Timeline of Roubaix explained

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

Prior to 20th century

• 1469 – Factory franchise granted by Charles the Bold.
• 1790 – Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.
• 1793 – Population: 9,120.
• 1843 – textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix.^[1]
• 1846 - Population: 31,039.
• 1848 - remodelled.
• 1866 – Population: 65,091.^[2]
• 1867 – and created.
• 1868 – Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.^[3]
• 1872 – Chamber of Commerce established.^[4]
• 1876 - Population: 83,000.
• 1878 – and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
• 1880 – Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (mansion) built.
• 1883 - National school of industrial arts founded.
• 1886 – Population: 100,299.^[5]
• 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.
• 1892 – created.
• 1894 – established.
• 1895 – RC Roubaix football club formed.
• 1896
  • Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
  • Population: 124,661.

20th century

• 1906 - Population: 110,055.
• 1909 – begins operating.
• 1911
  • built.
  • Population: 122,723.^[6]
• 1920 – brewery in business.
• 1928 – Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
• 1967 – Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
• 1968 – Population: 114,547.
• 1969 – 1969 Tour de France cycling race departs from Roubaix.
• 1982
  • closes.
  • created.
• 1983
  • founded.
  • becomes mayor.
• 1993
  • performance space opens.
  • Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.
• 1994 – becomes mayor.
• 1996
  • March: Police raid house of criminal Gang de Roubaix.
  • Part of city designated an "urban tax-free zone."
• 1999
  • ,,, and stations open.
  • Kimberly-Clark factory built.
  • Population: 96,984.
• 2000 – La Piscine Museum opens.

21st century

• 2001 – "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.
• 2008 – website published.
• 2011 – Population: 94,186.
• 2012
  • Bilal Mosque built.
  • becomes mayor.
• 2014
  • March: held.
  • Abou Bakr Mosque opens.
  • Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
• 2015
  • 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
  • December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.
• 2016 – Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

See also

• • • • region

Other cities in the Hauts-de-France region:

• Timeline of Amiens
• Timeline of Lille

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• • Roubaix . 23 . 767 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Romain Garbaye. Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities. 2008. Blackwell . 978-1-4051-4820-7. Roubaix, 1980s-2001. .
• Culture in the city, culture for the city? The political construction of the trickle-down in cultural regeneration strategies in Roubaix, France. Claire Colomb. Town Planning Review. 82. 1. 2011. .
• Book: Martinez-Fernandez. Demographic Change and Local Development: Shrinkage, Regeneration and Social Dynamics. 2012. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 978-92-64-18046-8. Housing strategies for a shrinking French city: the case of Roubaix (France). Yoan Miot. . etal.

in French

• Book: Le Nord. fr. Guides Joanne. 1899. Roubaix. 2027/hvd.hn3f1z?urlappend=%3Bseq=360. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn3f1z?urlappend=%3Bseq=360.
• Book: Ministère du Commerce. Annuaire des syndicats professionels, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles. fr. Imprimerie nationale. Paris. 1903. Nord: Roubaix. https://books.google.com/books?id=ms9JAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA321. Minister of Commerce (France).
• Book: Dictionnaire Bouillet. fr. 1914. 34th. Roubaix. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=1682. . Dictionnaire Bouillet. 2027/mdp.39015074817142?urlappend=%3Bseq=1682.
• Book: Roubaix-Tourcoing et les villes lainières d'Europe: découverte d'un patrimoine industriel. fr. 2005. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 978-2-85939-918-4. .
• Book: Michel David. Roubaix: cinquante ans de transformations urbaines et de mutations sociales. fr. January 2006. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 978-2-85939-926-9. etal.
• Book: Chantal Petillon. La population de Roubaix: industrialisation, démographie et société 1750-1880. fr. 2006. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 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).

Notes and References

1. Book: Michael Stephen Smith . The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930. 2006. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-01939-3.
2. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1868 . London . Macmillan and Co.. France . 2027/nyp.33433081590329?urlappend=%3Bseq=112 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590329?urlappend=%3Bseq=112 .
3. Web site: Sociétés savantes de France (Roubaix) . . fr . Paris . 30 December 2015 .
4. Book: United States Department of Commerce . Archibald J. Wolfe . Commercial Organizations in France . 1915 . Government Printing Office . USA . List of Chambers . https://books.google.com/books?id=t3xHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA34 .
5. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1890 . London . Macmillan and Co.. France: Area and Population: Principal Towns . 2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=495 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=495 .
6. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. France: Area and Population: Principal Towns . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=896 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=896 .