Timeline of Bourges
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bourges, France.
Prior to 20th century[edit]
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- ca.250 CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Bourges established.[1][2]
- 475 CE – Visigoths in power (until ca.507).[2]
- 762 – Siege and conquest by the Franks under King Pepin the Short.
- 1195 – Bourges Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).[2]
- 1225 – Religious Council of Bourges held.
- 1312 – Coutume de Berry (law) written (approximate date).[3]
- 1380 – Public clock installed (approximate date).[4]
- 1412 - Siege of Bourges (1412) during the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
- 1424 - Bourges astronomical clock installed in the cathedral.[4]
- 1438 – Religious council held, resulting in the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges issued by Charles VII of France.[2]
- 1453 - Palais Jacques Coeur completed.[2]
- 1463 – University of Bourges founded by Louis XI.[2]
- 1487 – Bourges fire of 1487.
- 1492 – Hôtel des Échevins (town hall) built.[5]
- 1510 – Hôtel Lallemant built.[6]
- 1528 – Religious council held.[2]
- 1573 – Collège des jésuites de Bourges founded.
- 1584 – Religious council held.[7]
- 1645 – Hôtel de Bourbon built.[8]
- 1790 – Bourges becomes part of the Cher souveraineté.[9]
- 1793 – Population: 15,964.[9]
- 1796 – Archives départementales du Cher established.[10]
- 1831 – Canal de Berry constructed.
- 1834 – Musée du Berry (museum) founded.[6]
- 1866 – Société des antiquaires du Centre founded.[11][1]
- 1875 – Société de géographie de Bourges formed.[11][2]
- 1886 – Population: 42,829.[12]
- 1893 – Dépêche du Berry newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1898 – Tramway de Bourges begins operating.
20th century[edit]
- 1911 – Population: 45,735.[14]
- 1927 – Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bourges opens.[6]
- 1928 – Bourges Airport opens.[citation needed]
- 1940 – The 5th Fighter Group was formed.
- 1944 – 36 Jews are taken from Bourges by the Milice in a rafle under the command of Joseph Lécussan and buried alive in the countryside.[15]
- 1961 – Comédie de Bourges (theatre group) formed.
- 1963 – Maison de la culture de Bourges opens.
- 1964 – Société d'archéologie et d'histoire du Berry founded.[11]
- 1966 – Bourges 18 football club formed.
- 1975 – Population: 77,300.[9]
- 1977 – Printemps de Bourges music festival begins.
- 1985 – Hôtel de ville de Bourges (city hall) built.
- 1986 – Conservatoire national du Pélargonium (garden) established.[16]
- 1989 – Transports en commun de Bourges (transit entity) established.
- 1991 – Stade des Grosses Plantes (stadium) opens.
- 1995 – Serge Lepeltier becomes mayor.
21st century[edit]
- 2006 – Auditorium de Bourges opens.
- 2014 – Pascal Blanc becomes mayor.
See also[edit]
- Bourges history (fr)
- List of mayors of Bourges
- List of bishops of Bourges
- List of heritage sites in Bourges
Other cities in the Centre-Val de Loire region:
References[edit]
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
- ^ Caswell 1977.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Base Mérimée: Hôtel des Echevins (ancien Hôtel de ville), Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ a b c "(Bourges)". Muséofile: Répertoire des musées français (in French). Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ Charles Daniel (1903). "Conciles particuliers". Manuel des sciences sacrées (in French). Paris: Delhomme & Briguet. (chronological list)
- ^ Base Mérimée: Ancienne abbaye Saint-Ambroix, puis hôtel de Bourbon, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ a b c Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bourges, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Charles-Victor Langlois; Henri Stein [in French] (1891), "Archives départementales: Cher", Les archives de l'histoire de France (in French), Paris: Alphonse Picard
- ^ a b c "Sociétés savantes de France (Bourges)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
- ^ "Villes, villages: Bourges". Presse locale ancienne (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
- ^ Ousby, Ian Occupation The Ordeal of France, 1940–1944, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000 page 275.
- ^ "Garden Search: France". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Bibliography[edit]
- Eugène-Oscar Lami (1881). "Bourges". Dictionnaire encyclopédique et biographique de l'industrie et des arts industriels (in French). Vol. 1. Paris. OCLC 26948816.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Alphonse Buhot de Kersers [in French] (1883). Histoire et statistique monumentale du Cher (in French). Pigelet & Tardy.
- Edmond Charlemagne (1889). Les anciennes institutions municipales de Bourges (in French). Tardy-Pigelet.
- "Bourges". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/hvd.hn52jk.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Bourges", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, hdl:2027/mdp.39015031863452, OCLC 01820283
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 330–331.
- Caswell, Jean; Sipkov, Ivan (1977). "Berry". Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography. USA: Library of Congress. hdl:2027/mdp.39015034753866. (+ Bourges)
- Colum Hourihane, ed. (2012). "Bourges". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
- Jean-Pierre Thiollet (2017). "B comme Bourges". Improvisation so piano (in French). Neva Editions. ISBN 978-2-35055-228-6.
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