Timeline of Tours

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

Prior to 18th century

• 1st C. – Construction of the Tours Amphitheatre. Population approx. 6,000.
• 2nd C. – Tours amphitheatre expanded
• 3rd C. – Roman Catholic diocese of Tours established.
• 250 – Tours Amphitheatre turned into a fortification
• 4th C. – Cathedral built by .
• 327 - Marmoutier Abbey founded.
• 360 – Castrum added to the area around the fortified amphitheatre.
• 371 – Martin of Tours becomes bishop.
• 5th C. – Caesarodunum renamed "Civitas Turonorum."
• 435 – Tours "affiliated to the Armorican confederation." Ecclesiastical province of Tours established.
• 461 – Religious Council of Tours held.
• 473 – Visigoths in power.
• 567 – Second Council of Tours held.
• 573 – Gregory of Tours becomes bishop.
• 732 – Battle of Tours fought nearby.
• 796
• Marmoutier Abbey scriptorium active (approximate date).
• Charlemagne put Marmoutier Abbey into the care of Alcuin of York.
• 813 – Third Council of Tours held.
• 10th C. – City walls of Châteauneuf built around basilica of St. Martin.
• 853 & 903 - Normans pilaged.
• 998 – Fire.
• 11th C. – Château de Tours built.
• 11th–12th C. – Church of St Martin built.
• 1034 – (bridge) built (approximate date).
• 1055 – Council of Tours held.
• 1163 – Council of Tours (1163) held.
• 1170 – Tours Cathedral construction begins.
• 1203 – Livre tournois became the official currency of the kingdom.
• 1236 – held.
• 1308 – Estates General of Tours (1308) held.
• ca.1420 - Jean Fouquet, painter, was born in Tours.
• 1444 – Treaty of Tours. Tours became capital de facto of France.
• 1460 – Touraine customary laws codified.
• 1464 – Louis XI, the "universal spider", created the system of royal postal roads, first roads started from Tours.
• 1468 – Estates General of Tours (1468) held.
• 1484 – Estates General of Tours (1484) held.
• 1506 – Estates General of Tours (1506) held.
• 1542 – Généralité of Tours created (included Touraine, Maine and Anjou).
• 1547 - Tours Cathedral building completed.
• 1562 – Religious unrest.
• 1589 – Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours.
• 1594 – Parliament of Tours returned to Paris. Kings definitely returned to Paris area.

18th century

• 1761 – established.
• 1778 – Stone Bridge built.
• 1790 – Tours becomes part of the Indre-et-Loire souveraineté.
• 1798 – Church of St Martin demolished.
• 1799 – 20 May: Birth of Honoré de Balzac.

19th century

• 1800 – Population: 20,240.
• 1801 – , -Centre, and -Nord created.
• 1803 – Chamber of Commerce established.
• 1840 – Société archéologique de Touraine founded.
• 1843 – Jardin botanique de Tours (garden) founded.
• 1846 - Tours station opened.
• 1855 - Tours Amphitheatre rediscovered.
• 1858 – Tours–Le Mans railway begins operating.
• 1861 – Population: 41,061.
• 1867 – Union Libérale newspaper begins publication.
• 1870 – Tours becomes temporary "seat of French government, during siege of Paris."
• 1872 – built.
• 1877 – begins operating.
• 1886 – Population: 59,585.
• 1889 – Tours Municipal Theatre reopened after fire.
• 1898 – Gare de Tours (rail station) built.

20th century

• 1904 – Hôtel de Ville completed.
• 1906 – Population: 67,601.
• 1911 – Population: 73,398.
• 1917 – American Expeditionary Forces' "chief supply base" set up at Tours (approximate date), during World War I.
• 1924 – Basilica of St. Martin, Tours rebuilt.
• 1949 – begins operating.
• 1957 – (library) built.
• 1962 – Population: 92,944.
• 1968 – established.
• 1969 – François Rabelais University founded.
• 1978
• April: Collapse of Wilson Bridge (Tours).⁽⁾
• Stade de la Vallée du Cher (stadium) opens.
• Musée des Equipages Militaires et du Train (museum) established.
• 1982 – Tours becomes part of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
• 1999 – Population: 132,820.

21st century

• 2011 – Population: 134,633.
• 2013 – Tours tramway begins operating.
• 2014
• March: held.
• Serge Babary becomes mayor.

See also

• Tours history
• (Roman-era settlement)
• region

Other cities in the Centre-Val de Loire region:

• Timeline of Bourges
• Timeline of Orléans

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in French

External links

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