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Following the city's abandonment as such, Algonquian groups from the east moved into the Vacant Quarter in the mid-17th century, specifically those of the Illinois Confederation. [81] The Cahokia tribe was one such group and from whom the site gets its name. While Cahokia proper had ceased to exist, the mounds continued to be present on the ...
Twenty-eight rioters were arrested, tried and hanged at the gates of the city. [71] 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.
Paris is a city in Edgar County, Illinois, 165 miles (266 km) south of Chicago and 90 miles (140 km) west of Indianapolis. The population was 8,291 at the 2020 census.
The Louvre became a residence intermittently during the troubled times of the 14th century. By the mid-14th century, Paris had grown well beyond the walls of Philip II. Étienne Marcel had started building a new city wall further to the west, which King Charles V the Wise (1364-1380) brought to completion, later known as the Wall of Charles V.
Category: 14th century by city. 8 languages. ... 14th century in London (2 C, 11 P) P. 14th century in Paris (5 P) This page was ...
In the 18th century, Paris was the centre of the intellectual ferment known as the Enlightenment, and the main stage of the French Revolution from 1789, which is remembered every year on the 14th of July with a military parade. In the 19th century, Napoleon embellished the city with monuments to military glory. It became the European capital of ...
In the 14th century, before the arrival of the Black Death, the total population of the area covered by modern-day France has been estimated at 16 million. [3] The population of Paris is controversial. [4] Josiah Russell argued for about 80,000 in the early 14th century, although he noted that some other scholars suggested 200,000. [4]
The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.