Timeline_of_Nîmes

Timeline of Nîmes

Timeline of Nîmes

Timeline of the history of Nîmes, France

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 18th century

Nîmes in the 16th century

18th–19th centuries

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

20th century

21st century

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

See also

Other cities in the Occitanie region:

References

  1. [1]
    Baedeker 1914.
  2. [2]
    Britannica 1910.
  3. [3]
    "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. [4]
    "Sociétés savantes de France (Nîmes)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. [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. [6]
    Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Nîmes, EHESS (in French).
  7. [7]
    Pontécoulant 1820.
  8. [8]
    Paul R. Hanson (2015). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7892-1.
  9. [9]
    Peyre 1903.
  10. [10]
    Ministère des travaux publics [in French] (1893). Statistique des chemins de fer français (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
  11. [11]
    "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590428.
  12. [12]
    A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
  13. [13]
    "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
  14. [14]
    Charles-Roux 1908.
  15. [15]
    Zaretsky 1995.
  16. [16]
    "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  17. [17]
    "Résultats élections: Nimes", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in French

Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Nîmes.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Timeline_of_Nîmes, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.