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Timeline
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(6500 BC) Neolithic period; farming began
(3000 BC) Bronze Age; walled citadels built
(1200 BC) Celts colonized by the Gauls
(58-52 BC) Gallo Roman civilization begins when Julius Caesar conquers Gaul
(177) Execution of first Christian martyrs
(275) First Barbarian raids
(360) Lutetia changes name to Paris
(406) Frank and Germanic tribes settle
(476) End of the Western Roman Empire
(600) The territory is named France following the colonization of the Franks
(732) Battle of Poiters; Arab invasion
(768) Charlemagne to rebuild Roman Empire
(800) Charlamagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
(987) Hughs Capet begins the Capetian Dynasty
(1066) Normans victory over England
(1096) First Crusade
(1180-1223) Reign of Philip Augustus
(1226) Louis IX crowned King
(1270) Louis IX dies
(1285) Philip the Fair crowned
(1297) Louis IX becomes Saint Louis
(1305) Papacy established in Avignon
(1346) Battle of Crècy
(1348-52) The Black Plague
(1356) French defeat at Battle of Poities
(1415) Battle of Agin Court
(1419) Charles VI of France declares Henry V of England his heir
(1429) Charles VII crowned King
(1431) Joan of Arc burned at the stake
(1453) End of 100 Years War
(1477) Duke of Burgundy's final defeat
(1494) France and Austria begin the Italian wars
(1515) Reign of Francois I begins
(1519) Leonardo da Vinci dies
(1539) French becomes the official language
(1559) Cateau-Cambresis Treaty ends Italian wars
(1562) Catholics and Protestants religous wars
(1589) Henry IV is first Bourbon King of France
(1593) Henry IV turns Catholic; religious wars end
(1610-1715) Reign of Louis XIII is followed by absolute monarchy of Louis XIV
(1720) Last outbreak of plague in France
(1756-63) Seven Years War; France loses all colonial possessions and Canada
(1778-83) France assists the 13 colonies in the American War of Independence
(1789) French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille in Paris
(1792) Louis XVI overthrown, First Republic created
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