Timeline of Amiens

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

Prior to 20th century

3rd century – Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens established.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/france |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 30 November 2015 }}
1117 – Charter of commune granted to Amiens by the bishop.{{sfn|Caswell|1977}}
1185 – Amiens becomes part of the crown lands of France per {{Interlanguage link multi|Treaty of Boves|fr|3=Traité de Boves}}.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1220 – Amiens Cathedral construction begins.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1390 – Public clock installed (approximate date).{{cite book|author= Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum |author-link= :de:Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum |title=History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders |year= 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-15510-4 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9Za4jdBEVB4C&pg=PA392 }}
1435 – Philip the Good of Burgundy in power per Congress of Arras.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1477 – Amiens again becomes part of the crown lands of France.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1496 – Amiens customary laws codified.{{sfn|Caswell|1977}}
1550 – Hôtel de Ville construction begins.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1597 – Siege of Amiens (1597).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1750 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts|fr|3=Académie des sciences, des lettres et des arts d'Amiens}} founded.{{cite web |url= http://www.scholarly-societies.org/chronology_soc.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115228/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/chronology_soc.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |title=Chronology of Scholarly Societies |editor=Jim Parrott |work=Scholarly Societies Project |publisher=University of Waterloo |location=Canada }}
1751 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Jardin des Plantes, Amiens|fr|3=Jardin des plantes d'Amiens}} (garden) created.
1760 – Hôtel de Ville completed.{{cite web|url= https://www.armarium-hautsdefrance.fr/document/25007?origin=Recherche+avan%C3%A7%C3%A9e&origin-title=Recherche+avanc%C3%A9e+%3A+Sujet+est+exactement+%3Cstrong%3EHauts-de-France+%28France%29+%3C%2Fstrong%3E#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-476%2C-1%2C2070%2C1719 |title= Amiens – Ancien Hôtel de ville (XVIe siècle)|publisher=L'Armarium|access-date=11 November 2024}}
1761 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens Chamber of Commerce|fr|3=Chambre de commerce et d'industrie d'Amiens}} established.
1790 – Amiens becomes part of the Somme souveraineté.{{Cassini-Ehess|659 |Amiens}}
1791 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens Public Library|fr|3=Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole}} founded.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Libraries |volume= 16 |last1= Tedder |first1= Henry Richard |author1-link= Henry Richard Tedder|last2= Brown |first2= James Duff |author2-link= James Duff Brown | pages = 545–577; see page 564, para 6 |quote=France...French libraries....}}
1796 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Archives départementales de la Somme|fr}} established in the Hôtel des Feuillants.{{Citation |publisher =Alphonse Picard |location = Paris |author1= Charles-Victor Langlois |author2=Henri Stein |author-link2=:fr:Henri Stein |title = Les archives de l'histoire de France |date = 1891 |language=fr |chapter=Archives départementales: Somme |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/lesarchivesdelhi00languoft#page/251/mode/1up |author1-link = Charles-Victor Langlois }}{{cite web |url=http://archives.somme.fr/pages/readPost/28/11 |title=Historique et missions des Archives |work=Archives de la Somme |location=Amiens |access-date=9 November 2016 |language=fr }}
1800 – Population: 41,279.
1802
25 March: International peace treaty signed in Amiens.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
Picardy Museum founded.
1817 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Madeleine Cemetery, Amiens|fr|3=Cimetière de La Madeleine (Amiens)}} established.
1837 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Société des antiquaires de Picardie|fr|3=Société des antiquaires de Picardie|lt=Antiquarian Society}} established.{{cite web |url= http://cths.fr/an/liste.php?sc=ss&nom=&dissoute=&ville=Amiens&departement=®ion=0&pays=0&description=&annee_creation=&domaine=0&periode=0 |title= Sociétés savantes de France (Amiens) |publisher=Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques |language=fr |location=Paris |access-date=30 December 2015 }}
1848 – Longueau–Boulogne railway begins operating.
1849 – Statue of Du Cange erected in the {{Interlanguage link multi|Square Saint-Denis d'Amiens|fr}}.
1863 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Saint-Acheul cemetery|fr|3=Cimetière Saint-Acheul}} established.
1865 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Linnean Society of North-Picardy|fr|3=Société linnéenne Nord-Picardie}} active.
1870 – November: Battle of Amiens (1870); Prussians in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1886 – Population: 80,288.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1890 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= France: Area and Population: Principal Towns |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590527 }}
1889 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Cirque Jules-Verne|fr}} (assembly hall) opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.amiens.fr/attractivite/patrimoine-histoire/ville/ville.html |title=Patrimoine et histoire: La ville |work= Amiens.fr |language=fr |publisher=Amiens Métropole |access-date= 30 November 2015 }}
1891 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens tramway|fr|3=Ancien tramway d'Amiens}} begins operating.

20th century

1901 – Amiens Sporting Club formed.
1902 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Devred 1902|fr|3=Devred 1902|lt=Devred}} shop in business.
1911 – Population: 93,207.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= France: Area and Population: Principal Towns |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book }}
1913 – French Grand Prix automotive race held in Amiens.
1914 – City "taken and lost by Germans."{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |date = 1952 |ol=6112221M |page= 62 }}
1918 – August: Battle of Amiens (1918) fought near city.
1940 – May–June: {{Interlanguage link multi|Battle of Amiens (1940)|fr|3=Bataille d'Amiens (1940)}}.
1944 – Le Courrier picard newspaper begins publication.{{cite book|title=Europa World Year Book |year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-254-1 |chapter=France: Directory |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA1695 }}
1946 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens trolleybus|fr|3=Trolleybus d'Amiens}} begins operating.
1952 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens Zoo|fr|3=Zoo d'Amiens}} established.
1954 – Tour Perret (Amiens) hi-rise built.
1958 – Gare d'Amiens rebuilt.
1960 – Amiens twinned with Dortmund, Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.amiens.fr/attractivite/europe-et-international/cooperation-avec-les-villes-jumelees/cooperation-avec-les-villes-jumelees.html |title=Coopération avec les villes jumelées |access-date=30 December 2015 |work=Amiens.fr |publisher= Amiens Métropole |language=fr }}
1962 – Population: 105,433.
1966 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Maison de la culture d'Amiens|fr}} inaugurated.
1970 – University of Picardie Jules Verne established.{{cite book|editor=Walter Rüegg |editor-link=:de:Walter Rüegg |series=History of the University in Europe |volume=4 |title= Universities Since 1945 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49425-0 |chapter= Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VCKRv1GiFqEC&pg=PA578 }}
1971 - Amiens twinned with Görlitz, Germany.
1973 - Amiens twinned with Darlington, United Kingdom.
1981 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens Conservatory|fr|3=Conservatoire à rayonnement régional d'Amiens}} active.
1999
Stade de la Licorne (stadium) opens.
{{Interlanguage link multi|Fakir (newspaper)|fr|3=Fakir (journal)|lt=Fakir}} newspaper begins publication.
Population: 135,501.
2000 – Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole created.

21st century

2006 – Amiens twinned with Tulsa, USA.
2011 – Population: 133,327.
2012 – August: Youth unrest.{{citation |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/world/europe/hollande-pledges-order-after-rioting-in-northern-france.html |date=14 August 2012 |title=French Leader Promises Order After Youths Riot in a Northern City }}{{citation |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19295112 |title=French police on high alert after riots in Amiens |date= 19 August 2012 }}
2014
January: Labour unrest at Goodyear factory.{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/french-workers-bosses-hostage-goodyear-amiens |title= French workers at Goodyear tyre plant take bosses captive |date=6 January 2014 |work=The Guardian }}{{citation |work=New York Times |date=7 January 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/business/international/french-workers-hold-goodyear-managers-over-jobs.html |title=Labor Tactic Raises Fear for France }}
March: {{Interlanguage link multi|Amiens municipal election, 2014|fr|3=Élection municipale de 2014 à Amiens}} held.
Brigitte Fouré becomes mayor.
2015 – December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.{{citation |work=Le Monde |language=fr |title=Résultats élections: Amiens |url= https://www.lemonde.fr/resultats-elections/amiens-80021/ |access-date=11 April 2022 }}
2016 – Amiens becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

=in English=

{{cite book

|title = Gazetteer of France

|author = Clement Cruttwell

|publisher = G.G.J. and J. Robinson

|location =London

|year = 1793

|chapter = Amiens

|hdl = 2027/njp.32101072026808

|author-link = Clement Cruttwell

}}

{{Citation

|publisher = Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown

|date = 1819

|location = London |title = The Cyclopaedia

|author= Abraham Rees

|chapter= Amiens

|hdl = 2027/mdp.39015012312156

|title-link = Rees's Cyclopædia

}}

{{Citation

|publisher = J. Murray

|location = London

|title = Handbook for Travellers in France

|date = 1861

|edition=8th |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookfortrave1861john#page/n51/mode/2up |chapter=Amiens

}}

{{Citation

|publisher = Karl Baedeker

|location = Leipsic |title = Northern France

|date = 1899

|oclc = 2229516 |edition=3rd |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/northernfrance00karl#page/n79/mode/2up |chapter=Amiens

}}

{{cite book

|title= Chambers's Encyclopaedia

|location= London

|year= 1901

|chapter= Amiens

| ref = {{harvid|Chambers|1901}}

|hdl= 2027/njp.32101065312868

|title-link= Chambers's Encyclopaedia

}}

{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Amiens |volume= 1 |pages = 855–856 |date= 1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
{{Citation

|publisher = Ward, Lock & Co.

|location = London

|title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates

|author = Benjamin Vincent

|edition = 25th

|date = 1910

|chapter= Amiens

| ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910}}

|hdl = 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776

|title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates

}}

{{Citation

|publisher = Michelin

|location = Clermont-Ferrand

|title = Amiens Before and During the War

|date = 1919

|oclc = 887914

|ol = 13521961M

}}

{{cite book

|author1= Jean Caswell |author2 = Ivan Sipkov

|title= Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress: an Annotated Bibliography

|year= 1977

|publisher=Library of Congress

|location=USA

|chapter= Amiens

| ref = {{harvid|Caswell|1977}}

|hdl = 2027/mdp.39015034753866

}}

{{cite book

|editor=Colum Hourihane

|title=Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

|year=2012

|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-539536-5

|chapter= Amiens

|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55

}}

=in French=

{{cite book

|title =Dictionnaire géographique portatif de la France

|language =fr

|publisher =Desaint

|location =Paris

|year = 1765

|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iU91AGd11rIC&pg=PA51

| chapter = Amiens

}}

{{cite book

|author=Hyacinthe Dusevel

|title=Histoire de la ville d'Amiens

|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6dQDAAAAYAAJ

|year=1848

|edition=2nd

|publisher=Caron et Lambert

}}

{{cite book

|author= Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau

|author-link= :fr:Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau

|title= Guide pittoresque: portatif et complet, du voyageur en France

|language= fr

|publisher= {{Interlanguage link multi|Firmin Didot frères|fr}}

|location= Paris

|year= 1850

|edition= 3rd

|chapter= Amiens

|page= 259

|hdl= 2027/uiug.30112081968700

}}

{{cite book

|author=Ch. Brossard

|title= La France du Nord

|language= fr

|series=Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France

|year=1900

|publisher= Flammarion

|chapter= Picardie: Somme: Description des villes: Amiens

| ref = {{harvid|Brossard|1900}}

|hdl= 2027/nyp.33433066581111

}} (Table of contents)

{{cite book

|title =Histoire de la ville d'Amiens

|author = Albéric de Calonne

|publisher =Piteux Frères

|location =Amiens

|year =1906

|language =fr

|url =http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000370438

}}

{{cite book

|title= Le Nord

|series=À la France: sites et monuments

|publisher= Touring-Club de France

|oclc=457600236

|location=Paris

|language=fr

|year= 1906

|chapter= Amiens

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6483AQAAMAAJ

}}

{{cite book

|title= Dictionnaire Bouillet

|language=fr

|year=1914

|edition= 34th

|chapter= Amiens

| ref = {{harvid|Bouillet|1914}}

|hdl=2027/mdp.39015074817142

|title-link=Dictionnaire Bouillet

}}

External links

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See also

References

Bibliography

=in English=

=in French=

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