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French History Time Line
-10,000 BC: Cro Magnon Man - Homo Sapiens
4,000-2,500 BC: Neolithic Period
2,500-50 BC: Celtic Domination in Gaul
58-51 BC: Caesar's Gallic Wars
52 BC: Lutetia is built, the future Paris
43 AD: Lugdunum (Lyon) becomes the capital of the Gauls
2nd century AD: Romans bring Christianity to Gaul
485-511: Reign of Clovis I, Merovingian King of the Franks
637: Dagobert I, last Merovingian king
732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers, stopping Arab invasion
751: Pepin II "The Short" becomes king of the Franks
755: Franks protect the church against Lombards and create the Papal States
768-814: Charlemagne rules as King of the Franks
800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
814-40: Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as emperor
843: Treaty of Verdun partitions the Carolingian Empire
870: Treaty of Mersen allows eastern and western Frankish kingdoms to absorb the fragmented middle lands
910: Foundation of the monastery of Cluny
987: Hugh Capet starts Capetian dynasty
1095: Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade- link: The Crusades
1066: William of Normandy invades England; Battle of Hastings
1120: St Denis Cathedral is rebuilt: birth of Gothic architecture
1189-92: Third Crusade; crusaders fail to recover the Holy Land
1200: University of Paris starts messenger service
1202: Fourth Crusade launched; crusaders capture Constantinople
1209: Pope Innocent III launches the Albigensian Crusade in southern France
1305-1378: The Avignon Papacy
1337-1443: Hundred Years' War
1453: English out of France except for Calais
1464: King of France establishes postal system
1494-1559: Italian Wars- France and Austria fight over Italian territories
1515: François I crowned King
1519: Leonardo da Vinci dies in the arms of François I
1547-59: Reign of Henry II
1562-98: The Wars of Religion
1572: Massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Eve in Paris
1589-1593: Henri IV becomes 1st Bourbon King and converts to Catholicism, ending Wars of Religion
1608: Founding of Quebec
1617: Louis XIII crowned at the age of 17
1624: Cardinal Richelieu becomes principal minister
1631: A French newspaper carries classified ads
1642: Blaise Pascal invents the Pascaline - an automatic calculator
1643-1715: Louis XIV becomes king with Mazarin as principal minister
1682: Royal court moves to Versailles
1685: Louis revokes the Edict of Nantes
1715: Louis XIV dies and Louis XV accedes
1762: Rousseau's Social Contract
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica
1774: Louis XVI becomes king
1778-83: The kingdom supports the American Revolution
1789: French Revolution, storming of La Bastille
1792: Louis XVI tried for treason and convicted; monarchy abolished
1793: Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are guillotined in Paris
1794: Robespierre overthrown and end of Reign of Terror
1796: Napoleon weds Rose de Beauharnais (the future Empress Joséphine)
1799: Robert in France invents a paper-making machine
1799: French soldiers discover the Rosetta Stone
1799: General Bonaparte enters Paris
1801: Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents a loom using punch cards
1803-15: Napoleonic Wars expand the Empire
1814–24: Reign of Louis XVIII
1814: Congress of Vienna begins to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon
1815: Napoleon enters Paris, the beginning of the "100 Days"
1815: Napoleon is deported to Santa Helena, an island off the coast of Africa
1824–30: Reign of Charles X
1827: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph
1829: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) joins Niépce to pursue photographic inventions
1830-48: Reign of Louis Philippe
1839: Daguerre annouces invention of first practical camera
1852: Napoleon I's nephew crowned as Emperor Napoleon III
1853: Haussman redesigns Paris
1854: Bourseul in France builds an experimental telephone
1870-71: Franco-Prussian War
1871: Third Republic
1889: Eiffel Tower built
1895: Lumière brothers build a portable movie camera.
1895: Paris audience sees movies projected. (Leaving the Lumière Factories - Dec. 28, 1895)
1905: CharlesPathé colors black and white films by machine.
1907: Lumière brothers invent still color photography process.
1914-18: World War I
1919: Versailles Treaty
1929-39: The Depression
1939: France declares war on Germany
1940: Paris falls, Vichy's government formed
1944-45: D-Day and Allied victory and Fourth Republic led by de Gaulle
1946-54: War in Indochina
1954-58: War of Algeria
1958: De Gaulle initiates 5th Republic
1968: General strikes and students' riots in Paris
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