Timeline of Metz

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

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Prior to 19th century

• 1st–2nd C. CE – Gorze-Metz aqueduct [fr] built.^[1]
• 2nd C. CE – Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz active (approximate date).^[2]
• 407(?) – Metz is attacked by the Vandals and Alans after crossing the Rhine.
• 451 – Metz is sacked by the hordes of Attila the Hun during his campaign into Gaul.
• 6th C. - Metz becomes capital of Austrasia.^[3]
• 768 – Metz becomes part of the Carolingian Empire.
• 843 – Metz becomes part of Middle Francia.^[4]
• 863 – Religious council held in Metz.^[5]
• 1130 – Notre Dame de la Ronde church built.^[6]
• 13th C.
  • Metz becomes a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.^[4]
  • Metz rampart [fr] and Porte des Allemands (gate)^[7] construction begins.
• 1220 – Templars' Chapel, Metz [fr] built.
• 1343 – Grand pont des Morts [fr] (bridge) built.^[8]
• 1356 – Diet of Metz (1356/57) held; Golden Bull issued.^[3]
• 1400 – Public clock installed (approximate date).^[9]
• 1427 – Metz Cathedral spire built.^[6]
• 1437 – Tour Camoufle [fr] (tower) construction begins.
• 1444 – Siege of Metz (1444) [fr] by forces of Charles VII of France.^[10]
• 1482 – Printing press in operation.^[11]
• 1552
  • Metz comes under French rule per Treaty of Chambord.^[3]
  • Siege of Metz (1552).^[10]
• 1560 – Magasin aux vivres de Metz [fr] (military building) constructed.
• 1561 – Porte Serpenoise [fr] (gate) demolished.^[8]
• 1564 – Metz Citadel built.
• 1613 – City customary laws published.^[12]
• 1633 – Parliament of Metz [fr] established.
• 1648 – Metz officially becomes part of France per Treaty of Westphalia.^[3]
• 1731 – Fort de Bellecroix [fr] construction begins.^[6]
• 1733 – Fort Moselle military hospital [fr] built.
• 1743 – Hôtel de l’Intendance [fr] (mansion) built.
• 1744 – Louis XV of France visits Metz.^[13]
• 1752 – Opera opens on the Place de la Comédie (Metz) [fr].
• 1757 – Académie nationale de Metz [fr] founded, as the Société Royale des Sciences et des Arts de Metz.^[14]
• 1760 – R. Samuel Hilman b. Israel Halperin (1670-1766) appointed rabbi of Jewish community in Metz.
• 1771 – Hôtel de Ville completed.^[15]
• 1777 – Metz Courthouse [fr] built.
• 1787 – Église des Trinitaires [fr] (church) built.
• 1790 – Metz becomes part of the Moselle souveraineté.^[16]
• 1793 – Population: 36,878.^[16]
• 1794 – École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie [fr] (military school) established.^(fr)

19th century

• 1814 – City successfully defended by the French during the Siege of Metz (1814).
• 1816 – Metz Esplanade [fr] (park) opens.
• 1821 – Population: 42,030.^[16]
• 1831 – Covered Market, Metz opens.
• 1835 – Metz Conservatory [fr] founded.
• 1844 – 30 March: Birth of Paul Verlaine.
• 1850 – Metz Synagogue [fr] built.
• 1851 – Réding-Metz railway [fr] begins operating.
• 1854 – Metz–Luxembourg railway begins operating.
• 1861 – Metz Exposition Universelle (1861) [fr] held.^[13]
• 1864 – Arsenal built.
• 1866 – Population: 54,817.^[17]
• 1868 – Brasserie Amos [fr] (brewery) founded.
• 1870
  • Fort de Plappeville and Fort de Queuleu built.
  • Siege of Metz (1870); Prussians in power.^[4]
• 1871
  • 10 May: Metz becomes part of Germany per the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871).^[10]
  • Metz becomes part of the Alsace-Lorraine imperial territory.
• 1872 – Kriegsschule Metz [fr] (military school) established.^(fr)
• 1877 – Lérouville-Metz railway [fr] begins operating.
• 1878 – Train station [fr] built.
• 1881 – Temple de Garnison [fr] (church) built.^[4]

Metz at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

20th century

• 1901 – Metz power plant [fr] built in Pontiffroy [fr].
• 1903
  • Porte Serpenoise (gate) rebuilt.
  • Wilhelm II, German Emperor visits Metz.
• 1905
  • Governor's Palace, Metz [fr] built.
  • Population: 60,419.^[18]
• 1906 – Plantières Queuleu [fr] becomes part of Metz.^[16]
• 1907 – Devant-les-Ponts [fr] becomes part of Metz.^[16]
• 1908 – Gare de Metz-Ville (rail station) and Feste Kaiserin (fort) built.
• 1910 – Le Sablon (Moselle) [fr] becomes part of Metz.^[16]
• 1911
  • Post office [fr] built.^[19]
  • Population: 68,598.^[20]

French Army in Metz in 1918

• 1918 – Metz becomes again part of France.^[21]
• 1919 – Le Républicain Lorrain newspaper begins publication.
• 1923 – Stade Saint-Symphorien (stadium) opens.
• 1932 – Football Club de Metz formed.
• 1936 – Population: 83,119.^[16]
• 1940
  • Annexation of the Moselle (1940) [fr] by Germany during World War II.
  • July: Frontstalag 212 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs established by the Germans.^[22]
  • December: Frontstalag 212 POW camp dissolved.^[22] Stalag XII-E POW camp established.^[23]
• 1942 – Stalag XII-E POW camp dissolved.^[23]
• 1944
  • 27 September: Battle of Fort Driant begins near city (part of Battle of Metz).^[24]
  • 13 December: Battle of Metz ends; Germans ousted.
• 1947 - December: Flood.^[13]
• 1954 - Population: 85,701.^[16]
• 1960 – Les Trinitaires [fr] cultural venue created.
• 1961 – Borny [fr], Magny (Moselle) [fr], and Vallières-lès-Metz [fr] become part of Metz.^[16]
• 1962 – Population: 102,771.^[16]
• 1970 – Renaissance du vieux Metz (historical society) founded.^[25]
• 1971 – Jean-Marie Rausch becomes mayor.
• 1973 – Lorraine Marathon begins.^{[citation needed]}
• 1975 – Groupe Histoire et patrimoine lorrains (historical society) founded.^[25]
• 1977 – Metz library-media centre [fr] built in Pontiffroy.
• 1979 – Socialist Party national congress held in Metz.
• 1980 – Moselle Open tennis tournament begins.
• 1982 – Metz becomes part of the Lorraine region.
• 1983 – Metz Science Park opens.
• 1989 – Arsenal de Metz concert hall opens.
• 1991 – Metz–Nancy–Lorraine Airport opens.
• 1999 – Population: 123,776.^[16]

21st century

• 2002 – Arènes de Metz (arena) opens.
• 2006 – May: European Trampoline Championships, 2006 [fr] held in Metz.
• 2007 – TGV hi-speed train begins operating.^[21]
• 2008 – Dominique Gros becomes mayor.
• 2010
  • Centre Pompidou-Metz opens.
  • Metz-Mirabelle Marathon [fr] begins.
• 2011 – Population: 119,962.
• 2012 – 6 July: 2012 Tour de France cycling race passes through Metz.
• 2014 – March: Metz municipal election, 2014 [fr] held.
• 2015
  • Canton of Metz-1, 2, and 3 created per 2014 France cantonal redistricting [fr].
  • December: Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine regional election, 2015 [fr] held.^[26]
• 2016 – Metz becomes part of the Grand Est region.

See also

• History of Metz
• Divodurum Mediomatricorum [fr] (Roman-era settlement)
• List of mayors of Metz [fr]
• List of historic sites in Metz, France
• List of bridges in Metz [fr]
• List of religious buildings in Metz [fr]
• History of Moselle [fr] department

Other cities in the Grand Est region:

• Timeline of Mulhouse
• Timeline of Nancy, France
• Timeline of Reims
• Timeline of Strasbourg
• Timeline of Troyes

References

1. Base Mérimée: Aqueduc gallo-romain, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
2. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
3. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1192, OL 6112221M
4. Britannica 1910.
5. Charles Daniel (1903). "Conciles particuliers". Manuel des sciences sacrées (in French). Paris: Delhomme & Briguet. (chronological list)
6. Murray 1861.
7. Base Mérimée: Vestiges de l'enceinte du Moyen-Age, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
8. Chabert 1878.
9. 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.
10. Haydn 1910.
11. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Germany: Metz". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631 – via HathiTrust. + contents
12. Caswell 1977.
13. "Thesaurus Historique" (in French). Archives Municipales de Metz. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
14. Jim Parrott (ed.). "Chronology of Scholarly Societies". Scholarly Societies Project. Canada: University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
15. "Hôtel de Ville de Metz". PSS Architecture. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
16. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Metz, EHESS (in French).
17. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590329.
18. "German Empire: States of Germany: Alsace-Lorraine". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590592.
19. Base Mérimée: Hôtel des Postes, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
20. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
21. "Metz". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Éditions Larousse. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
22. "German Frontstalag Camps". Retrieved 20 August 2022.
23. "German Stalag Camps". Retrieved 20 August 2022.
24. David T. Zabecki, ed. (2015) [First published 1999]. "Chronology of World War II in Europe". World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-81242-3.
25. "Sociétés savantes de France (Metz)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
26. "Résultats élections: Metz", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 11 April 2022

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Abraham Rees (1819), "Metz", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hdl:2027/mdp.39015054498178
• "Metz", Handbook for Travellers in France, London: John Murray, 1861
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in French

• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac [in French] (1839). "Metz". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire (in French). Perisse frères.
• François Michel Chabert (1855). Les croniques de la noble ville et cité de Metz (in French). Rousseau-Pallez.
• François Michel Chabert (1878). Dictionnaire topographique, historique et étymologique des rues, places, ponts, et quais de la ville de Metz (in French) (3rd ed.) – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• Municipale, Bibliothèque (1898). "Monographies locales: Metz". Catalogue des livres et documents imprimés du fonds lorrain de la bibliothèque municipale de Nancy (in French). (bibliography)
• "Metz". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914. hdl:2027/mdp.39015074817142.
• "Metz". Nancy, Toul, Luneville, Metz. Guides Diamant (in French). Paris: Hachette. 1914. hdl:2027/mdp.39015069886532.

in German

• "Metz". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896. hdl:2027/njp.32101064064551.
• Johann Heinrich Albers (1902). Geschichte der stadt Metz (in German). G. Scriba.
• P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Metz". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.

External links

• "Bibliographie lorraine" (in French). Académie nationale de Metz [fr].
• Items related to Metz, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Metz, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).