Timeline of Oran

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Prior to 19th century[]

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19th century[]

  • 1831 – Pujol appointed mayor of Oran.
  • 1836 – General Létang transforms the glacis Castle-Nine into a walk which bears its name.[citation needed]
  • 1837 – General Bugeaud arrived in Oran to negotiate a new treaty (The Treaty of Tafna, May 20) with Emir Abd El-Kader. On November 14 the Emir signed a treaty with Desmichel recognizing its [whose?] authority to the west of Algiers except for Oran, Mostaganem and Arzew.[citation needed]
  • 1845 – General Lamoricière constructed the "Village Nègre."[citation needed]
  • 1847 – Following a severe drought lasting several months, a terrible epidemic of cholera strikes, decimating the population of Oran.[citation needed]
  • 1848
    • Algiers-Oran railway begins operating.[1]
    • Oran becomes the prefecture of the administrative department of the same name.
    • Creation of the small Basin of the Old Port (four hectares).[1]
    • A civil hospital is built.[citation needed]
  • 1849 – Cholera outbreak.[1]
  • 1850 –  [fr] (church) construction begins atop  [fr].
  • 1858 – December 5: The members of the first general council of Oran, named by Emperor Napoleon III, meet with the prefecture, with Jules de Pre de Saint-Maur as chairman.[citation needed]
  • 1862 – Slaughterhouse built.[1]
  • 1866 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran established.[5]
  • 1877 – University Hospital of Oran construction begins.[citation needed]
  • 1878 – Société de Géographie et d’Archéologie d’Oran founded.[6]
  • 1880
    • Great Synagogue of Oran built.[7]
    • Oran builds a great extension starting from the place d'Armes. The ravine of l'Oued Rouina is filled.[citation needed]
  • 1881 – Horse-drawn tram begins operating.[1]
  • 1885 – Municipal Museum of Oran and Demaeght established.
  • 1886 –  [fr] (city hall) built.[8]
  • 1899 – Electric tram begins operating.[1]
  • 1900 – Population: 93,000.[1]

20th century[]

1900s–1940s[]

  • 1907 – Construction of the theatre.[citation needed]
  • 1909 – December 14: the first flight in Oran is carried out by Julien Serviès on a Sommer monoplane at Sénia,. Next 9 January, a great meeting gathers forty thousand people, also in Sénia, in the presence of Marshal Lyautey.[citation needed]
  • 1912 – Population: 123,086.[9]
  • 1913 – Cathedral Sacré Coeur built.
  • 1928 – Oran socialiste newspaper begins publication.
  • 1930 – Creation of new districts, less dense and more luxurious: these included higher Gambetta, Bon Reception, the Beavers, Médioni, Small Boulanger, Cité... This development continues overall with the creation of districts even more sumptuous, overflowing the first crown (district of Saint-Hubert, Palm trees, Point of the Day, Gambetta...)[citation needed]
  • 1930–32 – Sénia, the Oran aérodrome, is where several world records of duration and distance in closed loop are established.[citation needed]
  • 1936 – Population: 195,000.[1]
  • 1940
    • Beginning of the construction of the new prefecture.[citation needed]
    • July 3: following the German invasion of Paris and fall of France, the British fleet attacked from Gibraltar, damaging the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir. Its bombardment sank three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. Twelve hundred French sailors died as a result. The British feared that the French fleet could be taken over and used against them. The Vichy government operated in Algeria.[citation needed]
  • 1942 – November 8: as prelude to the invasion of Italy, the British and the Americans land at Arzew, and Oran capitulates on November 10.[citation needed]
  • 1946 – MC Oran football club formed.
  • 1947 – Camus' fictional novel The Plague published.[3]
  • 1948 – Population: 244,594.[10]
  • 1949 – OS attack post office.[11]

1950s–1990s[]

See also: Algerian War
  • 1950 – Oran has 256,661 inhabitants. Sixty-five percent of the Europeans were of Spanish origin, and they outnumbered the Algerian Muslims in the city.[citation needed]
  • 1951 – Dairy built.[1]
  • 1955 – Trefle Apartments (hi-rise) built.[12]
  • 1957 – Parc Municipal des Sports (stadium) opens.
  • 1958 – June 6: French president de Gaulle visits city.
  • 1960
  • 1961
    • August: appearance of the Organisation armée secrète.[citation needed]
    • The census states the population of Oran 400,000 inhabitants: 220,000 Europeans (including many born in Algeria) and 180,000 Algerian Muslims.
  • 1962
    • 25 March: Edmond Jouhaud, a chief of the Organisation armée secrète, arrested.
    • 5 July: City becomes part of independent Algeria.
    • 5–7 July: Massacre of Europeans occurs. Most survivors of French ancestry left the city, fleeing to France.
  • 1965 – University of Oran established.[3]
  • 1966 – Population: 327,493.[13]
  • 1975 – Abdallah Ibn Salam Mosque established.
  • 1977 – Population: 490,788 city; 543,485 urban agglomeration.[14]
  • 1985 – Raï music festival held.[15]
  • 1988 – 1988 October Riots.[11]
  • 1992 – National Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology headquartered in Oran.
  • 1994
    • Le Quotidien d'Oran newspaper begins publication.
    • 12 administrative urban areas created: El-Badr, Bouamama, El-Emir, El-Hamri,  [es], El-Makkari, El-Menzeh, Muhieddine, El-Othmania, Es-Saada, and Es-Seddikia.[citation needed]
  • 1998 – Population: 705,335.[16]

21st century[]

  • 2007 – Sonatrach HQ building constructed.[12]
  • 2008
  • 2013 – Oran Tramway begins operating.
  • 2014 – Renault car manufactory begins operating.[18]
  • 2017 – 6 additional administrative urban areas created: Akid Lotfi, Ed-Derb, Fellaoucène, Hammou Boutlélis, El-Khaldia, and Mahieddine.[19][20]
  • 2021 – 2021 Mediterranean Games to be held in Oran.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Tinthoin 1956.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Stanley 2008.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Phillip C. Naylor (2006). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6480-1.
  4. ^ J.M. López Marinas; R. Salord (1991). "Problems regarding the investigation of the 1790 Orán seismic period". Tectonophysics. 193 (1–3): 237–239. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(91)90204-6.
  5. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Algeria". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  6. ^ Saddek Benkada (2000). "Un Patrimoine culturel: les publications de la Société de Géographie et d'Archéologie d'Oran (1878–1988)". Insaniyat (in French) (12): 115–128. doi:10.4000/insaniyat.7910. ISSN 2253-0738. Free to read
  7. ^ Senhadji Khiat 2010.
  8. ^ Seguy 1888.
  9. ^ "France: Africa: Algeria". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 880–886 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b "Algeria". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. p. 1+. ISBN 978-0203409954.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tallest buildings in Oran". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  13. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  14. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
  15. ^ Marc Schade-Poulsen (1999). Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77740-8.
  16. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
  17. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016. Wahran
  18. ^ "Algeria Inaugurates New Renault Plant in Oran", New York Times, 10 November 2014
  19. ^ "AG extraordinaire aujourd'hui: L'APC d'Oran passera de 12 à 18 délégations communales", Le Quotidien d'Oran (in French), Oran, 16 January 2017
  20. ^ "APC d'Oran: Installation de nouveaux directeurs", Le Carrefour d'Algérie (in French), Oran, 6 February 2017
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

  • Gerhard Rohlfs (1893). "Algier und Oran". Westermann's illustrierte deutsche Monatshefte [de] (in German). Braunschweig. 73.

in English[]

  • R. Lambert Playfair (1895), "City of Oran", Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (5th ed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC 4443952
  • "Oran", Cook's Practical Guide to Algiers, Algeria and Tunisia, London: T. Cook & Son, 1904
  • "Oran", The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes, including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068
  • Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper, eds. (2008), "Oran", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, US: ABC-CLIO, p. 289+, ISBN 9781576079201
  • Joshua Schreier (2012). "Creation of the 'Israélite indigène' Jewish merchants in early colonial Oran". Journal of North African Studies. 17 (5): 757–772. doi:10.1080/13629387.2012.723428. ISSN 1362-9387.
  • Joshua Schreier. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series.; Stanford Stanford University Press, 2017. 216 pp. ,ISBN 978-0-8047-9914-0.
  • Claire Marynower (2013). "Full place of power: interwar Oran, the French empire's bullring?". Journal of North African Studies. 18 (5): 690–702. doi:10.1080/13629387.2013.849895.

in French[]

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