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768-814 - Charlemagne rules as King of the Franks and is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor 987 - Hugh Capet starts Capetian dynasty 1066 - William, Duke of Normandy, invades England and wins the Battle of Hastings 1189 - 1192 - Crusaders capture Constantinople 1337 - 1443 - Hundred Years' War 1494 - 1559 - Italian Wars- France and Austria fight over Italian lands 1515 - François I crowned French King 1547 - 1559 - Reign of Henry II 1572 - Massacre of Protestants in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Eve. 200,000 Huguenots fled France 1589 - 1593 - Henri IV becomes 1st French Catholic Bourbon King 1608 - Founding of Quebec 1617 - Louis XIII crowned at the age of 17 1624 - Cardinal Richelieu becomes French principal minister 1643 - 1715 - Louis XIV becomes king with Mazarin as French Prime Minister 1715 - Louis XV accedes the throne on 5 May 1789 King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General at Versailles to obtain support for new taxes - this prompted the seeds of the French Revolution as the nobles and church were not subjected to taxes June 1789 The French commoners declared themselves a National Assembly giving themselves the power to write a new French constitution 14 July 1789 The Bastille was stormed by the people of Paris 1792 King Louis and Queen Marie-Antoinette were executed and a republic was set up in France 1793 Napoleon Bonaparte was named a general during the war with Prussia and Austria 1799 - 1814 Napoleon seized control of France and began building a French empire 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo and was exiled 1815 The Bourbons were returned to the French throne 1824 Charles X became king July 1830 Charles X was overthrown during the July Revolution of 1830 1848 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon, was elected to a four-year term as French president 1851 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte seized power 1852 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself Emperor Napoleon III 1870 France declared war on Prussia and Emperor Napoleon III is overthrown 1914-1918 World War I - Germany invades France 3 September 1939 France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany starting World War II 14 June 1940 German troops enter Paris 25 August 1944 Allied troops regain Paris and Charles De Gaulle becomes head of a provisional government August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1956 Morocco and Tunisia granted their independence 3 July 1962 Algeria became independent. **
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