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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
Timeline of Events
1511
11.17.1511
Spain and England ally against France.
1512
4.11.1512
War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1513
6.6.1513
Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1515
1.1.1515
King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
1516
8.13.1516
The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
1534
7.24.1534
French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1535
5.19.1535
French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1541
8.23.1541
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1543
7.7.1543
French troops invade Luxembourg.
1545
7.21.1545
The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
1558
1.7.1558
France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
7.13.1558
Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1560
2.27.1560
The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1561
8.19.1561
An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1562
1.17.1562
France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
3.1.1562
23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1574
5.30.1574
Henry III becomes King of France.
1585
7.7.1585
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1594
2.27.1594
Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1608
7.30.1608
At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1615
6.2.1615
First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1624
6.10.1624
Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
1631
5.30.1631
Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
1632
3.29.1632
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1634
8.18.1634
Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1635
6.28.1635
Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1645
8.3.1645
Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1647
3.14.1647
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1649
3.11.1649
The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1654
6.7.1654
Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1659
11.17.1659
The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1682
4.9.1682
Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1685
2.18.1685
Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1687
12.31.1687
The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1689
2.12.1689
The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
5.12.1689
King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1704
2.29.1704
Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1706
5.23.1706
Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.
1709
9.11.1709
Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1729
11.9.1729
Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.