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The municipality of Paris refuses to loan King Charles VIII (Charles l'Affable) 100,000 écus for a military expedition to Italy, which it considers useless. 15 March – Founding of the convent of the Minimes at Chaillot. 1496 First recorded case of syphilis in Paris, brought from Italy by soldiers of Charles VIII. Foreigners in the city with ...
This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France.
A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris: on 1 June 1793, the Montagnards seized power from the Girondins, then were replaced by Georges Danton and his followers; in 1794, they were overthrown and guillotined by a new government led by Maximillien Robespierre. On 27 July 1794, Robespierre himself was arrested by a coalition of ...
Belek was awarded the Best Golf Region of the Year in Europe by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) in 2008. [6] In 2012 it hosted the Turkish Airlines World Golf Final [7] and in 2013 it hosted the Turkish Airlines Open. Belek also hosts the Antalya Open, the only professional tennis tournament currently held in Turkey.
Stone tools discovered at Chilhac and Lézignan-la-Cèbe indicate that pre-human ancestors may have been present in France at least 1.6 million years ago. [1] Neanderthals were present in Europe from about 400,000 BC , [ 2 ] but died out about 40,000 years ago, possibly out-competed by modern humans during a period of cold weather.
In the Treaty of Paris in 1947, France gained approximately 700 km 2 of territory from Italy, spread over the departments of the Alpes-Maritimes, Hautes-Alpes and Savoie. France-Italy Boundary after the Treaty of Paris, 1947. annexation of the Tende Valley, which had remained Italian when the County of Nice became French in 1860. The border ...
In the 10th century Paris was a provincial cathedral city of little political or economic significance, but under the kings of the Capetian dynasty who ruled France between 987 and 1328, it developed into an important commercial and religious center and the seat of the royal administration of the country. [1]
Histoire de Paris plaques; Paris (novel) Paris Arbitral Award; Paris architecture of the Belle Époque; Paris meridian; Paris pneumatic post; Paris sewers; Paris–Bordeaux–Paris; Paris–Rouen (motor race) Parisii (Gaul) Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy; Place des États-Unis