Timeline of Nîmes

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

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Prior to 18th century

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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. 1 2 3 4 Baedeker 1914.
  2. 1 2 Britannica 1910.
  3. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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.
  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

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

  • Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Nimes". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson.
  • "Nismes", Handbook for Travellers in France (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1861
  • "Nîmes", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Nismes (Nimes)", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
  • "Nimes", Southern France (6th ed.), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914
  • Daniel C. Haskell, ed. (1922), "Provencal literature and language, including the local history of southern France", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 26, Local history: Nimes
  • Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Nimes". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
  • Robert Zaretsky (1995). Nimes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-04332-6.

in French

  • Adolphe de Pontécoulant (1820). Histoire des révolutions des villes de Nimes et d'Uzès (in French). Gaude.
  • Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac (1839). "Nimes". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire (in French). Perisse frères.
  • Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau (1850). "Nimes". Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Firmin Didot frères. p. 80.
  • L. Gaudin (1902). "Departements Languedociens: Gard: Nimes". Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de la ville de Montpellier: Fonds de Languedoc (in French). Louis Grollier.
  • "Nimes". Les Cévennes. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1902. OCLC 457600236.
  • Ch. Brossard, ed. (1903). "Gard: Description des villes: Nimes". Languedoc. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France (in French). Flammarion.
  • Roger Peyre (1903). Nîmes, Arles, Orange, Saint-Rémy. Les Villes d'Art célèbres. Paris: H. Laurens.
  • Jules Charles-Roux (1908). Nîmes (in French) (4th ed.). Paris: Bloud et Cie.
  • "Nimes". Cévennes, Languedoc. Guides Joanne (in French). 1914.

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