Timeline of Paris

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.

Construction begins on the church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon).

Empress Eugénie, at 7 rue de la Paix.

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Tomb of Sainte Geneviève in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont , near the Panthéon
A 13th century statue of Childebert I , founder of the future Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés ( Louvre )
The coronation of Hugh Capet , the Count of Paris, as King of the Franks in 987. He died in Paris in 996 and was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.(Illustration from the 14th century, in the National Library of France)
The church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (nave built in 1014).
The monk and scholar Abélard and the nun Héloïse begin a legendary Paris romance in about 1116. Illustration of the couple in a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose (14th century)
Choir of the Basilica of St-Denis , rebuilt by Suger in the new style of Gothic architecture , flooding the church with light.(Consecrated in 1144)
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris , begun 1163 and completed in 1345
The Louvre begun in 1190, as it appeared in 1412–1416 in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (October)
Burning of the followers of Amaury de Chartres , in the presence of King Philip Augustus . (1210) The tower of the Knights Templar and the gibbet of Montfaucon, where the bodies of executed prisoners were hung, can be seen in the background. Painting by Jean Fouquet in the 15th century.
Sainte-Chapelle , the masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic architecture , consecrated in 1248.
Burning at the stake of Jacques de Molay and the leaders of the Knights Templar on the Île aux Juifs , in the Seine (1314), as described by the poet Boccaccio (French National Library)
The towers of the Château de Vincennes (begun in 1337, completed in about 1410) as shown in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (December), in about 1412.
The Palais de la Cité as it appeared between 1412 and 1416, as illustrated in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (June).
The Tour Jean-sans-Peur , last vestige of the Burgundian occupation (15th century), at 20 rue Étienne Marcel in 2nd arrondissement.
Joan of Arc unsuccessfully lays siege to Paris, held by the Burgundians, and is wounded – Illustration from the Vigile du roi Charles VII (1429)
Page of the first book to be printed in Paris, Letters by Gasparin de Bergame .
The Lescot wing in the Cour Carrée , the oldest existing façade of the Louvre Palace is begun in 1546
The Fontaine des Innocents (1549), the oldest existing fountain in Paris
Burning at the stake, after hanging, of Anne du Bourg , member of the Paris Parliament, for heresy (23 December 1559)
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (24–30 August 1572) Painting by François Dubois , a Huguenot painter born circa 1529. He depicts Admiral Coligny 's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Louvre Palace to inspect a heap of bodies. [ 43 ]
The pont Notre-Dame in 1576 (engraving by Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau )
Henry IV enters Paris (March 22, 1594)
King Henry IV crosses the Pont Neuf to inaugurate the bridge, (20 June 1603).
Building of the Place Royale approved by king Henry IV (1605).
The Île de la Cité , 1609 map of Paris by Vassalieu
The famous Carrousel Le roman des chevaliers de la gloire , a major celebration at the inauguration of the Place Royale , now Place des Vosges , (1612). (Oil on wood, Polish school, 17th century, Carnavalet museum, Paris.)
view of Paris in 1620, by Matthäus Merian
View of the Louvre Palace in 1622, reconstruction by Hoffbauer
The Medici Fountain completed in the gardens of the Luxembourg Palace (about 1630)
the chapel of the College of Sorbonne , begun by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635.
Theater production at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1643
Battle of Paris between the soldiers of king Louis XIV and the men of the Fronde , (2 July 1652). Anonymous, (Château de Versailles)
The tower of the Grand Châtelet in 1650
The Louvre and the quay of the Seine in the 1660s
The Collège des Quatre-Nations , now the Institut de France built by Cardinal Mazarin (1662–1672)
Colbert presents the members of the Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV (1667)
The Porte Saint-Denis , built by Louis XIV on the site of the old city wall, which he declared were no longer needed (1675).
Construction of the pont Royal (1685-1689)
Louis XIV visits the unfinished Les Invalides in 1706
The Hôtel de Ville in 1740
The Encyclopédie , published in Paris by Diderot and D'Alembert between 1751 and 1772
Pont-au-Change in 1756
View of Paris from the Pont Neuf (1763)
Depiction of the Montgolfier brothers' first balloon ascension, a captive ascension with two men aboard, on 19 October 1783, in the gardens of the royal wallpaper manufacturer Jean-Baptiste Réveillon , in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, in Paris. Picture was published in Journal officiel n° 299, dated 26 October 1783.
The storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789). Anonymous.
The execution of King Louis XVI on the Place de la Révolution , 21 January 1793. Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Festival of the Supreme Being , by Pierre-Antoine Demachy, 8 June 1794.
First use of a frameless parachute from a Montgolfier balloon over Paris by André Garnerin in 1797
Coronation of Napoleon , Emperor of the French , at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Paris (2 December 1804)
Galeries of the Palais-Royal in 1800
A military review at the Carrousel facing the Tuileries Palace (1810).
The Russian army enters Paris on 31 March 1814
The first roller-coaster in Paris (1817).
The Draisienne , ancestor of the bicycle, is introduced in the Luxembourg Gardens. (1818)
Boulevard Montmartre in 1822
King Charles X is overthrown during the French Revolution of 1830 (27–29 July 1830).
Luxor obelisk is hoisted into place on the Place de la Concorde (25 October 1836).
View of the Boulevard du Temple , one of the first photos of Paris, taken by Louis Daguerre (1838).
Barricades on Rue Soufflot in June, 1848
Building the stone banks of the Seine, begun in 1840, underway in 1851
A Paris omnibus in the early 1850s
The new Boulevard de Sébastopol , opened by Napoleon III in 1858.
Demolition of the old neighborhoods on Île de la Cité (1862).
Manet 's painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe causes a scandal at the Salon des Refusés (1863)
A fête given by Napoleon III at the Tuileries Palace (1867)
The burning of the Tuileries Palace by the Paris Commune (24 May 1871)
The Grand stairway of the Paris Opera (1875)
The Eiffel Tower under construction (August 1888)
Battles between workers and police on the Place de la Concorde , 1 May 1890.
Poster for the first public screening of a motion picture at the Grand Café , Paris (1895)
The Exposition Universelle (1900)
The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame , by Maximilien Luce (1901)
Rue de la Paix , by Jean Beraud (1907)
First Paris flight by Santos Dumont in 1906.
During the 1910 Great Flood of Paris , at Quai de Passy
Dancers from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (1913).
Crowd of reservists being mobilized at the Gare de l'Est (2 August 1914)
Paris taxis carried 6000 soldiers to the front lines during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914).
During the First World War, Montparnasse became the new gathering place for Paris artists and writers. Amedeo Modigliani , Pablo Picasso and André Salmon in front of the café Le Dôme , photographed by Jean Cocteau (1916).
Victory parade on Place de la Concorde , (11 November 1918)
The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre was begun in 1873 but not finished until 1919.
Medal winners at the 1924 Paris Olympics included the swimmers Johnny Weissmuller (the future Tarzan star) and the Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku . (1924)
Singer-dancer Josephine Baker performing in Paris (1926)
The Cactus Fountain from the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931.
Popular Front banners for the 1936 elections. The lowest sign says: "Make the rich pay."
The pavilions of Soviet Russia (right) and Nazi Germany (left) faced each other at the 1937 Paris Exposition.
German soldiers change guard on rue de Rivoli (October, 1940)
German soldiers at the café Capoulade on Boulevard Saint-Michel, March 1943
General de Gaulle celebrates the liberation of Paris (26 August 1944).
28th Infantry Division marches down the Champs Élysées, 29 Aug 1944.
Recovering from the war. Paris automobile show in 1946.
High fashion became a major French export after the war. A gown by Christian Dior worn by Eva Peron (1950)
Red flags on the Odeon Theatre, occupied by demonstrators (May 1968).
Opening of the Tour Maine-Montparnasse , the first (and only) skyscraper in Paris (13 September 1973)
Centre Georges Pompidou opens (31 January 1977).
Grande Arche of La Défense inaugurated (18 July 1989)
Musée du quai Branly opens (20 June 2006)
Anti-terrorism demonstration on Place de la République after Charlie Hebdo shooting (11 January 2015)