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21 unusual facts about Bayonne


6 February 1934 crisis

This new scandal, which involved Bayonne's Crédit municipal bank, exploded in December 1933.

Basque literature

Modern Basque publishing began with the establishment of Elkar in 1972, a small publishing company based in Bayonne in the French Basque country.

Catherine of Lancaster

A final treaty in regards to this proposal was ratified at Bayonne in Gascony on 8 July 1388.

Diane d'Andoins

Emancipated on 6 August 1567 (at the tender age of 13), she was married on Thursday 21 November 1568 to Philibert of Gramont, Seneschal of Béarn, Count of Gramont and of Guiche, Viscount of Aster and of Louvigny, Lord of Lescure, and Governor of Bayonne (1552–1580) who was, at the time only 15 himself.

Dos de Mayo Uprising

King Charles IV had been forced to abdicate in favour of his son Ferdinand VII, and at the time of the uprising both were in the French city of Bayonne at the insistence of Napoleon.

The spark that provoked the rebellion was the move by the French Marshal in command of Madrid, Joachim Murat, to send the daughter of Charles IV and the Infante Francisco de Paula to the French city of Bayonne.

Elmer Chambers

Dallas Elmer Chambers, also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897, Bayonne, New Jersey - ca. 1952, Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Ernest L. Ransome

His techniques were vindicated when his 1897 Pacific Coast Borax Refinery in Bayonne, NJ in 1902 went through a massive building fire hot enough to melt brass; the concrete frame was only slightly damaged and thereby concrete framed industrial architecture was shown to have a key superiority over competing steel and iron framed structures.

Fernando Ruiz de Castro

Fernando Ruiz de Castro (d. Bayonne, 1377), nicknamed toda la lealtad España ("all the loyalty of Spain"), was a Galician nobleman of the House of Castro and prominent military figure.

Fêtes de Bayonne

Some rare purists prefer to wear blue and white, colors of the city of Bayonne.

The fêtes de Bayonne is a feria consisting in a series of festivals in the Northern Basque Country in the town of Bayonne, France.

Francisco Gil de Taboada

They arrived in Bayonne, where Napoleon forced them to abdicate and claimed the Spanish crown, which he gave to his brother Joseph I of Naples.

Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

At Vitoria, his regiment was part of the force, under Sir Thomas Graham, that blocked the French retreat towards Bayonne.

Greenville, Jersey City

In its broadest definition Greenville encompasses the area south of the West Side Branch of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and north of the city line with Bayonne, between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay, and corresponds to the postal area zip code 07305.

New Jersey Transit buses to Journal Square, Exchange Place, and Bayonne, the Red & Tan buses 99s and 4.

Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps

The squad also supports and is supported by its neighbors through informal mutual aid agreements with neighboring Jersey City, Bayonne, Weehawken, and Union City.

Javier Bello-Portu

Other works were composed for another choir he founded in the French Basque Country, the Basque Country Choir of Bayonne.

Manuel Carrasco Formiguera

He then decided to leave again, as a representative of the Catalan Generalitat with the Government of Euskadi, with his family, and embarked at Bayonne on board the Galdames, set for Bilbao.

MS Clipper Ranger

On the 15 September 1999 she was chartered by International Atlantic Line for use on the Southampton - Bayonne route and renamed Lembitu once again.

O. C. Barber

He founded the Stirling Boiler Company which was merged with the Babcock and Wilcox Boiler Manufacturing Company of Barberton and Bayonne, New Jersey, the concern thus becoming the largest manufacturer of steel boilers in the world.

Sebastián Durón

In 1715 he returned permanently to Bayonne, France as chaplain to the exiled queen Mariana of Neuburg, the widow of Charles II, to whom he officiated in her scandalous remarriage to the son of a barrel-maker.


Aimé Michel

He proposed, for example, that there was a line known as “Bavic” (for “Bayonne - Vichy”) where, out of nine UFO observations cited in the press on September 24, 1954, six aligned (Bayonne, Lencouacq, Tulle, Ussel, Cold, Vichy).

Airbus Operations S.A.S.

Airbus Operations SAS, one of the four wholly owned subsidiaries of AIRBUS SAS (an EADS company) is a limited liability company (société par actions simplifiée) duly organised and existing under the laws of France, having its registered office at 316 route de Bayonne, 31060 Toulouse, France and represented by its General Manager Mr Patrick PIEDRAFITA.

Allan Benny

He died in Bayonne on November 6, 1942, and was interred in Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island.

Amendeuix-Oneix

Amendeuix-Oneix is located some 50 km east by south-east of Bayonne and 40 km south-west of Orthez in the Mixe country in the former Basque province of Lower Navarre.

Anthony Chiappone

Chiappone was then defeated in the Democratic Primary in June 2005 by the team of Louis Manzo and Jersey City Superintendent Charles T. Epps, Jr. After once again defeating "Team Doria" for the non-partisan 2006 Bayonne municipal election for the position of Councilman At-Large, Chiappone aligned himself with the wife of deceased Glenn Cunningham, Sandra Bolden Cunningham, to once again seek state legislative office in the 31st District.

Aquitanian language

This strong formal element can be traced at either side of the mountain range as far west as an imaginary line roughly stretching from Pamplona to Bayonne (compare Bardos/Bardoze, Ossès/Ortzaize, Briscous/Beskoitze), where it ceases to appear.

Augustin Dupré

However, the Assemblée nationale rejected his idea and retained 8 mints: Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Perpignan, Nantes, Lille, and Strasbourg.

Battle of Orthez

On the north side of the allied-occupied area, the French marshal kept a strong garrison in the fortress of Bayonne and held the line of the Adour River to Port-de-Lanne with three divisions.

Bayonne Bridge

In 1931, The American Institute of Steel Construction awarded the Bayonne Bridge the “Most Beautiful Steel Bridge” prize.

The bridge was featured in the 2005 science fiction film, War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise, appearing in the background several times in the scenes set in the lead character's Bayonne home, and is destroyed in an attack by aliens.

Breguet 482

Construction of the two prototypes was well progressed when Germany invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in late May it was decided to evacuate the near complete prototypes from Villacoublay near Paris, with the first prototype being sent to Bône in Algeria and the second to the Breguet factory at Anglet, near Bayonne in the far south-west of France.

Breguet Aviation

The Breguet electric car was produced not at the firm's principal plant at Toulouse but at a smaller plant at Anglet (between Biarritz and Bayonne).

Charles IX of France

Their tour spanned two years and brought them through Bar, Lyon, Salon-de-Provence (where they visited Nostradamus), Carcassonne, Toulouse (where the King and his younger brother Henry were confirmed), Bayonne, La Rochelle, and Moulins.

Comet line

In August 1941 Andrée de Jongh appeared in the British consulate in Bilbao with a British soldier (James Cromar from Aberdeen) and two Belgian volunteers (Merchiers and Sterckmans), having travelled by train from Paris to Bayonne and then on foot over the Pyrenees.

Curries Woods

While the original Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway tracks, New Jersey Route 185, New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension (I-78) create a physical boundary and de facto border with Bayonne the actual city cuts diagonally across the neighborhood along the route of the Morris Canal.

Gilbert Bayonne

In Spring 2012 Bayonne was invited into trials with Bidvest Wits F.C. of South African PSL.

Once there Bayonne came into his own, he was a 4-year starter and was named to All-East Coast Conference and NSCAA All-Region teams during his career.

Bayonne received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Bridgeport.

Gyula Szentessy

The main stations of his fifteen years of travels were the world-famous places of contemporary armoury: Vienna, Innsbruck, Alsace-Lorraine, Flandreau, Sheffield, Bayonne, Cordoba, Toledo, Algiers, Tunis, Damascus, and Istanbul.

Henry Meigs, Jr.

On May 16, 1857, an act of the New Jersey Legislature was approved that called for commissioners to be appointed to lay out streets and avenues for the future city of Bayonne.

James J. Donovan

Articles on James J. Donovan can be found in multiple newspapers, such as the Bayonne Times archives, The Jersey Journal, The New York Timeschicken The New York Herald Tribune, The Hudson Dispatch The Jersey Observer, Bayonne Facts, and The Creamington Daily record.

Latécoère 570

Construction began at Latécoère's Toulouse works from about April 1937, but during that year the Toulouse-Montaudran region was seriously disrupted by industrial action and it was decided to complete the aircraft at the Bayonne factory.

Nicholas Scibetta

He was the only son born to first generation emigrants, a Mr. Scibetta from Cammarata in the province of Agrigento, Sicily and an Italian-American woman Mrs. Zicarelli from Bayonne, New Jersey.

Opeti Fonua

Opeti Fonua (born 26 May 1986) is a Tongan rugby union player who plays number 8 for French Top 14 club Bayonne, having transferred from Agen after Agen were relegated.

Penarth RFC

Annually between 1910 and 1913 Penarth RFC toured France playing matches against teams from Tarbes, Bayonne pau Brive, Bordeaux and Le Havre.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne

Until 1566, the Diocese of Bayonne included much Spanish territory, i.e. the four Archpresbyteries of Baztan, Lerin, Bortziria in Navarre, and Hondarribia in Guipuzcoa, a remnant of Charlemagne's conquests beyond the Pyrenees.

Local tradition maintains that St. Leo, the martyr, with whose memory is associated a miraculous fountain, was the first Bishop of Bayonne.

Rugby Club I Cavalieri Prato

Cavalieri were drawn in Pool 1 Amlin Challenge Cup 2010–11 with Harlequins (ENG), Connacht (IRL) and Bayonne (FRA).

Supreme Central and Governing Junta of the Kingdom

It was established on 25 September 1808 following the Spanish victory at the Battle of Bailén and after the Council of Castile declared null and void the abdications of Charles IV and Ferdinand VII done at Bayonne earlier in May.

War of the Sixth Coalition

The Peninsular War went on through the allied victories of Vera pass, the Battle of Nivelle, the Battle of Nive near Bayonne (10–14 December 1813), the Battle of Orthez (27 February 1814) and the Battle of Toulouse (10 April).

Winston airport shuttle

Winston Airport Shuttles pick up or drop off travelers at any location; such as home, office, school, or hotel on Long Island and Queens and brings them to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP), as well as to all piers in New York City (all boroughs), Bayonne, New Jersey, and Brooklyn.