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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Oran, Algeria.

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Prior to 20th century

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History of Algeria
Prehistory
Antiquity
Middle Ages
Modern times
Regency of Algiers (16th–19th centuries)

French Algeria (19th–20th centuries)

Algerian War (1954–1962)

Contemporary era
1960s–80s

1990s–2000s

2010s to present

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  • 1509 – City occupied by Spanish forces.[1]
  • 1556 – Siege of Oran (1556).
  • 1604 – Fort Santa Cruz built.
  • 1708 – Ottomans in power.[2]
  • 1732 – Spanish in power.[2]
  • 1790 – October 9: Earthquake.[2]
  • 1791 – Ottomans occupy city.[2]
  • 1792 – Mosquée du Bey Mohamed el-Kébir [fr] built.
  • 1831 – Pujol appointed mayor of Oran.
  • 1836 – General Létang transforms the glacis Castle-Nine into a walk which bears its name.
  • 1837 – General Bugeaud arrived in Oran to negotiate a new treaty (The Treaty of Tafna, May 20) with Emir Abd El-Kader. On November 14 the Emir signed a treaty with Desmichel recognizing its [whose?] authority to the west of Algiers except for Oran, Mostaganem and Arzew.
  • 1845 – General Lamoricière constructed the "Village Nègre."
  • 1847 – Following a severe drought lasting several months, a terrible epidemic of cholera strikes, decimating the population of Oran.
  • 1848
    • Oran becomes the prefecture of the department of the same name.
    • Creation of the small Basin of the Old Port (four hectares).
    • A civil hospital is built.
  • 1849 – Construction of the vault of the Virgin to get rid of the cholera. The members of the first general council of Oran, named by Emperor Napoleon III, meet on December 5, 1858 with the prefecture, with Jules de Pre de Saint-Maur as chairman.
  • 1866 – July 25: Creation of the Oran Roman Catholic diocese.
  • 1877 – University Hospital of Oran construction begins.[citation needed]
  • 1880
    • Great Synagogue of Oran built.
    • Oran builds a great extension starting from the place d'Armes. The ravine of l'Oued Rouina is filled.
  • 1881 – Appearance of the first horse-drawn trams.
  • 1885 – Municipal Museum of Oran and Demaeght established.
  • 1886 – Inauguration of Hotel de Ville, the City Hall.
  • 1899 – First electric trams.
  • 1900 – the city has 90,000 inhabitants.

20th century

1900s–1940s

  • 1907 – Construction of the theatre.
  • 1909 – December 14: the first flight in Oran is carried out by Julien Serviès on a Sommer monoplane at Sénia,. Next 9 January, a great meeting gathers forty thousand people, also in Sénia, in the presence of Marshal Lyautey.
  • 1912 - Population: 123,086.[3]
  • 1913 – Cathedral Sacré Coeur built.
  • 1918 – Dedication of the Great Synagogue of Oran
  • 1928 – Oran socialiste newspaper begins publication.
  • 1930 – Creation of new districts, less dense and more luxurious: these included higher Gambetta, Bon Reception, the Beavers, Médioni, Small Boulanger, Cité... This development continues overall with the creation of districts even more sumptuous, overflowing the first crown (district of Saint-Hubert, Palm trees, Point of the Day, Gambetta...)
  • 1930–32 – Sénia, the Oran aérodrome, is where several world records of duration and distance in closed loop are established.
  • 1940
    • Beginning of the construction of the new prefecture.
    • July 3: following the German invasion of Paris and fall of France, the British fleet attacked from Gibraltar, damaging the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir. Its bombardment sank three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. Twelve hundred French sailors died as a result. The British feared that the French fleet could be taken over and used against them. The Vichy government operated in Algeria.
  • 1942 – November 8: as prelude to the invasion of Italy, the British and the Americans land at Arzew, and Oran capitulates on November 10.
  • 1946 – MC Oran football club formed.
  • 1947 – Camus' fictional novel The Plague published.[2]
  • 1948 - Population: 244,594.[4]
  • 1949 – OS attack post office.[5]

1950s–1990s

See also: Algerian War

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ Stanley 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Phillip C. Naylor (2006). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6480-1.
  3. ^ "France: Africa: Algeria". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 880–886 – via Internet Archive. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  5. ^ a b "Algeria". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. p. 1. ISBN 0203409957.
  6. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Marc Schade-Poulsen (1999). Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77740-8.
  9. ^ "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0.
  10. ^ "Algeria Inaugurates New Renault Plant in Oran", New York Times, 10 November 2014

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.

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