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887 | Charles the Fat is deposed in December, he dies a month later |
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987 | Hugh Capet starts Capetian dynasty |
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987 | William of Normandy invades England; Battle of Hastings |
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1010 | Robert II of France proclaims the "Peace of God" |
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1031 | Henry I, King of France |
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1032 | Rudolph III of Burgundy dies, and Conrad unites Burgundy with the Empire |
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1040 | "Truce of God" proclaimed in Aquitaine |
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1059 | Philip I made coregent in France |
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1060 | Henry I of France dies; succeeded by Philip I |
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1087 | William the Conqueror dies; succeeded by William II "Rufus" in England and Robert in Normandy GO ! |
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1091 | Treaty of Caen between William II and Robert of Normandy |
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1096 | Start of the First Crusade with Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine, and Tancred, nephew of Robert Guiscard |
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1098 | Louis VI made coregent of Philip I of France |
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1101 | Treaty of Alton; Robert of Normandy is bought off after invading England |
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1108 | Philip I of France dies; succeeded by Louis VI |
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1109 | Anglo-French war |
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1120 | Peace between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France |
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1137 | Louise VI of France dies; succeeded by Louis VII |
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1145 | Second Crusade proclaimed |
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1147 | Crusaders perish in Asia Minor; failure of the Second Crusade |
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1151 | Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou dies; succeeded by Henry, his son by Matilda of England |
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1152 | Louis VII divorces his queen, Eleanor, who marries Henry of Anjou, afterward King of England |
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1160 | Normans expelled from North Africa |
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1172 | Queen Eleanor raises Aquitaine against Henry II |
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1173 | Queen Eleanor imprisoned |
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1177 | Treaty of Ivry between Henry II and Louis VII |
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1178 | Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa crowned King of Burgundy |
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1180 | Louis VIII of France dies; succeeded by his son Philip II Augustus |
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1189 | Third Crusade |
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1199 | King Richard I, Coeur-de-Lion, killed at a siege in France; succeeded by King John (Lackland), the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine GO ! |
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1200 | Peace of Le Goulet between England and France
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1202 | Fourth Crusade launched; crusaders capture Constantinople |
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1209 | Pope Innocent III launches the Albigensian Crusade in southern France |
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1212 | Children's Crusade |
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1217 | Crusade against sultanate of Egypt fails |
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1223 | Philip II Augustus of France dies; succeeded by Louis VIII |
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1224 | Anglo-French war |
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1226 | Louis VIII dies; succeeded by Louis IX, the Saint |
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1227 | Truce in Anglo-Fr. war |
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1240 | Five-year truce between England and France |
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1248 | Seventh Crusade, led by Louis IX |
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1270 | Louis IX dies on the Eighth Crusade, and is succeeded by Philip III |
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1285 | Philip III dies; succeeded by Philip IV, the Fair |
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1295 | Alliance between France and Scotland |
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1299 | Treaties between Venice and the Turks, and France and Germany |
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1305 | Beginning of the Avignon Papacy |
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1312 | Treaty of Vienna: Lyons incorporated into France
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1314 | Philip IV of France dies; succeeded by his son Louis X
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1315 | King John of France dies and Philip V (called The Tall) proclaims himself king |
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1316 | Philip V succeeds Louis X
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1317 | Salic Law, excluding women from succession to throne, adopted in France
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1320 | Peace of Paris between Flanders and France
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1322 | Philip V succeeded by Charles IV
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1328 | Charles IV, last of the direct line of the Capets, dies; succeeded by Philip VI of the House of Valois
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1337 | Edward III, claiming Fr. crown, assumes title King of France
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1337 | Beginning of the Hundred Years' War
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1338 | Alliance of Coblenz between Louis IV and Edward III
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1350 | Philip VI of France dies; succeeded by John II
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1357 | Revolution in Paris against the Dauphin, led by Marcel and Robert le Coq
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1359 | Treaty of London restores Fr. possessions once held by Henry II of England to Eng. crown
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1360 | Treaty of Calais between Edward III and Philip of Burgundy
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1364 | John II of France dies; succeeded by Charles V
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1365 | Charles V crowned King of Burgundy at Arles
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1375 | Truce of Bruges between England and France
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1378 | Renewal of Anglo-Fr. war
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1380 | Charles V of France dies; succeeded by Charles VI, the Mad
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1381 | Anglo-Fr. truce for six years
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1385 | Anglo-Fr. war renewed
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1389 | Truce between England, Scotland, and France
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1391 | Charles VI seized with madness; his brother Louis becomes Duke of Orleans
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1396 | Richard II of England marries Isabella of France at Calais; Anglo-Fr. truce extended to 28 years
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1406 | Robert II of Scotland dies; succeeded by James I, who is imprisoned in England |
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1407 | Louis, Duke of Orleans, murdered by Burgundians; start of civil war in France |
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1419 | Henry allies with Philip II of Burgundy |
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1420 | Treaty of Troyes; Henry V, recognised by Charles VI as heir apparent to the French throne, marries Catherine of France and enters Paris |
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1422 | Charles VI of France dies; succeeded by Charles VII |
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1428 | Joan of Arc leads Fr. armies against England |
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1429 | Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans; Charles VII crowned in Rheims |
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1429 | Philip of Burgundy creates the Order of the Golden Fleece |
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1431 | Joan of Arc burned at the stake at Rouen |
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1431 | Henry VI of England crowned King of France in Paris |
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1435 | Peace of Arras between Charles VII and Philip of Burgundy |
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1439 | The heirs to the Fr. throne receive the title Conte du Dauphiné |
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1449 | English break truce with France, capture Fougères |
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1453 | End of Hundred years' War between England and France |
