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29 June – Napoleon III installs a huge map of Paris in his office at the Tuileries Palace and he and his new prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, begin planning the reconstruction of central Paris. 21 November – A demonstration of the first tram line between the modern avenue de New York and the Cours-la-Reine.
The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia. The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus", or Ragnar, who tentatively has been identified with the legendary saga character Ragnar Lodbrok .
The order of battle included below reflects all units of the Anglo-allied Army including those that were not present for the battles themselves (units spread across the area or on garrison duty). The casualty numbers include all the casualties suffered by each regiment over the three days of fighting during the campaign from 16 June 1815 to ...
A Danish Viking fleet raids the cities of Dorestad, Paris and Orléans. Others sail up the Oise River , ravaging Beauvais and the abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Fly (approximate date). Viking chieftain Rorik , with the agreement of King Lothair II , leaves Dorestad with a fleet and forces his rival Horik II to recognise him as ruler over Denmark ...
March 30–31: Battle of Paris April 4: Napoleon abdicates his rule and Louis XVIII, a Bourbon, is restored to the French throne April 11: Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814) Napoleon agrees to exile in Elba, the allies agree to pay his family a pension
A recreated map of Paris in 1380. In the middle of the 14th century, Paris was struck by two great catastrophes: the Bubonic plague and the Hundred Years' War. In the first epidemic of the plague in 1348–1349, forty to fifty thousand Parisians died, a quarter of the population. The plague returned in 1360–1361, 1363, and 1366–1368.
Map of Paris in the 9th century (on Île de la Cité) For two months the Vikings maintained the siege, making trenches and provisioning themselves off the land. In January 886 they tried to fill the river shallows with debris, plant matter, and the bodies of dead animals and dead prisoners to try to get around the tower.
Siege of Paris (978), by Otto II of Germany, and Holy Roman Emperor; Siege of Paris (1429), by Charles VII of France and Joan of Arc; Siege of Paris (1465), by the League of the Public Weal; Siege of Paris (1590), the Protestant siege by Henry IV of France; Siege of Paris (1870–1871), the German siege in the Franco-Prussian War