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These tables give an idea of estimated population at various dates from the earliest times to ... Paris: 8,000 30,000 20,000 – 30,000 ... 1914 1925 1936 1950 1975 ...
On June 28, 1914, the news reached Paris of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Serbian nationalists in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28, and following the terms of their alliances, the German Empire joined Austria-Hungary, while Russia , Great Britain and France went to war against Austria ...
The first roller-coaster in Paris (1817). 1817 – Population: 714,000 [99] 1 June – Opening of the Marché Saint-Germain. 8 July – Opening of the first promenades aériennes, or roller coaster, in the jardin Beaujon. 1818 – New statue of Henry IV placed on the Pont Neuf, to replace the original statue destroyed during the Revolution. [106]
Paris population pyramid in 2022. According to Eurostat, the EU statistical agency, in 2012 the Commune of Paris was the most densely populated city in the European Union, with 21,616 people per square kilometre within the city limits (the NUTS-3 statistical area), ahead of Inner London West, which had 10,374 persons per square kilometre.
English: France population pyramid in 1914 Note: Data relates to Metropolitan France and does not include Overseas France. Date: 28 May 2023: Source:
The population of Paris was 1,851,792 in 1872, at the beginning the Belle Époque. By 1911, it reached 2,888,107, higher than the population today. Near the end of the Second Empire and the beginning of the Belle Époque, between 1866 and 1872, the population of Paris grew only 1.5%. Then the population surged by 14.09% between 1876 and 1881 ...
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [6]
A recreated map of Paris in 1380. In the middle of the 14th century, Paris was struck by two great catastrophes: the Bubonic plague and the Hundred Years' War. In the first epidemic of the plague in 1348–1349, forty to fifty thousand Parisians died, a quarter of the population. The plague returned in 1360–1361, 1363, and 1366–1368.