Timeline of Nîmes

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

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Prior to 18th century

• 3rd century BCE - Tour Magne (tower) in existence.
• 121 BCE - Romans in power.[1]
• 1st century BCE - Maison Carrée (Roman temple), Porte de France (Nîmes) (gate), and Porte d'Auguste (gate) built.
• 1st century CE - Arena of Nîmes and Pont du Gard (aqueduct) built (approximate date).[2]
• 394 - First Council of Nîmes
• 5th century CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Nîmes established.[3]
• 407 - Nîmes "pillaged by the Vandals."[1]
• 737 - Nîmes "sacked by Charles Martel."[1]
• 1096 - Third Council of Nîmes
• 1185 - Count of Toulouse in power.[1]
• 1567 - Religious unrest ("Michelade"); Catholics killed.[2]
• 1682 - Royal Academy of Nîmes active.[4]

Nîmes in the 16th century

18th-19th centuries

• 1703 - April: Agau massacre of Protestants occurs near Nîmes, during the War of the Camisards.[5]
• 1790
  • Nîmes becomes part of the Gard souveraineté.[6]
  • June: Religious unrest; Catholics killed during the Bagarre de Nîmes.[7][8]
• 1800 - Population: 39,594.[6]
• 1801 - Canton de Nîmes-1, Canton de Nîmes-2, Canton de Nîmes-3 created.[6]
• 1803
  • Nîmes Chamber of Commerce established.
  • Nîmes Municipal Theatre opens.
• 1815
  • Austrian military under von Neipperg in Nîmes.
  • White Terror occurs.
• 1821 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes founded.
• 1846 - Nîmes courthouse built.
• 1851 - Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle (Nîmes) created.[9]
• 1852 - Railway Tarascon-Sète-Ville line construction completed.[10]
• 1871 - Société d'étude des sciences naturelles de Nîmes et du Gard founded.[4]
• 1874 - Antoninus sculpture installed in the Square Antonin.
• 1876 - Population: 63,001.[11]
• 1877 - Journal du Midi newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1880 - Nîmes Tramway begins operating.
• 1886 - Population: 69,898.[13]
• 1895 - Nîmes Natural History Museum founded.[14]

20th century

• 1910 - Industrialist and Merchant's Union formed.[15]
• 1911 - Population: 80,437.[16]
• 1920 - Musée du Vieux Nîmes established.
• 1952 - Feria de Nîmes (festival) begins.
• 1968 - Population: 123,292 in city;[6] 309,549 in arrondissement.
• 1973 - Canton de Nîmes-4 and Canton de Nîmes-5 created.[6]
• 1982
  • Nîmes becomes part of the Languedoc-Roussillon region.
  • Canton de Nîmes-6 created.[6]
• 1986 - 16 March: 1986 French regional elections held; Jacques Blanc elected president of Languedoc-Roussillon regional council.
• 1999 - Population: 133,424 in city;[6] 457,769 in arrondissement.

21st century

• 2001 - Jean-Paul Fournier becomes mayor.
• 2012
  • Nîmes BRT Line T1 begins operating.
  • Population: 146,709 in city; 538,211 in arrondissement.
• 2014 - March: Nîmes municipal election, 2014 held.
• 2015
  • March: Gard department election, 2015 held.
  • December: Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées regional election, 2015 held.[17]
  • Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes construction begins.
• 2016 - Nîmes becomes part of the Occitanie region.

See also

• Nîmes history
• History of Nîmes
• Nemausus (town) (Roman-era)
• List of mayors in Nîmes
• List of heritage sites in Nîmes
• History of Gard department

Other cities in the Occitanie region:

• Timeline of Montpellier
• Timeline of Perpignan
• Timeline of Toulouse

References

1. Baedeker 1914.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
4. "Sociétés savantes de France (Nîmes)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
5. W. Gregory Monahan (2014). Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-100212-0.
6. "Notice communale: Nîmes". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
7. Pontécoulant 1820.
8. Paul R. Hanson (2015). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7892-1.
9. Peyre 1903.
10. Ministère des travaux publics (France) (1893). Statistique des chemins de fer français (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
11. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882.
12. A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
13. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
14. Charles-Roux 1908.
15. Zaretsky 1995.
16. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
17. "Données du Monde: Nimes", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Nimes". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson.
• "Nismes", Handbook for Travellers in France (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1861
• "Nîmes", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Nismes (Nimes)", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• "Nimes", 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, 26, Local history: Nimes
• Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Nimes". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
• Robert Zaretsky (1995). Nimes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-04332-6.

in French

• Adolphe de Pontécoulant (1820). Histoire des révolutions des villes de Nimes et d'Uzès (in French). Gaude.
• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac (1839). "Nimes". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire (in French). Perisse frères.
• Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau (1850). "Nimes". Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Firmin Didot frères. p. 80. hdl:2027/uiug.30112081968700.
• L. Gaudin (1902). "Departements Languedociens: Gard: Nimes". Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de la ville de Montpellier: Fonds de Languedoc (in French). Louis Grollier.
• "Nimes". Les Cévennes. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1902. OCLC 457600236.
• Ch. Brossard, ed. (1903). "Gard: Description des villes: Nimes". Languedoc. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France (in French). Flammarion.
• Roger Peyre (1903). Nîmes, Arles, Orange, Saint-Rémy. Les Villes d'Art célèbres. Paris: H. Laurens.
• Jules Charles-Roux (1908). Nîmes (in French) (4th ed.). Paris: Bloud et Cie.
• "Nimes". Cévennes, Languedoc. Guides Joanne (in French). 1914.

External links

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