Timeline of Le Mans

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

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Prior to 18th century

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18th-19th centuries

  • 1756 - Town Hall built.[1]
  • 1760 - Prefecture built.[1]
  • 1790 - Le Mans becomes part of the Sarthe souveraineté.[7]
  • 1793
  • 1799 - Royalist Chouans take Le Mans.[1]
  • 1812 - Nouvelliste de la Sarthe newspaper begins publication.[8]
  • 1854 - Gare du Mans (rail station) opens.
  • 1856 - Le Mans Chamber of Commerce established.[9]
  • 1866 - Population: 45,230.[7]
  • 1868 - La Sarthe newspaper begins publication.[8]
  • 1871 - January: Battle of Le Mans; Germans win.[1]
  • 1873 - Comptoir d'Escompte de la Sarthe (bank) established.[10]
  • 1875 - Société historique et archéologique du Maine founded.[11]
  • 1880 - Société philotechnique du Maine active.[12]
  • 1886 - Petit Manceau newspaper begins publication.[8]
  • 1888 - Gare du Mans-les-Halles (rail station) opens.

20th century

21st century

See also

other cities in the Pays de la Loire region

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Britannica 1910.
  2. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Hourihane 2012.
  4. ↑ Caswell 1977.
  5. ↑ Damien Castel and Monique Chatenet (2008). "Jacques Androuet du Cerceau et l'hôtel de Vignolles du Mans". Bulletin monumental (in French). Société française d'archéologie (166–2) – via Persée (web portal).
  6. ↑ Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 767, OL 6112221M
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Notice communale: Le Mans". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
  9. ↑ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
  10. ↑ "France". International Banking Directory. New York: Bankers Publishing Company. 1922.
  11. ↑ "Sociétés savantes de France (Le Mans)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "Société philotechnique. Maine". Data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "French impressed by Wright brothers' flying machine", The Guardian, 14 August 1908
  14. ↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  15. ↑ "The Legend | The official website of 24 Heures du Mans". www.24h-lemans.com. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  16. 1 2 3 4 "Le maire: La chronologie". LeMans.fr (in French). Ville du Mans et Le Mans Métropole. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Les jumelages". LeMans.fr (in French). Ville du Mans et Le Mans Métropole. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "(Le Mans)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  19. ↑ "L'année culturelle". LeMans.fr (in French). Ville du Mans et Le Mans Métropole. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  20. ↑ "Le Mans". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  21. ↑ "Ancient temple complex discovered near Le Mans", The Guardian, 17 August 2010
  22. 1 2 "Données du Monde: Le Mans", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

  • "Mans". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
  • "Le Mans", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 01820283
  • "Le Mans", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Georges Goyau (1910). "Le Mans". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
  • Jean Caswell; Ivan Sipkov (1977). "Maine". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress.
  • Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Le Mans". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 403. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
  • Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Le Mans". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

in French

  • Léon Hublin (1884). Le Mans pittoresque (in French). Le Mans: E. Lebrault.
  • Le Mans, Guides Joanne (in French), 1888
  • "Mans". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914.
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