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911 Autumn - Charles the Simple agrees to the Treaty of St.-Claire-sur-Epte, ceding the lower Seine area to the Norse
invaders under Hrolf Ganger, also known as Rollo of Normandy, who is considered the founder of the duchy of Normandy.
1013 Danish
invasion of England
under king Sweyn I
. King Ethelred flees to Normandy, and Sweyn becomes king of England.
1035 William II (the future William I of England
) becomes duke of Normandy.
1047 William the Conqueror, with assistance from King Henry I of France
, secured control of Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at Caen
the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes
1053 October 25, battle of St-Aubin (or Arques): duke William of Normandy routed an army from Ponthieu (see deaths).
1057 William the Conqueror
defeats a Franco-Angevin army at the mouth of the Dives River, Normandy.
1059 Anselm of Canterbury
settles at the Benedictine
monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.
1064 Harold II was shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.
1106 Henry I of England
defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes castle; Edgar Atheling and William Clito
are also taken prisoner.
1118 A rebellion against Henry I of England
breaks out in Normandy.
1144 Normandy comes under Angevin
control under Geoffrey of Anjou
1203 Philip II of France
enters Rouen
, leading to the eventual unification of Normandy and France
.
1204 Angers and Normandy are recaptured from England
by Philip II of France
.
1259 Kings Louis IX of France
and Henry III of England
agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French
-controlled territory on continental Europe
(including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1419 Hundred Years' War
: Rouen
surrenders to Henry V of England
which brings Normandy under the control of England
.
1421 Battle of Baugé. A small French force surprises and defeats a smaller English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England
, in Normandy.
1450 Surrender of Cherbourg
, the last English
territory in Normandy, to the French
.
1944 More than 1000 British
bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German
gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day
.
1944 Battle of Normandy begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day
, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied
troops on the beaches of Normandy in France
. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. It also weakens Nazi Germany
hold on Europe
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