5500 (BC): - Karelia, our Neolithic ancestors already using asbestos fibers, when added to a mixture of clay and silt, to make pottery used for cooking;
1st century - Pliny the Elder mentions the dangers of asbestos among Roman slaves;
9th century - Charlemagne plot his guests by throwing the sheets of asbestos fire to clean them;
13th century: - Marco Polo reported the same scene in the narrative of his trip to eastern Siberia;
1826: - the Chevalier Aldini, Colonel Fire of Rome, a professor at the University Bologna, imagine the use of asbestos in the manufacture of a garment to facilitate the attack of fires;
1829: - English chemist and physicist Faraday, during a demonstration at the Royal Institute of London warmly encouraged his Italian counterpart;
1862: - Canadian asbestos is presented at the International Exhibition in London;
1865: - Larousse Dictionary of asbestos as a gimmick: "We made fabric, wicks, lace, paper and cotton-combustible, but the objects thus obtained were never as curiosities;
1868: - Italy already extracted 200 tonnes of asbestos ;
1877: - exploitation of asbestos deposits in Quebec began after the discovery Fecteau;
1879: - John Bell presents applications of asbestos in the containment of the machines, which are quickly adopted by the British navy and German: the "magic mineral" becomes the "companion of industrial capitalism";
1883: - mining of asbestos began in the Cape Province - the newspaper "The Engineer" deals with asbestos and its applications, including insulation;
1884: - 100 tons of asbestos were delivered to the Canadian factory in Rochdale, England who gave birth to the company Turner and Newhall, one of four major corporations worldwide asbestos
1885: - deposits of the Urals are beginning to be exploited;
1899: - Dr. Henry Murray Mountain in London made the first observation of a death linked to asbestos: pulmonary fibrosis diagnoses a mysterious origin in a worker who worked for fourteen years in the studio of a carding spinning of asbestos
1900: - Austrian Ludwig Hatschek filed a patent on the manufacture of fiber cement products, which will be used mainly by Eternit and Saint-Gobain;
1906: - Ministry of Labour is created
- the Senate vote July 10 the principle of weekly rest - March 10, a gas blast at Courrières in the north, is 1,200 victims - Denis Auribault, labor inspector at Caen, writes a report on the mortality of workers in a textile mill of Conde-sur-Noireau, Calvados, using asbestos. The note published in the Bulletin of Labour Inspection is classified by the administration and remains a dead letter;
1918: - U.S. insurance companies refuse to insure asbestos workers;
1922: - the company Eternit France was created by industrialist Georges Cuvelier;
1924: - Nellie Kershaw, coming as winder in 1917 the spinning of an asbestos factory, later taken over by Turner and Newhall, died by suffocation at 33 years of "pulmonary fibrosis caused by inhalation of mineral particles", ten years after the death of Nellie , Great Britain will enter asbestosis in the field of occupational diseases compensable
1927: - the vein of asbestos Canary, Cape Corse, discovered by the Swiss geologist Eggenberger, is put into operation by the industrialist George Cuvelier, founder of Eternit France;
1930: - asbestos is finally placed on the agenda of the international conference devoted to the health of minors from 1910, world production of asbestos has increased from 128,000 to 339,000 tons;
, 1931 - Britain enacts first regulations limiting dust in factories, two Britons, Klemperer and Rabin, discover or mesothelioma cancer pleura;
1943: - Turner and the Newhall and eight other industrial asbestos entrust a first experimental study on the pathology of asbestos in a U.S. lab: 80% of mice tested developed lung cancer within three years . The results of this study will be kept secret;
1945 - August 2, the order creates Table No. 25 of occupational diseases recognized pulmonary fibrosis resulting from inhalation of dust containing silica or asbestos, the journal Archives of Occupational Diseases "already reported two cases of cancer related to asbestosis;
1946: - the United States enact legislation limiting the dust in factories;
1950 - Decree of August 31, creates the table No. 30 which recognizes asbestosis as an occupational disease;
1954 - John Knox, the occupational physician Factory Newhall Turner and Leeds, says epidemiologist Richard Doll in a study of the ravages of the 'magic mineral "
1955: - Despite pressure from the industrial, the epidemiological study by Richard Doll published in the British Journal of Industrial Medicine, proving the link between asbestos and lung cancer;
1956: - a letter between responsible for the Turner and Newhall and society "Asbestos and Its Applications" (Ferodo) discusses the dangers to people living near the plants, when choosing a French site fiber processing;
1960: - l study of Dr. Wagner confirmed that asbestos is the cause of mesothelioma affecting miners in South Africa and reveals that cancer of the pleura also affects riparian plants, she counted 33 cases of mesothelioma in the population of asbestos miners in Cape Province;
1962: - in reply to the Presidency of the Republic, Raymond Barre, Director of Cabinet of Minister Industry, advocates for the cause of industrial pollution problems arising from the activities of the mining company's asbestos Canari, Corsica;
1964: - International Conference on the risks of asbestos meets in New York under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences, and the proceedings of this conference are available at the library since 1965 Faculty of Medicine of Paris;
- the pulmonologist Irving Selikoff, director of the division of experimental medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, publishes the first major epidemiological study at the request of the union workers of insulation;
- South African JG Thomson found asbestos bodies in the lungs of a person in four autopsied in the province of Captown - Dr. Muriel L. Newhouse, the department of occupational medicine UK, reported 76 cases of mesothelioma, 31 asbestos workers, 11 cases living near factories, 9 women and children of workers;
1965: - the first pleural mesothelioma diagnosed by the French Jean Turiaf is described in the bulletin of the Academy of Medicine;
1968: - Two British researchers, Morris Greenberg and TA Lloyd Davis, studying the cases in the registry of mesothelioma and English dénombrent 38 cases without exposure to asbestos, but who lived in the vicinity of processing sites (neighbors, women and children of workers in asbestos contaminated by contact with such work clothes);
1971: - industry Anglo-Saxon and European asbestos gather in London to build a strategy that will allow them to continue to use the ore
- French Study Committee on Biological Effects of Asbestos (COFREBA), the leading lobby of "white gold", is created;
1973: - the first trial held in the U.S. America;
1974: - four trusts control 50% of production and 25% of the transformation of asbestos in the West: John-Manville (United States), Turner and Newhall (Great Britain), Cape Ltd ( Great Britain), Eternit (Belgium);
1975: - Researchers Campus Jussieu discover that their local university are to a large extent insulated with asbestos and reveal the location of processing plants And the inter-union collective security is established universities Jussieu (CFDT, CGT, FEN);
1976: - Table No. 30 of occupational diseases is modified and takes into account lung cancer and mesothelioma;
1977: - Professor Jean Bignon letter to the prime minister, Raymond Barre, a letter revealing the extent of the carnage waiting for: the trade association of asbestos and asbestos-union cement accused him in a white paper to try to close the doors of the asbestos industry, construction, mechanics, automotive and shipbuilding;
- Order of June 29 banned the spraying in buildings Housing and the decree of August 17, reduces the concentration of asbestos to which employees may be exposed in the business (two fibers per cm3);
1978 - Decree of March 20 prohibits sprayed with more than 1% asbestos in all buildings;
- according to a European resolution, "asbestos is a carcinogen and all the varieties used in the common market are harmful to human health";
1980: - the Chambre Syndicale de Asbestos is the French association of asbestos
- the actor Steve McQueen died of mesothelioma at the age 50;
1982: - the U.S. company Johns-Manville, the largest global company in the asbestos industry, invoking Article 11 of the Bankruptcy Act to protect hundreds of thousands of lawsuits that are filed;
- an agreement on the testing of sprayed asbestos in schools increased between BGRM and the Department of Education;
- asbestos the Standing Committee (PAC) was created in France, this lobby is put up at the initiative of the Director General of INRS also industry, it brings together scientists, officials from relevant ministries, representatives of public agencies such as the INC, the INRS and unions;
- a "World Symposium on Asbestos" meets in Montreal
1986: - Chase Manhattan Bank suing company Turner and Newhall in him claiming compensation of $ 185 million for the spraying of asbestos on its premises;
- the board of the INRS proposes to grant a subsidy to the ACC in the prospect of another conference in Montreal: the delegate of FOR, whose organization does not participate in the ACC, otherwise;
1989: - Marcel Valtat, Secretary General of the CPA, sends a letter to Prime Minister Michel Rocard, and seven ministers, under the heading "controlled use of asbestos: utopia or reality? "
1991: - Social Security only compensate 492 victims of asbestos, including 56 cases of mesothelioma: occupational cancer in 10 000 annually, less than 2% are compensated;
- Inserm lists 902 cases of mesothelioma against 300 in 1968 - in Britain, 183 workers of asbestos processing plants have died since 1971 and 10 985 other deaths due to asbestos during the same period;
1994: - the French association Asbestos pays 700 000 F EUROPAX firm;
- anti-asbestos committee Jussieu organizes a conference in March at the University of Paris VII, in the presence of foreign experts, including Julian Peto;
- Jean Bignon and Patrick Brochard a study published in November on the campus of Jussieu, the CPA organized a press conference;
- the widows of several teachers of vocational school Gerardmer, died of cancer, filed a complaint
- French experts will meet in December, Ministry of Labour and confirm the dangers of asbestos
1995: - The Lancet published the study in March epidemiologist Julian Peto who reveals that the number of mesothelioma is very high in the UK and also that they have spread far beyond the few employees of processing plants of asbestos, especially among construction workers;
- survey of "Science and the Future" was published in May;
- the ACC continues to meet in September;
- the report of Special Envoy, "Fatal asbestos" is released;
1996: - National Association of Victims of asbestos (ANDEVA) was founded in February, the Order of February 7 requires building owners to make a diagnosis on the presence asbestos;
- five patients, members of ANDEVA, are doing civil party and file a complaint against X, June 25;
- report from Inserm, "Health Effects of the main types of exposure to asbestos, "is released on July 2 during a press conference;
- Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Jacques Barrot, announced July 3 banning" the manufacture, import and the sale of products containing asbestos, from 1 January 1997;
- President Jacques Chirac announced in his televised speech of July 14, that "there will be more students Jussieu to the end of the year ";
- The Paris prosecutor opened on September 6 a judicial investigation against X for" intentional injuries "following a complaint filed by an electrician who suffers from a malignant mesothelioma of the pleura : instruction leads to a dismissal;
- asbestos is banned by a decree of 26 December: its use is banned in France from 1 January 1997, after Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland, France is the eighth country to totally ban asbestos
1997: - for the first time a company, society Eternit is convicted of gross negligence, following a complaint from an employee of the plant at Vitry-en-Charollais;
1998: - Canada filed a complaint against France before the WTO for banning the asbestos; 19 December, France is setting up retirement at age 50 for workers exposed at least 30 years in businesses where asbestos was used;
- Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS) is created;
1999: - EU bans asbestos
2000: - Marseille administrative court recognizes the fault of the state, the WTO ruled in France;
2001: - Compensation Fund Victims of asbestos (FIVA) is created and the first trial against the American subsidiary of Saint-Gobain (Certain Teed) engage the United States;
2002 - in several judgments of 28 February the Court of Cassation recognized the gross negligence of the employer in cases of occupational disease: the employer has become an obligation of result on prevention in the case of risks it poses to his employees;
2004: - the Council of State confirms the responsibility of the state in the case of asbestos
2005: - the prohibition of asbestos at the community level becomes effective on 1 January;
- the Senate creates an information mission on common stock and the impact of asbestos contamination.
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