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of the city of

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

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Prior to 19th century

* 374 CE -

Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes ( la, Dioecesis Nannetensis; french: Diocèse de Nantes; br, Eskopti Naoned) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Nantes, France. The diocese consists of the department of Loire-At ...

established. * 445 CE - Nantes besieged by Huns. * 453 - Desiderius becomes . * 548 - becomes Catholic bishop. * 843-936 - The Normans held the town. * 992 - Nantes taken by forces of the Duke of Brittany. * 1118 - Fire. * 1207 -

Château des ducs de Bretagne :''This article includes information translated from the Wikipedia article Château des ducs de Bretagne'' The Château des ducs de Bretagne ( en, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atla ...

constructed, a large castle in Nantes. * 1434 -

Nantes Cathedral Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (french: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes), is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on t ...

construction begins. * 1460 -

University of Nantes The University of Nantes (french: Université de Nantes) is a public university located in the city of Nantes, France. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located in Saint-Nazaire a ...

founded. * 1468 -

rebuilt. * 1493 -

Printing press A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a printing, print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in wh ...

in operation. * 1560 -

Francis II of France Francis II (french: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King consort of Scotland as a result of his marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560. He ...

grants Nantes a communal constitution. * 1598 -

Edict of Nantes The Edict of Nantes () was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was in essence completely Catholic. In the edict, Henry aimed pr ...

, granting rights to Protestants, signed in the

. * 1626 - Henry de Talleyrand punished for plotting against

Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...

. * 1640 - Nantes Stock Exchange established. * 1685 - Revocation of

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. * 1720 - Street signs introduced.^{( fr)} * 1753 - (library) opens. * 1788 -

Théâtre Graslin Théâtre Graslin is a theatre and opera house in the city of Nantes, France, built in a new district of the city in the late 18th century by the local architect Mathurin Crucy, and named after the owner of the land, Jean-Louis Graslin. Constructed ...

inaugurated. * 1790 - Nantes becomes part of the

Loire-Inférieure Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of ...

souveraineté. * 1793 - 29 June: Battle of Nantes. * 1800 - Population: 77,162.

19th century

* 1803 - Chamber of Commerce established. * 1806 - Municipal botanical garden established. * 1808 - Lycée of Nantes inaugurated. * 1815 -

Palais de la Bourse (Nantes) The Palais de la Bourse is a building on place du Commerce in Nantes, France, begun at the end of the 18th century and completed in the 19th century. It was rebuilt at the end of the 20th century to house a branch of Fnac Fnac () is a large Fre ...

built. * 1817 - Slave trade officially banned. * 1827 - shopping arcade built. * 1830 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes opens. * 1832 -

Duchess of Berry Duke of Berry (french: Duc de Berry) or Duchess of Berry (french: Duchesse de Berry) was a title in the Peerage of France. The Duchy of Berry, centred on Bourges, was originally created as an appanage for junior members of the French royal family ...

arrested for trying to stir up La Vendée against

Louis Philippe I Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War ...

. * 1843 -

Passage Pommeraye The Passage Pommeraye is a small shopping arcade in central Nantes, France, named after its property developer, Louis Pommeraye. Construction started at the end of 1840 and was completed on 4 July 1843. The Passage Pommeraye is a passage between ...

shopping arcade built. * 1846 **

Lefèvre-Utile Lefèvre Utile, better known worldwide by the initials LU, is a French manufacturer brand of biscuits, emblematic of the city of Nantes. The brand is now part of US confectionery company Mondelēz International since 2012, after splitting of its ...

biscuit company in business. ** Notre-Dame de Bon-Port church built. * 1848 - Labor unrest; crackdown. * 1851 -

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the prov ...

-Nantes railway begins operating. * 1852 - built. * 1856 - Population: 108,530. * 1858 - Nantes-Brest canal opens. * 1869 - (church) built. * 1875 - Natural History Museum of Nantes opens. * 1876 - Population: 122,247. * 1881 - Societe Nantaise de Photographie founded. * 1891 -

construction completed. * 1894 - Musée Dobrée left to the town. * 1895 - La Cigale (brasserie) in business. * 1900 - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes established.

20th century

* 1903 - July:

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passes through Nantes. * 1906 - Population: 118,244 town; 133,247 commune. * 1911 - Population: 170,535. * 1937 - Stade Malakoff (stadium) opens. * 1941 - (bridge) rebuilt. * 1943 ** . ** Football Club de Nantes formed. * 1946 ** Post-war rebuilding begins. ** Population: 200,265. * 1951 -

Nantes Atlantique Airport Nantes Atlantique Airport (french: Aéroport Nantes Atlantique, formerly known as ''Aéroport Château Bougon'') is an international airport serving Nantes, France. It is located southwest of the city, in Bouguenais. The airport is operated b ...

begins commercial flights. * 1955 -

Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé The Unité d'habitation of Nantes-Rezé is an apartment building located in Rezé, a suburb of Nantes, France designed by Le Corbusier. It contains 294 units, and was completed in 1955. It is part of the housing concept of ''Unité d'habitation' ...

(apartment building) constructed. * 1965 - André Morice becomes mayor. * 1966 - (bridge) built. * 1968 -

Gare de Nantes Nantes station (French: ''Gare de Nantes'') is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east–west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two ent ...

(rail station) opens. * 1971 - Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire established. * 1973 -

Palais des Sports de Beaulieu Palais des Sports de Beaulieu is an indoor sporting arena located in Nantes, France. Built in 1973, the seating capacity of the arena is for 5,500 people. It is currently home to the HBC Nantes handball team. The arena hosted the 1974 Europ ...

(arena) built. * 1975 - (bridge) built. * 1976 -

Tour Bretagne Tour Bretagne (''Brittany Tower'' in English) opened on November 18, 1976 at 17:00, is a 37-story skyscraper situated in downtown Nantes between a main thoroughfare, Cours des 50 Otages, and Place Bretagne (''Brittany square''). With a total heig ...

built. * 1977 ** Socialist becomes mayor. ** Socialist Party national congress held in Nantes. * 1978 -

Jules Verne Museum The Musée Jules Verne is a museum dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne. It is located in the city of Nantes, France, and was opened in 1978 to mark the 150th anniversary of Verne's birth. The painter Jean Bruneau, helped by Luce Courville, ...

founded. * 1979 ** (bridge) built. **

Three Continents Festival The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.Planetarium of Nantes The Nantes Planetarium is a public planetarium that opened on 18 June 1981. It operates as an auditorium that presents astronomy shows for all audiences. History In 1978, the Jules Verne Museum opened its doors in the quartier of Butte Saint ...

established. **

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relationship established with

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, USA. * 1982 - Nantes becomes part of the

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" (). ...

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. * 1983 - becomes mayor. * 1984 -

Stade de la Beaujoire The Stade de la Beaujoire – Louis Fonteneau, mostly known as Stade de la Beaujoire (), is a stadium in Nantes, France. It is the home of French football club FC Nantes. The stadium opened for the first time on 8 May 1984, for a friendly game ...

(stadium) opens. * 1985 -

Nantes tramway The Nantes tramway (french: Tramway de Nantes) is a tramway system operating in the city of Nantes in Pays de la Loire, France. The first tramway in Nantes opened in 1879 and closed in 1958 due to bombing damage during World War II, while the pr ...

begins operating. * 1988 - École de design Nantes Atlantique and established. * 1989 ** Royal de Luxe marionette street theatre active. **

Jean-Marc Ayrault Jean-Marc Ayrault (; born 25 January 1950) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2012 to 31 March 2014. He later was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2017. He previously was Mayor of Nantes from 1989 t ...

becomes mayor. * 1990 -

École des mines de Nantes École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Sav ...

established. * 1991 **

École centrale de Nantes École Centrale de Nantes, or Centrale Nantes, is a grande école - a French engineering school - established in 1919 under the name of '' Institut Polytechnique de l'Ouest''. It delivers Graduate, Master, and PhD Programmes based on the latest ...

active. ** Les Anneaux de la Mémoire nonprofit headquartered in Nantes. * 1992 - opens. * 1995 -

La Folle Journée La Folle Journée is a French annual classical music festival held in Nantes. It is the largest classical music festival in France. The festival's name refers to the Pierre Beaumarchais play ''The Marriage of Figaro'', whose alternative title i ...

music festival begins. * 1998 - established. * 1999 - Population: 270,251. * 2000 -

Utopiales Utopiales is an annual international science fiction festival held in Nantes, France, probably the largest European event for the field. It covers science fiction and fantasy literature, film, fine arts, comics, role-playing games, and animation ...

science fiction festival begins.

21st century

* 2001 ** ''Nantes.fr'' municipal website in operation. ** Soy Festival of music begins. * 2005 -

Navibus Navibus is a group of water bus routes in the French city of Nantes, operated as part of the Tan urban transit network that also includes buses and trams. Routes operate on both the River Loire and the River Erdre, and accept the full range ...

(water bus) begins operating. * 2006 -

Nantes Busway The Nantes Busway (line 4) is a bus rapid transit line operating in the city of Nantes, France. The service was inaugurated on November 6, 2006 and is operated by Semitan. The line runs from Place Foch to Porte de Vertou on a dedicated right-of- ...

begins operating. * 2007 **

Machines of the Isle of Nantes The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (french: text=Les Machines de l'île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France. The project is based in the old covered buildings of the former shipyards in Nantes that were at one t ...

exhibit opens. **

Estuaire (biennale) Estuaire is a contemporary art exhibition that took place between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire (along the Loire estuary), France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comp ...

art exhibit begins in Nantes vicinity. * 2009 - Nantes Derby Girls (rollerderby league) formed. * 2011 - Population: 287,845. * 2014 ** March: held. **

Johanna Rolland Johanna Rolland (born 11 May 1979) is a French politician, belonging to the Socialist Party. She is the current mayor of Nantes, being the first woman to hold this position. As of April 2014, she is one of six female mayors of French cities wi ...

becomes mayor. ** 22 December: 2014 Nantes attack. * 2015 - December: held. * 2018- July 03-

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shoots and kills 22 year old Aboubakar Fofana after he reverses his car towards another officer and 2 kids forcing one officer to shoot him in which the bullet hit him in the neck and hit an

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. The car was suspected of being used in drug dealing and Fofana had given police a false name prior to the shooting occurring. Following the shooting wide spread riots and protest occurred in the streets of Nantes.

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