amed by Emperor Napoleon III, meet on December 5, 1858 with the prefecture, with Jules de Pre de Saint-Maur as chairman.
1866 July 25, Creation of the oran diocesis.
1880, Beginning of the construction of the Large synagogue of Oran. Oran builds a great extension starting from the place d'Armes. The ravine of l'Oued Rouina is filled.
1881, Appearance of the first horse drawn trams.
1886, Inauguration of Hotel de Ville, the City Hall.
1899, First electric trams.
1900, the city has 90,000 inhabitants.
1907, Construction of the theatre.
1909 December 14, the first flight in Oran is carried out by Julien Serviès on a Sommer monoplane at Sénia,. Next 9 January, a great meeting gathers forty thousand people, also in Sénia, in the presence of Marshal Lyautey.
1913, Opening to the worship of the Cathedral Sacré Coeur.
The Great Synagogue of Oran was confiscated and turned into a mosque, after Jewish Algerians were expelled in 1962.
1918, Dedication of the Great Synagogue of Oran
1930, Creation of new districts, less dense and more luxurious, completing the urbanisation of the first crown, in its part directed towards the interior of the country; these districts are higher Gambetta, Bon Reception, the Beavers, Médioni, Small Boulanger, Cité... This development continues overall with the creation of districts even more sumptuous, overflowing the first crown (district of Saint-Hubert, Palm trees, Point of the Day, Gambetta...)
1930–32, Sénia, the Oran aérodrome, is where several world records of duration and distance in closed loop are established.
1940, Beginning of the construction of
