The document traces major events in France from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to the start of the French Revolution in the late 18th century. It highlights the Franks gaining control over most of France by 470 AD, the crowning of Charlemagne in 800 AD, the Hundred Years' War between England and France beginning in 1337, Joan of Arc leading French victories against the English in the 1420s, and the devastation of the Black Death in 1348 before concluding with the Edict of Nantes in 1598 and the start of the Thirty Years War and eventual outbreak of the French Revolution.

1. Fall of Roman Empire
To
The French Revolution

2. (460 A.D.) (500 A.D.)
Fall of Western France is virtually
Roman Empire free of Rome
(470 A.D.)
The Franks
control most
modern day
France

4. (511)
(771)
Clovis , (845)
Charles the
leader of Great Vikings
the Franks reunites ransacked
died the Franks Paris
(751) (814)
Pepin the Charles
Short the Great
takes the dies
throne

6. (1027) (1214)
William the England losses
Conqueror is control of
born French territory
(1066) (1337)
William Hundred
invades Year’s War
England begins

9.  (1337-1360) French losses, included the loss of control
over the English Channel, the defeat at Crecy, and
losing Calais, which gave England a base in N.France.
 (1369-1396) Reverses for the English, has the dying
English king Edward 3 lost control of the Anglo-
Flemish alliance a peasant revolt in England started in
1381, this followed savage French raid across the front.
 The French victories were short lived, in 1407 a civil
war broke out between the Armagnacs and the
Burgundians over which royal family should take the
crown. This left a weak and divide France.

11.  Joan of Arc was born in 1412 Domremy, France. Legend
says that she was born to auspicious signs held to be a
forecast of national triumph. However, what is more
certain is that her family were poor and her region had
suffered from the long conflict between England and
France.
 From the age of 12 she began to have mystical visions.
In these visions she said she felt the voice of God
commanding her to renew the French nation.

12.  At the time of Joan’s childhood, France was seriously
divided with a lack of national unity. In 1415 King
Henry V of England had invaded France and defeated
the French army at Agincourt. This famous victory
over the French nobility left the country weak and
divided.
 Joan of Arc had led the French army to victories at
Orleans, Patay and Troyes. Many other towns were also
liberated from English control and it allowed a
triumphal entry into Dauphin for the coronation of
King Charles VII on 17 July 1429.

13.  (1431) Joan of Arc was captured and burned alive in
England.
 One by one, the French captured the last remaining
English strongholds in France.
 In 1450 the French king captures Cherbourg, England’s
last stronghold in Normandy.
 French capture Bordeaux in 1453 bringing an end to
the war.

15.  Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the
shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a
rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in
recorded history. By the time the epidemic played
itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and
50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the
pestilence.

17. (1494- (1598)
1559) Edict
War with Of
Italy Nantes
(1562) (1618-1648)
Massacre Thirty Year’s
War
Of
Huguenots

20.  The reign (1715-1774) of Louis XV saw an initial return
to peace and prosperity under the regency (1715-1723)
of Philippe II, duke of Orléans, whose policies were
largely continued (1726-1743) by Cardinal Fleury, prime
minister in all but name, renewed war with the Empire
(1733-1735 and 1740-1748) being fought largely in the
East. But alliance with the traditional Habsburg enemy
(the "Diplomatic Revolution" of 1756 against the rising
power of Britain and Prussia led to costly failure in the
Seven Years' War (1756-1763).

21.  But peace was short lived, a decade later a much
more difficult struggle will start, right at the very
heart of France:
 The French Revolution

22.  Cultural history.
 French colonies in America