Timeline of Aix-en-Provence explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aix-en-Provence.

Prior to 18th century

• 123 BCE – founded.
• 102 BCE – Battle of Aquae Sextiae.
• 1st century CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Aix established.^[1]
• 477 – Visigoths in power.
• 731 – Saracens in power.
• 12th century – Aix Cathedral construction begins.
• 1112 – Religious council held in Aix.
• 1277 – Saint-Jean-de-Malte Church built.
• 1409 – University founded.
• 1487 – Aix becomes part of the Crown lands of France.
• 1501 – Regional Parlement of Aix-en-Provence established.
• 1505 – Clock tower built.
• 1651 – Hôtel de Suffren built on the Cours Mirabeau.
• 1667 – Pavillon Vendôme (residence) built.
• 1668 – Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) completed.^[2]

18th–19th centuries

• 1703 – Église de la Madeleine (Aix-en-Provence) (church) built.
• 1705 – "Bathing establishment" constructed.
• 1756 – built.
• 1777 – Completion of Bastide d'Orcel.
• 1790
  • Regional Parlement of Aix-en-Provence dissolved.
  • Aix becomes part of the Bouches du Rhône souveraineté.
• 1807 – founded.^[3]
• 1810 – Bibliothèque Méjanes (library) opens.^[4]
• 1838
  • October: Religious Council of Aix-en-Provence held.
  • Musée Granet opens.^[5]
  • Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Aix-en-Provence founded.
• 1839 – 19 January: Birth of Paul Cézanne.
• 1860 – Fontaine de la Rotonde installed.
• 1881 – Population: 23,887.

20th century

• 1903 – Société d'études provençales (learned society) founded.^[6]
• 1906 – Population: 19,433.
• 1910 – Musée des Tapisseries d'Aix-en-Provence opens.
• 1911 – Musée Arbaud founded.^[7] https://archive.org/details/sancepublique05unkngoog
• 1912 – Fountain installed in the .
• 1945 – Henri Mouret becomes mayor.
• 1946 – active.
• 1948 – Aix-en-Provence Festival of music begins.
• 1954 – Population: 54,217.
• 1960 – Aix twinned with Tübingen, Germany.^[8]
• 1966 – Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer established in Aix.^{[9] [10]}
• 1967 - Félix Ciccolini becomes mayor.
• 1968 - Population: 89,566.
• 1969 - Société aixoise d'études historiques (historical society) founded.
• 1970 - Aix twinned with Perugia, Italy.
• 1974 – Centre de Documentation Historique sur l'Algérie headquartered in Aix.http://www.cdha.fr/node/29
• 1975 – Population: 110,659.
• 1976 – opens.
• 1977
  • Fountain installed in the .
  • Aix twinned with Bath, England.
• 1978 – Alain Joissains becomes mayor.
• 1979 – Aix twinned with Granada, Spain.
• 1982
  • Canton of Aix-en-Provence-Centre created.
  • Aix becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
• 1983 – Jean-Pierre de Peretti Della Rocca becomes mayor.
• 1985 – Aix twinned with Coimbra, Portugal.
• 1986 – March: held.
• 1989 – Jean-François Picheral becomes mayor.
• 1992 – Aix twinned with Carthage, Tunisia.
• 1995 – Aix twinned with Ashkelon, Israel.
• 1999 – Population: 133,018.

21st century

• 2001
  • Maryse Joissains-Masini becomes mayor.
  • created.
• 2007 – Grand Théâtre de Provence opens.
• 2011 – Population: 140,684.
• 2015 – December: 2015 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election held.
• 2016 – Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence established.

See also

• • List of mayors of Aix-en-Provence
  • History of Provence region
• region

Other cities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region:

• • Timeline of Avignon
• Timeline of Marseille
• Timeline of Nice
• Timeline of Toulon

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• • • Book: South-Eastern France. Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. 1898. 3rd. https://archive.org/stream/southeasternfra00firgoog#page/n282/mode/2up. Aix.
• Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn52jl?urlappend=%3Bseq=135. Aix. 2027/hvd.hn52jl?urlappend=%3Bseq=135. .
• Aix . 1 . 448 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Catholic Encyclopedia. Catholic Encyclopedia. Aix-en-Provence. https://books.google.com/books?id=FmgQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA237. New York. 1913. . Herbermann. Charles George. Pace. Edward Aloysius.

in French

• Book: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac.

  fr:Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac

  . Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire. fr. 1839. Perisse frères. Aix. https://books.google.com/books?id=F-2Gg2ffyKkC&pg=PA7. .
• Book: Provence. fr. Guides Joanne. 1906. Aix. 2027/uc1.$b192331?urlappend=%3Bseq=371. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b192331?urlappend=%3Bseq=371.
• Book: Dictionnaire Bouillet. Dictionnaire Bouillet. fr. 1914. 34th. Aix-en-Provence. 2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=60. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=60. .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France . . Norway . 30 December 2015 .
2. Book: Roux-Alpheran, François Ambroise Thomas. Les rues d'Aix ou, Recherches historiques sur l'ancienne capitale de la Provence . 1 . 1846. Aubin. 85.
3. Web site: Chronology of Scholarly Societies . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115228/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/chronology_soc.html . dead . 4 March 2016 . Jim Parrott . Scholarly Societies Project . . Canada .
4. Libraries . 16 . Tedder . Henry Richard . Henry Richard Tedder . Brown . James Duff . James Duff Brown . 545 - 577; see page 564, para 6 . France...French libraries (other than those in private hands) belong either to the state....
5. Web site: (Aix-en-Provence) .

   Répertoire des musées français

   . fr . . 30 December 2015 .
6. Web site: Sociétés savantes de France (Aix-en-Provence) . . fr . Paris . 30 December 2015 .
7. Web site: Historique de l'Académie . Académie d’Aix . fr . 30 December 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222110315/http://www.academiedaix.org/academiedaix.fr/historique.html . 22 December 2015 .
8. Web site: Les jumelages . Aixenprovence.fr . Mairie d’Aix-en-Provence . fr . 30 December 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151211135752/http://www.aixenprovence.fr/Les-jumelages . 11 December 2015 .
9. Web site: Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer . 30 December 2015 . .
10. Depot in Aix and Archival Sources for France Outre-Mer . Vincent Confer . French Historical Studies . 6 . 1969 . 1 . 120–126 . 10.2307/286248 . 286248 .