Timeline of Lille
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lille, France.
Prior to 17th century
- 1030 - Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders "surrounded a little town with walls".
- 1213 - Town besieged by forces of Philip II of France.
- 1236 - Hospice Comtesse built.
- 1297 - Town besieged by forces of Philip IV of France.
- 1304 - French in power.
- 1369 - Louis II, Count of Flanders in power.
- 1390 - Public clock installed.
- 1430 - Hotel de Ville built.
- 1445 - Population: 25,000.
- 1454 - Feast of the Pheasant.
- 1459 - Noble Tower built.
- 1460s - founded.
- 1473 - built.
- 1531 - Lille customary laws codified.
- 1535 - Latin school established.
- 1592 - Municipal college established.
17th-18th centuries
- 1605 - Military hospital founded.
- 1617 - constructed.
- 1622 - constructed.
- 1667 - Siege of Lille.
- 1668
- * Lille becomes part of France.
- * Town fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.
- 1670 - Citadel constructed.
- 1675 - construction begins.
- 1692 - constructed.
- 1701
- * Pont-Neuf built.
- * construction begins.
- 1708 - Siege of Lille.
- 1717 - Grand' Garde built.
- 1748 - Church of Saint-Étienne built.
- 1785 - Opera house built.
- 1790
- * Lille becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.
- * Municipal elections begin.
- * Public library founded.
- 1792 - City besieged by Austrian forces.
- 1793 - Population: 66,761.
19th century
- 1802 - founded.
- 1809 - Art museum opens.
- 1822 - [Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille|Natural Lille|history museum] founded.
- 1837 - Palais de Justice built.
- 1839 - Commission historique du Nord founded.
- 1842 - Lille-Flandres station opened as the Gare de Lille.
- 1844 - Column of the Goddess erected.
- 1846 - Paris-Lille railway built.
- 1852 - Lycée impérial re-built
- 1854 - Faculty of sciences and École des arts industriels et des mines established.
- 1855 - Notre Dame Cathedral construction begins.
- 1856 - Population: 78,641.
- 1858 - Esquermes, Fives, and Wazemmes become part of Lille.
- 1860 - Christ Church, Lille proposed.
- 1861 - Population: 131,727.
- 1866 - Population: 154,749.
- 1870 - Prefecture built.
- 1872 - Institut industriel du Nord established; Saint-Maurice church restored.
- 1875 - Catholic University established.
- 1876 - Population: 162,775.
- 1878 - built.
- 1880 - Société de géographie de Lille founded.
- 1886 - Population: 188,272.
- 1888 - Musee Commercial et Colonial opens.
- 1892
- * Palais des Beaux-Arts built.
- * Gare de Lille Flandres rebuilt.
- 1894 - Institut de chimie founded.
- 1896 - Population: 216,276.
- 1899 - Institut Pasteur established.
20th century
1900-1940s
- 1906 - Population: 205,602.
- 1909 - Tramway begins operating.
- 1911 - Population: 217,807.
- 1913
- * Roman Catholic diocese of Lille established.
- * 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 - Hôtel de ville de Lille built.
- 1938 - City co-hosts the 1938 FIFA World Cup.
- 1940
- * May: Siege of Lille.
- * German occupation begins.
- * August: Frontstalag 186 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
- * October: Frontstalag 102 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
- * December: Frontstalag 102 POW camp relocated to Amiens.
- 1941
- * March: Frontstalag 186 POW camp dissolved.
- * April: Echo du Nord begins publication.
- 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 - built.
- 1970 - Lille 2 University of Health and Law and Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie established.
- 1973 - Pierre Mauroy becomes mayor.
- 1976 - Orchestre national de Lille formed.
- 1977 - Hellemmes becomes an associated part of Lille.
- 1981 - City hosts the 1981 European Weightlifting Championships.
- 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.
- * Lille-Europe station built.
- 1994
- * opens.
- * Eurostar train begins operating.
- 1999
- * Lille Cathedral built.
- * Population: 184,657.
- 2000 - Lomme becomes an associated part of Lille.
21st century
- 2001
- * March: held.
- * Martine Aubry becomes mayor.
- 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.
- 2013 - City co-hosts the EuroBasket Women 2013.
- 2014 - March: held.
- 2015
- * September: City co-hosts the EuroBasket 2015.
- * December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.
- 2016 - Lille becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.
- 2021 - The historic Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College is controversially demolished.
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