title: Timeline of Roubaix
text: # Timeline of Roubaix
  
  The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Roubaix, France.
  
  ## Prior to 20th century
  
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  Ancient Prehistory   Greek colonies 600 BC – 49 BC Celtic Gaul   until 50 BC Roman Gaul 50 BC – 486 AD :
  
  Middle Ages Francia and the Franks   Merovingians 481–751 Carolingians 751–987 Direct Capetians 987–1328 Valois 1328–1498 :
  
  Early modernAncien Régime
  
  Valois-Orléans kings 1498–1515 Valois-Angoulême kings 1515–1589 Bourbon kings 1589–1792 :
  
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  * 1469 – Factory franchise granted by Charles the Bold.
  * 1790 – Roubaix becomes part of the Nord souveraineté.
  * 1793 – Population: 9,120.
  * 1843 – Motte-Bossut [fr] textile mill built near the Canal de Roubaix.
  * 1846 - Population: 31,039.
  * 1848 - Saint Martin Church, Roubaix [fr] remodelled.
  * 1866 – Population: 65,091.
  * 1867 – Canton de Roubaix-Est [fr] and Canton de Roubaix-Ouest [fr] created.
  * 1868 – Société d'émulation de Roubaix founded.
  * 1872 – Chamber of Commerce established.
  * 1876 - Population: 83,000.
  * 1878 – Saint Joseph Church, Roubaix [fr] and Hôtel Prouvost (mansion) built.
  * 1880 – Hôtel Auguste-Lepoutre (mansion) built.
  * 1883 - National school of industrial arts founded.
  * 1886 – Population: 100,299.
  * 1888 – Gare de Roubaix (rail station) built.
  * 1889 – École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (school) established.
  * 1891 – Chambre syndicale métallurgique de Roubaix established.
  * 1892 – Canton de Roubaix-Nord [fr] created.
  * 1894 – Compagnie des tramways de Roubaix et de Tourcoing [fr] established.
  * 1895 – RC Roubaix football club formed.
  * 1896
     * Paris–Roubaix bicycle race begins.
     * Population: 124,661.
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * 1906 - Population: 110,055.
  * 1909 – Line R, Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing tramway [fr] begins operating.
  * 1911
     * Roubaix City Hall [fr] built.
     * Population: 122,723.
  * 1920 – GBM [fr] brewery in business.
  * 1928 – Excelsior AC Roubaix football club formed.
  * 1967 – Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine established.
  * 1968 – Population: 114,547.
  * 1969 – 1969 Tour de France cycling race departs from Roubaix.
  * 1982
     * Motte-Bossut factory [fr] closes.
     * Canton de Roubaix-Centre [fr] created.
  * 1983
     * Ballet du Nord [fr] founded.
     * André Diligent [fr] becomes mayor.
  * 1993
     * Cave aux Poètes [fr] performance space opens.
     * Camaïeu (company) headquartered in Roubaix.
  * 1994 – René Vandierendonck [fr] becomes mayor.
  * 1996
     * March: Police raid house of criminal Gang de Roubaix.
     * Part of city designated an "urban tax-free zone."
  * 1999
     * Alsace (Lille Metro) [fr], Gare – Jean-Lebas (Lille Metro) [fr], Roubaix-Charles de Gaulle (Lille Metro) [fr], and Roubaix-Grand Place (Lille Metro) [fr] stations open.
     * Kimberly-Clark factory built.
     * Population: 96,984.
  * 2000 – La Piscine Museum opens.
  
  ## 21st century
  
  * 2001 – "Politique de la ville" housing program implemented.
  * 2008 – Bibliothèque numérique de Roubaix [fr] website published.
  * 2011 – Population: 94,186.
  * 2012
     * Bilal Mosque built.
     * Pierre Dubois (politician) [fr] becomes mayor.
  * 2014
     * March: Nord municipal election, 2014 [fr] held.
     * Abou Bakr Mosque opens.
     * Guillaume Delbar becomes mayor.
  * 2015
     * 24 November: 2015 Roubaix shootings occur.
     * December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held.
  * 2016 – Roubaix becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region.
  