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The following is a timeline of the
history of the city of
Le Havre , France.
Prior to 20th century
1516 – Harbour construction begins.
1520 - Belltower of
Le Havre Cathedral .
1524 -
Port of Le Havre opened.
1562 - Town delivered over to the keeping of Queen
Elizabeth I by
Louis, Prince of Condé .
1563 - English, under
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick expelled.
1572 - Despatched vessels for whale and cod-fishing at Spitsbergen and Newfoundland.
1669 - The oldest of the nine harbour basins dates from here.
1672 – Le Havre becomes the "
entrepôt of the
French East India Company ."
1694 – Le Havre besieged by Anglo-Dutch forces during the
Nine Years' War .
1750 – Journal du Havre newspaper begins publication.
[2]
1752 – Almanach de la Marine au Havre published.
[4]
1772 –
City directory published.
[5]
1790 – Le Havre becomes part of the
Seine Inférieure
souveraineté .
[6]
1800 –
Bibliothèque municipale du Havre [
fr ] (library) opens.
[7]
1806 – Population: 19,482.
[6]
1833 –
Société havraise d'études diverses [
fr ] founded.
1839 – Courrier du Havre newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1845 – Musée des Beaux-Arts opens.
1847
1848 –
Banque Chalot [
fr ] founded.
[10]
1851 – Population: 56,964.
[6]
1857 –
Le Havre City Hall built.
1864 –
Crédit havrais [
fr ] (bank) established.
[10]
1868 – Le Havre newspaper begins publication.
[2]
1874 –
Tram [
fr ] begins operating.
1876 – Population: 92,068.
[11]
1881
1884 – Société de géographie du Havre founded.
[12]
1886 – Population: 112,074.
[13]
1887 -
Canal de Tancarville completed.
1888 –
Cantons
1 [
fr ] ,
2 [
fr ] ,
3 [
fr ] ,
4 [
fr ] ,
5 [
fr ] , and
6 [
fr ] created.
[6]
20th century
21st century
Images
Railway station, built 1882
Place Gambetta, circa 1910
Entrance to escalator, installed in 1928
See also
other cities in the Normandy region
References
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EHESS (in French) .
^
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This article incorporates information from the
French Wikipedia .
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