Chronology of Paris

Prehistory

40000 front J. - C. Certificate of human presence on the site of Paris.

4200 av. J. - C. Certificate of permanent dwelling in Paris. At the time of excavations in 1991 with Bercy, put at the day of several dugouts in oak, an arc and tools, inter alia.

Antiquity

Towards 100 av. J. - C. First gold currencies of the Parisii.
May 52 av. J. - C. Battle of Lutèce. Victoire of Labienus, lieutenant of Jules César, on the Sénons and the Parisii. The latter have occupied the site for several centuries. The Gallic ones prefer to destroy the bridges and to set fire to themselves rather their city than to let there enter the Romans. The fire of the Gallic Lutèce will make it possible to the Romans to quickly equip the town of a Roman structure, the more so as with seven hills and a river, it parallel with Rome is easy.
Between 14 and 37. The Nautes de Lutèce raise a column in the honor of Jupiter: it is famous “the Pilier of Nautes” put at the day under the foundations of Notre-Dame.
Between 50 and 100 a. J. - C. Construction of the Forum of Lutèce.
65 - 66. icy winter.

Between 100 and 200. Construction with Lutèce of three thermal baths supplied with an aqueduct of 16 kilometers skirting the Beaver, of an amphitheater of 17 000 places and of a theater of 3 000 places, in particular.
Towards 250. Martyrdom of the first bishop of Lutèce, holy Denis. This last was one of the seven bishops sent in Gaulle for the évangéliser. Recorded successes caused the hatred of pagan which made it decapitate on the hill of Montmartre. The legend specifies that holy Denis taken then his head in its hands; it is the most traditional representation of future patron saint of the France.
275 or 276. Probable confusion by German invaders of left bank of the city.
291 - 292. Particularly icy winter. The Seine freezes; it is the first mention of this type which arrived to us.
Towards 300. Lutèce becomes Paris .
Towards 308. Construction of a rampart around the island of the City in order to protect it from the German invaders.
Mars 346. 20 days consecutive of rain in March. Floods.
360 . Council with Paris on the heresy arianist. This typical Christian religious movement of the “barbarians” recognizes neither the divinity of Christ, nor the authority of the pope. The arianism, via the cruel invasions, is essential little by little through whole Europe. Paris becomes, more than Rome itself, the most hostile city with the arianism and attempts to remain faithful to Roman Christianity, Catholicism.
Towards 385. Passage to Paris of holy Martin which cures leprous with the Northern door of the city by a simple kiss and a blessing.
November 397. “be of Saint Martin's day” of the 8 with the November 11th: “the pinks refleurissent”.

451 . Attila and his Huns with the doors of Paris. Holy Genevieve (v. 422-v. 502) dissuades the inhabitants to flee the city. Attila saves Paris and takes the direction of Orleans. Sainte Genevieve consequently becomes the political character more for the city. Sainte Genevieve was the only daughter of a romanized Franc, Severus, magistrate of the city. According to the Roman law, she inherits the fortune of her father and of will have dependant on its load.
464 . Blockade of Paris by frank king Childéric Ist
Towards 475. Construction of one basilica to the site of the tomb of holy Denis.
486 . Sainte Genevieve negotiates with Clovis the tender of Paris to its authority. Clovis has just gained a decisive victory over the Roman Syagrius, but holy Genevieve prohibits to him very entered in Paris. It besieges the city where a famine is declared. Sainte Genevieve organizes the supply, and Clovis raises the seat. This situation tended between Paris and Clovis perdure during ten years. Paris is then a catholic small island in the middle of an ocean dominated by the Arianisme, and holy Genevieve does not want definitively to cut the bridges with Clovis, pagan king and not arianist like all the other cruel kings. The defeat of Syagrius, “the last of the Romans”, marks the Parisian caesura between the Antiquité and the Moyen-âge, or rather the late Antiquité.

The Middle Ages

Early middle ages

494 : Clovis is gradually let convince by its entourage Catholique to convert. The political advantages appear indeed obvious, because of many cities savagely remained catholic, like Paris, their wishes call a catholic king. First sign of this progressive conversion, baptism of his/her son. Alas, this last dies shortly after the sacrament, starting a black anger of Clovis which besieges Paris then. Sainte Genevieve organizes the supply of the city. Clovis raises the seat.
496 or 498: The conversion of Clovis to Catholicism with Rheims is accommodated by the jubilation in Paris which opens from now on into large its doors with the converted Francs. The reconquest vis-a-vis the heretics ariens can start. Clovis is indeed the only catholic monarch in exercise; France inherits the nickname of “Oldest daughter of the Church”.
January 3rd 500 or 502: Death of Holy Genevieve: She is buried at the top of the “mountain” which will bear from now on its name. Clovis made there build the Basilica of the Saint-Apostles, later debaptized Basilica Holy-Genevieve: She becomes later the owner of the city.
508 : Clovis makes of Paris the Capitale of its kingdom.
510 : Proclamation of the Salic law: In order to position as a refondator of the rule of law, Clovis makes write between 508 and 510 the first code of French laws. Until the French revolution and the drafting of the Code Napoleon, this code legislative remains at the base of the legislation of use. Equality between Francs and Gallo-Romans, the freedom of marriage, and the end of the habit of the “right of revenge” are in particular proclaimed there.
Towards 540: Construction of the Saint-Etienne cathedral, later Notre-Dame:
577 : Chilpéric makes repair the Roman Amphithéâtre and gives spectacles to it.
582 : Chilpéric converts of force of many Parisian Jews.
February 583: First important rising of the the Seine mentioned.
583 - 584: very soft winter. Pinks in the month of January!
585 : Large fire which devastates all the island of the City. Only the cathedral remains intact
October 10th 614: Council on the freedom of the episcopal elections and on the jurisdiction of the bishops on the clerks. Since 585, and the Council of Clermont, the bishops were already freely elected by the clerks and the people.
654 : Death of the bishop Landry which would have been the founder of the Hospital towards 651. Contrary to the other institutions of assistance which will be born thereafter, the Hospital receives all the paupers and the patients, without distinction. It is, in fact, the first institution hospital, completely unknown concept of Antiquity.
July 28th 754: Papal oiling of Pip the Brief, Carloman and Charlemagne by the pope Etienne II with the Abbey of Saint-Denis: The latter obtains the privilege of an annual fair.
763 - 764: very rigorous winter of the October 30th to the February 10th: The sea freezes in Normandy! The Seine freezes on all its thickness in Paris. It falls up to 10 meters from snow in certain areas. Destroyed olive-trees and fig trees. Great famine thereafter.
820 : Certificate of the oldest street of Paris: the Street Saint-Germain.

March 28th 845: Norman under the walls of Paris for the first time. With the head of the 120 boats Viking S for 6 000 men, the Dane Ragnar Logrok: Charles the Bald person pours 7 000 pounds of money to obtain their departure.
845 : Famine following the climatic risks and with the destruction Normans.
855 with 876: One counts eleven famines in twenty years.
December 28th 856: Second Norman raid on Paris which sets fire to the city.
June 12th 857: New Norman raid. All the churches are burned, except those of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows and Saint-Denis, against payment of a solid ransom.
April 3rd 858: Catch of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows by the Norman ones.
861 : New Norman raid on Paris which sets fire to the city and the Abbaye of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows:
869 : New Norman raid on Paris which plunders the abbey of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows.
870 : In order to protect Paris from the Norman raids, construction of the Grand-Pont and the Small-Bridge on order of Charles the Bald person:
November 24th 885: New Norman raid on Paris of 700 Norman boats for 30 000 with 40 000 men under the walls of the city.
November 28th 885: After four days of quasi permanent attacks, the Norman ones must be solved to draw up a camp to conclude the seat of the city. It is already a victory for the count of Paris Eudes, which directs the defense of Paris. During the head office of Paris, the Norman ones devastate the surroundings of the city but also try attacks against the city.
February 6th 886: Collapse of the Small-Bridge following a rising allowing Norman to go up the Seine upstream of Paris and to plunder these zones. The large one of the troops maintains the seat in front of Paris.
September 886: Arrived of the emperor Charles the Large which feels reluctant to deliver combat and prefers to pour 700 pounds of money to make raise the Norman seat. Moreover, Charles authorizes them with going to devastate the Burgundy, which is not yet entirely subjected… The Parisian ones refuse this agreement and force the Norman ones to dismount their boats in order to take again their increase of the the Seine without passing by Paris.
May 887: New attempt at Norman raid, but Parisian defenses stop them.
June-July 889: New attempt at Norman raid, but Parisian defenses still stop them.
Winter 974 - 975: rigorous winter and length of November to the March 22nd: snow falls still in May. Famine killing one the third of the French population and certainly half of the Parisian ones.
October 978: The emperor Otton II makes the head office of Paris. Hugues Capet prevents it from crossing the river.
November 30th 978: The emperor Otton II raises the head office of Paris.

XIe century

1007 . Extinction of the title of Count de Paris, the county returning in the hand of the king. The county was introduced by the Francs towards 480 in the place of the civitas (quoted + its zone of direct influence, is approximately 2500 km ² around Paris in the case of the ex-Lutèce).
1021 . Surge of students in Paris to follow the courses of the Chapter of Notre-Dame. The first famous Master is the Archidiacre Albert, died in 1040.
1021 with 1029. Chronic famine, with case of Anthropophagy three last years.
1031 with 1040. Chronic famine, which, according to the testimony of Raoul Glaber touches the rich person and the poor.
1037 . Important fire devastating several districts.
1074 . Council in Paris which pushes back the obligation of the Célibat for the priests.
1076 - 1077. Rigorous winter and length of November 1st to the the April 15th, coldest of the 11th century.
1100 . Beginning of the teaching of Abélard.

XIIe century

1103 . Nomination of Guillaume de Champeaux like écolâtre of Paris. Its teaching is worth an exceptional prestige at the school of Notre-Dame.
1105 . Epidemic, undoubtedly of influenza.
March 12th 1111. The Parisian ones testify their fidelity with the king by pushing back an attempt to catch of the city by Robert de Meulan.
1112 . Paris is essential like capital of the Capétiens by clearly taking the ascending one on Orleans.
1117 . Castration of Abélard on order of the canon Fulbert, uncle of Héloïse.
towards 1120. Installation of the Masters and pupils on the Mountain Holy-Genevieve; the school of Notre-Dame had become too small.
1129 . Epidemic of Coal pestilential, known as Badly of burning the.
November 3rd 1130. “Miracle of Burning the”. The epidemic is stopped clear following a procession of the relics of holy Genevieve.
October 2nd 1131. Died of Philippe, oldest son of the king Louis the Large, désarçonné and killed by its horse frightened by a circulating pig street Midsummer's Day. Following this accident, it will be from now on interdict to let the pigs circulate freely in the streets.
1132 . Interdict launched by the bishop on the Holy-Genevieve mountain to try to put an end to the disorders caused by students increasingly more.
1132 . Important fire devastating several districts.
1137 . To replace the market of the Place of Strike, installation of the new market in Champeaux, origin of the Markets.
1140 . Beginning of the teaching of Pierre Lombard with the school of Notre-Dame.
July 1140. Judgment by the council of Direction of the teaching of Abélard which leaves Paris for Cluny.
1141 . For better being able to supervise the changers, the king Louis VII prohibits to them to exert out of the Pont to the Exchange.
1148 . Derivation of the Beaver by the canons of Saint-Victor. The river is thrown from now on in the Seine with height of the current street of Beaver.
Winter 1149 - 1150. rigorous winter and length of at the beginning of December at February.
1150 . Population of Paris estimated at 50 000 inhabitants.
1150 . Mention by Holy Bernard of the first windmill on the Hillock Chips.
1154 . Beginning of the draining by the canons of Holy Convenient of the marshes located between Montmartre and the city.
1164 . Boring of the New Street Notre Dame during the rebuilding of the cathedral. This work involves the destruction of the Hôtel-Dieu, which is rebuilt in the south of the square.
February 5th 1180. Arrest of the leaders of the Jewish community of Paris. They are condemned by Philippe Auguste to pour a fine of 15 000 money marcs.
April 1182. Eviction of Jews of Paris. Their synagog becomes the church of the Madeleine.

May 19th 1182. Dedication of the high altar of the Notre-Dame cathedral.
1186 . On order of Philippe Auguste, the principal streets of Paris are paved.
1188 with 1190. Chronic famine.
1190 - 1220: Philippe Auguste, makes build a pregnant news strengthened of Paris.
April 3rd 1194. Losses of the royal archives at the time of the Battle of Freteval. Philippe Auguste decides all to consign from now on in double specimen, one of them having to remain imperatively in Paris. It is the beginning of the fixing of the royal administration, until there travelling, as the remainder of the court.
1194 . Famine.
1196 . Believed of the Seine
1196 in 1197. Famine.
Mars 1197. Believed of the Seine which carries the bridges of Paris.
1198 . Return of the Jews in Paris under the condition of paying heavy taxes.
1198 . Creation of a first monastery to the site of Saint-Antoine-of-Fields.
Towards 1200. Appearance of the first signs to allow the identification of the private dwellings.
1200 . Brawl enters the students and the troops of the provost of Paris: 5 dead. Philippe Auguste repudiates his provost by giving reason to the students who threatened to leave the city. He confirms the privilege of the Masters and students to depend only on the justice of the bishop: it is the emergence of the University.

XIIIe century

13th century. Hot summers throughout the century.
1202 . Completion of the construction of the first Palate of Louvre.
December 1206. Very important rising of the Seine which carries three arches of the small bridge and destroyed many houses.
1210 . Authorization by the Innocent pope III for the organization of the Masters of the University in corporation.
1210 . Judgment for heresy of the disciples of Amaury of Chartres. The latter are burned in Champeaux to have pushed too much far the study Metaphysics from Aristote.
August 27th 1214. Of return of Bouvines, or it crushed a coalition gathering the England, the Germany and the Flandres, Philippe-Auguste is accommodated by Paris in jubilation.
August 1215. Gift of its statutes to the University of Paris by the pontifical legate, Robert de Courson.
1220 . End of work of the Pregnant of Philippe-Auguste who protects 273 hectares.
1221 . Believed of the Seine then famine.
1224 - 1225. rigorous and long winter of the October 9th to the April 25th. Great general epidemic in Europe and in Paris.
1225 . Agitation of the Parisian students after the destruction by the papal legate of the seal with which the University had been equipped since 1221. Two men of the Papal legate are killed.
February 26th 1229. New brawls between the students and the sergeants of the provost of Paris at the time of the Carnival.
April 15th 1229. In reaction to the brawls of February 26th, departure for Oxford and Cambridge of many Masters and pupils.
April 13rd 1231. End of the conflict of the University with the Bubble Parens scientiarum which grants to the pupils the privilege of the gun and compares them to clerks.
Towards 1240. On order of the bishop Guillaume of Auvergne, adjustments of the ringings of the bells by clocks.
1246 . Financial autonomy and legal of the University of Paris which receives its own seal.
1248 . Beginning of the teaching of Holy Bonaventure with the University of Paris.

April 26th 1248. Dedication of the the Ste Chapelle.
Towards 1250. Construction of Cleaned Governed, or Parliament, with first only legal sessions. The Parliament of Paris is not a local but national institute which has authority of Picardy in Auvergne, of the Countries of the Loire to Champagne.
1252 . Beginning of the teaching of Thomas d' Aquin with the University of Paris.
1254 . Creation by holy king Louis of the old people's home of Quinze-Vingt intended for the care of 300 blind men.
1254 . Arrived at Paris of an elephant which will be offered by Louis saint to Henri III of England.
Towards 1255. The clerk of the Parliament, Jean de Montmartre, opens the first of his registers, the Olim.
September 1st 1257. Opening of the college rested by Robert de Sorbon, Sorbonne.
1261 . The provost of Paris east from now on a simple royal civil servant.
1268 . Compilation of the Book of the trades by the royal provost Etienne Boileau which mentions the statutes of one hundred thirty-two trades.
1292 . Publication of the famous Book of size , major source for the History of the trades in Paris. This tax document counts and not less than 300 streets.
1292 . Apogee of the University of Paris which receives from the pope the right to teach all Christendom.
December 21st 1296. beginning of a very important rising of the Seine which lasts nearly five months.
1299 . First mention of the construction of a clock in Paris.
1300 . Population of Paris estimated of 150 000 with 200 000 inhabitants.
Towards 1300. Appearance of the first signs in order to identify inns and hotels. This sign could be limited to a wisp; it is the origin of the term “stopper” applied today still to certain inns and cabarets.
About 1300. First list of the street names of Paris in the Known as of the streets of Paris by Guillot.

XIVe century

March 23rd 1302: Meeting with Notre-Dame of the general states of Language of oil in order to give a support for the king in a conflict against the pope.
June 13rd 1303: New meeting with Notre-Dame of the general states of the language of oil in order to again give a support for the king in a conflict against the pope.
1304. Installation of the changers on the Grand-Pont which takes from now on the name of Pont to the Exchange:
1305 : Following renovation work of the Bridge to the Exchange, the changers can exert on bank contiguous to the Châtelet: The changers, which were satisfied until there carrying out the exchange between the various European currencies, recently become lenders; one calls the latter the Lombards (16 changers and 20 lombards in 1292).
June 21st 1306: Expulsion of the Jews of Paris and confiscation of their goods.
December 30th 1306: Riot against the rise of the rents. The king is even besieged by crowd with the Temple.
January 5th 1307: Following the revolt against the rise of the rents, 28 rioters are hung.
1307 : The Parlement of Paris becomes a permanent institution which returns justice in the name of the king into last recourse; its stops can be broken only by the Conseil of the King:
October 13rd 1307: Arrest of the Templiers:
June 1310: To rough-hew in place of Strike for Margueritte Porette, enlightened originating in Hainaut, and for Jewish a relapse.
1311 : Expulsion of the usurers lombards.
1313 : Construction of the first quay of the city enters the convent of Large Augustins and the Hôtel of Nesle:
June 13rd 1313: New meeting with Notre-Dame of the general states of the language of oil in order to again give a support for the king in a conflict against the pope.

March 19th 1314: To rough-hew for Templiers, of which Jacques de Molay, with the point of the Island of the City:
April at July 1315: Rain and cold. The harvests cannot mature.
July 1315: The Jews are authorized to return to Paris and recover a third of their credits.
Winter 1315 - 1316: Rigorous winter and length from December at Easter. Great Famine. The Seine freezes. At the time of the rout, the bridges of Paris are carried.
1320 : Population of Paris estimated at 250 000 inhabitants.
December 1320: Final organization of the Parliament in three rooms: Large-Room, Room of the investigations and Room of the requests:
1322 : Authorization by the Provost of Paris of the Night-work, until there strictly prohibited
1323: Publication of the first tourist guide of Paris of Jean de Jandun:
1325 : The wood gibet of Montfaucon is replaced by a gibet stone.
January 6th 1326: Rigorous and long winter. The Seine freezes. The bridges of Paris are carried by the rout. The island of the City is supplied by boats during five weeks.
February 1328: Particularly fatal epidemic.
March 20th 1342: Institution of the Gabelle, tax on the salt which causes very sharp resistances.
1345 : After 182 years of work, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is completed.
At the end of August 1348: Beginning of the epidemic of the Black Death in Paris. It lasts two years.
1348 : Royal prohibition to sweep the streets after strong rains in order to limit the rejection of the refuse to the Seine, independent source of drinking water used by the Parisian ones.
May 1349: With the paroxysm of the epidemic of Black Death, the Royal Council leaves the city.
1350. Opening of the first sewer with open sky on the basis of the Baudoyer place to flow in the ditches of the Bastille.

July 7th 1357: Purchase by Etienne Marcel, Provost of the merchants since 1355, of the House to the pillars of the Place of Strike in order to install the municipality there.
January 24th 1358: Assassination of the treasurer of the dolphin Jean Baillet by the changer Marc Perrin which finds asylum with the Holy-Merry church: The marshal of Normandy makes insert the door of the church and Jean Baillet is hung as of the following day. Furious of this attack against the right of asylum, the bishop excommunicates the marshal of Normandy and requires the restitution of the body of condemned.
February 22nd 1358: Invasion of the Palate of the City by the Parisian ones out of weapons under the control of Etienne Marcel. The marshals of Champagne and Normandy are massacred, while the dolphin is capped red and blue hat of Paris. Etienne Marcel dreams to equip Paris with a statute of autonomy.
February 24th 1358: Promise of dolphin to respect the large ordinance of March 1357: Four middle-class men of Paris enter to his council, of which Etienne Marcel.
May 4th 1358: Entry of the king de Navarre Charles II the Bad in Paris.
May 14th 1358: Edict of Vermandois of the dolphin which besieges Paris.
June 10th 1358: End of the Jacquerie of the peasants of Beauvaisis which had the entirety support of Etienne Marcel.
July 11th 1358: Attempt at exit of Parisian besieged by the troops of the Dolphin. The Parisian ones are stopped with Bercy:
July 19th 1358: Lifting of the head office of Paris by the Dolphin with money court.
July 21st 1358: Brawl of cabaret between Parisian and mercenaries English: about thirty English are killed and more than fifty prisoners.
July 22nd 1358: Forwarding the Parisian ones in order to drive out the English mercenaries present at Saint-Cloud and Saint-Denis: This forwarding falls into an ambush and the Parisian ones are massacred by the English.
July 31st 1358: Attempt at Etienne Marcel to make open the doors of the city to the mercenaries of king de Navarre. It is killed with the Bastide Saint-Anthony by partisans of the Dolphin.
August 2nd 1358: Triumphal entry of the dolphin, future Charles V Wise the, in Paris. It is the end of the dream of autonomy for Paris.
August 10th 1358: After some executions of partisans of Etienne Marcel, an amnesty is proclaimed.
May 13rd 1360: Signature of a convention between the middle-class men of Paris and the English for the repurchase of ten fortified towns who obstruct the communications and the supply of the city.
1360 with 1363: Epidemic of plague.
1363 : Impoverishment is accentuated and the number of beggars wandering in the streets of Paris becomes important.
1364 : Charles V the Wise one is crowned king de France and gives up the Hôtel Saint-pol. in the Quartier of the Marsh, seat traditional of the capacity, to settle in the Louvre which it makes renovate.
1365 : Population of Paris estimated at 275 000 inhabitants.
1366 with 1369: Epidemic of plague.
1368 : New diversion of the Beaver which is thrown from now on in the the Seine on the level of the Small towers. The part of the river remained in Paris east transformed into sewer.
1370 : By royal decree, the churches sound the hours and the fifteen minutes while conforming to the hour marked by the clock to weight and ringing of Henri of Vic installed to the Palais of the City.

April 22nd 1370: Pose first stone of the Bastille:
1372 : Very active Jeanne Daubenton, member of the east burned alive in place of Strike. Turlupins are the heirs to the Adamistes which preach for the destitution and nudity. This movement is excommunicated this same year by the pope Gregoire XI.
1373 : Important rising of the Seine.
1374 : Epidemic of plague.
1374 : In order to put a term at the use of the “whole to the street”, transforming the streets into true sewers, it is from now on obligatory with all the owners of the city and the suburbs of Paris to equip their residences with deprived Latrine S of sufficient number. This obligation will have to be often renewed, because with many owners their residences do not equip.

1378 : Construction of the Bridge Saint-Michel initially called New Bridge:
1379 with 1380: Epidemic of plague.
1380 : End of work of the enclosure known as of Charles V which protects 439 hectares.
1382 : Epidemic of plague.
Be 1383: Heat wave.
1392 : One counts eight rooms of Jeu of palm in Paris.
1395 : Authorized since 1322, the night-work is again strictly interdict in Paris.
January 22nd 1397: Schedule of the provost of Paris which in particular points out the prohibition of the practice of the Jeu of palm. The players do not hold obviously any account of this interdict…
June 22nd 1397: The provost of Paris prohibits the practice of the play of palm the every day, except Sunday “because several professionals and others of the small people left their work and their family during the business days, which was extremely prejudicial for the good law and order”. Once again, the players do not hold any account of this interdict and of the parts take place the every day, with the great despair of the municipal authorities.
1399 with 1401: Epidemic of plague.

XVe century

1407 - 1408. Rigorous winter and length from November 10th to April 10th, one of most cold of the Middle Ages. 66 days of frozen in Paris. The Seine freezes. The bridge built of Small-Châtelet, built out of wood, is carried by the ices carted by a rising of the Seine in January 1407. Food shortage.
1413 : Revolt of Cabochiens.
1417 with 1439. Summers generally hotter. Early grape harvest as of at the end of August.
1419 - 1420. Rigorous and long winter. Abundant snowfall. Wolves in Paris.

Modern time

April 15th 1521. Judgment by the Sorbonne of the theories of Luther.
1530 . Creation by François 1st of the Collège de France under the name of “royal College”.
December 1531. Epidemic of plague.
17 - October 18th 1534. Business of the Wall cupboards. The calvinists placard texts of Calvin.
July 29th 1538. Explosion of the Tower of the Forging mill, powder reserve touched by the lightning.
April 22nd 1547. Arrival in Paris via the Seine of the first Raft of heating.
August 30th 1548. Inauguration of the first permanent theater to the Hotel of Burgundy.
1553 . Introduction to Paris of the sorbets frozen by Italian glaciers.
4 - September 5th 1557. Riot of the Parisian catholics against the Reform.
May 25th 1559. First synod calvinist, Street of the Marshes.
1587 . Creation of an Arabic pulpit to the Collège de France.

23 with the August 24th 1572: Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; 2 000 dead.
1585 . The community of the fencers of Paris adopts the Fencing master term of .
1588 : “Day of the barricades”, beginning of the League in Paris
1590: third head office of Paris by Henri IV; 100 000 dead.
January 3rd 1591: “Day of the flours”, unfruitful attempt at Henri IV to return in Paris.
March 22nd 1594: entry of Henri IV in Paris
1594. Prohibition to leave out of the capital of the new or worn balls of Play of made palm to Paris!
May 14th 1610. Assassination of Henri IV, Street of the Ironwork.
1615 - 1616. Icy winter. The Seine freezes of 1st at January 30th. At the time of the rout, the Saint-Michel bridge is carried. Around Paris, the thickness of the layer of snow exceeds the size of a man.
1628 . Publication of the first study of the Parisian Slang of Chéreau.
May 30th 1631. First number of the Parisian periodical the Gazette of France .
March 13rd 1634. First meeting of the French Academy.
1636 . Introduction of the The like drink of approval in Paris.
1643 . Opening and closing of the first coffee sales outlet in Paris. It is necessary to wait twenty more years to see the coffee imposing itself on Paris.
August 27th 1648. “Day of the barricades”. More 1 200 barricades in Paris to protest against “the abuses the State”. The rioters obtain the release of several hundreds of prisoners.
May 15th 1651. First modern horse-race organized in Paris. Two riders clash on a course in the Bois de Boulogne. The arrival is judged with the castle of Madrid in the presence of the young person Louis XIV.
February 27th 1658. The greatest rising of the the Seine with 8,96 Mr. on a scale Austerlitz.
1617 - 1676: Louis XIII, new enclosure

October 1674. First boarders lodged with the Hotel of the Invalids.
1708 - 1709. Icy winter. -23,1°C on January 13rd in Paris. The coldest winter “for a long time”. During 10 days consecutive, the temperature is lower than -10°C in Paris. Record ever beaten. Record of -26°C in Paris. Vagueness of great cold from January 6th to 23rd and very cold from January 13rd to 20th. The Seine freezes. Famine with approximately 1,4 million died in France. Paris is supplied for the first time on April 5th. Thaw in April.
1739 - 1740. Icy winter. 75 days of frozen in Paris, including 22 consecutive. The Seine freezes on 16 inches of depth. Cold from October at March.
December 26th 1740 the third raw larger of the the Seine, with 8,05 Mr.
1775 - 1776. Icy winter in the north of France. Normal in the Center and in the South of the country. Great cold with part of January 8th, 1775 until the beginning of February. Temperature record: -17,2°C in Paris on January 29th. The Seine is cold from January 25th to February 6th.
November 21st 1783. First flight of a man in balloon. The French Pilatre de Rosier carries out this first on a balloon designed and carried out by the brothers of Montgolfier. This first flight above Paris lasts 28 minutes and the balloon reaches the 1000 m of altitude.
1783 - 1784. Icy. Cold in the North from November to April. Abundant snow enters on December 26th and the February 17th. 69 days of consecutive gel in Paris. Temperature record: -19,1°C in Paris. Great cold of the January 7th to the February 4th. The the Seine freezes for two months.
1785 . Wall of the Farmers general
1788 - 1789. Icy winter. 56 days of consecutive frosts in Paris. The Seine freezes of November 20th to the January 20th. Temperature record: -21,8C in Paris the December 31st 1788.

Contemporary time

French revolution

July 14th 1789: Storming of the Bastille
October 6th 1789: Installation of Louis XVI with the palate of Tileries
1793 - 1794. Icy winter. Two cold waves: of mid-December at the end of January then of mid-February at the end of March. 52 days of consecutive frosts in Paris. The Seine freezes with bets from December 25th to January 28th.
1794 - 1795. Icy winter. Temperature record: -23,5°C in Paris on January 23rd. 42 days of consecutive frosts in Paris. The Seine freezes from December 25th to January 28th.
September 22nd 1796. Behavior on the Fields of Mars in Paris of “the First Olympic one of the Republic”. In front of 300 000 spectators, the program includes/understands in particular races on foot and even a race of tanks to the Antique! Six champions are crowned.
September 22nd 1797. Program sporting maintained at the time of the revolutionary festivities
1797. First jump in parachute carried out by the French Andre-Jacques Garnerin. He springs of a balloon to 650 m of altitude above the Plaine Heap in Paris
September 22nd 1798. The sporting program of the revolutionary festivities is supplemented by a contest of tournaments, in particular. To note the procession of the athletes in opening of this sporting day and the use for the first time of the Metric system in Athletics.

XIXe century

August 9th 1803. Demonstration of the steamer of Fulton on the Seine.

December 2nd 1804. Napoleon crowned emperor with Notre-Dame.
October 24th 1806. Inauguration of the Bridge of Austerlitz.
July 29th 1807. Decree reducing the number of Parisian theaters to 8.
August 15th 1810. Inauguration of the first Column Vendôme.
1816 . 5 000 lanterns light 1 600 Parisian streets. Many complaints related to the bad quality of this lighting. One then adopts the London technique of lighting to gas inaugurated on the other side of the channel in 1804. The Passage covered with the Panoramas profits the first of this innovation.
July 8th 1817. Inauguration of the Russian Mountains with the Garden Beaujon.
1819 . The firemen of Paris obtain a gymnasium.
October 1824. Inauguration of the first store of clothes industry of series, the beautiful flower stand of Pierre Parissot.
June 3rd 1825. First tests of public lighting to gas, places Vendôme.

November 4th 1825. Inauguration of the Channel Saint Martin's day.
January 30th 1828. First lines of slow train with cars tractor drawn by horses in order to ensure transport in commun runs.
1826 . Creation of the bookstore of Louis Hatchet.
July 16th, 1826. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Figaro .
January 1st 1829. Lighting with gas of the Street of Peace.
October 15th 1829. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper Time .
27 - July 29th 1830. Riot in Paris against Charles X who is deposited.
February 19th October 1st 1832. Cholera epidemic killing more 18 500 Parisian.
July 1st 1836. First number for two Parisian daily newspapers: the Century and the Press .

July 29th 1836. Inauguration of the Triumphal arch.
October 25th 1836. Erection of the Obelisk of Louxor in the middle of the place of the Harmony.
August 26th 1837. Inauguration of first railway line Frenchwoman open to the travellers connecting Paris to Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.
August 2nd 1839. The railway line Paris-Versailles from now on is opened to the travellers.
July 28th 1840. Inauguration of the Column of July of the Place of the Bastille to the memories of the Revolution naires of 1830.
December 15th 1840. Ashes of Napoleon are transferred to the Invalids.
December 24th 1840. Introduction to Paris of the Lorraine tradition of the Christmas tree.
1842 . Manufacture of the first French cigarettes in the district of the Large-Stone.
March 4th 1843. First number of the Parisian weekly magazine the Illustration .
May 2nd 1843. Inauguration of the railway line Paris-Orleans.
May 3rd 1843. Inauguration of the railway line Paris-Rouen.
October 20th 1843. First tests of electric public lighting to the Place of the Harmony.
January 7th 1846. End of work of the Station of North.
June 14th 1846. Inauguration of the railway line between Paris and Lille.
February - June 1848. Riots in Paris carrying the blow of thanks to the monarchical mode; proclamation of the Republic.
1851 Opening of the first section of railroad which will become the Small Belt of Paris.
December 11th 1852. Inauguration of the Circus Napoleon , today Circus of winter.
March 13rd 1853. Inauguration of the Hospital Lariboisière.
June 1st 1853. Launching of the store To the good market of Aristide Boucicaut.
1855 . World Fair.

May 19th 1858. Vote law on great work of Paris. They are placed under the authority of the Préfet of the Seine, Georges Eugene Haussmann.
January 1st 1860: 11 communes bordering are attached to Paris: Auteuil, Passy, Batignolles, Montmartre, the Vault, the Villette, Belleville, Charonne, Bercy, Vaugirard and Grenelle.
October 6th 1860. Inauguration of the Zoological gardens.
1861 . Invention by the Michaux brothers of the pedal. These carriage-builders are based Fields-Élysées.
1863 . First number of the Parisian daily newspaper Small Newspaper .
May 11th 1865. Creation of the department store With the Spring by Jules Jaluzot.
July 1st 1868. First pillar-shaped billboards announcing the spectacles.
July 5th 1868. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper the Gallic .
January 10th 1870. Assassination of the journalist Yvan Salmon, known as Black Victor.
September 4th 1870. Demonstration and proclamation of the Republic.
September 19th 1870 - March 1st 1871: Sit of Paris by the German

March 26th with the May 22nd 1871: the Commune of bets
May 23rd with June 1871: Massacre, by the of Versailles ones, of the Communards of Paris. Many Communards will be off-set towards the bagnes.
June 15th 1875. Pose first stone of the Sacré-coeur.
October 15th 1876. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper, Small Parisian the .
October 19th 1877. Inauguration of the Which occurred of the Opera.
May 30th 1878. First tests of electric lighting of the avenue of the Opera.
July 1879. Beginning of the constitution of a phone network.
1881 . Electric lighting of the grand boulevards.
January 10th 1882. Inauguration of the Museum Grévin.
July 14th 1882. First number of Auvergnat of Paris .

January 1887. Beginning of work of the Eiffel Tower.
April 2nd 1889. End of work of the Eiffel Tower.
1889 . Publication of the first directory of the subscribers to the Telephone of the department of the Seine.
March 15th 1891. Hour unique in France. All the country adopts the Paris time.
June 2nd 1891. Creation in Paris of the Mutual Bet Hippodrome.
April 7th 1893. Creation of the restaurant Maxim' S.
June 23rd 1894. Behavior in the Sorbonne of the “Congress for the re-establishment of the Olympic Games”.
1895 . Inauguration of the Galleries Lafayette (Haussmann).
December 28th 1895. First public meeting of cinema by the Brothers Light.
September 10th 1896. Tornado on Paris. Major damage and many deaths.
1896 . Disappearance of the lichens of the Garden of Luxembourg because of pollution.
July 18th 1897. Inauguration of the Park of the Princes.
1898 . 94.255 bicycles and 89 motor vehicles listed in Paris.
October 26th 1898. First connection without wire between the Eiffel Tower and the the Pantheon of Paris by Eugene Ducretet and Ernest Roger.
1900 . World Fair and Olympic Games.
July 4th 1900. Inauguration of the Station of Orsay.

July 19th 1900. Inauguration of the first underground line between Vincennes and the carries Maillot.

XXe century

August 10th 1903. Accident in the subway at the station Crowns; 80 dead.
April 18th 1904. First number of the socialist daily newspaper (then communist) Parisian: Humanity .
March 25th 1907. Creation of the first gyratory direction for the motor vehicles: the Place of the Star.
September 13rd 1909. Installation of the first street with one way, Street of Mogador.
1910 . 261 723 bicycles and 10 800 motor vehicles listed in Paris.
January 28th 1910. Flood of Paris. Important rising of the the Seine: 2400 m ³ /s and 8,62 m almost reaching the beard of Zouave of the bridge of Alma
February 13rd 1910. Inauguration of the Cycle-racing track of winter.
May 14th 1910. First attack of bank using the motor vehicle.
1912 . First neon sign with neon (Montmartre boulevard).
August 22nd 1911. Flight of the Mona Lisa with the Museum of Louvre.
December 24th 1913. First giant Christmas tree to the Fields-Élysées.
July 31st 1914. Assassination of Jean Jaurès.
September 6th 1914. The Parisian taxis are requisitioned by the army to ensure the transport of the troop towards the face; they are famous “the taxi drivers of the Marne”.

September 10th 1915. First number of the Parisian satiric weekly the Duck connected .
July 30th 1916. Inauguration of the Stage Jean Bouin.
January 30th - March 11th 1918. Series of German air raids. Many deaths.
March 23rd - September 16th 1918. Paris is bombarded by the German Pariser kanonen . Many deaths.
1919 . 50.000 traffic accidents listed in Paris, of which 34 000 implying the Automobile car .

1924 . Olympic Games.
May 21st 1927. Charles Lindbergh accommodated as hero in Paris after his crossing of the North Atlantic.
July 29th 1928. Inauguration of the stage of tennis of Roland-Garros.
1928 . Pose first system of fires to the crossroads in order to reduce the traffic accidents.
April 14th 1931. First emission of Television.
February 6th 1934. Riot in Paris against “parliamentary corruption”; 11 dead.
June 2nd 1934. Inauguration of the Zoo of Vincennes.
September 9th 1936. Creation of the French Cineclub by Henri Langlois.
March 15th 1937. Circulation of the last tram in Paris.
1937 . World Fair.
June 3rd 1940. German bombardment; more than 250 dead.
June 10th 1940. The government leaves Paris for Tours then Bordeaux.
November 11th 1940. Demonstration of students to the Fields-Élysées.
May 29th 1942. Obligation for the Jews to carry a yellow star.
16 - July 17th 1942. Great raid of 13 000 Parisian Jews.
September 3rd 1943. Allied bombardment. more than 400 dead.
April 21st 1944. Allied bombardment. More than 600 dead.

April 26th 1944. First visit of the Pétain marshal in Paris since 1940. The shortly after the fatal allied bombardments, it does not have any evil to gather some partisans to make the snap on its passage.
August 19th - August 25th 1944: Release of Paris
August 22nd 1944. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper the Parisian one Released .
December 18th 1944. First number of the Parisian daily newspaper Le Monde .
February 28th 1946. First number of the Parisian sporting daily newspaper the Team .
April 13rd 1946. Closing of the closed houses.
February 12th 1947. First procession of Haute couture (Christian Dior).
March 21st 1948. Creation of the RATP.
July 6th 1951. Celebration of the bimillenary of Paris.
1952 . Circulation of the first subway on tires in Paris.
April 27th 1959. Demolition of the Cycle-racing track of winter, the famous one “vel-of hiv”.
April 12th 1960. Inauguration of the Parisian section of the highway of the sun.
January 17th 1962. “blue night”. Series of terrorist attacks of OAS.
February 8th 1962. Demonstration against OAS. Eight died at the subway station Charonne.

October 14th 1963. Inauguration of the House of the Radio.
April 6th 1965. The Parisian cars from now on will be registered in “75”.
November 29th 1967. Inauguration of the highway Paris-Lille.
May 3rd 1968. Intervention in force of the CRS to the Sorbonne.
May 10th 1968. “Night of the barricades”. Riot coed with the Latin Quarter of Paris.
May 30th 1968. Demonstration of support with the General de Gaulle.
October 1st 1968. Single ticket in the Parisian buses and subways.
September 15th 1971. Startup of the first ticket machine in Paris.
February 6th 1973. Set fire to Collège Edouard-Pailleron; 20 dead.

April 25th 1973. Inauguration of the last section of the ring road.
September 13rd 1973. Inauguration of the Turn Montparnasse.
January 1st 1975. Creation of the Transport ticket.
January 31st 1977. Inauguration of the Center of Art and Culture Georges-Pompidou.
March 25th 1977. Jacques Chirac elected mayor of Paris.
December 8th 1977. Inauguration of the station of Subway/the RER Châtelet-the-Markets.
May 1st 1979. “Blue Night”. Series of 12 attacks of Corsican FLNC.
September 4th 1979. Inauguration of the Forum of the Markets.
October 3rd 1980. Terrorist attack of the Synagog of the street Copernic; 4 dead.
September 22nd 1981. Inauguration of first line TGV between Paris and Lyon.
January 12th 1984. Inauguration of the theater of the Zenith to the Park of the Villette.

February 3rd 1984. Inauguration of the general sports Palate of Paris-Bercy.
1985/1986. Series of terrorist attacks islamist in Paris.
May 22nd 1995. Jean Tiberi replaces Jacques Chirac, elected President of the Republic, at the station of mayor of Paris.
October 17th 1995. Terrorist attack enters stations the RER of the Musée of Orsay and Saint-Michel.
December 27th 1999. A violent storm sweeps France. Wind to 169 km/h (record) in Paris. More than 220 km/h at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
2000 . The most rainy year of the 20th century in Paris: 900 mm of rain compared with 650 mm of average.
December 21st 2000. Inauguration of the European Hospital Georges-Pompidou.

XXIe century

March 18th 2001. The Socialist Bertrand Delanoë is elected Maire of Paris.
July 21st with the August 18th 2002. First edition of Paris-Beach which transforms the bank roads into beach with 1 000 tons of fine sand and palm trees. Very great success of image for the capital doubled of a solid popular success with more than 2,5 million visitors. The idea is taken up abroad.

October 5th 2002. First edition of the “Sleepless night” which puts at the honor the Contemporary art throughout the night.
2003 . Heat wave (2 waves: June and August), 15 000 died in France. At Paris, 9 days consecutive with more 35°C from August 4th to 12th. Record of minimal temperature (the night) with 25,5°C in the night from August 11th to 12th. The hottest summer since official statements exist in Paris (1757).
November 2003: European social forum, organized by the altermondialists
Be 2005: a wave of fires strikes several unsanitary buildings of the capital, resulting in the death of a score of people. These fires allow to the Minister of Interior Department to justify the expulsion of several squat S.
November 2005: begun riots with Clichy-sous-Bois in suburbs is quickly extend to all the Paris and its suburbs then in all the disadvantaged urban areas from the country.
Mars 2006: the Parisian universities are occupied by the students. The Sorbonne is evacuated by the police force then closed until April. Several days of confrontations between the police force and the students.
December 16th 2006: inauguration of a tram line on 7,9 km between the bridge of Garagliano and the door of Ivry. It is the great return of the tram in Paris, after an absence of almost 70 years.
July 15th 2007: inauguration of a new transport system in self-service the Vélib'

Sources

Alfred Fierro, History and dictionary of Paris , p 537 to 658.

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