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Historical Timeline for Réunion - A chronology of key events
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Réunion Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
-3 million years Emersion of the Piton des Neiges (end of activity: -12,000 years).
-500,000 years Collapse of the old massif of Reunion Island (the Piton des Neiges), formation of circuses. Around the same time, the Piton de la Fournaise was born.
12th century First written mention of the island in Arab stories.
1500 The Portuguese Diego Diaz drifts because of a storm at the Cape of Good Hope and discovers Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, but does not dock there.
1516 Another Portuguese, Dom Pédro de Mascarenhas, on approaching the archipelago formed by Reunion Island, Mauritius and Rodrigues, calls them Mascareignas or Mascareignes, but still does not land there.
1638-1640 France takes possession of the two islands under the name of Bourbon (Reunion) and Isle de France (Mauritius).
1646 First colonization by deported mutineers. They stay there for three years.
1663 Definitive occupation of Bourbon by the French.
1665 Etienne Regnault and 20 colonists land on Bourbon Island.
1715 Introduction of coffee cultivation by the Malouins.
1735 Mahé de La Bourdonnais becomes Governor General of the Islands until 1746.
1738 Saint-Denis becomes the capital of Bourbon. Beginning of the wars between the French and the English in India.
1767 Buyout of Île de France and Île Bourbon from the Compagnie des Indes. Effective retrocession of the islands on July 14.
1789 French Revolution.
1793 The Convention changes the name of "Bourbon" to that of "La Réunion". Troubles and disunity on the island.
1810 Conquest of Île Bourbon by the English (who took the name of Bonaparte). The English also take Mauritius, Rodrigues and the Seychelles.
1815 Île Bourbon is returned to France by the Treaty of Paris and takes the name of Réunion again. The English keep everything else.
1848 December 20: effective abolition of slavery.
1863 Sugar crisis. Production falls by half.
1914-1918 First World War.
1919 Spanish flu and cyclone.
1940 A government appointed by Vichy is put in place.
1942 A commando of Gaullists dislodges the illegitimate government.
1946 Departmentalization.
1959 Creation of the PCR (Reunion Communist Party) by Mr. Paul Vergès (split from the French Communist Party).
1975 The CFA franc is replaced by the French franc.
1991 Riots in the sensitive district of Chaudron: several deaths.
1996 The minimum wage is aligned with that of the metropolis.
2002 The French franc gives way to the euro. The RMI is aligned with that of the metropolis.
2005/2006 Chikungunya epidemic, which affects one in four Reunionese in a few months and causes 250 deaths.
2007 Cyclone Gamède, the most intense cyclone historically observed. December: Miss Réunion is elected Miss France 2008.
2009 Opening of the Tamarins route
2010 After 12 years at the head of the Réunion region, Paul Vergès (PCR) gives way to the UMP candidate, Didier Robert. At the end of the year, the island is classified as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, and just after gigantic fires erupt in its heart in the Hauts de l'Ouest.
2011-2012 New fires in the Western and Southern Highs cause even more widespread damage, as the Low faces an upsurge in shark attacks, killing 5 people. In May, the Reunionese vote 71% for François Hollande, almost the record for France.
2013 The first stone of the New Coastal Route site was laid on December 20 at La Possession.
2014 On January 2, Cyclone Bejisa hits the west coast of the island. The state of natural disaster is declared. Municipal: four municipalities switch to the right (Saint-Paul, Saint-André, Saint-Louis and Le Tampon). Reunion's historic communist strongholds, such as the Port and the Possession, are dethroned.
2015 Nassimah Dindar is re-elected president of the Departmental Council of La Réunion, for a fourth term.
2017 Cyrille Melchior takes over the presidency of the Departmental Council.
2018 Reunion is strongly impacted by meteorological phenomena. Cilaos remains isolated for several months, the forests of the East are very damaged, many hiking trails are closed.

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