Timeline of Roubaix

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

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  • 1469 - "Factory franchise granted."[1]
  • 1790 - Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.[2]
  • 1793 - Population: 9,120.[2]
  • 1843 - Motte-Bossut textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix.[3]
  • 1846 - Population: 31,039.[2]
  • 1848 - Saint Martin Church, Roubaix remodelled.[4]
  • 1866 - Population: 65,091.[5]
  • 1867 - Canton de Roubaix-Est and Canton de Roubaix-Ouest created.[2]
  • 1868 - Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.[6]
  • 1872 - Chamber of Commerce established.[7]
  • 1878 - Saint Joseph Church, Roubaix[4] and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
  • 1880 - Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (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 - Canton de Roubaix-Nord created.[2]
  • 1894 - Compagnie des tramways de Roubaix et de Tourcoing established.
  • 1895 - RC Roubaix football club formed.
  • 1896

20th century
  • 1909 - Line R, Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing tramway begins operating.
  • 1911
    • Roubaix City Hall built.
    • Population: 122,723.[10]
  • 1920 - GBM brewery in business.
  • 1928 - Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
  • 1967 - Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
  • 1968 - Population: 114,547.[2]
  • 1969 - 1969 Tour de France cycling race departs from Roubaix.
  • 1982
    • Motte-Bossut factory closes.[11]
    • Canton de Roubaix-Centre created.[2]
  • 1983
    • Ballet du Nord founded.
    • André Diligent becomes mayor.
  • 1993
  • 1994 - René Vandierendonck becomes mayor.
  • 1996
  • 1999
    • Alsace (Lille Metro), Gare - Jean-Lebas (Lille Metro), Roubaix-Charles de Gaulle (Lille Metro), and Roubaix-Grand Place (Lille Metro) stations open.
    • Kimberly-Clark factory built.[14]
    • Population: 96,984.[2]
  • 2000 - La Piscine Museum opens.

21st century
  • 2001 - "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.[15]
  • 2008 - Bibliothèque numérique de Roubaix website published.
  • 2011 - Population: 94,186.[16]
  • 2012
    • Bilal Mosque built.[17]
    • Pierre Dubois (politician) becomes mayor.
  • 2014
    • March: Nord municipal election, 2014 held.
    • Abou Bakr Mosque opens.[17]
    • Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
  • 2015
  • 2016 - Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

See also
  • History of Roubaix
  • List of mayors of Roubaix
  • List of heritage sites in Roubaix
  • History of Nord-Pas-de-Calais region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

References
  1. Britannica 1910.
  2. "Notice communale: Roubaix". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. Michael Stephen Smith (2006). The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3.
  4. "Patrimoine architectural (Roubaix)". Base Mérimée (in French). France: Minister of Culture (France). Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868.
  6. "Sociétés savantes de France (Roubaix)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
  8. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
  9. Ministère du Commerce 1903.
  10. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  11. Villes lainières 2005.
  12. "French court links armed robbers to terrorist network", The Guardian, 8 February 2001
  13. Colomb 2011.
  14. Garbaye 2008.
  15. Miot 2012.
  16. "Données du Monde: Roubaix", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015
  17. "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
  • "Roubaix", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • 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.

in French

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