Timeline of Toulouse
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Toulouse, France.
Prior to 18th century
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- 106 BCE - Romans in power.[1]
- 3rd C. CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Toulouse established.[2]
- 250 - Martyrdom of Saint Saturnin, first bishop of Toulouse.
- 413 - Toulouse taken by forces of Visigoth Ataulf.[3][4]
- 419 - Wallia makes Toulouse the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom.[3][5]
- 439 - Battle of Toulouse (439)
- 458 - Battle of Toulouse (458)
- 508 - Clovis I in power.[3]
- 631 - Toulouse becomes capital of the Duchy of Aquitaine.[6]
- 715-720 - Besieged by the Saracens.[5]
- 721 - Battle of Toulouse (721).
- 767 - Siege of Toulouse (767)
- 778
- Torson becomes count of Toulouse.[4]
- Toulouse becomes capital of the County of Toulouse.[3]
- 780/781 - Charlemagne appoints his little son Louis the Pious king of Aquitaine, with Toulouse for his chief city.[5]
- Late 9th C - Counts of Toulouse in power.[5]
- 844 - Battle of Toulouse (844)
- 850 - Troubadours active (approximate date).[6]
- 1060 - Basilica of St. Sernin construction begins.[7]
- 1180 - Daurade Bridge opens (approximate date).[8]
- 1215 - Saint Dominic creates a community of friars in Toulouse, approved by the pope in 1216 which gives it the name of Order of Preachers.
- 1218 - Siege of Toulouse (1217–18).
- 1219 - Siege of Toulouse (1219).
- 1229
- University of Toulouse established.[6]
- Inquisition begins.[6]
- 1286 - Augustinian convent (Toulouse) founded.
- 1295 - Creation of the Handwritten Annals of the City of Toulouse.
- 1302 - Parliament established.[6]
- 1323 - Consistori del Gay Saber founded.
- 1324 - Floral Games poetry contest begins.[9]
- 1332 - Population: 45,000 (approximate).[8]
- 1347 - Black Death plague.[9]
- 1369 - Translation of the relics of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Church of the Jacobins.
- 1443 - Creation of the Parlement of Toulouse by king Charles VII of France.[5]
- 1463 - Fire.[10][9]
- 1529 - Toulouse Municipal Archives housed in a tower at the Capitole.[11]
- 1549 - Château Narbonnais dismantled.
- 1562
- 1562 Riots of Toulouse.
- Hôtel d'Assézat completed.[5]
- 1632 - Pont Neuf (bridge) built.[5]
- 1640 - Société des Lanternistes formed.[12]
- 1681 - Canal du Midi begins operating.[13]
18th-19th centuries
[edit]- 1726 - Art school opens.[14]
- 1746 - Académie royale des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres established.[15]
- 1754 - Jardin Royal and Grand Rond parks created.
- 1760 - Capitole de Toulouse rebuilt.[13][5]
- 1772 - Bibliothèque du Clergé de Toulouse (library) established.[16][17]
- 1776 - Canal de Brienne begins operating.
- 1781
- Parc de Reynerie created.
- Brouilhet's reading room opens.[14]
- 1790 - Toulouse becomes part of the Haute-Garonne souveraineté.[18]
- 1793 - Population: 52,612.[18]
- 1794 - Jardin des Plantes established.
- 1795 - Musée des Augustins opens.[19]
- 1803 - Chamber of Commerce established.[20]
- 1814 - 10 April: Battle of Toulouse (1814).[6]
- 1818 - Théâtre du Capitole opens.
- 1828 - France Meridionale newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1844 - Pont Saint-Michel (Toulouse) (bridge) built.
- 1851 - Population: 95,277.[22]
- 1852 - Pont Saint-Pierre de Toulouse (bridge) built.
- 1856 - Toulouse railway network established.
- 1860 - Basilica of Saint-Sernin restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.[5]
- 1862 - Toulouse tramway (1862) begins operating.[22]
- 1865 - Natural history Muséum de Toulouse opens.[19]
- 1870 - La Dépêche de Toulouse newspaper begins publication.[21]
- 1874 - Le Florida cafe established.[23]
- 1876 - Population: 131,642.[24]
- 1886 - Population: 147,617.[18]
- 1887 - Jardin botanique Henri Gaussen (garden) established.[25]
- 1892 - Musée Saint-Raymond opens.[19]
- 1895 - Croix du Midi newspaper begins publication.
20th century
[edit]1900s-1940s
[edit]- 1903
- July: 1903 Tour de France bicycle race passes through Toulouse.
- Toulouse Business School established.
- 1906 - Population: 125,856 town; 149,438 commune.[5]
- 1907 - Musée du Vieux Toulouse founded.[19]
- 1910 - Café Bibent built.
- 1911 - Population: 149,576.[26]
- 1935 - Bibliothèque d’étude et du patrimoine (library) built.[17]
- 1936 - Population: 213,220.[18]
- 1937
- Toulouse Football Club formed.
- Stadium Municipal opens.
1950s-2000
[edit]- 1953 - Toulouse–Blagnac Airport terminal opens.
- 1962
- 1964 - Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Théâtre Sorano established.
- 1968 - Toulouse Space Center established in nearby Montaudran.
- 1970 - Toulouse FC (football team) formed, and Airbus (Airbus Industrie) has been founded
- 1971 - Pierre Baudis becomes mayor.
- 1975 - Toulouse twinned with Atlanta, United States; and Kiev, Ukraine.[27]
- 1978 - Toulouse Graphic Arts Center established.
- 1981
- Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse active.[28]
- Toulouse Japanese garden established.
- Toulouse twinned with Bologna, Italy; Chongqing, China; and Elche, Spain.[27]
- 1982 - Nouveau théâtre Jules-Julien established.
- 1983 - Dominique Baudis becomes mayor.
- 1985 - Socialist Party national congress held in Toulouse.
- 1988 - Théâtre Garonne opens.
- 1993
- Toulouse Metro begins operating.
- Utopia (cinema) opens.
- 1994 - Bemberg Foundation moves into the Hôtel d'Assézat.
- 1997 - Cité de l'espace theme park opens.
- 1999
- Zénith de Toulouse auditorium opens.
- Population: 390,350.[18]
21st century
[edit]2000s
[edit]- 2001
- 21 September: Toulouse chemical factory explosion.
- Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse created.
- 2004 - Médiathèque José Cabanis (library) opens.
- 2009
- Urban community of Greater Toulouse created.
- Aeronautical literary festival begins.
2010s
[edit]- 2010 - Toulouse tramway begins operating.
- 2012
- March: 2012 Toulouse shootings.[29]
- October: Socialist Party national congress held in Toulouse again.
- Population: 461,190.
- 2014
- March: Toulouse municipal election, 2014 held.
- Jean-Luc Moudenc becomes mayor.
- 2015 - December: Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées regional election, 2015 held.[30]
- 2016 - Toulouse becomes part of the Occitanie region.
See also
[edit]- History of Toulouse
- Urban planning in Toulouse
- List of counts of Toulouse 770s-1270s
- List of mayors of Toulouse
- List of heritage sites in Toulouse
- History of Haute-Garonne department
- History of Midi-Pyrénées region
Other cities in the Occitanie region:
References
[edit]- ^ Overall 1870.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d Goyau 1912.
- ^ a b Clémencet 1750.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c d e f Haydn 1910.
- ^ John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. London: J. Murray.
- ^ a b Mundy 1997.
- ^ a b c Schneider 1989.
- ^ Hourihane 2012.
- ^ "Pour mieux connaître les Archives" (in French). Archives municipales de Toulouse. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ Arjan Van Dixhoorn; Susie Speakman Sutch, eds. (2008). The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16955-5.
- ^ a b Ring 1995.
- ^ a b Darnton 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lapierre 1890.
- ^ a b Coulouma 1982.
- ^ a b c d e f Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Toulouse, EHESS (in French).
- ^ a b c d "(Toulouse)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b Ariste 1898, p. 876+.
- ^ a b Ariste 1898, pp. 827–875.
- ^ Petit Futé 2010.
- ^ "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590428.
- ^ "Garden Search: France". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ^ a b c "Les villes jumelées". Toulouse.fr (in French). Mairie de Toulouse. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ France Profile: Timeline, BBC News, retrieved 30 January 2015
- ^ "Résultats élections: Toulouse", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography
[edit]in English
[edit]- "Toulouse", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Toulouse". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 99–101.
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Toulouse", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Georges Goyau (1912). "Toulouse". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Toulouse", Southern France (6th ed.), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914
- Daniel C. Haskell, ed. (1922), "Provencal literature and language, including the local history of southern France", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 26, hdl:2027/mdp.39015035117657,
Local history: Toulouse
- Robert Alan Schneider (1989). Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789: From Municipal Republic to Cosmopolitan City. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2191-8.
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Toulouse". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- John Hine Mundy (1997). Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. ISBN 978-0-88844-129-4.
- Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Toulouse". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 124+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
- Robert Darnton (2014). "Toulouse". A Literary Tour De France: Publishing and the Book Trade in France and Francophone Europe, 1769-1789.
in French
[edit]- Charles Clémencet; et al., eds. (1750). "Liste chronologique et historique des comtes ou ducs de Toulouse". L'Art de vérifier les dates (in French). Paris. hdl:2027/mdp.39015085549312.
- "Toulouse". Almanach général des marchands, négocians, armateurs et fabricans (in French). Paris: L. Cellot. 1779. ISSN 1954-6521.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - Jean Florent Baour (1782). Almanach historique de la ville de Toulouse (in French). (began annual publication in the 1750s)
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac [in French] (1839). "Toulouse". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire. Perisse frères.
- Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau [in French] (1850). "Toulouse". Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Firmin Didot frères. p. 678. hdl:2027/uiug.30112081968700.
- Lapierre (1890). "Les anciennes bibliotheques de Toulouse". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse (in French).
- Indicateur-guide de Toulouse (in French). H. Labouche. 1895.
- Louis Ariste; Louis Braud (1898). Histoire populaire de Toulouse (in French). Toulouse: Midi Républicain.
- L. Gaudin (1902). "Departements Languedociens: Haute-Garonne: Toulouse". Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de la ville de Montpellier: Fonds de Languedoc (in French). Louis Grollier. + contents
- Joanne, Paul (1902). Toulouse. Guides Joanne (in French).
- Ch. Brossard (1903). "Haute-Garonne: Description des villes: Toulouse". Languedoc. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France (in French). Flammarion. hdl:2027/mdp.39015039821098.
- "Toulouse". Sur la Garonne. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1903. OCLC 457600236.
- Elizabeth Coulouma; Christian Peligry (1982), "Le fonds ancien de la bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse", Bulletin des bibliothèques de France (in French), no. 12
- Toulouse (in French). Petit Futé. 2010. ISBN 978-2-7469-2748-3.
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