Timeline of parkour

This is the timeline of parkour.

Timeline

*27 April 1875 - Georges Hébert born in Paris.
*3 October 1939 - Raymond Belle is born in Vietnam (known as French Indochina).cite web |url=http://parkour.net/modules/articles/item.php?itemid=3 |title=Raymond's Belle biography |date=2006-02-17 |work=Original French biography sourced from 'Allo Dix-Huit', the magazine of the Parisian pompiers. |publisher=Parkour.NET |accessdate=2007-09-29 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060217200929/parkour.net/modules/articles/item.php?itemid=3 |archivedate=2006-02-17]
*2 August 1957 - Georges Hébert dies in Tourgéville.
*1958 - at age 19, Raymond completes his military training.
*29 April 1973 - David Belle is born in Fecamp, France.cite web |url=http://parkour.net/modules/articles/item.php?itemid=2 |title=David Belle's biography |date=2005-12-16 |format=website |work=French biography referenced to www.david-belle.com |publisher=Jerome Lebret |accessdate=2007-04-12 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20051222022400/parkour.net/modules/articles/item.php?itemid=2 |archivedate=2005-12-16]
*1987 - David moves to Lisses. (*3C)vn|date=October 2007
*1987 - David and Sébastien Foucan meet (*1A)
*1993 - David joins the military firefighters brigade (*3C)
*1995-1997 - "L'art du déplacement" starts its development, founded by Yann Hnautra, David Bell and David Malgogne (who soon after stopped practising) (*1A)
*31 May 1997 - Yamakasi association created by Belle, Hnautra, CHau Belle Dinh and Laurnt Piemontesi (*1A)
*May 1997 - David Belle shows his first footage to the media (*2B)
*17 February 1998 - Yamakasi association dissolved (*1A)
*11 April 1998 - Yamakasi association created again (*1A)
*1998 - David Belle and Hubert Koundé come up with the term "parkour", ownership of the term is equally shared by David and Sébastien Foucan. (*4D)vn|date=October 2007
*31 May 2000 - Foucan creates another association, without Belle. (*1A)
*2001: " Yamakasi - Les samouraes des temps modernes movie" is produced with the Yamakasi group.
*April 2002 - "Rush Hour" spot on BBC starring David starts to appear on TV.
*September 2003 - Sébastien Foucan features in the Jump London documentary on UK television Channel 4 and later continues to be shown around the world on Discovery Channel.
*2004 - Belle and Raffaelli star in the District 13 movie, with lots of parkour scenes.
*2005 - PAWA is created by David Belle, to "show, transmit and develop parkour all over the world". This ends in 2006
*2006 - Sébastien Foucan appears in Casino Royale.
*2006 - Parkour Generations, the largest gathering of first and second generation traceurs and including the original Yamakasi members and Lisses traceurs Stephane Vigroux, Johann Vigroux, Kazuma and Seb Goudot, is formed in the UK and France.

References

*1A: http://tracer2000.free.fr/us/indexus.html
*2B: http://www.parkour.net
*3C: http://kyzr.free.fr/davidbelle/
*4D: [http://parkour.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=62408 PAWA Statement on Freerunning]