Timeline of Marseille

1850s-1890s

• 1851
• Messageries Maritimes shipping company in business.
• Population: 195,258.
• 1852 - built on Boulevard Chave.
• 1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.
• 1854 - (zoo) opens.
• 1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
• 1856
• Population: 233,817.
• Cimetière Saint-Pierre established.
• 1857 - Alcazar (Marseille) theatre opens.
• 1858
• Marseille–Ventimiglia railway begins initial operation.
• Palais du Pharo built.
• 1860
• Exchange built.
• Race track in business.
• 1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.
• 1863 - Great Synagogue of Marseille built.
• 1864
• opens.
• Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.
• 1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank) and Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
• 1866 - Population: 300,131.
• 1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.
• 1869 - Palais Longchamp completed.
• 1872 - Business school established.
• 1876
• Le Petit Provençal newspaper begins publication.
• Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
• 1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000050302
• 1878 - consecrated.
• 1881
• Italian-French ethnic unrest.
• Population: 360,099.
• 1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
• 1884 - .
• 1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.
• 1891 - (school) founded.
• 1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
• 1893
• Marseille Cathedral consecrated.
• Institut Colonial de Marseille founded.
• 1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.⁽⁾
• 1897 - (hiking club) formed.
• 1899
• Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
• 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901
• "Dock strike."
• Population: 491,161.
• 1902 - "Strike of sailors."
• 1903
• July: 1903 Tour de France cycling race passes through Marseille.
• September: Bubonic plague outbreak.
• 1906
• held.
• Population: 517,498.
• 1909
• "Tigeress escapes; terrorises the town."
• founded.
• 1911 - Population: 550,619.
• 1913 - Fountain installed in the Place Castellane.
• 1916 - Musée Cantini founded.
• 1917 - restaurant in business.
• 1919 - 13 November: Grand Théâtre burns down.⁽⁾
• 1922
• Marseille Provence Airport opens.
• Colonial exhibition held.
• 1923 - erected.
• 1924 - Opera House built.
• 1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
• 1927 - erected.
• 1931 - Population: 800,881.
• 1933 - Film Studios Pagnol established.
• 1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.
• 1936 - Population: 914,232.
• 1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
• 1938
• 21 September: .
• 28 October: .
• 1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
• 1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
• 1941 - Combat (French Resistance) active.
• 1942 - November: German occupation begins.
• 1943 - Old Port area evacuated and demolished.
• 1944
• Bombing by Allied forces.
• August: Battle of Marseille; German occupation ends.
• La Marseillaise newspaper in publication.
• Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
• 1946
• Arrondissements of Marseille created.
• Jean Cristofol becomes mayor.
• Population: 636,264.
• 1947
• November: Labor unrest.
• Michel Carlini becomes mayor.

1950s-1990s

• 1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.
• 1953
• Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again (remains in office until 1986).
• La Tourette housing complex built.
• 1955 - vendetta killings of the criminal occur.
• 1958 - Marseille twinned with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Antwerp, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Genoa, Italy; Haifa, Israel; and Hamburg, Germany.
• 1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
• 1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.
• 1962
• A50 autoroute opens.
• Or Thora Synagogue established.
• Population: 778,071.
• 1965 - March: held.
• 1967 - opens.
• 1968
• A7 autoroute opens.
• Marseille twinned with Dakar, Senegal.
• Population: 889,029.
• 1970 - University of Provence established.
• 1972
• A55 autoroute opens.
• Ballet National de Marseille founded.
• Marseille twinned with Odesa, Ukraine.
• 1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.
• 1975
• Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.
• Population: 908,600.
• 1977
• Marseille Metro Line 1 begins operating.
• CMA CGM shipping company established.
• 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
• 1981 - Rodéo (riot).
• 1982
• effected.
• Marseille becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
• 1983
• SNCF TGV Sud-Est train begins operating.
• Marseille History Museum opens.
• 1984
• begins operating.
• Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.
• 1986
• March: held.
• Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
• 1987
• Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
• Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China.
• 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
• 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
• 1993 - opens.
• 1995
• June: held.
• Jean-Claude Gaudin becomes mayor.
• Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie founded.
• Musée de la Faïence de Marseille opens.
• 1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
• 1999 - Population: 795,518.

21st century

2000s

• 2001
• Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
• moves to the former .
• 2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakesh, Morocco.
• 2006
• École centrale de Marseille created.
• Marseille twinned with Glasgow, United Kingdom.
• 2007
• Marseille tramway begins operating.
• Labor strike.
• Construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor begins in Cadarache, in vicinity of Marseille.
• 2008 - Population: 851,420.
• 2009 - Collège Ibn Khaldoun opens.

2010s

• 2010
• March: held.
• Garbage strike occurs.
• 2011
• Population: 850,636.
• 2012 - pedestrianized.
• 2013
• Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations opens.
• City designated a European Capital of Culture.
• 2014 - March: held.
• 2015
• 9 February: Shooting occurs in La Castellane.
• September: Drug ring trial begins.
• December: 2015 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election held.
• begins operating.
• Cantons , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and created per .
• 2016 - Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.
• 2017 - Stabbing occurs in Saint Charles train station.
• 2018 - Two buildings collapse in the center of Marseille eight people are killed.

See also

• History of Marseille
• List of mayors of Marseille
• History of Provence region
• region

Other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region:

• Timeline of Aix-en-Provence
• Timeline of Avignon
• Timeline of Nice
• Timeline of Toulon

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in French

• 1853-1980 http://www.bmvr.marseille.fr/in/sites/marseille/faces/details.xhtml?id=p%3A%3Ausmarcdef_0000777655
• 1891 ed.
• 1864-1869
• . Histoire de Marseille. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1978
• . Histoire de Marseille. Toulouse, 1990
• 1990–1991. 4 vols.
• (map)

External links

• Map of Marseille, 1993
• Map of Marseille, 1999
• Items related to Marseille, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Marseille, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).