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Timeline Of Le Havre
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. * 1752 – ''Almanach de la Marine au Havre'' published. * 1772 – City directory published. * 1790 – Le Havre becomes part of the Seine Inférieure souveraineté. * 1800 – (library) opens. * 1806 – Population: 19,482. * 1833 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Le Havre
Le Havre was founded on 8 October 1517 as a new port by royal command of François I partly to replace the historic harbours of Harfleur and Honfleur which had become increasingly impractical due to silting-up. The city was originally named ''Franciscopolis'' after the king, and was subsequently renamed Le Havre-de-Grâce ("Harbour of Grace") after an existing chapel of ''Notre-Dame-de-Grâce'' ("our Lady of Grace"). The name of the American city of Havre de Grace, Maryland, is inspired by this name. Before François I Human presence on the territory of Le Havre dates back to Prehistory around 400,000 BC.''Prehistory and Antiquity'' Municipal Archives of Le Havre, consulted on 22 July 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal De Tancarville
The Canal de Tancarville is a 25 km waterway in France connecting the English Channel at Le Havre to the Seine at Tancarville.Fluviacarte Canal de Tancarville The canal was completed and opened in 1887. Retrieved 17 July 2019. See also * |
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a plant conservation biology, conservation Charitable organization, charity based in Kew, Surrey, England. It is a membership organisation, working with 800 botanic gardens in 118 countries, whose combined work forms the world's largest plant conservation network. Founded in 1987, BGCI is a Charitable organization, registered charity in the United Kingdom, and its members include the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, as two of its key supporters. The founder and director from 1987 to 1993 was Professor Vernon H Heywood. He was followed in 1994 by Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson (as Secretary-General) who led BGCI till 2005 when Sara Oldfield succeeded him. She was then followed by Paul Smith in 2016 (current acting Secretary-General of BGCI). BGCI's patron is Charles III. Lady Suzanne Warner was Chair of BGCI from December 1999 to December 2004. She received an OBE in the Queen's 2006 New Year's Honours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Rufenacht
Antoine Rufenacht (11 May 1939 – 5 September 2020) was a French right-wing ( The Republicans) politician and former mayor of Le Havre. He took the mayoral seat from Daniel Colliard ( PCF) at the municipal election of 1995 and was reelected both in 2001, with a comfortable majority, and in 2008, against Daniel Paul (also PCF). He was also president of the local city community (called ''Communauté d'Agglomération Havraise'' - CODAH) which groups several municipalities around Le Havre, Rufenacht was born in Le Havre. A former student of ÉNA, he was a junior minister ( Secrétaire d'État) in the government of Raymond Barre, President of the regional council of Upper Normandy, and also a deputy. Rufenacht's political career began in the then Gaullist party, the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), and he remained in its successor parties, the Rally for the Republic (RPR), the UMP, and most recently, from 2015, the Republicans. In the presidential election of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalian
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the southern tip of Liaodong peninsula, it is the southernmost city in both Liaoning and the entire Northeast. Dalian borders the prefectural cities of Yingkou and Anshan to the north and Dandong to the northeast, and also shares maritime boundaries with Qinhuangdao and Huludao across the Liaodong Bay to west and northwest, Yantai and Weihai on the Shandong peninsula across the Bohai Strait to the south, and North Korea across the Korea Bay to the east. As of the 2020 census, its total population was 7,450,785 inhabitants whom 5,106,719 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 6 out of 7 urban districts, Pulandian District not being conurbated yet. Today a financial, shipping, and logistics center for East Asia, Dalian has a signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe-Noire
Pointe-Noire (; kg, Njinji, french: Ndjindji with the letter d following French spelling standards) is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, following the capital of Brazzaville, and an autonomous department since 2004. Before this date it was the capital of the Kouilou region (now a separate department). It is situated on a headland between Pointe-Noire Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Pointe-Noire is the main commercial centre of the country and has a population of 715,334 (2007), expanding to well over 1 million when the entire metropolitan area is taken into account. Climate Pointe-Noire has a tropical savanna climate under the Köppen climate classification. The city has a wet season that spans from October through April, while the remaining 5 months form the dry season. Pointe-Noire receives roughly of precipitation annually. Temperatures are somewhat cooler during the dry season with average temperatures roughly at 24 degrees Celsius. During the wet season, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Oslo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo ( la, Osloënsis) is an exempt diocese located in the city of Oslo in Norway. Parishes The territory is divided into 25 parishes, located in the following sites: Oslo (3), Moss, Askim, Fredrikstad, Halden, Lillestrøm, Hamar, Kongsvinger, Lillehammer, Jessheim, Hønefoss, Stabekk, Drammen, Fagernes, Tønsberg, Larvik, Sandefjord, Porsgrunn, Arendal, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. History By 1070, the see was established as the Diocese of Oslo, and the bishop was seated at St. Hallvard's Cathedral. In 1537 - in the course of the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark-Norway and Holstein - Christian III of Denmark suppressed the Catholic episcopates at the Norwegian sees. Thereafter Lutheranism prevailed in Scandinavia. In 1582 the stray Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne. The Congregation de propaganda fide, on its establishment in 1622, took cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Le Havre
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Havre (Latin: ''Dioecesis Portus Gratiae''; French: ''Diocèse du Havre'') is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected in 1974, the episcopal see is Le Havre Cathedral in the city of Le Havre. The diocese comprises the arrondissement of Le Havre in the department of Seine-Maritime, Normandy. The diocese was created from territory of the Archdiocese of Rouen, and remains suffragan to the parent diocese. The current bishop is Jean-Luc Brunin, appointed in 2011. Bishops *Michel Marie Paul Saudreau (1974–2003) * Michel Jean Guyard (2003–2011) *Jean-Luc Brunin (since 2011) See also * Catholic Church in France References External links * Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919'' retrieved: 2016-12-24. {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Havre, Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Norman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art André Malraux - MuMa
The Musée d'art moderne André Malraux (also known as Musée Malraux and simply MuMa) is a museum in Le Havre, France containing one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings. It was designed by Atelier LWD, an architecture studio led by Guy Lagneau, Michel Weill and Jean Dimitrijevic. It is named after André Malraux, Minister of Culture when the museum was opened in 1961. History Architect Guy Lagneau was chosen by Georges Salles, director of National Museums, to undertake construction between 1952 and 1961 of the first major museum built in France after World War II. Lagneau undertook the work in collaboration with Raymond Audigier, Michel Weill and Jean Dimitrejvic. The museum, inaugurated in 1961 by the Minister of Culture, André Malraux, was one of the key elements of the reconstruction of Le Havre. The museum was recently renovated by Emmanuelle and Laurent Beaudouin. Structure The museum departs from the tradition of closed museums, designed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Astonia
Operation Astonia was the codename for an Allies of World War II, Allied attack on the German-held English Channel, Channel port of Le Havre in France, during the Second World War. The city had been declared a ''German World War II strongholds, Festung'' (fortress) by Hitler, to be held to the last man. Fought from 10 to 12 September 1944, the Allied objective was to secure the harbour facilities intact, to deliver supplies to the Allied armies in Continental Europe. The Allies refused to let the civilian population be evacuated, despite offers of free passage by the fortress commander. From 26 August, Royal Navy ships and Royal Air Force aircraft carried out a blockade and an extensive preparatory bombardment of the city, which killed over 2,000 civilians and 19 German troops. The land attack was carried out by British infantry, aided by specialist armoured vehicles from the 79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom), 79th Armoured Division, including Canadian troops. The German garr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombing Of France During World War II
Between the time of the German victory in the Battle of France and the liberation of the country, the Allied Forces bombed many locations in France. In all 1,570 French cities and towns were bombed by the Allies between June 1940 and May 1945. The total number of civilians killed was, at least, of 68,778 men, women and children (including the 2,700 civilians killed in Royan). The total number of injured was more than 100,000. The total number of houses completely destroyed by the bombings was 432,000, and the number of partly destroyed houses was 890,000. The cities that saw the most destruction were the following: * Saint-Nazaire (Loire Atlantique): 100% * Tilly-la-Campagne (Calvados): 96% * Calais (Pas-de-Calais) : 95% * Vire (Calvados): 95% * Le Portel (Pas-de-Calais) : 94% * Dunkerque (Nord) : 90% * Villers-Bocage (Calvados): 88% * Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) : 85% * Le Havre (Seine-Maritime): 82% * Beauvais (Oise) : 80% * Lorient (Morbihan) : 80 % * Brest ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
