Timeline of Roubaix
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Roubaix, France.
Prior to 20th century[]
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- 1469 – "Factory franchise granted."[1]
- 1790 – Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.[2]
- 1793 – Population: 9,120.[2]
- 1843 – Canal de Roubaix.[3] textile mill built near the
- 1846 - Population: 31,039.[2]
- 1848 - [4] remodelled.
- 1866 – Population: 65,091.[5]
- 1867 – [2] and created.
- 1868 – Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.[6]
- 1872 – Chamber of Commerce established.[7]
- 1878 – [8] and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
- 1880 – Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (mansion) built.
- 1886 – Population: 100,299.[9]
- 1888 – Gare de Roubaix (rail station) built.
- 1889 – École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (school) established.
- 1891 – Chambre syndicale métallurgique de Roubaix established.[10]
- 1892 – [2] created.
- 1894 – established.
- 1895 – RC Roubaix football club formed.
- 1896
- Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
- Population: 124,661.[2]
20th century[]
- 1909 – begins operating.
- 1911
- built.
- Population: 122,723.[11]
- 1920 – brewery in business.
- 1928 – Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
- 1967 – Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
- 1968 – Population: 114,547.[2]
- 1969 – 1969 Tour de France cycling race departs from Roubaix.
- 1982
- 1983
- founded.
- becomes mayor.
- 1993
- performance space opens.
- Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.[citation needed]
- 1994 – becomes mayor.
- 1996
- 1999
- 2000 – La Piscine Museum opens.
21st century[]
- 2001 – "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.[16]
- 2008 – website published.
- 2011 – Population: 94,186.[17]
- 2012
- Bilal Mosque built.[18]
- becomes mayor.
- 2014
- March: held.
- Abou Bakr Mosque opens.[18]
- Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
- 2015
- 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
- December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.[17]
- 2016 – Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.
See also[]
- History of Roubaix
- region
Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:
- Timeline of Amiens
- Timeline of Lille
References[]
- ^ Britannica 1910.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Roubaix, EHESS. (in French)
- ^ Michael Stephen Smith (2006). The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3.
- ^ Base Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868.
- ^ "Sociétés savantes de France (Roubaix)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
- ^ Base Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Joseph, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
- ^ Ministère du Commerce 1903.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ^ Villes lainières 2005.
- ^ "French court links armed robbers to terrorist network", The Guardian, 8 February 2001
- ^ Colomb 2011.
- ^ Garbaye 2008.
- ^ Miot 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Données du Monde: Roubaix", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Les six mosquées de Roubaix en pleine reconstruction", La Voix du Nord (in French), 7 March 2014
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
in English[]
- "Roubaix", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 01820283
- "Roubaix", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Romain Garbaye (2008). "Roubaix, 1980s-2001". Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities. Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-4820-7.
- Claire Colomb (2011). "Culture in the city, culture for the city? The political construction of the trickle-down in cultural regeneration strategies in Roubaix, France". Town Planning Review. 82 (1).
- Yoan Miot (2012). "Housing strategies for a shrinking French city: the case of Roubaix (France)". In Martinez-Fernandez; et al. (eds.). Demographic Change and Local Development: Shrinkage, Regeneration and Social Dynamics. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ISBN 978-92-64-18046-8.
in French[]
- "Roubaix". Le Nord. Guides Joanne (in French). 1899.
- Ministère du Commerce (1903). "Nord: Roubaix". Annuaire des syndicats professionels, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
- "Roubaix". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914.
- Roubaix-Tourcoing et les villes lainières d'Europe: découverte d'un patrimoine industriel (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2005. ISBN 978-2-85939-918-4.
- Michel David; et al., eds. (January 2006). Roubaix: cinquante ans de transformations urbaines et de mutations sociales (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-926-9.
- Chantal Petillon (2006). La population de Roubaix: industrialisation, démographie et société 1750-1880 (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-917-7.
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