France
Explore France on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
- Vercingetorix (82 BCE)
- Caesar's conquest of Gaul (58 BCE)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- Napoleon crowned Emperor (1804)
- Charles de Gaulle (1890)
- French Fifth Republic founded (1958)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Reign of Terror (1793)
- French Third Republic (1870)
- Reign of Philip II Augustus of France (1180)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Reign of Francis I of France (1515)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Reign of Henry IV (Bourbon) of France (1589)
- Reign of Louis IX (Saint Louis) (1226)
- Trial and execution of Joan of Arc (1431)
- Joan of Arc (1412)