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Events in Paris History

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Viking Siege of Paris

0845-03-29 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving

0888-01-13 Odo (Eudes), Count of Paris, succeeds Charles III the Fat to become King of West Francia (888-898)
0987-07-03 Hugh Capet, is coronated as King of France, in Paris, after being elected by the nobility
1144-06-11 Basilica of St Denis is dedicated near Paris, the first fully Gothic church
1160-10-12 Maurice de Sully is elected bishop of Paris, will initiate plan to build Notre Dame
1182-05-19 The high altar of Paris cathedral Notre Dame is consecrated by Cardinal Henri de Château-Marçay and Maurice de Sully
1242-06-06 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1259-12-04 Treaty of Paris: English King Henry III and French King Louis IX end 100 years of conflict between the Capetian and Plantagenet dynasties
1277-03-07 Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris
1302-11-18 Pope Boniface VIII issues papal bull (decree) "Unam sanctam" emphasizing the higher position of the spiritual in comparison with the secular order
1303-05-20 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella
1323-03-06 Treaty of Paris - Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland

1345-03-20 Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.

Medieval painting from 1353 showing the citizens of Tournai (today in Belgium) burying victims of the Black Death

1349-10-05 Paris theologian Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon
1370-04-22 Building begins on the Bastille fortress in Paris
1390-10-29 First trial for witchcraft in Paris
1393-01-28 Bal des Ardents - fire during a royal court ball in Paris kills four dancers dressed as wild men, with King Charles VI narrowly escaping
1418-06-12 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians

Henry V

1420-12-01 Henry V of England enters Paris

1463-01-05 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1514-05-15 Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's "Gesta Danorum" (Deeds of the Danes), in Paris
1525-03-20 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1550-01-10 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1562-03-15 General Francois de Guise enters Paris

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

1572-08-24 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces

Henry IV Escapes

1576-02-03 Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris

1st Ballet Staged in Paris

1581-10-15 Commissioned by Catherine de' Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine" is staged in Paris

Queen Consort and Regent of France Catherine de' Medici

1588-05-09 Duke Henri de Guise's troops occupy Paris
1588-05-12 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1588-05-13 King Henri III flees Paris
1590-09-05 Duke of Parma Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris
1594-03-22 French King Henry IV festival in Paris
1596-12-22 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1610-05-14 Henry IV of France is assassinated by fanatical Catholic François Ravaillac who stabs him to death in the streets of Paris

King Louis XIII

1610-05-15 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French King

1634-03-13 First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
1635-02-10 The Académie Française formed in Paris by Cardinal Richelieu

Horace

1640-03-09 Pierre Corneilles play "Horace" premieres in Paris

1651-02-06 -7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
1652-07-04 Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1652-10-13 Prince of Condé flees Paris
1652-10-21 King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1653-02-03 Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1656-12-14 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1659-01-24 Pierre Corneille's play "Oedipe" premieres in Paris

1st Bus Service

1662-03-18 First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the "Carosses a Cinq Sous" until 1675

The thinker: Blaise Pascal becomes lost in thought

1664-07-31 Pierre Corneille's play, the tragedy "Othon" premieres in Paris

Alexandre le Grand

1665-12-04 Jean Racine's tragedy "Alexandre le Grand" premieres at the Palais Royal Theater in Paris

1667-04-09 1st public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale in Paris
1667-11-07 Jean Racine's "Andromaque" premieres in Paris
1668-12-13 Jean Racine's tragic play "Britannicus" premieres in Paris
1670-11-28 Pierre Corneille's comedic play "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
1672-01-01 Jean Racine's five-act tragedy play "Bajazet" premieres in Paris, France
1673-01-13 Jean Racine's play "Mithridate" premieres in Paris
1674-10-11 Pierre Corneille's tragedy "Surena" premieres in Paris
1679-01-31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
1682-05-01 Louis XIV and his court inaugurate the Paris Observatory
1686-02-15 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide" premieres in Paris
1696-12-19 Jean-François Regnard's play "Le Joueur" (The Gamester) premieres in Paris
1705-12-29 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's play "Idoménée" premieres in Paris
1708-12-14 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's play "Electre" premieres in Paris
1710-01-01 Paris merchant Jean Marius obtains 5-year royal privilege for his invention of a folding umbrella - first in Europe
1714-02-15 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" decree

Voltaire's First Play

1718-11-18 Voltaire's first play, the tragedy "Oedipe" premieres in Paris, and first use of non de plume Voltaire by François-Marie Arouet

1720-10-17 Pierre de Marivaux's play "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour" premieres in Paris
1722-05-03 Pierre de Marivaux's play "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris
1726-05-05 French ballerina Marie de Camargo aged 16 makes her premiere at Paris Opera Ballets in "Les Caractères de la Danse"
1727-05-31 France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1727-06-13 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1728-04-22 Pierre de Marivaux's play "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris
1730-12-11 Voltaire's tragedy "Brutus" premieres in Paris
1732-01-29 Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1732-08-13 Voltaire's tragic play "Zaire" premieres in Paris
1737-08-18 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
1762-11-03 Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762-12-09 British parliament accepts Treaty of Paris
1763-02-10 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain
1765-03-09 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.
1770-01-13 Pierre de Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis" premieres in Paris

Le Fils Naturel

1771-09-26 Denis Diderot's play "Le Fils naturel" premieres in Paris

1771-11-04 Carlo Goldoni's prose comedy "Le Bourru Bienfaisant" premieres in Paris

Music Premiere

1774-04-19 Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera "Iphigénie en Aulide", based on the play "Iphigenia in Aulis" by Euripides premieres in Paris

1778-01-27 Niccolò Piccinni's tragic opera "Roland" premieres at Théâtre du Palais-Royale in Paris, France
1778-02-06 Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance signed in Paris, between the United States and France, the first negotiated by the United States. The first established formal diplomatic and commercial relations and the second formed a defensive alliance.
1778-02-10 Voltaire returns to Paris to great acclaim after an absence of 28 years
1781-01-23 Niccolò Piccinni's tragédie lyrique opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" (Iphigeneia in Tauris) first performed by Académie royale de musique at the Paris Opéra
1783-09-03 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
1783-12-01 Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
1784-01-14 US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain
1784-04-09 Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War
1784-05-12 Ratified copies of the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War exchanged between US and Great Britain, in Paris
1784-05-20 Britain & Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

A Salute to the Military Genius, Napoleon Bonaparte

1784-10-30 Napoléon Bonaparte admitted to the elite École Militaire in Paris, the start of his military career

Death and despair as Napoléon and his Grand Army retreat from Russia. Artist: Adolf Northen

Graduation of Napoléon Bonaparte

1785-09-28 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

Tarare Premieres

1787-06-08 "Tarare" an opera by Antonio Salieri premieres at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, France

1787-07-15 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes

Louis XVI Dismisses Jacques Necker

1789-07-11 French King Louis XVI dismisses finance minister Jacques Necker, sparking riots in Paris

Bastille Day

1789-07-14 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris. Now celebrated as France's national day.

1789-07-15 Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris

Women's March on Versailles

1789-10-05 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris

Women of Paris marching to Versailles, one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution

Famous People from Paris

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1081-12-01 Louis VI 'The Fat', King of the Franks (1108-37), born in Paris (d. 1137)
1187-09-05 Louis VIII [Coeur-de-Lion], King of France (1223-26), born in Paris (d. 1226)
1289-10-04 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), born in Paris (d. 1316)
1291-10-31 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet, born in Paris, France (d. 1361)
1316-11-15 Jean I, King of France and Navarre, (Nov 15-19, 1316), born in Paris (d. 1316 - he lived only 5 days)
1368-12-03 Charles VI "the Well-Beloved", King of France (1380-1422), born in Paris, Île-de-France, France (d. 1422)
1372-03-13 Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Brother of Charles VI of France, born in Paris (d. 1407)
1389-11-09 Isabella of Valois, queen consort of Richard II of England, born in Paris (d. 1409)
1395-01-11 Michelle of Valois, Duchess consort of Burgundy (1419-22), born in Paris (d. 1422)
1401-10-27 Catherine of Valois, Queen of Henry V of England, born in Paris (d. 1437)

Henry II (1519-1559)

1519-03-31 King of France (1547-59), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris

1520-08-10 Madeleine of Valois, French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland after marrying James V, born in the St. Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (d. 1537)
1524-08-23 Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer and diplomat (Anti-Tribonien), born in Paris (d. 1590)
1529-06-07 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters, born in Paris (d. 1615)
1530-07-03 Claude Fauchet, French historian, born in Paris (d. 1601)
1556-03-07 Guillaume du Vair, French writer and thinker, born in Paris (d. 1621)
1557-09-16 Jacques Mauduit, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1627)
1566-11-06 Julien Perrichon, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1600)
1567-04-26 Nicolas Formé, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1638)
1585-09-09 Armand Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, French statesman and Cardinal (chief minister to Louis XIII 1624-42), born in Paris, France (d. 1642)
1588-05-28 Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France, born in Paris (d. 1672)
1591-09-08 Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, French abbess (Port-Royal de Paris), born in Paris (d. 1661)
1595-12-04 Jean Chapelain, French writer and poet (La Pucelle), born in Paris (d. 1674)
1603-04-19 Michel le Tellier, French statesman, born in Paris (d. 1685)
1604-08-04 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer, born in Paris (d. 1676)
1605-10-16 Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, French poet and singer, born in Paris (d. 1677)
1606-05-25 Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary in New France, born in Paris (d. 1649)
1610-07-04 Paul Scarron, French writer (Virgile Travesti), born in Paris (d. 1660)
1612-02-06 Antoine Arnauld, French Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher and mathematician, born in Paris, France (d. 1694)
1613-09-15 François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer of maxims and memoirs, born in Paris, Kingdom of France (d. 1680)
1613-09-25 Claude Perrault, French physician and architect (East Façade of the Louvre; Paris Observatory), born in Paris (d. 1688)

Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680)

1615-02-23 French politician and Superintendent of Finances (1653-61) who became fabulously wealthy and later imprisoned for maladministration of state funds, born in Paris

1615-11-16 Guillaume Dumanoir, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1697)
1617-11-19 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (paintings of religious subjects), born in Paris (d. 1655)
1619-02-24 Charles Le Brun, French classical painter who helped establish the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, born in Paris (d. 1690)
1620-02-15 François Charpentier, French scholar and archaeologist, born in Paris, France (d. 1702)
1620-11-10 Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos, French patron of the arts, courtesan and writer, born in Paris, France (d. 1705)
1621-09-08 Louis II Condé, Duke of Bourbon (Rocroy), born in Paris (d. 1686)
1622-01-15 Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), born in Paris, Kingdom of France (d. 1673)
1624-03-21 François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1680)
1625-08-14 François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris, born in Paris (d. 1695)
1625-12-14 Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist, born in Paris (d. 1695)
1627-05-29 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle), born in Palais du Louvre, Paris (d. 1693)
1627-09-06 Pierre Verdier, French composer working in Sweden, born in Paris, France (d. 1706)
1628-01-08 François‑Henri de Montmorency, French military officer, and Duke of Luxembourg, born in Paris, France (d. 1695)