Timeline of Roubaix

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

Prior to 20th century

• 1469 - "Factory franchise granted."^[1]
• 1790 - Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.^[2]
• 1793 - Population: 9,120.^[2]
• 1843 - Motte-Bossut textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix.^[3]
• 1846 - Population: 31,039.^[2]
• 1848 - Saint Martin Church, Roubaix remodelled.^[4]
• 1866 - Population: 65,091.^[5]
• 1867 - Canton de Roubaix-Est and Canton de Roubaix-Ouest created.^[2]
• 1868 - Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.^[6]
• 1872 - Chamber of Commerce established.^[7]
• 1878 - Saint Joseph Church, Roubaix^[4] and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
• 1880 - Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (mansion) built.
• 1886 - Population: 100,299.^[8]
• 1888 - Gare de Roubaix (rail station) built.
• 1889 - École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (school) established.
• 1891 - Chambre syndicale métallurgique de Roubaix established.^[9]
• 1892 - Canton de Roubaix-Nord created.^[2]
• 1894 - Compagnie des tramways de Roubaix et de Tourcoing established.
• 1895 - RC Roubaix football club formed.
• 1896
  • Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
  • Population: 124,661.^[2]

20th century

• 1909 - Line R, Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing tramway begins operating.
• 1911
  • Roubaix City Hall built.
  • Population: 122,723.^[10]
• 1920 - GBM brewery in business.
• 1928 - Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
• 1967 - Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
• 1968 - Population: 114,547.^[2]
• 1969 - 1969 Tour de France cycling race departs from Roubaix.
• 1982
  • Motte-Bossut factory closes.^[11]
  • Canton de Roubaix-Centre created.^[2]
• 1983
  • Ballet du Nord founded.
  • André Diligent becomes mayor.
• 1993
  • Cave aux Poètes performance space opens.
  • Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.
• 1994 - René Vandierendonck becomes mayor.
• 1996
  • March: Police raid house of criminal Gang de Roubaix.^[12]
  • Part of city designated an "urban tax-free zone."^[13]
• 1999
  • Alsace (Lille Metro), Gare - Jean-Lebas (Lille Metro), Roubaix-Charles de Gaulle (Lille Metro), and Roubaix-Grand Place (Lille Metro) stations open.
  • Kimberly-Clark factory built.^[14]
  • Population: 96,984.^[2]

21st century

• 2000 - La Piscine Museum opens.
• 2001 - "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.^[15]
• 2008 - Bibliothèque numérique de Roubaix website published.
• 2011 - Population: 94,186.^[16]
• 2012
  • Bilal Mosque built.^[17]
  • Pierre Dubois (politician) becomes mayor.
• 2014
  • March: Nord municipal election, 2014 held.
  • Abou Bakr Mosque opens.^[17]
  • Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
• 2015
  • 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
  • December: Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election, 2015 held.^[16]
• 2016 - Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

See also

• History of Roubaix
• List of mayors of Roubaix
• List of heritage sites in Roubaix
• History of Nord-Pas-de-Calais region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

• Timeline of Amiens
• Timeline of Lille

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. "Notice communale: Roubaix". Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui (in French). France: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
3. Michael Stephen Smith (2006). The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3.
4. "Patrimoine architectural (Roubaix)". Base Mérimée (in French). France: Minister of Culture (France). Retrieved 30 December 2015.
5. "France". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868.
6. "Sociétés savantes de France (Roubaix)" (in French). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
7. United States Department of Commerce; Archibald J. Wolfe (1915). "List of Chambers". Commercial Organizations in France. USA: Government Printing Office.
8. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
9. Ministère du Commerce 1903.
10. "France: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
11. Villes lainières 2005.
12. "French court links armed robbers to terrorist network", The Guardian, 8 February 2001
13. Colomb 2011.
14. Garbaye 2008.
15. Miot 2012.
16. "Données du Monde: Roubaix", Le Monde (in French), retrieved 30 December 2015
17. "Les six mosquées de Roubaix en pleine reconstruction", La Voix du Nord (in French), 7 March 2014

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• "Roubaix", Northern France (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905, OCLC 01820283
• "Roubaix", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Romain Garbaye (2008). "Roubaix, 1980s-2001". Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities. Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-4820-7.
• Claire Colomb (2011). "Culture in the city, culture for the city? The political construction of the trickle-down in cultural regeneration strategies in Roubaix, France". Town Planning Review (82.1).
• Yoan Miot (2012). "Housing strategies for a shrinking French city: the case of Roubaix (France)". In Martinez-Fernandez; et al. Demographic Change and Local Development: Shrinkage, Regeneration and Social Dynamics. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ISBN 978-92-64-18046-8.

in French

• "Roubaix". Le Nord. Guides Joanne (in French). 1899.
• Ministère du Commerce (1903). "Nord: Roubaix". Annuaire des syndicats professionels, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles (in French). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
• "Roubaix". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French) (34th ed.). 1914.
• Roubaix-Tourcoing et les villes lainières d'Europe: découverte d'un patrimoine industriel (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2005. ISBN 978-2-85939-918-4.
• Michel David; et al., eds. (January 2006). Roubaix: cinquante ans de transformations urbaines et de mutations sociales (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-926-9.
• Chantal Petillon (2006). La population de Roubaix: industrialisation, démographie et société 1750-1880 (in French). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-85939-917-7.

External links

• Items related to Roubaix, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Roubaix, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).