Timeline of Marseille

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

Prior to 17th century

600 BCE - Massalia founded by Phocaean Greeks.
49 BCE - Siege of Massilia.
1st C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Marseille established.
ca.290 - Martyrdom of Victor of Marseilles an Egyptian Christian martyr.
415 - Abbey of St. Victor founded.
470 - Town taken by forces of Visigoth Euric.
6th C. - Port of Marseille|Port] in operation.
839 - Town "sacked by Saracens."
1214
* Town becomes a republic.
* Notre-Dame de la Garde built.
1252 - Town "taken by Charles of Anjou."
1262 - Revolt against Angevins.
1348 - Bubonic plague outbreak.
1365 - Abbey of St. Victor building constructed.
1409 - Aix-Marseille University founded.
1423 - by the forces of Aragón, led by Alfonso V.
1453 - Fortifications constructed.
1481 - Marseille united with Provence.
1486 - Marseille becomes part of France.
1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I.
1531 - Château d'If built.
1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins dedicated.
1593 - Hotel Dieu founded.
1599 - founded.

17th-18th centuries

1619 - Église Saint-Cannat dedicated.
1640 - Maison du Refuge established.
1649 - Plague.
1660 - Failed anti-monarchist rebellion and the Siege of Marseille, followed by the Conquest of Marseille, King Louis XIV invades the city.
1660 - As part of Louis XIV's conquest, Fort Saint-Jean and Fort Saint-Nicolas are constructed.
1672 - Café in business.
1673 - Hôtel de Ville built.
1685 - The Opéra de Marseille is inaugurated.
1702 - Marseille Observatory built.
1720-21 - Great Plague of Marseille.
1726 - Academy of Science established.
1749 - Almshouse built.
1770 - City directory published.
1778
* Chateau Borely built.
* erected.
1781 - created.
1787 - Grand-Théâtre opens.
1789 - April: "Revolutionary commotions" occur.
1790
* Marseille becomes part of the Bouches-du-Rhône souveraineté.
* Jacobin Club founded.
1793 - August: "Marseilles opposes the revolutionary government, and is reduced."
1796 - Public library founded.

19th century

1800s–1840s

1800 - Population: 96,413.
1801
* Canton of Marseille-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 created.
* Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille founded.
1802 - and Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel established.
1803
* begins.
* Cabinet of Natural History founded.
1808 - 26 February: Birth of Honoré Daumier.
1810 - Société de médecine de Marseille established.
1811 - Obelisk erected in the Place Castellane.
1819 - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille founded.
1820 - Population: 101,217.
1827
* newspaper begins publication.
* Société de statistique de Marseille established.
1836 - Population: 148,597.
1837 - Porte d'Aix inaugurated.
1846 - Journal de Marseille newspaper begins publication.
1848
* Paris–Marseille railway begins operating.
* Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles opens.
1849 - Canal de Marseille opens.

1850s-1890s

1851
* Messageries Maritimes shipping company in business.
* Population: 195,258.
1852 - built on Boulevard Chave.
1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.
1854 - opens.
1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
1856
* Population: 233,817.
* Cimetière Saint-Pierre established.
1857 - Alcazar (Marseille) theatre opens.
1858
* Marseille–Ventimiglia railway begins initial operation.
* Palais du Pharo built.
1860
* Exchange built.
* Borely Racecourse|Race track] in business.
1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.
1863 - Great Synagogue of Marseille built.
1864
* opens.
* Notre-Dame de la Garde rebuilt.
1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit and Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
1866 - Population: 300,131.
1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.
1869 - Palais Longchamp completed.
1872 - Business school established.
1876
* Le Petit Provençal newspaper begins publication.
* Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.
1878 - consecrated.
1881
* Italian-French ethnic unrest.
* Population: 360,099.
1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
1884 -.
1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.
1891 - founded.
1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
1893
* Marseille Cathedral consecrated.
* Institut Colonial de Marseille founded.
1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.
1897 - formed.
1899
* Olympique de Marseille soccer team formed.
* 2500th anniversary of founding of Marseille.

20th century

1900s-1940s

1901
* "Dock strike."
* Population: 491,161.
1902 - "Strike of sailors."
1903
* July: 1903 Tour de France cycling race passes through Marseille.
* September: Bubonic plague outbreak.
1906
* held.
* Population: 517,498.
1909
* "Tigeress escapes; terrorises the town."
* founded.
1911 - Population: 550,619.
1913 - Fountain installed in the Place Castellane.
1916 - Musée Cantini founded.
1917 - restaurant in business.
1919 - 13 November: Grand Théâtre burns down.
1922
* Marseille [Provence Airport] opens.
* Colonial exhibition held.
1923 - erected.
1924 - Opera House built.
1926 - Musée Grobet-Labadié opens.
1927 - erected.
1931 - Population: 800,881.
1933 - Film Studios Pagnol established.
1934 - October 9: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou assassinated by Bulgarian terrorist Velicko Kerin.
1936 - Population: 914,232.
1937 - Stade Vélodrome opens.
1938
* 21 September:.
* 28 October:.
1939 - Baumettes Prison built.
1940 - Bombing by German and Italian forces.
1941 - Combat (French Resistance) active.
1942 - November: German occupation begins.
1943 - Old Port area evacuated and demolished.
1944
* Bombing by Allied forces.
* August: Battle of Marseille; German occupation ends.
* La Marseillaise newspaper in publication.
* Gaston Defferre becomes mayor.
1946
* Arrondissements of Marseille created.
* Jean Cristofol becomes mayor.
Population: 636,264.
1947
* November: Labor unrest.
* Michel Carlini becomes mayor.

1950s-1990s

1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.
1953
* Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again.
* La Tourette housing complex built.
1955 - vendetta killings of the criminal occur.
1958 - Marseille twinned with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Antwerp, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Genoa, Italy; Haifa, Israel; and Hamburg, Germany.
1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.
1962
* A50 autoroute opens.
* Or Thora Synagogue established.
* Population: 778,071.
1965 - March: held.
1967 - opens.
1968
* A7 autoroute opens.
* Marseille twinned with Dakar, Senegal.
* Population: 889,029.
1970 - University of Provence established.
1972
* A55 autoroute opens.
* Ballet National de Marseille founded.
* Marseille twinned with Odesa, Ukraine.
1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.
1975
* Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.
* Population: 908,600.
1977
* Marseille Metro Line 1 begins operating.
* CMA CGM shipping company established.
1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
1981 - Rodéo (riot).
1982
* effected.
* Marseille becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
1983
* SNCF TGV Sud-Est train begins operating.
* Marseille History Museum opens.
1984
* begins operating.
* Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.
1986
* March: held.
* Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor.
1987
* Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city.
* Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China.
1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
1991 - La Commanderie opens.
1993 - opens.
1995
* June: held.
* Jean-Claude Gaudin becomes mayor.
* Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie founded.
* Musée de la Faïence de Marseille opens.
1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
1999 - Population: 795,518.

21st century

2000s

2001
* Parc du 26e Centenaire inaugurated.
* moves to the former.
2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.
2006
* École centrale de Marseille created.
* Marseille twinned with Glasgow, UK.
2007
* Marseille tramway begins operating.
* Labor strike.
* 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: held.
* 2010 French [pension reform strikes|Garbage strike] occurs.
2011
* Population: 850,636.
2012 - pedestrianized.
2013
* Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations opens.
* City designated a European Capital of Culture.
2014 - March: held.
2015
* 9 February: Shooting occurs in La Castellane.
* September: Drug ring trial begins.
* December: 2015 [Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election] held.
* begins operating.
* Cantons of the [Bouches-du-Rhône department|Cantons], 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and created per.
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.

in English

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in French

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. Histoire de Marseille. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1978
. Histoire de Marseille. Toulouse, 1990
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