[10]
• 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.[3]
• 1589 – Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours.
• 1594 – Parliament of Tours returned to Paris. Kings definitely returned to Paris area.

• 1761 – Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Touraine established.[11]
• 1778 – Stone Bridge built.
• 1790 – Tours becomes part of the Indre-et-Loire souveraineté.[12]
• 1798 – Church of St Martin demolished.[8]
• 1799 – 20 May: Birth of Honoré de Balzac.

• 1800 – Population: 20,240.[12]
• 1801 – Canton of Tours-Sud, -Centre, and -Nord created.[12]
• 1803 – Chamber of Commerce established.[13]
• 1840 – Société archéologique de Touraine founded.[11]
• 1843 – Jardin botanique de Tours (garden) founded.[14]
• 1858 – Tours–Le Mans railway begins operating.
• 1861 – Population: 41,061.[12]
• 1867 – Union Libérale newspaper begins publication.[15]
• 1870 – Tours becomes temporary "seat of French government, during siege of Paris."[7]
• 1872 – Tours Municipal Theatre built.[16]
• 1877 – Tours tramway (1877) begins operating.
• 1886 – Population: 59,585.[17]
• 1889 – Tours Municipal Theatre reopened after fire.[16]
• 1898 – Gare de Tours (rail station) built.

• 1904 – Tours City Hall built.
• 1911 – Population: 73,398.[18]
• 1917 – American Expeditionary Forces' "chief supply base" set up at Tours (approximate date), during World War I.[7]
• 1924 – Basilica of St. Martin, Tours rebuilt.
• 1949 – Tours trolleybus begins operating.
• 1957 – Bibliothèque municipale de Tours (library) built.
• 1962 – Population: 92,944.[12]
• 1968 – Musée du Compagnonnage established.[19]
• 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.[19]
• 1982 – Tours becomes part of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
• 1999 – Population: 132,820.[12]

• 2011 – Population: 134,633.[20]
• 2013 – Tours tramway begins operating.
• 2014
  • March: Tours municipal election, 2014 held.[20]
  • Serge Babary becomes mayor.

• Tours history
• Caesarodunum (Roman-era settlement)
• List of mayors of Tours
• List of heritage sites in Tours
• History of Centre-Val de Loire region

Other cities in the Centre-Val de Loire region:

• Timeline of Bourges
• Timeline of Orléans

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