Timeline of Roubaix

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1469 – Factory franchise granted by Charles the Bold. ^[1]
• 1790 – Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté. ^[2]
• 1793 – Population: 9,120. ^[2]
• 1843 – Motte-Bossut  [ fr ] textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix. ^[3]
• 1846 - Population: 31,039. ^[2]
• 1848 - Saint Martin Church, Roubaix  [ fr ] remodelled. ^[4]
• 1866 – Population: 65,091. ^[5]
• 1867 – Canton de Roubaix-Est  [ fr ] and Canton de Roubaix-Ouest  [ fr ] created. ^[2]
• 1868 – Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded. ^[6]
• 1872 – Chamber of Commerce established. ^[7]
• 1876 - Population: 83,000. ^[1]
• 1878 – Saint Joseph Church, Roubaix  [ fr ] ^[8] and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
• 1880 – Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (mansion) built.
• 1883 - National school of industrial arts founded. ^[1]
• 1886 – Population: 100,299. ^[9]
• 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. ^[10]
• 1892 – Canton de Roubaix-Nord  [ fr ] created. ^[2]
• 1894 – Compagnie des tramways de Roubaix et de Tourcoing  [ fr ] established.
• 1895 – RC Roubaix football club formed.
• 1896
  • Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
  • Population: 124,661. ^[2]

20th century

• 1906 - Population: 110,055. ^[1]
• 1909 – Line R, Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing tramway  [ fr ] begins operating.
• 1911
  • Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) built. ^[11]
  • Population: 122,723. ^[12]
• 1920 – GBM  [ fr ] 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  [ fr ] closes. ^[13]
  • Canton de Roubaix-Centre  [ fr ] created. ^[2]
• 1983
  • Ballet du Nord  [ fr ] founded.
  • André Diligent  [ fr ] becomes mayor.
• 1993
  • Cave aux Poètes  [ fr ] performance space opens.
  • Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1994 – René Vandierendonck  [ fr ] becomes mayor.
• 1996
  • March: Police raid house of criminal Gang de Roubaix. ^[14]
  • Part of city designated an "urban tax-free zone." ^[15]
• 1999
  • Alsace (Lille Metro)  [ fr ], Gare – Jean-Lebas (Lille Metro)  [ fr ], Roubaix-Charles de Gaulle (Lille Metro)  [ fr ], and Roubaix-Grand Place (Lille Metro)  [ fr ] stations open.
  • Kimberly-Clark factory built. ^[16]
  • Population: 96,984. ^[2]
• 2000 – La Piscine Museum opens.

21st century

• 2001 – "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented. ^[17]
• 2008 – Bibliothèque numérique de Roubaix  [ fr ] website published.
• 2011 – Population: 94,186.
• 2012
  • Bilal Mosque built. ^[18]
  • Pierre Dubois (politician) becomes mayor.
• 2014
  • March: Nord municipal election, 2014  [ fr ] held.
  • Abou Bakr Mosque opens. ^[18]
  • Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
• 2015
  • 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
  • December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held. ^[19]
• 2016 – Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

See also

• History of Roubaix  [ de ]
• List of mayors of Roubaix  [ fr ]
• List of heritage sites in Roubaix  [ fr ]
• History of Nord-Pas-de-Calais  [ fr ] region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

• Timeline of Amiens
• Timeline of Lille

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Roubaix , EHESS (in French).
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. Base Mérimée : Eglise Saint-Martin , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
5. Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1868). "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590329.
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. Base Mérimée : Eglise Saint-Joseph , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
9. Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1890). "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
10. Ministère du Commerce 1903.
11. "Découvrez l'histoire du Panorama de l'Hôtel de ville de Roubaix depuis chez vous!". Roubaix La Piscine. 13 April 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
12. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
13. Villes lainières 2005.
14. "French court links armed robbers to terrorist network", The Guardian, 8 February 2001
15. Colomb 2011.
16. Garbaye 2008.
17. Miot 2012.
18. "Les six mosquées de Roubaix en pleine reconstruction", La Voix du Nord (in French), 7 March 2014
19. "Résultats élections: Roubaix", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• "Roubaix", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063869328, OCLC   01820283
• "Roubaix"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 767.
• 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

• "Roubaix". Le Nord. Guides Joanne (in French). Hachette. 1899. hdl:2027/hvd.hn3f1z.
• Ministère du Commerce (1903). "Nord: Roubaix". Annuaire des syndicats professionels, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
• "Roubaix". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). Hachette. 1914. hdl:2027/mdp.39015074817142.
• Roubaix-Tourcoing et les villes lainières d'Europe: découverte d'un patrimoine industriel (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2005. ISBN   978-2-85939-918-4.
• Michel David; et al., eds. (January 2006). Roubaix: cinquante ans de transformations urbaines et de mutations sociales (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN   978-2-85939-926-9.
• Chantal Petillon (2006). La population de Roubaix: industrialisation, démographie et société 1750-1880 (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN   978-2-85939-917-7.

External links

• Items related to Roubaix, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Roubaix, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).