Paris chronology

Paris chronology

* 52 BC - Lutetia, later to become Paris, is built by the Gallo-Romans
* 1113 - Pierre Abélard opens his school
* 1163 - Building of Notre Dame begins
* 1257 - The Sorbonne University is founded
* 1682 - Louis XIV moves the French court from the Tuileries palace to Versailles
* July, 1789 - Storming of the Bastille
**Royal family forced from Versailles back to Paris
* 1814 - Paris occupied by the armies of the Sixth Coalition after the fall of Napoleon
* 1815 - Paris is again occupied, this time by the Seventh Coalition, after the end of the Hundred Days
* 1840 - Napoleon's remains are buried at Les Invalides
* 1853 - Baron Haussmann rebuilds the center of Paris
* 1855 - Exposition Universelle (1855)
* 1856 - Congress of Paris is held
* 1867 - Exposition Universelle (1867)
* 1870 - Prussian Siege of Paris. Gen von Blumenthal refuses to bombard.
* January 28, 1871 - Paris Commune falls
* 1878 - Exposition Universelle (1878)
* 1889 - Exposition Universelle (1889) - Eiffel Tower
* 1900 - Exposition Universelle (1900)
**Paris Métro is opened
* 1910 - Paris is flooded due to constant rain
* 1925 - Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (1925)
* 1931 - French Colonial Exposition (1931)
* June 13, 1940 - Nazis enter Paris
* August 24, 1944 - Allies liberate the city
* 1968 - Student riots in Paris, combined with a series of strikes by workers across the country, threaten to bring down the Gaullist government
* 1999 - Opening of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
* 2005 - Riots break out in the city after the chase of two teens that were being chased by law enforcement resulted in electrocution. This resulted in an uprising of the poorer citizens of France, and hundreds of cars were burned and property was destroyed in the process.

Paris hosted the Summer Olympics twice, in 1900 and 1924. The 1998 World Cup was hosted by France; several matches were held in Paris proper at Parc des Princes, and several others, including the final, were held at Stade de France in the suburb of Saint-Denis.


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