The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bordeaux, France.
Prior to 19th century edit
- 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 consecrated.[4]
- 1712 - Bordeaux Academy 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 established.[10]
19th century edit
- 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 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 (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 (geographical society) founded.
- 1876 - Population: 215,140.
- 1880 - Société bordelaise de Crédit Industriel et Commercial established.[17]
- 1898 - Bontou's cuisine bordelaise cookbook published.[18][19]
20th century edit
- 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) (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 edit
- 2003 - Bordeaux tramway begins operating.[14]
- 2004
- Station Hôtel de Ville (Tram de Bordeaux) opens.
- Hugues Martin becomes mayor.[14]
- 2006 - Alain Juppé becomes mayor again.[14]
- 2007
- Port of the Moon 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 held.[29]
- 2016 - Bordeaux becomes part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
- 2017 - Population: 254,436.[25]
See also edit
Other cities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region:
References edit
- ^ Townsend 1867.
- ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
- ^ Charles E. Little (1900), "France", Cyclopedia of Classified Dates, New York: Funk & Wagnalls
- ^ a b Hourihane 2012.
- ^ Henri Bouchot [in French] (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
- ^ John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. London: J. Murray.
- ^ Ring 1995.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bordeaux, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Charles-Victor Langlois; Henri Stein [in French] (1891), "Archives départementales: Gironde", Les archives de l'histoire de France (in French), Paris: Alphonse Picard
- ^ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ a b c "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590337.
- ^ a b c d e f "Histoire de Bordeaux: Chronologie" (in French). Mairie de Bordeaux. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ a b "History". Archives municipales de Bordeaux. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ "Bordeaux (France) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ "France". International Banking Directory. New York: Bankers Publishing Company. 1922. hdl:2027/hvd.hb1sji.
- ^ Alan Davidson (2014). "France". Oxford Companion to Food (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-104072-6.
- ^ George Herman Ellwanger (1902). Pleasures of the Table: An Account of Gastronomy from Ancient Days to Present Times. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ^ "Movie Theaters in Bordeaux". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ "France: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- ^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "Bordeaux". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gino Raymond (2008). Historical Dictionary of France. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6256-2.
- ^ "Résultats élections: Bordeaux", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography edit
in English edit
- Richard Brookes (1786), "Bourdeaux", The General Gazetteer (6th ed.), London: J.F.C. Rivington
- "Bordeaux", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
- Frederick Martin (1867), "The Four Great Cities of France: Bordeaux", Commercial Handbook of France, London: Longmans, Green, OCLC 4471325
- George Henry Townsend (1867), "Bordeaux", Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Bordeaux". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Bordeaux", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- "Bordeaux". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/hvd.hn52jk.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Georges Goyau (1907). "Bordeaux". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 244–245.
- "Bordeaux", 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: Bordeaux
- Robert E. Dickinson (1961). "Structure of the French City: Bordeaux". The West European City (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-25970-8.
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Bordeaux". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Bordeaux". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 67+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
- François Hubert, Christian Block and Jacques de Cauna (2018). Bordeaux in the 18th century: trans-Atlantic trading and slavery (2nd ed.). Bordeaux: Le Festin. ISBN 978-2-36062-009-8.
- Chantal Callais and Thierry Jeanmonod (2019). Bordeaux: a history of architecture. La Crèche: La Geste. ISBN 979-10-353-0188-0.
in French edit
- 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. p. 184. hdl:2027/uiug.30112081968700.
- Bordeaux. Guides Joanne (in French). 1902. hdl:2027/uc1.c105602300.
- Ch. Brossard (1903). "Guyenne-Gascone: Gironde: Description des villes: Bordeaux". La France du Sud-Ouest. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France (in French). Flammarion. hdl:2027/nyp.33433066581137. (Table of contents)
- "Bordeaux". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914. hdl:2027/mdp.39015074817142.
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