Timeline of Lille

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

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Prior to 17th century

• 1030 - Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders "surrounded a little town with walls".^[1]
• 1213 - Town besieged by forces of Philip II of France.^[1]
• 1236 - Hospice Comtesse built.
• 1297 - Town besieged by forces of Philip IV of France.^[1]
• 1304 - French in power.
• 1369 - Louis II, Count of Flanders in power.^[1]
• 1390 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[2]
• 1430 - Hotel de Ville built.^[3]
• 1445 - Population: 25,000.^{[citation needed]}
• 1454 - Feast of the Pheasant.
• 1459 - Noble Tower built.^[4]
• 1460s - Hospice Gantois [fr] founded.^[4]
• 1473 - Palais Rihour [fr] built.^[5]
• 1531 - Lille customary laws codified (approximate date).^[6]
• 1535 - Latin school established.^{[citation needed]}
• 1592 - Municipal college established.^{[citation needed]}

17th-18th centuries

• 1605 - Military hospital founded.^[7]
• 1617 - Porte de Gand [fr] (gate) constructed.^[1]
• 1622 - Porte de Roubaix [fr] (gate) constructed.^[1]
• 1667 - Siege of Lille.^[5]
• 1668
  • Lille becomes part of France.
  • Town fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.^[1]
• 1670 - Citadel constructed.^[5]
• 1675 - St. Madeleine Church, Lille [fr] construction begins.^[8]
• 1692 - Porte de Paris (Lille) [fr] (gate) constructed.
• 1701
  • Pont-Neuf built.^[7]
  • Church of Saint-André, Lille [fr] construction begins.
• 1708 - Siege of Lille.^[5]
• 1717 - Grand' Garde built.^[7]
• 1748 - Church of Saint-Étienne built.
• 1785 - Opera house built.^{[citation needed]}
• 1790
  • Lille becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.^[9]
  • Municipal elections begin.
  • Public library founded.^[10]
• 1792 - City besieged by Austrian forces.^[3]
• 1793 - Population: 66,761.^[9]

19th century

• 1802 - Société des amateurs des sciences et des arts [fr] founded.
• 1809 - Art museum opens.^[11]
• 1822 - Natural history museum founded.
• 1837 - Palais de Justice built. ^[12]
• 1839 - Commission historique du Nord founded.^[13]
• 1842 - Lille-Flandres station opened as the Gare de Lille.
• 1844 - Column of the Goddess erected.^[3]
• 1846 - Paris-Lille railway built.
• 1852 - Lycée impérial re-built
• 1854 - Faculty of sciences and École des arts industriels et des mines (École centrale de Lille) established.
• 1855 - Notre Dame Cathedral construction begins.^[1]
• 1856 - Population: 78,641.^[9]
• 1858 - Esquermes, Fives, and Wazemmes become part of Lille.
• 1860 - Christ Church, Lille proposed.
• 1861 - Population: 131,727.^[9]
• 1866 - Population: 154,749.^[9]
• 1870 - Prefecture built.^[7]
• 1872 - Institut industriel du Nord established; Saint-Maurice church restored.^[1]
• 1875 - Catholic University established.
• 1876 - Population: 162,775.^[9]
• 1878 - Palais Rameau [fr] built.^[4]
• 1880 - Société de géographie de Lille founded.^[13]
• 1886 - Population: 188,272.^[14]
• 1888 - Musee Commercial et Colonial opens.^[15]
• 1892
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts built.
  • Gare de Lille Flandres (rail station) rebuilt.
• 1894 - Institut de chimie founded.
• 1896 - Population: 216,276.^[9]
• 1899 - Institut Pasteur established.

20th century

1900-1940s

See also: Lille during World War II

Lille around 1910

• 1906 - Population: 205,602.^[9]
• 1909 - Tramway begins operating.
• 1911 - Population: 217,807.^[16]
• 1913
  • Roman Catholic diocese of Lille established.^[17]
  • Opéra de Lille built.
• 1914 - German occupation begins (World War I).
• 1918 - October 17: City liberated by British.
• 1924 - Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme founded.
• 1925 - Roger Salengro elected mayor.
• 1932 - Hôtel de ville de Lille (City Hall) built.^[18]
• 1938 - City co-hosts the 1938 FIFA World Cup.
• 1940
  • May: Siege of Lille.
  • German occupation begins (see also: Lille during World War II).
  • August: Frontstalag 186 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.^[19]
  • October: Frontstalag 102 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.^[19]
  • December: Frontstalag 102 POW camp relocated to Amiens.^[19]
• 1941
  • March: Frontstalag 186 POW camp dissolved.^[19]
  • April: Echo du Nord begins publication.^[20]
• 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 - Lille courthouse [fr] built.
• 1970 - Lille 2 University of Health and Law^[21] and Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie established.
• 1973 - Pierre Mauroy becomes mayor.
• 1976 - Orchestre national de Lille formed.^[22]
• 1977 - Hellemmes becomes an associated part of Lille.
• 1981 - City hosts the 1981 European Weightlifting Championships.

Lille in 1982

• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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
  • Euralille (shopping mall) [fr] opens.
  • Eurostar train begins operating.
• 1999
  • Lille Cathedral built.
  • Population: 184,657.^[9]
• 2000 - Lomme becomes an associated part of Lille.

21st century

• 2001
  • March: Lille municipal election, 2001 [fr] held.
  • Martine Aubry becomes mayor.^[23]
• 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: Lille municipal election, 2014 [fr] held.
• 2015
  • September: City co-hosts the EuroBasket 2015.
  • December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.^[24]
• 2016 - Lille becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.
• 2021 - The historic Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College is controversially demolished.^[25]

See also

• Lille history
• History of Lille
• List of mayors of Lille [fr]
• List of heritage sites in Lille [fr]
• History of Nord-Pas-de-Calais [fr] region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

• Timeline of Amiens
• Timeline of Roubaix

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
3. Vine 1880.
4. Michelin 1919.
5. Hourihane 2012.
6. Caswell 1977.
7. Baedeker 1899.
8. Black 1876.
9. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Lille, EHESS (in French).
10. Tedder, Henry Richard; Brown, James Duff (1911). "Libraries" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 545–577. see page 565-France.
11. Annuaire des artistes 1833.
12. Hare 1890.
13. "Sociétés savantes de France (Lille)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
14. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
15. Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Lille, 1898
16. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
17. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
18. Phillips, Laurence (2004). Lille. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 192. ISBN 978-1804691014.
19. "German Frontstalag Camps". Retrieved 13 August 2022.
20. Jean-Paul Visse (2004), La presse du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais au temps de l'Echo du Nord, Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du septentrion, ISBN 2859398325
21. Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
22. "Mairie-Lille.fr". Archived from the original on May 9, 2007. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
23. "French mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
24. "Résultats élections: Lille", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022
25. "Démolition prévue pour la chapelle Saint-Joseph de Lille". LEFIGARO (in French). 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-28.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Clement Cruttwell (1793). "Lille". Gazetteer of France. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. hdl:2027/njp.32101072026816.
• C.B. Black (1876), "Lille", Guide to the North of France
• J.R. Somers Vine (1880), "Lille", Iron Roads Dictionary, London: Waterlow
• Augustus J.C. Hare (1890), "Lille", North-Eastern France, London: G. Allen, OCLC 1737047
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Lille", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
• "Lille", Northern France (3rd ed.), Leipsic: K. Baedeker, 1899, OCLC 2229516
• "Lille" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 685–686.
• Lille before and during the war, Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin, 1919, OCLC 1843516, OL 6620039M
• Jean Caswell; Ivan Sipkov (1977). "Lille". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress. hdl:2027/mdp.39015034753866.
• Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Lille". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 67+. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

in French

• Description des feux d'artifices faits a l'honneur du roy a Lille (in French), Lille: Jean Chrosostome Malte, 1680, OL 23293950M (fireworks); also via British Library
• "Lille". Almanach général des marchands, négocians, armateurs et fabricans (in French). Paris: L. Cellot. 1779. ISSN 1954-6521. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• "Nord: Lille". Annuaire des artistes français: Statistique des beaux-arts en France (in French). Paris: Guyot de Fère. 1833. ISSN 2275-6817. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• "Lille". Le Nord. Guides Joanne (in French). 1899. hdl:2027/hvd.hn3f1z.
• "Lille". Le Nord. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1906. OCLC 457600236.

External links

• Items related to Lille, various dates (via Europeana).
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