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• 1816, the statue of General Leclerc was removed from the Pantheon
  Au début de la Restauration, le Panthéon redevient une église catholique. La statue du général Leclerc fait partie de celles qui sont alors retirées de la crypte.
• 1830s, Relocation of the Blackboy Clock to Nelson Street
  Paul Hawkins Fisher described the relocation of the clock in Notes and Recollections of Stroud (1871): "After John Miles’s death, the clock and bell, with the figure of the n****-child, which had acquired the name of the Black Boy, were removed to the front of the Duke of York public- house in Nelson-street, where they remained several years." Writing much later in 1946, Stroud News dated the relocation "in the 30's of last century" i.e. in the 1830s.
• 1844, Relocation of the Blackboy Clock to Castle Street
  Paul Hawkins Fisher described the relocation of the clock in Notes and Recollections of Stroud (1871): "But, on the erection of the National School at the entrance of Castle-Street, in the year 1844, the clock and Black Boy, with his club and bell, were bought by subscription, and set up against the building. There the Boy has stood ever since, doing the duty of turning his head, lifting his club, and striking the hours of day and night as often as they come round; and there, it is hoped, he will for many years continue to perform his automatic exercises, to the wonder of strangers passing by, as he did to the admiration of boys and girls of old. But it has thereby come to pass that the identity, if not the very existence of the school, has been well-nigh lost in that of the Black Boy himself; inasmuch as a little girl being asked, “What school do you go to?” replied, “Please ma’am, I go to the Black Boy”; and this is the answer that all the children would give to the same question – “Please ma’am, I go to the Black Boy.” Indeed, it has been whispered that some high and grave authorities, whose duties often lead them to the Black Boy, call the school by the same name, to the great dismay of the purists in nomenclature, who prefer its less equivocal and , not doubt more accurate appellation of The School, (or the National School,) in Castle-street."
• 1875, Relocation of the Robert Milligan statue
• 1887, Relocation of the statue of John Lawrence from the UK to India
• 1937, Relocation of the monument to Gallieni in Paris
  The monument to Gallieni is moved to place Vauban due to a theme park and pavillions installed on the Esplanade des Invalides for the 1937 International Exposition.
• 1938, Transfert du monument "à la gloire de l'expansion coloniale", Paris
  Installé par défaut en face du Palais des colonies en mai 1931 , le monument "à la gloire de l'expansion coloniale" est transféré en 1938 à Vincennes, près du château. IL est à nouveau déplacé en 1958 et retourne à son premier emplacement dans le Jardin d'agronomie tropicale (ex-coloniale).
• 1940, The statue of Jean-Baptiste Marchand was partly dismantled
  The bust of Marchand is removed and installed in the Musée de la France d'Outre-Mer to prevent the monument, which only lacks the bronze elements (shield and mast), from being inaugurated by the Germans to stir up Anglophobia.
• 1943, Transfer of the Robert Milligan statue into storage
• 1950, Relocation of the statue of Henry Hardinge from India to the UK
• 1950, Removal of the statue of John Lawrence in Lahore
  The statue of Lawrence was removed from its position outside of Lahore High Court and placed in a collection at Lahore Fort.
• 1954, Relocation of the William Huskisson statue in Liverpool
• 1956, Removal of the statues of John Nicholson and Alexander Taylor in Delhi
  The statues of Nicholson and Taylor were removed and placed into storage out of fears they would be damaged ahead of the centennial celebrations of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
• 1958, Monument to Surcouf is moved
  The statue is moved and its base changed
• 1958, Relocation of the Horatio Kitchener statue from Sudan to the UK
• 1958, Relocation of the statue of Charles Gordon from Sudan to the UK
• 1958, Relocation of the statue of John Nicholson from India to Northern Ireland
• 1960, Relocation of the statue of Alexander Taylor from India to the UK
• 1962, Relocation of the statue of John Lawrence from Pakistan to Northern Ireland
  The relocation of the Lawrence statue from Pakistan to Northern Ireland took place after negotiations between the Commonwealth Relations Office, shipping companies, retired Indian Civil Service officials, and Pakistani authorities, including the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan, who gave final permission for its release. Belfast Newsletter gave the following description of the relocation: "The statue of Lord Lawrence, who was Viceroy of India, and was an Old Boy of Foyle College, has now been brought from Lahore to London, on its way to Londonderry where it will be re-erected outside the school. The statue, said the headmaster, Mr. J.S. Connolly, was undergoing repairs in London. Mr Connolly said: "It is an impressive and dignified statue which will be a very real acquisition for the school, both as an embellishment and a source of inspiration.""
• 1964, Relocation of the statue of William Mackinnon from Kenya to Scotland
• 1969, Relocation of the statue of Rufus Isaacs from India to the UK
• 1970, The Robert Milligan statue is taken out of storage
  Around 1970, the statue of Milligan was removed from storage and erected, without its plinth, by the former main entrance to the London Docks at East Smithfield.
• 1974, Relocation of the statue of Josephine, Place de la Savane
  In 1974, as part of the renovation of the Savane, the war memorial and the statue of Josephine were moved. Joséphine was moved from the center of the park to its north-western edge, parallel to Rue de la Liberté. The relocation of Joséphine was an integral part of an urban grammar that Aimé Césaire (then mayor of Fort-de-France) and his city council had put in place to cannibalize colonial sites and symbols of power in the capital.
• 1980, The Trooper statue is smuggled from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to South Africa
• 1980s, Transfer of the Robert Milligan statue into storage
  At some stage in the mid-1980s, the Robert Milligan statue was returned to storage with the move of the Port of London Authority.
• 1989, Conservation and replacement of monument to Colbert in Paris
  In 1989, for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the four statues at the front of the palais Bourbon underwent conservation treatment. The originals were replaced with resin casts. The original Dumont statue of Colbert was placed in front of the rectorat in Reims, France.
• 2001, Removal of the blackamoor caricature for restoration
  At some stage between August 1995 and June 2001, the blackamoor caricature was removed for restoration works. A photo of the building by Maurice R Teal dated June 13th 2001 from Historic England Archive shows the figure absent from the building at this date. By February 2004, with restoration work on the figure and clock complete, the Blackboy Clock had been re-assembled in its original position.
• 2002, The Trooper statue enters the collections of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
• 2007, Retrait temporaire du buste d'Ernest Deproge
  Retrait temporaire pendant la construction du centre commercial Perrinon
• 2007, The statue of Alexander Taylor is placed into storage
• 2010, Déplacement du monument aux morts de Saint-Gaudens
  Il est installé à côté du monument aux 3 maréchaux
• 2013, Disparition et transfert du buste de Félix Eboué à La Boucan, commune de Sainte-Rose
  Le buste est enlevé de son emplacement initial, à proximité du pont. Il disparaît pendant 3 semaines, puis il est réinstallé au centre d'un rond-point par le Collectif de défense mobile, « la voix des sans-voix » qui estime que cet emplacement lui donne la visibilité qu'il n'avait pas.
• 2015, Déplacement du monument à la Mulâtresse Solitude
  2015, Relocation of the Mulâtresse Solitude monument
• 2020, Annonce que la statue de Belain d'Esnambuc sera déboulonnée
  Le maire de Fort-De-France annonce qu’il soumet au conseil municipal du 28 juillet la proposition de déposer la statue et demande à la commission « Mémoire et transmission » de décider du sort à réserver à la statue après cette déposition
• 2020, Colston statue retrieved from canal
  Bristol City Council retrieved the statue of Edward Colston from the Bristol canal, where it had been thrown by protesters on 8 June.
• 2020, Removal of the Robert Milligan statue
• 2020, The British Museum removes a terracotta bust of its slave-owner founder, Hans Sloane, to a secure cabinet
  Explaining the British Museum's actions, the director, Hartwig Fischer, said: "We have pushed him off the pedestal. We must not hide anything. Healing is knowledge...Dedication to truthfulness when it comes to history is absolutely crucial, with the aim to rewrite our shared, complicated and, at times, very painful history." “The case dedicated to Hans Sloane and his relationship to slavery is a very important step in this. We have pushed him off the pedestal where nobody looked at him, and placed him in the limelight. “The British Museum has done a lot of work – accelerated and enlarged its work on its own history, the history of empire, the history of colonialism, and also of slavery. These are subjects which need to be addressed, and to be addressed properly. We need to understand our own history.”
• 2021, « Statue Voltaire : un lieu alliant protection et visibilité de l’œuvre à l’étude », Communiqué de presse de la Ville de Paris
  Exploratory tour by Karine Taïeb, deputy mayor in charge of heritage, and the mayor of the VIth arrondissement, with a proposal to reinstall the statue in the courtyard of the historic site of the Faculty of Medicine, where it will be visible from the street but under a protective archway.
• 2021, Exeter City Council votes to relocate the Redvers Buller statue
• 2021, Removal of the Governor Olry statue
  On April 6, 2020, the Nouméa City Council unanimously approved the measure proposed by Mayor Sonia Lagarde: the Olry statue will be moved to the gardens of the city museum and replaced by a sculpture depicting the handshake between Jacques Lafleur and Jean-Marie Tjibaou, who in 1988 concluded the Matignon Accords providing for a ten-year period of projects before a referendum on New Caledonian independence. In addition, the square where the statue is located, also named after Olry, will be renamed Place de la paix. These measures and the prefiguration of the new square are presented to the public on October 29, 2020 by Sonia Lagarde, in the presence of Sébastien Lecornu, Minister for Overseas France. On July 16, 2021, the Olry statue, packed and tied up, was lifted by a crane truck to a temporary location. A Dumbéa-based company specializing in stone-cutting and architectural restoration, Pierre et Patrimoine, set about dismantling the stones contained in the statue's base.
• 2023, The Mayor of Saint-Denis and the Prefect of Réunion announce the relocation of the statue of Mahé de la Bourdonnais
  On April 26, 2023, at a joint press conference, the mayor of Saint-Denis, Ericka Bareigts, and the prefect of La Réunion, Jérôme Filippini, announced that the statue of Mahé de Labourdonnais would be relocated in the coming months for restoration and renovation of the Place Candide Azéma. However, the statue's future was made official on the same day. After restoration, it will be installed at the Lambert barracks in Saint-Denis, alongside other monuments to Réunion's military heritage.
• 2024, Le long feuilleton de la statue de Voltaire à Paris