Timeline of Bordeaux

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

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Prior to 19th century

• 107 BCE - Battle of Burdigala
• 412 CE - Bordeaux taken by forces of Goth Adolphus. ^[1]
• 732 CE - Bordeaux taken by Ummayad forces
• 1096 - Bordeaux Cathedral consecrated. ^[2]
• 1137 - 25 July: Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France in Bordeaux Cathedral.
• 1152 - Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England
• 1154 - Aquitaine passes under the control of English Kings. ^[2]
• 1441 - University of Bordeaux founded. ^[3]
• 1453 - Battle of Castillon, Bordeaux and Aquitaine pass from English to French control. ^[2]
• 1460 - Hâ Fort built. ^[4]
• 1486 - Printing press in operation. ^[5]
• 1494 - Porte du Caillau (gate) built. ^[6]
• 1500 - Tour Pey-Berland built.
• 1533 - College of Guienne founded. ^[7]
• 1548 - Locals resist the salt-tax (Gabelle) and were punished by Anne de Montmorency. ^[2]
• 1581 - Michel de Montaigne becomes mayor.
• 1676 - Église Saint-Paul-Saint-François-Xavier de Bordeaux  [ fr ] consecrated. ^[4]
• 1712 - Bordeaux Academy  [ fr ] established. ^[8]
• 1740 - Bordeaux municipal library opens.
• 1775 - Place de la Bourse built.
• 1780 - Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux inaugurated.
• 1784 - Palais Rohan built.
• 1790 - Bordeaux becomes part of the Gironde souveraineté. ^[9]
• 1793 - Population: 104,676.
• 1796 - Archives départementales de la Gironde  [ fr ] established. ^[10]

19th century

• 1801 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux established.
• 1802 - Chamber of Commerce established. ^[11]
• 1814 - Declared itself for the House of Bourbon. ^[2]
• 1818 - Linnean Society of Bordeaux  [ fr ] founded. ^[12]
• 1820 - Population: 92,375. ^[13]
• 1822 - Pont de pierre (bridge) opens. ^[14]
• 1831 - Maurel & Prom in business.
• 1834 - Société de Pharmacie de Bordeaux founded. ^[12]
• 1835 - City hall moves to the Palais Rohan. ^[15]
• 1841 - Population: 104,686.
• 1858 - Jardin botanique de Bordeaux established.
• 1860 - Passerelle Eiffel  [ fr ] (bridge) built.
• 1861 - Population: 162,750. ^[13]
• 1862 - 13 July: City hall burns down. ^[15]
• 1866 - Population: 194,241. ^[13]
• 1872 - Petite Gironde newspaper begins publication. ^[16]
• 1874 - Société de géographie commerciale de Bordeaux  [ fr ] (geographical society) founded.
• 1876 - Population: 215,140.
• 1880 - Société bordelaise de Crédit Industriel et Commercial established. ^[17]
• 1898 - Bontou's cuisine bordelaise  [ fr ] cookbook published. ^{[18] [19]}

20th century

• 1903 - July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Bordeaux.
• 1906 - Population: 237,707. ^[2]
• 1907 - Construction of new docks was begun. ^[2]
• 1911 - Population: 261,678. ^[20]
• 1932 - Rex cinema opens. ^[21]
• 1938 - Stade du Parc Lescure opens.
• 1940 - BETASOM submarine base established by Italian forces.
• 1944 - Sud-Ouest newspaper begins publication. ^[22]
• 1962 - France 3 Aquitaine television begins broadcasting.
• 1963 - Musée d'Aquitaine established.
• 1964 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA. ^[23]
• 1965 - Pont Saint-Jean (Bordeaux)  [ fr ] (bridge) opens. ^[24]
• 1967 - Pont d'Aquitaine (bridge) built. ^[14]
• 1968
  • Bordeaux Métropole established.
  • Population: 266,662. ^[25]
• 1970 - Bordeaux Segalen University established. ^[26]
• 1980 - Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine active. ^[27]
• 1988 - Bordeaux International School established.
• 1992 - Socialist Party national congress held in Bordeaux.
• 1995 - Alain Juppé becomes mayor. ^[14]
• 1998 - Some 1998 FIFA World Cup football games held in Bordeaux.

21st century

• 2003 - Bordeaux tramway begins operating. ^[14]
• 2004
  • Station Hôtel de Ville (Tram de Bordeaux) opens.
  • Hugues Martin  [ fr ] becomes mayor. ^[14]
• 2006 - Alain Juppé becomes mayor again. ^[14]
• 2007
  • Port of the Moon  [ fr ] designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site. ^[28]
  • Population: 235,178. ^[25]
• 2012 - Population: 241,287. ^[25]
• 2013 - Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas (bridge) opens.
• 2015 - December: Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes regional election, 2015  [ fr ] held. ^[29]
• 2016 - Bordeaux becomes part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
• 2017 - Population: 254,436. ^[25]

See also

• Bordeaux history
• History of Bordeaux  [ fr ]
• List of mayors of Bordeaux
• List of heritage sites in Bordeaux  [ fr ]

Other cities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region:

• Timeline of La Rochelle
• Timeline of Limoges
• Timeline of Poitiers

References

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2. Britannica 1910.
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4. Hourihane 2012.
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6. John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. London: J. Murray.
7. Ring 1995.
8. James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-05996-1.
9. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bordeaux , EHESS . (in French)
10. Charles-Victor Langlois; Henri Stein [in French] (1891), "Archives départementales: Gironde", Les archives de l'histoire de France (in French), Paris: Alphonse Picard
11. United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
12. Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
13. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590337.
14. "Histoire de Bordeaux: Chronologie" (in French). Mairie de Bordeaux. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
15. "History". Archives municipales de Bordeaux  [ fr ]. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
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17. "France". International Banking Directory. New York: Bankers Publishing Company. 1922. hdl:2027/hvd.hb1sji.
18. Alan Davidson (2014). "France". Oxford Companion to Food (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-104072-6.
19. George Herman Ellwanger (1902). Pleasures of the Table: An Account of Gastronomy from Ancient Days to Present Times. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company.
20. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
21. "Movie Theaters in Bordeaux". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
22. "France: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN   978-1-85743-254-1.
23. "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
24. "Bordeaux". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse . Retrieved 30 December 2015.
25. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
26. Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-139-49425-0.
27. Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-00132-8.
28. Gino Raymond (2008). Historical Dictionary of France. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-6256-2.
29. "Résultats élections: Bordeaux", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

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in English

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in French

• Almanach général, civil, militaire, commercial et maritime de la sénatorerie de Bordeaux (in French). Foulquier. 1807.
• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac [in French] (1839). "Bordeaux". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire (in French). Perisse frères.
• Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau [in French] (1850). "Bordeaux". Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Firmin Didot frères  [ fr ]. p. 184. hdl:2027/uiug.30112081968700.
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External links

• Map of Bordeaux, 1985
• Items related to Bordeaux, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Bordeaux, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)