Loss of Calais
1558 · Event
Last English continental possession captured by France during the war on Spain's side; humiliating end of medieval English France.
On these timelines: France, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
Around 1558
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)