Jules Rimet
1873 – 1956 · aged 83
Founder of association football institutions (1873–1956)
- Born
- 14 Oct 1873 · Theuley
- Died
- 16 Oct 1956 · Suresnes
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 14 Oct 1873BornBorn in Theuley
- 1897 – 1910RolePresident
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1919 – 1942RolePresident
- 1921 – 1954RolePresident of FIFA
- 1931 – 1947RolePresident
- 1944 – 1949RolePresident
- 1949AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
- 16 Oct 1956DiedDied in Suresnes
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1873 – 1956).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
Biography
Jules Ernest Séraphin Valentin Rimet (French: [ʒyl ʁimɛ]; 14 October 1873 – 16 October 1956) was a French football administrator who was the 3rd president of FIFA, serving from 1921 to 1954. He is FIFA's longest-serving president, in office for 33 years. He also served as the president of the French Football Federation from 1919 to 1942, and again from 1944 to 1949.
On Rimet's initiative, the first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930. The Jules Rimet Trophy was named in his honour. He also founded French club Red Star, known as Red Star Club Français upon its creation in 1897.
Text from the Wikipedia article Jules Rimet, CC BY-SA 4.0
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