Timeline of Toulon

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Prior to 20th century

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Prehistory

Ancient

Greek colonies
Celtic Gaul	until 50 BC
Roman Gaul	50 BC – 486 AD

Early Middle Ages

Franks
Merovingians	481–751
Carolingians	751–987

Middle Ages

Direct Capetians	987–1328
Valois	1328–1498

Early modern

Ancien Régime

Valois-Orléans	1498–1515
Valois-Angoulême	1515–89
Bourbon	1589–1792

Long 19th century

French Revolution	1789–1799
Kingdom of France	1791–92
First Republic	1792–1804
First Empire	1804–14
Restoration	1814–30
July Monarchy	1830–1848
Second Republic	1848–52
Second Empire	1852–70
Third Republic	1870–1940

20th century

Third Republic	1870–1940
Free France Vichy France	1940–44
Provisional Republic	1944–46
Fourth Republic	1946–58
Fifth Republic	1958–present

Timeline

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5th century - Catholic diocese of Toulon established.^[1]
1096 - Toulon Cathedral construction begins.
1259 - Charles of Anjou in power.^[1]
14th century: Toulon coat of arms in use.
1524 - Tour Royale, Toulon (fort) built.
1599 - Naval arsenal and shipyard built.
1707 - Battle of Toulon (1707).^[1]
1720 - Plague.^[1]
1738 - Porte du Musée de la Marine (Toulon) (gate) built.
1744 - February: Battle of Toulon (1744) fought near city.^[1]
1748 - Bagne of Toulon (prison) begins operating.
1788 - Saint Louis Church, Toulon built.^[2]
1790 - Toulon becomes part of the Var souveraineté.^[3]
1793 - Siege of Toulon.^[1]
1800 - Société des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Toulon founded.^[4]
1801 - Catholic diocese disestablished, per Concordat of 1801.^[5]
1806 - Population: 28,170.^[3]
1833 - Var Chamber of Commerce established.^[6]
1841 - Population: 45,449.^[3]
1846 - Population: 62,941.^[3]
1853 - Shipbuilder Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée established in nearby La Seyne-sur-Mer.
1859 - Gare de Toulon opens.
1862 - Toulon Opera hall opens on the Boulevard de Strasbourg (Toulon).
1873 - République du Var newspaper begins publication.^[7]
1879 - Le Petit Var newspaper begins publication.^[7]
1884 - Cholera epidemic.^[1]
1886
- Tram begins operating.
- Société de géographie de Toulon founded.^[8]
- Population: 70,122.^[9]
1888 - Musée d'art de Toulon opens.^[1]
1890 - Fountain installed in the Place de la Liberté (Toulon).^[10]

20th century

1900s-1940s

1901 - Canton de Toulon-1, Canton de Toulon-2, Canton de Toulon-3, and Canton de Toulon-4 created.^[3]
1908 - Société des sciences naturelles et d'archéologie de Toulon et du Var founded.^[8]
1911 - Population: 104,582.^[11]
1912 - Société des Amis du Vieux Toulon et de sa Région established.
1920 - Stade Mayol (stadium) opens.
1936 - Population: 150,310.^[3]
1940 - 12-13 June: Bombing of Toulon by Italian forces.
1942 - 27 November: Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon.
1944 - Sporting Toulon Var football club formed.
1948 - Bazeille apartment building constructed in Port Marchand.^[12]
1949 - Toulon trolleybus begins operating.

1950s-1990s

1950 - 12 February: Communist demonstration.^[13]
1957 - Lycée Dumont-d'Urville (school) founded.
1959 - Maurice Arreckx becomes mayor.
1961 - Musée des arts asiatiques de Toulon opens.^[14]
1964
- A57 autoroute opens.
- Canton de Toulon-5 created.^[3]
1966 - Toulon–Hyères Airport opens.
1967 - Toulon Tournament of football begins.
1973
- August: Racial unrest.^[15]
- Canton de Toulon-6, Canton de Toulon-7, Canton de Toulon-8, and Canton de Toulon-9 created.^[3]
1975 - Population: 181,801.^[3]
1979 - University of the South, Toulon-Var established.
1980 - Toulon Book Fair begins.^[16]
1982 - Toulon becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
1986 - March: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 1986 held.
1989 - 15 February: Maison des Têtes de Toulon explosion occurs.^[17]
1990 - Population: 167,619.^[3]
1992 - 16 December: Toulon bank robbery occurs.
1995 - Jean-Marie Le Chevallier becomes mayor.^[18]
1997 - Fête du livre du Var (book fair) begins.^[19]^[20]

21st century

2001 - Hubert Falco becomes mayor.
2002
- Toulon tunnel opens on the A50 autoroute.
- Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Toulon (school) established.
2003
- Regional Réseau Mistral bus begins operating.
- Mosque established.
2006 - Palais des Sports de Toulon opens.
2010 - June: 2010 Var floods occur in vicinity of Toulon.^[21]
2011
- Théâtre Liberté opens.
- Population: 163,974.^[22]
2014 - 23 March: Toulon municipal election, 2014 held.
2015 - December: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2015 held.^[22]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Britannica 1910.
↑ "Patrimoine de caractère". Toulon.fr (in French). Mairie de Toulon. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Notice communale: Toulon". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
↑ Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
↑ United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
1 2 A. de Chambure (1914). A travers la presse (in French). Paris: Fert, Albouy & cie.
1 2 "Sociétés savantes de France (Toulon)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
↑ Baedeker 1914.
↑ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
↑ Jean-Charles Bruno (ed.). "Chronologie". Ensembles et résidences de la période 1945/1975 sur le territoire de Toulon Provence Méditerranée (in French). France: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
↑ "2-15 February 1950". Chronology of International Events and Documents. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 6. 1950. JSTOR 40545261.
↑ "Musées et galeries". Toulon.fr (in French). Mairie de Toulon. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
↑ Mahfoud Bennoune (January 1975). "Maghribin Workers in France". MERIP Reports. USA: Middle East Research and Information Project (34). JSTOR 3011470.
↑ "French Book Fair Writhes, Poisoned by Politics", New York Times, 22 November 1996
↑ Police say 13 die in explosion, United Press International, 16 February 1989
↑ "French Cold-Shoulder Riviera City", New York Times, 26 August 1995
↑ "Historique" (in French). Fête du livre du Var. Archived from the original on October 2011.
↑ "Annuaire des structures (Ville: Toulon)" (in French). Aix-en-Provence: Agence régionale du Livre Paca. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
↑ French storms and floods kill 15, Reuters, 16 June 2010
1 2 "Données du Monde: Toulon", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Toulon". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson.
Abraham Rees (1819), "Toulon", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
"Toulon", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Toulon". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
C. B. Black (1896), "Toulon", The Riviera (9th ed.), London: Adam & Charles Black
"Toulon". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
"Toulon", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Toulon", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
"Toulon", Southern France (6th ed.), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914
Daniel C. Haskell, ed. (1922), "Provencal literature and language, including the local history of southern France", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 26, Local history: Toulon
Malcolm Crook (1991). Toulon in War and Revolution: From the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, 1750-1820. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-3567-8.

in French

Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau (1850). "Toulon". Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Firmin Didot frères. p. 665.
Octave Teissier (1869). Histoire de Toulon au moyen âge (in French). Paris.
"Toulon". Provence. Guides Joanne (in French). 1906.
"Toulon". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914.

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Timeline of Toulon

Prior to 20th century

20th century

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

21st century

See also

References

Bibliography

in English

in French

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