This article presents the chronology of Nice .

Prehistory

• -420 000 to -380 000: Wandering hunters are established on a sheltered beach, exposed to the south by Homo erectus on the site of Terra Amata (Insane Earth or the Earth Aimee). The sea level was then with + 26 meters compared to that of today, and the river Paillon emerged there by an estuary.
• -200 000 : Human occupation of the caves of Lazaret.

In the Antiquity

thumb|left|200px|Vestiges of the Roman thermal baths of Cimiez.

• -540 : the Phocéens Greeks are established on what is today the French part of the Mediterranean coast and found, in -600, Massilia (future Marseilles) then, continuing their progression, establish other counters. According to the Nikaia tradition would have been founded into -540 on the place of the military victory of Massalètes on the Ligurians, up to that point only inhabitants of these areas (Nikaia meaning, in Greek, " that by which arrived the victoire"). It seems to be a question of a surinterpretation of the sources. Toponym Nice/Nis/NIC… is enough répendu between Italy and Spain and does not seem to have any bond with the Greek goddess Nike. Moreover no ancient source gives a report on a battle between Greek and Ligurian at the origin of the foundation of Nikaia. According to the most recent research, the foundation of Nikaia would not be former to IVe S. even in IIIe front S.J. - C.
• -13: the Romans carry, in their turn, their colonizing effort and create the administrative district of the Alps Martimes. The province of the the Alpes-Maritimes will be in fact creates only in the middle of Ier S. ap; J. - C. under the emperor Claude. Cemenelum, capital of the province does not seem former in the middle of Ier S. a. J. - C. It is located on the hill which will become the district of Cimiez, probably beside the city of Védiantes, indigenous porpulation which always seems to have collaborated with the Romans. The " city; grecque" of Nikaia continues to live and control the littoral. As in all the Roman cities, one finds in Cimiez of the thermal baths and the Arènes.
• 314 : The Christian community of Nice is well established. It is necessary to note the presence of two évéchés with Ve S., one has Nice, the other in Cimiez.

With the the Middle Ages

• 573 : The Saxon ones invade the littoral of Nice.
• 618 : Leprosy is spread in the city.
• 729 : The city is shaven on the ground by Buckwheats.
• 732 : Nice sends men-at-arms to fight at the sides of Charles Martel in Poitiers to avenge the destruction for 729 (perhaps legendary).
• 813 : The town of Nice is devastated by the sea. The cruel invasions and sarrasines destroy Cimiez.
• 891 : The Sarrasins again approach Nice, before being caught some with the Piedmont then with the the Alps.
• 1032 : The Royaume of Burgundy is attached to the Germanic Empire.
• 1044 : Appearance of the “Commune” of Nice.
• 1176 : One establishes the first Charte of the city
• 1229: Tender of the commune of Nice by the count of Provence Raimon-Berenger IV.
• 1246 : Installation of the house of Anjou on the throne comtal of Provence.
• 1250 : A maritime Arsenal is opened in Nice by the county of Provence with an aim of competing with Genoa.
• 1250 : Construction of the holy bridge Antoine, only work of art allowing the crossing of the Spangle of XIIIe the XIXe century.
• 1295 : Creation of the town of Villefranche, close to Nice, with a station of galère S to fight against the pirates.
• 1306 : March 20th is founded the Brotherhood of the Penitent White, also called Societas Gonfalonis or Societas Sanctae Crucis (which always exists under the name " of Archiconfrérie of the Holyone;).
• 1381 : Beginning of the Civil war in Provence.
• 1385 : Charles of Anjou and its cousin, Charles de Durazzo, prince of Naples, take advantage of their rights on the Provence, with died of the queen Jeanne (1382), queen of Sicily and countess of Provence, which had successively adopted them.
• 1388 : The red count, Amédée VII of the Savoy, benefits from the war of succession which divides the country into two camps to settle in Provence, with the favor of an operation of Jean Grimaldi de Bueil, Sénéchal of Provence. Ruined by the war, the inhabitants of Nice and the country niçois join in Jean Grimaldi and accept fastening with the Maison of Savoy. It will be the treaty of the Abbaye of Saint-Pons, known like the Dédition of Nice in Savoy .

Birth of the County of Nice and appearance of the flag niçois to be different from Provençaux. Eastern Provence - left bank of the VAr - is constituted thus in Nouvelle Ground of Provence of the States of Savoy.

Under the Old Mode

• 1524 : François Ier and its allies Turkish undertakes operations against the Comté of Nice, which belongs to the Maison of Savoy, allied of Charles-Quint.
• 1525 : François Ier embarks as prisoner for the Spain in Villefranche close to Nice.
• 1526 : The new Grounds of Provence take the administrative denomination of Comté of Nice.
• 1536 : Its Savoyard grounds entirely invaded by the King of France, the town of Nice is useful, thanks to its powerful citadel, of last refuge to the Duke of Savoy.
• 1536 : Charles-Quint passes the Col of Tightens in the back-country niçois, crosses the VAr with 90  000 men and devastation Provence.
• 1538 : The pope Paul III makes sign a truce in Nice between François Ier de France, installed with the castle of Villeneuve, and Charles-Quint who is held in a galère in the roads of Villefranche.
• 1543 At the end of June: 20.000 men unload. Beginning of the Head office of Nice by François Ier and his allies Turkish. The French troops of the duke of Enghien and the fleet of Barberousse, bey of Tunis, give an attack on August 2nd then on August 15th. The city is taken on August 22nd, but the citadel holds good. The castle resists until the arrival of the troops of Charles-Quint and Charles III of Savoy. Besieging, demolished, raise the seat on September 8th. From this warlike episode vis-a-vis the free-Turkish troops, was born large heroin niçoise: Catherine Ségurane (or Catarina Segurana in Niçois). This lavender field, mobilized like all the population to push back the attackers, struck with his beater to linen a Turkish carry-standard and its flag tore off to him. The oral tradition reports that it would have then rolled up its skirts to reveal a fleshy part of its anatomy, this provocative gesture putting in escape besieging them Turkish. Catherine Ségurane is the emblem of the city today.
• 1563 : Emmanuel-Philibert, Duke of Savoy, become, by heritage, King of Piedmont and transfer his capital from Chambéry in Turin.
• 1600 : The French troops again attack Nice, Henri IV making put the seat in front of the city.
• 1601 : With the peace of Lyon, Nice remains in Savoy.
• 1614 - 1616: The duke of Savoy Charles-Emmanuel Ier creates the Sénat of Nice and a port-franc with Villefranche on sea.

thumb|left|300px|Fortifications west coast of [[castle of Nice]] in 1625.

• 1629: Birth street of the Collet in Nice of Pierre Gioffredo.
• 1631 : The Black Death appears in May   ; the city fails for seven months.
• 1642 : The Spanish are driven out of Nice.
• 1691 : The French are, once again, in front of the city. Starting from March 12th, 20.000 men install the seat of the city. This time, Nice capitulates (on April 5th). Louis XIV seizes the niçois worldwide and takes the title of “Count de Nice”.
• 1693 : Vauban inspects the area of Nice to prepare the restoration of the fortifications.
• 1695 : The duke of Savoy recovers the county of Nice by the marriage of his daughter with the grandson of Louis XIV.
• 1704 : The troops of Catinat destroy the castle on order of Louis XIV, end of Nice like fortified town.
• 1705 - 1706: Third seat by the French. Catch and destruction of the Castle and the walls. Beginning of the second great urban extension.

• 1709 : The olive-trees freeze in the area of Nice.
• 1720 : Victor-Amédée II, duke of Savoy, become also king de Sardaigne.
• 1731 : Birth in Nice of the physicist and British chemist Henry Cavendish, † 1810.
• 1744 - 1748: French occupation. The Franco-Spanish armies cross the Var and seize the county of Nice. The English, combined of king Charles-Emmanuel III, discover Nice.
• 1749 : Digging of the Lympia port, current port of Nice.
• 1758 : Birth of Andre Masséna, Marshal of France. † Paris, 1817.
• 1760 - 1770: Beginning of tourism of winter thanks to the English.
• 1782 : Beginning of work of the Victor place.

With the modern Time

• 1792 : Invasion of the country niçois by the French revolutionary troops. The first fastening in France (which will last until in 1814). In reaction to the exactions made by the French troops the Barbétisme appears.
• 1793 : The county of Nice is attached to France after vote of the population and becomes the 85e department under the name of the Alpes-Maritimes.
• 1794 : Bonaparte, general of artillery of the army which fights against the Sardinians and the Austrians in the county of Nice, lives with the n° 6 in the street which bears its name today.
• 1796 : New stay of Bonaparte to take the command as a chief of the army of Italy. It is of Nice that he writes in Joséphine this famous letter: “My adorable, I suffer to move away me with the speed of the Rhone… my feelings are as volcanic as the thunder… I would like to chop my heart with my teeth…”
• 1800: The Autrichiens occupy the area of Nice.
• 1804 : Nice accepts the Empire by 3488 votes against 2. Vote show
• 1807: Birth in Nice of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of the Two-Worlds. † Caprera, 1882.

• 1814 : The first treated of Paris returns the county of Nice to the Maison of Savoy. The borders of 1760 between the county of Nice and France are restored.

• 1820 : Construction of the Walk of the English.
• 1826 : First visit of the king Charles-Felix.
• 1830 : Peg ladder writes the most famous song of the traditional literature niçoise, Nemaida
• 1832: Creation of the Consiglio d' Ornato.
• 1848 : The king Charles-Albert grants a parliamentary constitution, the `' Statuto''.
• 1853 : The Sardinian government withdraws in Nice the statute of port-franc. The loss of this secular privilege gives birth to in the County a certain rancour against to be able it inhabitant of Turin and reinforces the party, up to that point minority, favorable to a fastening in France.
• 1859 : Under the terms of the alliance of 1859 between France and it (House of Savoy), Napoleon III assistance Piedmont-Sardinia to drive out the Austrians of the provinces of the North of the Italy in order to allow the boot to carry out its unit. The agreement envisages, in exchange, to give Nice and Savoy to the French who covet them since so a long time. However, the peace of Villafranca, signed prematurely by the Emperor, leaves Venezia to the Austria and thus achieves only imperfectly the goals of the alliance  ; the transfer of Nice and Savoy is compromised, more especially as this double fastening meets the hostility of the the United Kingdom.
• 1860 : Second annexation of Nice by France: After a referendum (to which it was impossible to vote “Not” unless being beforehand registered in prefecture), the County of Nice (except the villages of Tende and Aspires to It) becomes French. It is assistant for him the district of Grasse detached of the department of the VAr in order to form the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes (3 districts: Nice, Fatty and Puget-Théniers). Nice then loses its University (which it will find only more than one century later) and its Court of Appeal (of which it is, surprisingly, always deprived today).
• 1864 : Arrival of the Railroad.
• 1871 : On the 4 deputies of the department of the Alpes-Maritimes elected with the National Assembly following the first legislative elections organized after the fall of the Empire, 3 are separatist, of which among them Garibaldi, extremely popular in Nice. The election of this last, however, is invalidated because precisely of its independence designs (decision at the origin of the resignation of another deputy, Victor Hugo).
• 1882 : The French architect Charles Garnier builds the Observatoire of Nice, with the assistance of Gustave Eiffel.
• 1887 : Earthquake in Nice and in its area.
• 1928 : Birth in Nice of the French painter Yves Klein, † 1962.
• 1932 : Death in Nice of the poster artist and French lithographer Jules Chéret.
• 1932 : Birth in Nice of the type-setter Lay Francis, which always has a house on the heights of Nice
• 1940: Birth in Nice of the writer Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio.
• 1942 - 1943: Italian occupation by the regiment " Nizza Cavalleria".
• 1943 - 1944: German occupation, very brutal, Niçois know the hunger.
• 1944 : bombardment of May 26th, the city is released the August 28th, 1944 by the only force of its resistant.
• 1947 : Meeting in France of the area of Tends and of Brigue by the treaty of February 10th, 1947.
• 1948 : First jazz festival in Nice; who is a first in the world. The large high-speed motorboat is then Louis Armstrong.

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