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274 Germanic Peoples take advantage of the destroyed Roman armies of the Rhine
. They pillage and depopulate large areas of Gaul
, including Paris. The Rhine border is lost for 20 years. Franks
live in the area of present southern Netherlands
, northern Belgium
and Rhineland from now on.
508 Clovis I
establishes Paris (''Lutetia'') as his capital
511 Frank
ish kingdom split in four after the death of Clovis I
: Childebert I
becomes king of Paris; Clotaire I
king of Soissons; Chlodomer
king of Orléans
, and Theuderic I king of Reims
and Austrasia
.
561 Clotaire I
dies, and the Frankish
kingdom is divided; Sigebert I
becomes king of Austrasia
, Chilperic I becomes king of Neustria
, Charibert becomes king of Paris, and Guntram
becomes king of Burgundy
.
587 Guntram
, king of Paris, adopts Childebert II
.
845 Paris is sacked by Viking
raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok
, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
987 Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, crowned King of France
1113 Pierre Abélard opens his school in Paris
1115 Hugh of St. Victor joins the Victorines in Paris.
1136 Completion of the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris
1180 Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes ''De Natura Rerum'', an early mention of chess
(approximate date)
1182 Jew
s expelled from Paris by Philip II of France
.
1184 Streets of Paris paved by order of Philip Augustus
1248 The Gothic
chapel Sainte-Chapelle is concecrated in Paris, France
.
1257 Robert de Sorbon
founds the ''Collège de Sorbonne'' at Paris, giving a formal college (and still-common name) to the already existing University of Paris
in France
.
1277 The philosophical
doctrine Averroism is banned from Paris at a condemnation at the University of Paris.
1358 The Jacquerie. A Peasant rebellion in France
during the Hundred Year's War, which consumed the Beauvais
and allied with Etienne Marcel's seizure of Paris. Was defeated on the 10th July at the Battle of Mello.
1369 Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille
in Paris.
1418 Capture of Paris by John, Duke of Burgundy
1422 With the death of King Charles VI of France
, Henry VI of England
is proclaimed King of France in Paris, while the Dauphin
, Charles, is proclaimed King Charles VII of France
in Bourges
.
1427 First band of gypsies
visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
1429 Joan leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
1436 Paris is recaptured by the French
1463 Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris
1547 Chambre Ardente established in Paris
1572 Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre
with Marguerite de France, sister of King Charles, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris. Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including Gaspard de Coligny
, at the order of King Charles IX
. Henry of Navarre and the Prince of Condé barely escape the same fate. This brings about the Fourth War of Religion in Fran
1588 Day of the Barricades in Paris. Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III
to flee.
1594 Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
1635 The ''Académie française
'' in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
1659 Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.
1662 Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris.
1667 Louis XIV of France
abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris.
1677 Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins ''la place Vendôme'' in Paris (completed in 1698).
1677 Population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.
1732 139 members of the Paris Parliament are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
1765 The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named '''Boulanger''' sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire
, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1766 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
returns to Salzburg after touring Paris and London
with his father
1770 Fireworks at the wedding of the crown prince
of France
in Paris cause a fire - 800 dead.
1778 American Revolutionary War
: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States
and France
signaling official recognition of the new republi
1782 American Revolutionary War
: In Paris, representatives from the United States
and the Kingdom of Great Britain
sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris
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1783 American Revolutionary War
ends: Treaty of Paris
- A treaty
between the United States
and the Kingdom of Great Britain
is signed in Paris, ending the war.
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon
flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5
1789 Tennis Court Oath in Paris
1789 French Revolution
: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opened in Paris (a year later it would become the first public zoo).
1793 Feast of Unity - Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems
1793 In Paris, the French Revolution
ary government opens the Louvre
to the public as a museum
1795 Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.
1800 An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte
fails in Paris.
1800 Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie found the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Paris.
1803 Monroe
and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase
.
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral
in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte
crowns himself as the first Emperor of the French in a thousand years (the Napoleonic Code is adopted).
1814 Napoleonic Wars
: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 Anti-Napoleonic troops occupy Paris.
1814 Duke of Provence, future Louis XVIII of France
returns to Paris.
1815 Napoleon
enters Paris after escaping from Elba
with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1815 Louis XVIII
returns to Paris
1832 France
: anti-monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris.
1840 Gaetano Donizetti
's opera ''La Fille du Regiment'' premieres in Paris.
1842 Two trains collide in Paris and catch fire - 59 dead
1844 Friedrich Engels
and Karl Marx
meet in Paris.
1848 In Paris, revolt erupts against the king Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates, leading to the Second Republic
.
1852 French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship
trip from Paris to Trappes
1858 Felice Orsini
and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III
in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain
, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France but the emperor refuses to support it.
1860 The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
1870 Leon Michel Gambetta escapes the besieged Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1871 The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1875 The first performance of Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the Opéra Comique, Paris
1875 Convention du Mètre signed in Paris.
1892 Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
1893 First car number plates in Paris, France
1894 Anarchist Jean Pauwels dies in a Madeline church in Paris when his bomb explodes in his pocket
1895 At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel
signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize
after he dies (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).
1896 Oscar Wilde
's play ''Salomé'' premieres in Paris.
1897 The play ''Cyrano de Bergerac
'', by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
1898 The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American War
is signed in Paris.
1900 The first line of the Métro
is inaugurated in Paris.
1901 A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh
paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1904 in Paris, 12 nations sign the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade
1908 Start of the first around-the-world car race, from New York
to Paris.
1912 French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London
in three hours
1914 World War I
: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French
6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury
attack German
forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 500,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied
victory.
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