History of La Grave
Interactive timeline
Relive key moments since -400.
Origins and Transmission
This timeline gathers the major historical events of La Grave: key dates, village transformations, ancient anecdotes, and pivotal moments. It is gradually being enriched through local research and contributions.
Period: -400 — 1910 | 16 events.
Featured events
Mountaineering and Skiing
In the second half of the 19th century, while the valley was affected by a strong rural exodus, a new phenomenon transformed the image of La Grave: mountaineering. Oisans became one of the first Frenc...
Conquest by the Roman Empire
When Rome reached our mountains, the Ucenni were still well established in the valley. We know that by 6 BCE the Ucenni had been conquered, because their name appears on the Trophy of the Alps, an anc...
The Revolution
After 1789, the new departments completely redrew the map of the country. On March 9, 1790, the National Assembly offered La Grave and Villar-d'Arène a rare choice: to depend on Isère or on the Hautes...