page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 1900–1913 – La Belle Époque
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 20th century / 1900–1913 – La Belle Époque
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1900
  13 February – Whistles are issued to Paris traffic policemen.
  24 February – The first newsreel films, of the Boer War, are shown at the Olympia Theater.
  14 April – The opening of the Exposition Universelle (1900), including the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, and the Pont Alexandre III. Before it closes on 12 November, the Exposition attracts more than fifty million visitors.
  13 May – Right wing candidates win the municipal elections, after twenty years of domination by the left.
  14 May – The opening of the 1900 Summer Olympics, held for the second time in Paris.
  19 July – The opening of the first line of the Paris Métro between Porte de Versailles and Porte Maillot.
  15 September – automatic ticket gates for the metro are replaced by ticket agents, because of the high number of people jumping the gates.
  4 December – Law passed permitting women to practice law.
  1901 
  Population: 2,715,000
  The Pathé opens film production studio in Vincennes.
  April 1 – The opening of the new Gare de Lyon train station, including the restaurant Le Train bleu.
  1 July – The opening of the first electric train line in Europe between Les Invalides and Versailles.
  28 September – First European lawn tennis championship held in Paris.
  1902
  26 January – First Gitanes cigarettes go on sale.
  16 October – First use of fingerprints by Paris police to identify a murderer.
  Premiere of Méliès' film A Trip to the Moon.
  Premiere of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande.
  1903
  1 July – Start of the first Tour de France, ending 19 July, with a parade of the winners at the Parc des Princes.
  10 August – first serious metro accident at Couronnes station – eighty-four persons killed.
  4 September – Opening of the high-fashion house of Paul Poiret.
  First Vélodrome d'hiver cycling stadium opens in the former Galerie des Machines of the 1900 Paris Exposition.
  Premiere of Mirbeau's play Business is Business. 
  1904
  6 February – Opening of the Alhambra music hall on rue de Malte.
  18 April – The socialist (later Communist) newspaper L'Humanité newspaper begins publication.
  8 May – Socialists and radicals win the Paris municipal elections.
  23 November – Consecration of the first Paris church built of concrete, Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste de Montmartre.
  20 December – first automobile taxis go into service.
  1905
  After viewing the boldly colored canvases of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy at the Salon d'automne of 1905, the critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "fauves" (wild beasts), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.
  Gaumont Film Company studio opens at Buttes-Chaumont.
  First underground public toilets open at place de la Madeleine.
  1906 
  Population: 2,722,731.
  22 March – First England-France Rugby match played at Parc des Princes.
  11 June – first motorized bus line begins service between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Horse-drawn omnibuses continued to run until January 1913.
  23 October – First airplane flight in Paris by Santos Dumont, flying sixty meters at an altitude of three meters at the Parc de Bagatelle.
  1907
  22 February – First woman receives a license to drive a taxi in Paris.
  25 March – first traffic roundabout created in Paris at Place de l'Étoile.
  Summer. Pablo Picasso, living in the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a major turning point in modern art.
  Kahnweiler art gallery opens.
  An exhibition at the Galerie Notre-Dame-des-Champs includes Jean Metzinger, Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Herbin, Jules Pascin and Pablo Picasso.
  1909
  1 March – First escalator installed in a Paris metro station.
  29 May – opening of Luna Park amusement park at Porte Maillot.
  2 June – Paris premiere of the ballet Les Sylphides by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, with Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova in the leading roles.
  13 December – Creation of first one-way streets in Paris on rue de Mogador and rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin.
  1910 
  January 21–28 – G
caption: The Exposition Universelle (1900)
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