Timeline of Marseille

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

Prior to 17th century[]

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  • 600 BC - Massalia founded by Phocaean Greeks (approximate date).[1]
  • 49 BC - Siege of Massilia.[1]
  • 1st century AD - Roman Catholic diocese of Marseille established.[2]
  • 415 AD - Abbey of St. Victor founded (approximate date).
  • 470 - Town taken by forces of Visigoth Euric.[3]
  • 6th century - Port in operation.
  • 839 - Town "sacked by Saracens."[3]
  • 1214
    • Town becomes a republic.[3]
    • Notre-Dame de la Garde built.
  • 1252 - Town "taken by Charles of Anjou."[1]
  • 1262 - Revolt against Angevins.
  • 1348 - Bubonic plague outbreak.[4]
  • 1365 - Abbey of St. Victor building constructed.
  • 1423 -  [fr; es] by the forces of Aragón, led by Alfonso V.[5]
  • 1453 - Fortifications constructed.
  • 1481 - Marseille united with Provence.
  • 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France.[1]
  • 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I.[5]
  • 1531 - Château d'If built.
  • 1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins (church) dedicated.
  • 1593 - Hotel Dieu (hospital) founded.
  • 1599 -  [fr] founded.[6]

17th-18th centuries[]

19th century[]

Map of Marseille, 1896

1800s–1840s[]

1850s-1890s[]

  • 1851
    • Messageries Maritimes shipping company in business.[23]
    • Population: 195,258.[15]
  • 1852 -  [fr] built on Boulevard Chave.[14]
  • 1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.[5]
  • 1854 -  [fr] (zoo) opens.
  • 1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
  • 1856
  • 1857 -  [fr] theatre opens.
  • 1858
  • 1860
  • 1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.[24]
  • 1863 -  [fr] built.[25]
  • 1864
    •  [fr] opens.[26]
    • Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.[24]
  • 1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank)[27] and Priory of St. Madeleine[citation needed] founded.
  • 1866 - Population: 300,131.[28]
  • 1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.[22]
  • 1869 - Palais Longchamp built.[24]
  • 1872 - Business school established.
  • 1876
  • 1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.[20][2]
  • 1878 -  [fr] consecrated.
  • 1881
    • Italian-French ethnic unrest.[3]
    • Population: 360,099.[15]
  • 1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
  • 1884 -  [fr].
  • 1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.[22]
  • 1891 -  [fr] (school) founded.
  • 1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
  • 1893
  • 1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.(fr)[24]
  • 1897 -  [fr] (hiking club) formed.[29]
  • 1899
    • Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
    • 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.[24]

20th century[]

1900s-1940s[]

  • 1901
    • "Dock strike."[3]
    • Population: 491,161.[15]
  • 1902 - "Strike of sailors."[3]
  • 1903
    • July: 1903 Tour de France cycling race passes through Marseille.
    • September: Bubonic plague outbreak.[3]
  • 1906 -  [fr] held.
  • 1909
    • "Tigeress escapes; terrorises the town."[3]
    •  [fr] founded.[20]
  • 1911 - Population: 550,619.[30]
  • 1913 - Fountain installed in the Place Castellane.
  • 1916 - Musée Cantini founded.[18]
  • 1917 -  [fr] restaurant in business.[31]
  • 1919 - 13 November: Grand Théâtre burns down.(fr)
  • 1922
    • Marseille Provence Airport opens.
    • Colonial exhibition held.
  • 1923 -  [fr] erected.[32]
  • 1924 - Opera House built.
  • 1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
  • 1927 -  [fr] erected.[33]
  • 1931 - Population: 800,881.[15]
  • 1933 - Film Studios Pagnol established.[34]
  • 1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.[35]
  • 1936 - Population: 914,232.[15]
  • 1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
  • 1938
    • 21 September:  [fr].
    • 28 October:  [fr].
  • 1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
  • 1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
  • 1941 - Combat (French Resistance) active.[36]
  • 1942 - November: German occupation begins.
  • 1943 - Old Port area evacuated and demolished.[37]
  • 1944
    • Bombing by Allied forces.
    • August: Battle of Marseille; German occupation ends.
    • La Marseillaise newspaper in publication.
    • Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
  • 1946
  • Population: 636,264.[15]
  • 1947
    • November: Labor unrest.[38]
    • Michel Carlini becomes mayor.

1950s-1990s[]

  • 1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.[4]
  • 1953
    • Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again (remains in office until 1986).[4]
    • La Tourette housing complex built.
  • 1955 -  [fr] vendetta killings of the criminal  [fr] occur.
  • 1958 - Marseille twinned with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Antwerp, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Genoa, Italy; Haifa, Israel; and Hamburg, Germany.[39]
  • 1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
  • 1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.[39]
  • 1962
  • 1965 - March:  [fr] held.
  • 1967 -  [fr] opens.[40]
  • 1968
    • A7 autoroute opens.[40]
    • Marseille twinned with Dakar, Senegal.[39]
    • Population: 889,029.[15]
  • 1970 - University of Provence established.[41]
  • 1972
    • A55 autoroute opens.[40]
    • Ballet National de Marseille founded.
    • Marseille twinned with Odessa, Ukraine.[39]
  • 1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.[42]
  • 1975
    • Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.[43][44]
    • Population: 908,600.[15]
  • 1977
    • Marseille Metro Line 1 begins operating.[40]
    • CMA CGM shipping company established.
  • 1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
  • 1981 - Rodéo (riot).
  • 1982
  • 1983
    • SNCF TGV Sud-Est train begins operating.[40]
    • Marseille History Museum opens.[36]
  • 1984
    •  [fr] begins operating.[40]
    • Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.[39]
  • 1986
    • March:  [fr] held.
    • Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
  • 1987
    • Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
    • Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China.[39]
  • 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
  • 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
  • 1993 -  [fr] opens.[40]
  • 1995
  • 1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
  • 1999 - Population: 795,518.[15]

21st century[]

2000s[]

  • 2001
    • Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
    •  [fr] moves to the former  [fr].[47]
  • 2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.[39]
  • 2006
  • 2007
    • Marseille tramway begins operating.
    • Labor strike.[4]
    • Construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor begins in Cadarache, in vicinity of Marseille.
  • 2008 - Population: 851,420.
  • 2009 - Collège Ibn Khaldoun opens.

2010s[]

  • 2010
    • March:  [fr] held.
    • Garbage strike occurs.
  • 2011
    • Population: 850,636.[48]
  • 2012 -  [fr] pedestrianized.
  • 2013
    • Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations opens.
    • City designated a European Capital of Culture.[49]
  • 2014 - March:  [fr] held.
  • 2015
  • 2016 - Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.
  • 2017 - Stabbing occurs in Saint Charles train station.
  • 2018 - Two buildings collapse in the center of Marseille eight people are killed.

See also[]

  • History of Marseille
  •  [fr]
  •  [fr]
  •  [fr]
  •  [fr]
  • History of Provence region
  •  [fr] region

Other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region:

  • Timeline of Aix-en-Provence
  •  [fr]
  • Timeline of Avignon
  • Timeline of Nice
  • Timeline of Toulon

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