text: **Timeline of Lyon**
  **Historical affiliations**
  
   Roman Empire (Gallia Lugdunensis), 43 
  
  BC-286 
  
  Fernand Braudel 
  remarked, 
  "Historians of Lyon are not 
  the bi- 
  sufficiently aware of 
  polarity between Paris and Lyon, 
  which is a constant structure in 
  French development...from 
  the 
  late Middle Ages to the Industrial 
  Revolution".[31] In the late 15th century, the fairs introduced by Italian 
  merchants made Lyon the economic counting house of France. Even the 
  *Bourse*(treasury), built in 1749, resembled a public bazaar where 
  accounts were settled in the open air. When international banking moved 
  to Genoa, then Amsterdam, Lyon remained the banking centre of 
  France. 
  
   Western Roman Empire  (Gallia 
  
  Lugdunensis), 286-411 
  
   Kingdom of the Burgundians, 411–534 
   Francia, 534–843 
   Middle Francia, 843–855 
   Lotharingia, 855–879 
   Lower Burgundy, 879-933 
   Kingdom of Arles, 933–1312 
   Kingdom of France (Lyonnais), 1312– 
  
  The Roman-era Theatre on the 
  Fourvière Hill 
  
  1792 