Timeline of parkour
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This is the timeline of parkour.
[edit] Timeline
27 April 1875 - Georges Hébert born in Paris. 3 October 1939 - Raymond Belle is born in Vietnam (known as French Indochina).[1] 2 August 1957 - Georges Hébert dies in Tourgéville. 1958 - at age 19, Raymond completes his military training.[1] 29 April 1973 - David Belle is born in Fecamp, France.[2] 1987 - David moves to Lisses. (*3C)[verification needed] 1987 - David and Sébastien Foucan meet (*1A) 1993 - David joins the military firefighters brigade (*3C) 1995-1997 - L'art du déplacement starts development (*1A) 31 May 1997 - Yamakasi association created (by Foucan) (*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 (by the "Notre dame de paris" acrobats) (*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)[verification needed] 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". 2006 - Sébastien Foucan appears in Casino Royale. 2007 - Cyril Raffaelli appears in Live Free or Die Hard
[edit] References
^ a b "Raymond's Belle biography". Original French biography sourced from 'Allo Dix-Huit', the magazine of the Parisian pompiers.. Parkour.NET (2006-02-17). Archived from the original on 2006-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-09-29. ^ "David Belle's biography" (website). French biography referenced to www.david-belle.com. Jerome Lebret (2005-12-16). Archived from the original on 2005-12-16. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
