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274 Germanic Peoples take advantage of the destroyed Roman armies of the Rhine. They pillage and depopulate large areas of Gaul, including Paris. The Rhine border is lost for 20 years. Franks live in the area of present southern Netherlands, northern Belgium and Rhineland from now on.
508 Clovis I establishes Paris (''Lutetia'') as his capital
511 Frankish kingdom split in four after the death of Clovis I: Childebert I becomes king of Paris; Clotaire I king of Soissons; Chlodomer king of Orléans, and Theuderic I king of Reims and Austrasia.
561 Clotaire I dies, and the Frankish kingdom is divided; Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia, Chilperic I becomes king of Neustria, Charibert becomes king of Paris, and Guntram becomes king of Burgundy.
587 Guntram, king of Paris, adopts Childebert II.
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
987 Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, crowned King of France
1113 Pierre Abélard opens his school in Paris
1115 Hugh of St. Victor joins the Victorines in Paris.
1136 Completion of the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris
1180 Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes ''De Natura Rerum'', an early mention of chess (approximate date)
1182 Jews expelled from Paris by Philip II of France.
1184 Streets of Paris paved by order of Philip Augustus
1248 The Gothic chapel Sainte-Chapelle is concecrated in Paris, France.
1257 Robert de Sorbon founds the ''Collège de Sorbonne'' at Paris, giving a formal college (and still-common name) to the already existing University of Paris in France.
1277 The philosophical doctrine Averroism is banned from Paris at a condemnation at the University of Paris.
1358 The Jacquerie. A Peasant rebellion in France during the Hundred Year's War, which consumed the Beauvais and allied with Etienne Marcel's seizure of Paris. Was defeated on the 10th July at the Battle of Mello.
1369 Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.
1418 Capture of Paris by John, Duke of Burgundy
1422 With the death of King Charles VI of France, Henry VI of England is proclaimed King of France in Paris, while the Dauphin, Charles, is proclaimed King Charles VII of France in Bourges.
1427 First band of gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
1429 Joan leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
1436 Paris is recaptured by the French
1463 Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris
1547 Chambre Ardente established in Paris
1572 Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de France, sister of King Charles, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris. Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including Gaspard de Coligny, at the order of King Charles IX. Henry of Navarre and the Prince of Condé barely escape the same fate. This brings about the Fourth War of Religion in Fran
1588 Day of the Barricades in Paris. Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee.
1594 Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
1635 The ''Académie française'' in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
1659 Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.
1662 Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris.
1667 Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris.
1677 Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins ''la place Vendôme'' in Paris (completed in 1698).
1677 Population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.
1732 139 members of the Paris Parliament are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
1765 The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named '''Boulanger''' sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1766 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg after touring Paris and London with his father
1770 Fireworks at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire - 800 dead.
1778 American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republi
1782 American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris).=
1783 American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5
1789 Tennis Court Oath in Paris
1789 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opened in Paris (a year later it would become the first public zoo).
1793 Feast of Unity - Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems
1793 In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum
1795 Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.
1800 An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.
1800 Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie found the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Paris.
1803 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself as the first Emperor of the French in a thousand years (the Napoleonic Code is adopted).
1814 Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 Anti-Napoleonic troops occupy Paris.
1814 Duke of Provence, future Louis XVIII of France returns to Paris.
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1815 Louis XVIII returns to Paris
1832 France: anti-monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris.
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera ''La Fille du Regiment'' premieres in Paris.
1842 Two trains collide in Paris and catch fire - 59 dead
1844 Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
1848 In Paris, revolt erupts against the king Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates, leading to the Second Republic.
1852 French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes
1858 Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France but the emperor refuses to support it.
1860 The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
1870 Leon Michel Gambetta escapes the besieged Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1871 The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1875 The first performance of Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the Opéra Comique, Paris
1875 Convention du Mètre signed in Paris.
1892 Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
1893 First car number plates in Paris, France
1894 Anarchist Jean Pauwels dies in a Madeline church in Paris when his bomb explodes in his pocket
1895 At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).
1896 Oscar Wilde's play ''Salomé'' premieres in Paris.
1897 The play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
1898 The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris.
1900 The first line of the Métro is inaugurated in Paris.
1901 A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1904 in Paris, 12 nations sign the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade
1908 Start of the first around-the-world car race, from New York to Paris.
1912 French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 500,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied victory.
1914 French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris.
1916 World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
1919 March 15 — The American Legion forms in Paris
1922 ''Ulysses (novel)'' by James Joyce is published in Paris on his fortieth birthday by Sylvia Beach.
1924 Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London - he tries to use a Pathe film to demonstrate that his death ray works
1929 The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 British writer Arnold Bennet dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it safe to drink - but is poisoned
1933 In Paris, a burglar tries to rob an antique store wearing an armor suit but is captured.
1937 General strike in Paris, France
1940 World War II: Paris is declared an open city.
1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
1940 World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1944 (August 25) Victorious insurrection in Paris.
1944 Allies enter Paris.
1946 Bikinis go on sale in Paris
1947 Paris peace treaties signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romaniam Bulgaria and Finland: Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia
1947 Arrest of four steel workers in Marseille begins a communist rioting that spreads to Paris
1947 In Paris, police occupy editorial offices of communist newspapers.
1949 An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores island of São Miguel. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
1950 Pro-communist riots in Paris
1954 The first organ transplants are done in Boston and Paris.
1958 New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris
1960 March 23 — Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle in Paris.
1960 April 12 — Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of Peugeot, is kidnapped in Paris. Kidnappers release him April 15 in exchange for $300,000 ransom.
1960 May 16 — Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960 December 5 — Pierre Lagaillarde, who led 1958 and 1960 insurrections in Algeria, fails to appear in a Paris court. He is reported to have fled with 4 fellow defendants to Spain en route to Algeria.
1960 December 14 — The OECD is formed in Paris.
1961 President John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle meet in Paris.
1961 A Paris-to-Strassbourg train derails near Ventyr-le-Francois; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
1961 "Battle of Paris": French police attack in Paris about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
1963 In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
1964 Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from Paris.
1965 Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again.
1966 NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels.
1968 Surgeons at the Hopital de la Pitie, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant on Clovis Roblain.
1968 Vietnam War: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail since both side are unable to agree to any terms.
1970 Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October seven peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
1971 Doors musician Jim Morrison is found dead in his Paris apartment.
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 Communist activist Henri Curiel is murdered in Paris.
1978 ''Double Eagle II'' becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1979 French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
1988 Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.
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1988 Merhan Karimi Nasseri ("The terminal man") is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he continues to reside until August 1, 2006.
1992 The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
1993 In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead.
1996 Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am that morning.
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2000 A Concorde carrying Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
2003 A big heat wave in Paris has had temperatures up to 44°C (112°F), killing more than 3,000 people.
2004 A section of the ceiling in Terminal 2E at Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport collapses, claiming at least six lives.
2005 At least 21 people die and around 50 are injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
2005 The Franco-Indian Lawyers Association is founded in Paris.
2005 Two teenagers accidentally electrocute themselves in Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France, leading to widespread rioting.
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