Today in France History (Part 5)
Sub-Topics: French Polynesia - New Caledonia
Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 2,112
1669-02-01 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1669-12-31 - France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty
1670-02-17 - France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
1670-12-31 - France & England sign Boyne-treaty
1671-11-01 - French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1671-11-11 - Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
1672-04-06 - France declares war on Netherlands
1672-04-29 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1672-05-17 - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1672-06-07 - Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1672-06-12 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1672-06-21 - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1672-09-06 - Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
1673-06-06 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1673-06-14 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1673-07-06 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1673-08-21 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1673-08-30 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1674-05-28 - German Parliament declares war on France
1674-07-01 - Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1675-01-05 - Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
1676-04-22 - Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1676-06-02 - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1677-02-15 - King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1677-04-11 - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1677-04-22 - Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet
1677-11-16 - French troops occupy Freiburg
1678-04-25 - French troops conquer Ypres
1678-05-03 - French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
1678-05-11 - French admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaaao
1678-07-26 - England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1678-08-10 - Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
1678-08-14 - Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
1678-09-17 - France & Spain signs peace treaty
1678-09-29 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
1679-02-05 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1680-03-22 - Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1681-10-23 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
1682-03-19 - Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1682-04-09 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1682-05-06 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
1683-09-06 - Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1683-09-24 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1684-01-12 - French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon
1684-08-15 - Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1685-02-18 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1685-10-18 - French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes
1686-07-09 - Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1686-11-18 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1687-12-31 - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1688-09-20 - French troops occupies Palts
1688-09-24 - France declares war on German
1688-11-26 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688-12-09 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1688-12-19 - King James II's wife & son flee to France
1688-12-23 - English king Jacob II flees to France
1688-12-25 - English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1689-02-15 - German Parliament declares war on France
1689-04-15 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1689-05-09 - English King Willem III declares war on France
1689-05-11 - Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
1689-07-25 - France declares war on England
1689-08-05 - 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France.
1689-08-25 - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French
1690-01-22 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1690-02-08 - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
1690-03-16 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1690-06-30 - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1690-07-01 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1690-07-10 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet
1690-07-10 - Neth-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)
1690-08-01 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
1691-04-09 - French troops occupy Mons
1691-07-22 - Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France
1692-05-29 - Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
1692-07-24 - French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1692-08-03 - Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army
1693-06-27 - 1st sea battle of Lagos: England & Holland vs France
1693-07-04 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1693-07-29 - Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army
1693-07-29 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1693-10-04 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1694-06-29 - Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1695-08-04 - French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
1695-08-13 - -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
1695-09-04 - French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
1696-07-28 - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1696-07-29 - French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1697-10-30 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
1698-10-11 - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
1699-06-11 - England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1700-03-25 - England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1701-03-09 - France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1701-09-07 - Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1702-05-14 - England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702-05-15 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England & France
1702-08-19 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1702-09-16 - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
1702-10-12 - Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron
1702-10-23 - -24] Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet
Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 2,645
1700-11-19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
1701-01-28 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1701-10-18 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
1702-07-31 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1703-06-23 - Maria Leszczyńska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
1703-09-29 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1703-10-28 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1703-11-25 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1704-02-12 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
1704-02-28 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
1704-06-24 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
1705-02-15 - Charles A Vanloo, French painter
1706-12-17 - Chôtelet, la belle Emilie, French writer
1706-12-17 - Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire)
1707-02-15 - Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist
1709-02-24 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1710-02-15 - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74)
1710-05-23 - Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)
1710-11-13 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
1712-02-28 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
1712-03-27 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1712-06-21 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1712-06-28 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1712-11-25 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789)
1713-01-02 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1713-04-12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
1713-04-21 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France
1713-05-03 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1713-05-06 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1713-07-22 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1713-08-28 - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1713-09-18 - Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher
1713-10-05 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1714-01-26 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)
1714-01-28 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)
1714-02-22 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1714-02-25 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
1714-06-17 - Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor)
1714-07-16 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1714-08-14 - Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter
1715-01-26 - Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1715-05-22 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1715-06-25 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1715-07-16 - Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France
1715-08-06 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1715-09-22 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
1715-09-30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1715-10-05 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1715-10-08 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
1715-11-23 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1715-12-27 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)
1716-01-20 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1716-05-29 - Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist
1716-06-18 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter
1716-12-01 - Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1716-12-16 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
1716-12-26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
1717-06-20 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
1717-06-27 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1717-08-13 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
1717-10-05 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1717-11-16 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician
1717-12-20 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1718-01-29 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1718-10-19 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
1719-01-02 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1719-06-28 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1719-07-04 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1719-08-20 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1719-10-17 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
1720-03-22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1720-08-17 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)
1720-11-01 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1721-10-19 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
1721-12-06 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
1721-12-27 - Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher
1721-12-29 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1722-02-19 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
1723-02-21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
1723-04-30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1723-07-11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1723-08-02 - Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
1724-05-22 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1724-07-31 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1725-02-25 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
1725-07-01 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1725-08-21 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
1725-09-05 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1725-09-12 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
1725-09-16 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1725-10-12 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
1726-04-20 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer
1726-09-07 - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion
1726-11-30 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1727-04-07 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
1727-04-29 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)
1727-05-10 - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1727-08-14 - Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752)
1727-08-14 - Louise-Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
1727-11-18 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 2,121
1665-01-21 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
1665-11-19 - Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies
1665-12-02 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
1666-01-20 - Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64
1666-09-01 - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1667-05-09 - Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48)
1667-11-28 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1668-08-09 - Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64
1669-05-14 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1669-06-25 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1670-01-21 - Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
1671-09-01 - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies
1672-01-28 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1672-05-08 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
1672-09-12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
1673-02-17 - Moliare, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French author (Learned Lady), dies
1673-02-17 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
1673-06-18 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1673-06-25 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
1674-02-22 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1674-03-08 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1674-06-14 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1674-09-27 - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
1675-05-27 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1675-07-27 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
1675-10-27 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1675-12-23 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
1676-02-14 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1676-03-21 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1676-07-25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1676-09-09 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1676-10-28 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1679-01-14 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1679-06-15 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1679-08-24 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680-02-22 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1680-03-14 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1680-03-23 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
1680-07-10 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1680-08-19 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1680-10-04 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
1681-03-12 - French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1682-07-12 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1682-11-23 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1683-07-10 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1683-07-30 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1683-09-05 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1684-01-05 - Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
1684-05-12 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1685-10-30 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1686-01-21 - Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies
1686-01-31 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1686-02-26 - Godefroi L earl d'estrades, French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78
1686-07-11 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1686-08-13 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
1688-02-02 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1688-03-09 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
1688-05-14 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1688-10-23 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1688-11-26 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1690-10-16 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1690-11-17 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1691-05-23 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1691-10-10 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1692-07-23 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1692-11-06 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1693-02-07 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1693-04-09 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1693-05-03 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1693-05-25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1694-08-08 - Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82
1694-11-25 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1694-12-02 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
1695-01-04 - Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies
1695-04-14 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1695-06-11 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1695-08-06 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1695-11-16 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1695-12-08 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
1696-01-11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1696-03-14 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1696-04-17 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626)
1696-05-10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
1697-11-22 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1698-01-10 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
1698-05-15 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1698-11-28 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1699-04-21 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1700-09-15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701-03-15 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1701-06-02 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1701-09-15 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1701-11-05 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1702-04-27 - Jean Bart, French capt/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies at 51
1702-05-27 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1703-06-14 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1703-09-29 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
1704-02-02 - Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
1704-02-23 - Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
1704-02-24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
