Timeline of Lille

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

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Prior to 17th century

• 1213 - Town besieged by forces of Philip II of France.[1]
• 1236 - Hospice Comtesse built.
• 1297 - Town besieged by forces of Philip IV of France.[1]
• 1304 - French in power.
• 1369 - Louis II, Count of Flanders in power.[1]
• 1390 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[2]
• 1430 - Hotel de Ville built.[3]
• 1445 - Population: 25,000.
• 1454 - Feast of the Pheasant.
• 1459 - Noble Tower built.[4]
• 1460s - Hospice Gantois founded.[4]
• 1473 - Palais Rihour built.[5]
• 1531 - Lille customary laws codified (approximate date).[6]
• 1535 - Latin school established.
• 1592 - Municipal college established.

17th-18th centuries

• 1605 - Military hospital founded.[7]
• 1617 - Porte de Gand (gate) constructed.[1]
• 1622 - Porte de Roubaix (gate) constructed.[1]
• 1667 - Siege of Lille.[5]
• 1668 - Lille becomes part of France.
• 1670 - Citadel constructed.[5]
• 1675 - St. Madeleine Church, Lille construction begins.[8]
• 1692 - Porte de Paris (Lille) (gate) constructed.
• 1701
  • Pont-Neuf built.[7]
  • Church of Saint-André, Lille construction begins.
• 1708 - Siege of Lille.[5]
• 1717 - Grand' Garde built.[7]
• 1748 - Church of Saint-Étienne built.
• 1785 - Opera house built.
• 1790
  • Lille becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.[9]
  • Municipal elections begin.
  • Public library founded.[10]
• 1792 - City besieged by Austrian forces.[3]
• 1793 - Population: 66,761.[9]

19th century

• 1802 - Société des amateurs des sciences et des arts founded.
• 1809 - Art museum opens.[11]
• 1822 - Natural history museum founded.
• 1837 - Palais de Justice built. [12]
• 1839 - Commission historique du Nord founded.[13]
• 1844 - Column of the Goddess erected.[3]
• 1846 - Paris-Lille railway built.
• 1848 - Gare de Lille Flandres (rail station) built.
• 1852 - Lycée impérial re-built
• 1854 - Faculty of sciences and École des arts industriels et des mines (École centrale de Lille) established.
• 1855 - Notre Dame Cathedral construction begins.[1]
• 1856 - Population: 78,641.[9]
• 1858 - Esquermes, Fives, and Wazemmes become part of Lille.
• 1861 - Population: 131,727.[9]
• 1866 - Population: 154,749.[9]
• 1870 - Prefecture built.[7]
• 1872 - Institut industriel du Nord established ; Saint-Maurice church restored.[1]
• 1875 - Catholic University established.
• 1876 - Population: 162,775.[9]
• 1878 - Palais Rameau built.[4]
• 1880 - Société de géographie de Lille founded.[13]
• 1886 - Population: 188,272.[14]
• 1888 - Musee Commercial et Colonial opens.[15]
• 1892
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts built.
  • Gare de Lille Flandres (rail station) rebuilt.
• 1894 - Institut de chimie founded.
• 1896 - Population: 216,276.[9]
• 1899 - Institut Pasteur established.

20th century

1900-1940s

See also: Lille during World War II

• 1906 - Population: 205,602.[9]
• 1909 - Tramway begins operating.
• 1911 - Population: 217,807.[16]
• 1913
  • Roman Catholic diocese of Lille established.[17]
  • Opéra de Lille built.
• 1914 - German occupation begins.
• 1918 - October 17: City liberated by British.
• 1924 - Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme founded.
• 1925 - Roger Salengro elected mayor.
• 1932 - Lille City Hall built.
• 1940 - May: Siege of Lille.
• 1941 - Echo du Nord begins publication.[18]
• 1944
  • September - City liberated by Allied forces.
  • Lille Olympique Sporting Club formed.
• 1947 - Lille Airport in operation.
• 1948 - Jardin des Plantes de Lille established.

1950s-1990s

• 1967 - Urban Community of Lille Métropole formed.
• 1968 - Lille courthouse built.
• 1970 - Lille 2 University of Health and Law[19] and Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie established.
• 1973 - Pierre Mauroy becomes mayor.
• 1976 - Orchestre national de Lille formed.[20]
• 1977 - Hellemmes becomes an associated part of Lille.
• 1983 - Lille Metro begins operating.
• 1984 - École de communication visuelle opens.
• 1987 - Socialist Party national congress held in Lille.
• 1986 - Lille Marathon begins.
• 1988 - Advanced European Institute of Management established.
• 1989 - Transpole formed.
• 1990 - École Nouvelle d'Ingénieurs en Communication founded.
• 1991 - Institut d'études politiques de Lille established.
• 1992 - Institut Lillois d'Ingénierie de la Santé founded.
• 1993
  • Paris-Lille TGV train begins operating.
  • Gare de Lille Europe built.
• 1994
  • Euralille (shopping mall) opens.
  • Eurostar train begins operating.
• 1999
  • Lille Cathedral built.
  • Population: 184,657.[9]
• 2000 - Lomme becomes an associated part of Lille.

21st century

• 2001
  • March: Lille municipal election, 2001 held.
  • Martine Aubry becomes mayor.[21]
• 2003 - Institut technologique européen d'entrepreneuriat et de management established.
• 2004 - Lille designated a European Capital of Culture.
• 2006 - Population: 226,014.
• 2009 - Université Lille Nord de France formed.
• 2011 - Population: 227,533.[22]
• 2014 - March: Lille municipal election, 2014 held.
• 2015 - December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.[22]
• 2016 - Lille becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

See also

• Lille history
• History of Lille
• List of mayors of Lille
• List of heritage sites in Lille
• History of Nord-Pas-de-Calais region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

• Timeline of Amiens
• Timeline of Roubaix

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
3. Vine 1880.
4. Michelin 1919.
5. Hourihane 2012.
6. Caswell 1977.
7. Baedeker 1899.
8. Black 1876.
9. "Notice communale: Lille". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
10. Henry R. Tedder; E.C. Thomas (1882), "Libraries: France", Encyclopædia Britannica, 14 (9th ed.), New York (list of cities)
11. Annuaire des artistes 1833.
12. Hare 1890.
13. "Sociétés savantes de France (Lille)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
14. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
15. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie de Lille, 1898
16. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
17. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
18. Jean-Paul Visse (2004), La presse du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais au temps de l'Echo du Nord, Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du septentrion, ISBN 2859398325
19. Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
20. "Mairie-Lille.fr". Archived from the original on May 9, 2007. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
21. "French mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
22. "Données du Monde: Lille", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Lille". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. hdl:2027/njp.32101072026816.
• C.B. Black (1876), "Lille", Guide to the North of France
• J.R. Somers Vine (1880), "Lille", Iron Roads Dictionary, London: Waterlow
• Augustus J.C. Hare (1890), "Lille", North-Eastern France, London: G. Allen, OCLC 1737047
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Lille", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
• "Lille", Northern France (3rd ed.), Leipsic: K. Baedeker, 1899, OCLC 2229516
• "Lille", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Lille before and during the war, Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin, 1919, OCLC 1843516, OL 6620039M
• Jean Caswell; Ivan Sipkov (1977). "Lille". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress. hdl:2027/mdp.39015034753866.
• Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Lille". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 67+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

in French

• Description des feux d'artifices faits a l'honneur du roy a Lille (in French), Lille: Jean Chrosostome Malte, 1680, OL 23293950M (fireworks); also via British Library
• "Lille". Almanach général des marchands, négocians, armateurs et fabricans. Almanach Général des Marchands, Négocians et Commerçans de la France et de l'Europe (in French). Paris: L. Cellot. 1779. ISSN 1954-6521.
• "Nord: Lille". Annuaire des artistes français: Statistique des beaux-arts en France. Annuaire des Artistes Français (in French). Paris: Guyot de Fère. 1833. ISSN 2275-6817.
• "Lille". Le Nord. Guides Joanne (in French). 1899. hdl:2027/hvd.hn3f1z.
• "Lille". Le Nord. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1906. OCLC 457600236.

External links

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