Timeline of Marseille
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Prior to 17th century
17th-18th centuries
19th century

Map of Marseille, 1896
 
1800s-1840s
1850s-1890s
-  1851
 
-  1852 - Prison Chave built on Boulevard Chave.
 
-  1853 - La Joliette dock constructed.
 
-  1854 - Jardin zoologique de Marseille (zoo) opens.
 
-  1855 - Phare de Sainte Marie built.
 
-  1856 
 
-  1857 - Alcazar (Marseille) theatre opens.
 
-  1858
 
-  1860 
 
-  1862 - Marseille Courthouse built.
 
-  1863 - Grande synagogue de Marseille built.[9]
 
-  1864
 
-  1865 - Société Marseillaise de Crédit (bank)[25] and Priory of St. Madeleine founded.
 
-  1866 - Population: 300,131.[26]
 
-  1868 - Le Petit Marseillais newspaper begins publication.[21]
 
-  1869 - Palais Longchamp built.
 
-  1872 - Business school established.
 
-  1876
 
-  1877 - Société de géographie de Marseille established.[19]
 
-  1878 - Saint-Lazare Convent consecrated.
 
-  1881
-  Italian-French ethnic unrest.
 
-  Population: 360,099.[14]
 
 
-  1883 - Marseille coat of arms design adopted.
 
-  1884 - Marseille cholera epidemic.
 
-  1885 - Soleil du Midi newspaper begins publication.[21]
 
-  1891 - École d'ingénieurs de Marseille (school) founded.
 
-  1892 - Funicular of the Notre-Dame de la Garde church begins operating.
 
-  1893
 
-  1894 - Monument des Mobiles erected.(fr)
 
-  1897 - Excursionnistes Marseillais (hiking club) formed.[27]
 
-  1899 
 
20th century
1900s-1940s
1950s-1990s
-  1952 - Cité radieuse housing complex built.[4]
 
-  1953
-  Gaston Defferre becomes mayor again (remains in office until 1986).[4]
 
-  La Tourette housing complex built.
 
 
-  1955 - Affaire du Combinatie vendetta killings of the criminal Marseille milieu occur.
 
-  1958 - Marseille twinned with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Antwerp, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark;  Genoa, Italy; Haifa, Israel; and Hamburg, Germany.[35]
 
-  1960s - La Castellane neighborhood built.
 
-  1961 - Marseille twinned with Kobe, Japan.[35]
 
-  1962
 
-  1965 - March: Marseille municipal election, 1965 held.
 
-  1967 - Marseille Old Port Tunnel opens.
 
-  1968
 
-  1970 - University of Provence established.[37]
 
-  1972
 
-  1973 - 14 December: Algerian consulate bombed.[38]
 
-  1975
-  Er Rahmaniyyà group formed.[39][40]
 
-  Population: 908,600.[14]
 
 
-  1977 
 
-  1979 - Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale footrace begins.
 
-  1981 - Rodéo (riot).
 
-  1982
 
-  1983
 
-  1984
-  Marseille Metro Line 2 begins operating.
 
-  Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece.[35]
 
 
-  1986
 
-  1987
 
-  1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins.
 
-  1991 - La Commanderie opens.
 
-  1993 - Tunnel Prado-Carénage opens.
 
-  1995 
 
-  1997 - La Provence newspaper in publication.
 
-  1999 - Population: 795,518.[14]
 
21st century
2000s
-  2001
 
-  2004 - Marseille twinned with Marrakech, Morocco.[35]
 
-  2006
 
-  2007
 
-  2008 - Population: 851,420.
 
-  2009 - Collège Ibn Khaldoun opens.
 
2010s
-  2010
-  March: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2010 held.
 
-  Garbage strike occurs.
 
 
-  2011
-  Cornerstone of Grand Mosque of Marseille laid.[44][45]
 
-  Population: 850,636.[46]
 
 
-  2012 - Place des Capucines pedestrianized.
 
-  2013
 
-  2014 - March: Marseille municipal election, 2014 held.
 
-  2015
-  9 February: Shooting occurs in La Castellane.
 
-  September: Drug ring trial begins.[47]
 
-  December: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 2015 held.[46]
 
-  Marseille tramway Line 3 begins operating.
 
-  Cantons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 created per 2014 France cantonal redistricting.
 
 
-  2016 - Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.
 
See also
Other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region:
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Étoiles
  - ↑  "Histoire du cinéma à Marseille". Marseille.fr (in French). Ville de Marseille. Retrieved 30 December 2015. 
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 - ↑  France, Muslims in the EU: Cities Report, USA: Open Society Institute, 2007  (Marseille section)
 - ↑  Jocelyne Cesari (1994). Etre musulman en France: associations, militants et mosquées. Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-501-1. 
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 - ↑  "Information of the Municipal Archives of Marseilles". International Council on Archives. Retrieved 30 May 2015. 
 - ↑  "Marseille's Muslims need their Grand Mosque – why is it still a car park?", The Guardian, 3 March 2015 
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 - ↑  "Marseille in spotlight once again as La Castellane drug trial begins", The Guardian, 16 September 2015 
 
 
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
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