Timeline of Nancy

Engraving of the ducal palace complex, 1664

• 1140 – Tour de la Commanderie Saint-Jean-du-Vieil-Aître (tower, oldest building of Nancy) built.
• 1228 – Castle burns down.[1]
• 1382 – Porte de la Craffe (gate) built.[1]
• 1476 – Charles of Burgundy in power.[1]
• 1477 – 5 January: Battle of Nancy; René II, Duke of Lorraine in power again.[2]
• 1487 – Church of the Cordeliers, Nancy built.[2]
• 1496 – Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine construction begins.[1][2]
• 1633 – Town "taken by the French."[2][1]
• 1697 – Peace of Ryswick & Leopold, Duke of Lorraine in power.[1]
• 1731 – St. Sebastian's Church, Nancy built.[1]
• 1736 – Stanisław Leszczyński becomes Duke of Lorraine.[2]
• 1750 – Royal Society of Science and Humanities of Nancy[3] and public library[4] founded.
• 1753 – Palais du gouvernement de Nancy built (approximate date).
• 1755 – Place Stanislas created, includes a statue of the eponymous Stanisław Leszczyński.[2]
• 1763 – Great organ of Nancy Cathedral installed.
• 1766 – Nancy becomes part of France.[2]
• 1777 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy established.[5]
• 1782 – Chapelle de la Visitation de Nancy built.
• 1784 – Porte Désilles (arch) built.
• 1790
  • 31 August: Military mutiny quashed.
  • Nancy becomes part of the Meurthe souveraineté.[6]
• 1792 – Statue of Louis XV removed from the Place Stanislas.[7]
• 1793 – Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy established.
• 1798 – Journal de la Meurthe newspaper in publication.

• 1814–1815 – Nancy occupied by allied forces during the Napoleonic Wars.[2]
• 1844 – Lycée Henri-Loritz (school) founded.
• 1848 – Musée Lorrain established.
• 1852 – Covered Market, Nancy opens.
• 1856 – Gare de Nancy-Ville built.
• 1859 – Annual Foire de Nancy relocated to the Cours Léopold.
• 1870 – Nancy "put to ransom by the Prussians."[2]
• 1873 – Société des Sciences de Nancy active.[8]
• 1874 – Saint-Epvre Basilica built.[2]
• 1879 – Thiers statue erected in the Place Thiers (Nancy).
• 1884 – Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy founded.[9]
• 1886 - Population: 79,038.[10]
• 1889 – L'Est Républicain newspaper begins publication.

• 1906 - Population: 98,302.[2]
• 1909 – Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Meurthe-et-Moselle built on Rue Henri-Poincaré (Nancy).
• 1911
  • Brasserie Excelsior built.
  • Population: 119,949.[11]
• 1914 – September: Battle of Grand Couronné.[12]
• 1919 – Opera house rebuilt.
• 1923 – Comité Nancy-Paris art group formed.
• 1944 – September: Battle of Nancy (1944).
• 1951 – Marriage of Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, crown prince of Austria-Hungary and Duke of Lorraine, with Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers. The marriage was attended by his mother Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma and high nobility.[13]
• 1964 – Musée de l'École de Nancy opens.
• 1970 – Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, and School of architecture of Nancy established.[14]
• 1972 - Académie de Nancy-Metz active.
• 1978 - Livre sur la place literary festival begins.
• 1982 – Nancy becomes part of the Lorraine region.
• 1983 – André Rossinot becomes mayor.
• 1988 – Radio Caraïb Nancy begins broadcasting.
• 1991
  • Metz–Nancy–Lorraine Airport opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, USA.[15]
• 1996 – Festival du film de chercheur de Nancy begins.
• December 2012 – Archduke Christoph of Austria, son of Archduke Carl Christian of Austria, marries in the Basilica of Saint-Epvre[16]

• 2005 – Kinepolis Nancy (cinema) opens.[17]
• 2006 – Teranga Festival begins.
• 2012 – Population: 105,067.
• 2014 – Laurent Hénart becomes mayor.
• 2016 – Nancy becomes part of the Grand Est region.

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