History
- 1790 - Creation of the Seine-Inférieure department
- The department was created from part of the old province of Normandy during the French revolution, on 4 March 1790, through the application of a law of 22 December 1789.
- 1815 - Occupation
- After the victory at Waterloo of the coalition armies, the department was occupied by British troops from June 1815 till November 1818.
- 1843 – Railways and industry
- In Rouen, Elbeuf, and Bolbec, the number of textile factories is increasing. Metallurgy and naval construction as well.
- 1851 - A republican department
- Following the then president, Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 Coup d'état, Seine-Inférieure was one of several departments placed under a state of emergency (literally, in French, state of siege) following fears of significant resistance to the new government.
- World War II
- Occupied by the Wehrmacht, Seine-Maritime is the witness of two Allied military raids in 1942, the Bruneval raid and Dieppe raid.
- 2005 - Inhabitants renamed
- In response to a survey which used both letters and internet, the inhabitants of Seine-Maritime (as the department had been renamed in 1955) determined that they should be known in official documents as "Seinomarins" or "Seinomarines". according to gender
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