The Hundred Years' War

What is on the map

• 97 Battles and sieges
• 18 Crowns and treaties
• 6 Plague and revolt
• 6 Joan of Arc

Chronology

1. 24 May 1337Philip VI confiscates Guyenne: feudal law makes it an obvious move, and to Edward III it means warevent▸
2. 1 November 1337Battle of Cadzandbattle▸
3. 23 September 1338Battle of Arnemuidenbattle▸
4. 26 January 1340At Ghent, Edward III proclaims himself king of France and quarters the lilies into his arms — they will stay there for four hundred yearsevent▸
5. 2 July 1340Battle of Sluysbattle▸
6. 31 July 1340Siege of Tournaibattle▸
7. 3 August 1340Battle of Saint-Omerbattle▸
8. 22 October 1341Battle of Champtoceauxbattle▸
9. 1 January 1342Siege of Vannesbattle▸
10. 1 May 1342Siege of Hennebontbattle▸
11. 26 August 1342Battle of Brestbattle▸
12. 8 October 1342Battle of Morlaixbattle▸
13. 25 June 1345Battle of Cadoretbattle▸
14. 1 August 1345Battle of Bergeracbattle▸
15. 29 October 1345Battle of Auberochebattle▸
16. 9 April 1346Siege of Aiguillonbattle▸
17. 17 June 1346Battle of St Pol de Léonbattle▸
18. 1 July 1346Battle of Caenbattle▸
19. 26 August 1346Crécy: English archers against French cavalry. Fifteen hundred knights die, and the blind king of Bohemia, who had himself tied to his horseevent▸
20. 1 September 1346Battle of Blanchetaquebattle▸
21. 12 September 1346Siege of Calaisbattle▸
22. 17 October 1346Battle of Neville's Crossbattle▸
23. 28 June 1347Battle of La Roche-Derrienbattle▸
24. 6 October 1347Truce of Calaisbattle▸
25. 1 June 1348The Black Death lands at Marseille: within two years a third of Europe is dead and the war stops on its ownevent▸
26. 1 June 1349Battle of Lunalongebattle▸
27. 8 January 1350Siege of Calaisbattle▸
28. 6 September 1350Battle of Winchelseabattle▸
29. 1 January 1351Battle of Ardresbattle▸
30. 1 March 1351Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angélybattle▸
31. 26 March 1351The Combat of the Thirty: thirty knights a side fight between Josselin and Ploërmel as if at a tournament. They will tell the story for a centuryevent▸
32. 9 April 1351Battle of Saintesbattle▸
33. 1 May 1352Siege of Guînesbattle▸
34. 22 August 1352Battle of Mauronbattle▸
35. 18 April 1354Battle of Montmuranbattle▸
36. 19 September 1356Poitiers: the Black Prince captures King John II. France must raise a ransom of three million gold crownsevent▸
37. 11 October 1356Siege of Rennesbattle▸
38. 22 February 1358Étienne Marcel has two marshals killed in front of the dauphin, inside the palace: Paris governs itself for a yearevent▸
39. 16 May 1358Treaty of Londonbattle▸
40. 28 May 1358The Jacquerie: peasants of the Beauvaisis burn the castles for two weeks, and are slaughteredevent▸
41. 17 June 1359Battle of Barcelonabattle▸
42. 2 October 1359Battle of Aravianabattle▸
43. 28 December 1359Siege of Rheimsbattle▸
44. 1 January 1360Black Mondaybattle▸
45. 24 October 1360Brétigny: Edward III gives up the French crown and in exchange keeps a third of the country in full sovereigntyevent▸
46. 6 April 1362Battle of Brignaisbattle▸
47. 16 May 1364Cocherel: Du Guesclin, a minor Breton noble, wins his first battle in commandevent▸
48. 7 October 1364Battle of Auraybattle▸
49. 3 April 1367Nájera: the war is fought in Castile, with the Black Prince on one side and Du Guesclin on the otherevent▸
50. 1 January 1368Siege of Leónbattle▸
51. 1 January 1369Siege of Monçãobattle▸
52. 14 March 1369Montiel: Henry of Trastámara kills his half-brother, and Castile — with its fleet — passes to Franceevent▸
53. 1 January 1370Siege of Sarlatbattle▸
54. 27 September 1370Massacre of Limogesbattle▸
55. 4 December 1370Battle of Pontvallainbattle▸
56. 23 June 1372La Rochelle: the Castilian fleet destroys the English one, and for ten years the Channel is no longer safeevent▸
57. 15 March 1373Battle of Lisbonbattle▸
58. 29 March 1373Battle of Chisetbattle▸
59. 1 January 1380Raid on Gravesendbattle▸
60. 13 July 1380Du Guesclin, Constable of France, dies: in ten years he has retaken almost everything while hardly ever fighting a pitched battleevent▸
61. 13 June 1381The English peasants' revolt reaches London: the king is fourteen, promises everything, then keeps none of itevent▸
62. 25 July 1381Battle of Saltes Islandbattle▸
63. 27 November 1382Roosebeke: French cavalry crushes the Flemish weavers of Ghentevent▸
64. 8 June 1383Siege of Ypresbattle▸
65. 14 April 1384Battle of Atoleirosbattle▸
66. 29 May 1384Siege of Lisbonbattle▸
67. 26 July 1384Naval Battle of the Tejobattle▸
68. 6 June 1385Battle of Trancosobattle▸
69. 14 August 1385Battle of Aljubarrotabattle▸
70. 22 October 1385Battle of Valverdebattle▸
71. 18 June 1389Leulinghem: a truce meant to last twenty-eight years. Both kings have trouble at home, and the war stops for a generationevent▸
72. 5 August 1392In the forest near Le Mans, Charles VI goes mad and kills four of his own men: from here on France is run by his uncles, who divide it among themselvesevent▸
73. 15 May 1405Siege of Mercqbattle▸
74. 23 November 1407Louis of Orléans murdered in the rue Vieille-du-Temple on the orders of his cousin John the Fearless: the civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians beginsevent▸
75. 27 April 1413The Cabochien revolt: the butchers of Paris force through a reform ordinance, and then the terrorevent▸
76. 27 August 1415Siege of Harfleurbattle▸
77. 25 October 1415Agincourt: in a field of mud the French nobility charges on foot and is annihilated. A constable, three dukes and ninety barons dieevent▸
78. 20 March 1416Battle of Valmontbattle▸
79. 24 August 1416Battle of the Seinebattle▸
80. 27 August 1417Siege of Caenbattle▸
81. 9 August 1418Siege of Rouenbattle▸
82. 10 September 1419On the bridge at Montereau the Armagnacs kill John the Fearless: his son Philip the Good goes over to the English, and France splits in twoevent▸
83. 8 January 1420Battle of La Rochellebattle▸
84. 21 May 1420Troyes: Charles VI disinherits his son and gives his daughter and his kingdom to Henry V. Northern France acknowledges an English kingevent▸
85. 30 March 1421Battle of Baugébattle▸
86. 15 October 1421Siege of Meauxbattle▸
87. 31 August 1422Henry V dies of dysentery at Vincennes, aged thirty-five, two months before his father-in-law: his heir is nine months oldevent▸
88. 31 July 1423Battle of Cravantbattle▸
89. 26 September 1423Battle of La Brossinièrebattle▸
90. 17 August 1424Battle of Verneuilbattle▸
91. 10 August 1425Salisbury takes Le Mans: Maine is English, and the France of the king of Bourges ends at the Loireevent▸
92. 6 March 1426Battle of St. Jamesbattle▸
93. 24 July 1427Siege of Montargisbattle▸
94. 30 October 1428Siege of Orléansbattle▸
95. 23 February 1429At Chinon a seventeen-year-old farm girl picks the dauphin out of a crowd of courtiers and tells him she has been hearing voicesevent▸
96. 2 March 1429Battle of the Herringsbattle▸
97. 8 May 1429Orléans relieved in nine days after a seven-month siege: the first good French news in a generationevent▸
98. 15 June 1429Battle of Meung-sur-Loirebattle▸
99. 18 June 1429Patay: French cavalry catches the English archers before they can plant their stakes. Agincourt in reverseevent▸
100. 26 June 1429Battle of Beaugencybattle▸
101. 29 June 1429Battle of Jargeaubattle▸
102. 17 July 1429Charles VII crowned at Reims with Joan beside the altar: from that moment he is the lawful king, and the other one is a child in Londonevent▸
103. 26 August 1429Siege of Parisbattle▸
104. 13 November 1429Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtierbattle▸
105. 24 November 1429Siege of La Charitébattle▸
106. 23 May 1430Joan captured outside Compiègne by the Burgundians and sold to the English for ten thousand livresevent▸
107. 7 June 1430Siege of Compiègnebattle▸
108. 30 May 1431Burned alive at Rouen in the marketplace, aged nineteen, after a heresy trial run by French judgesevent▸
109. 2 July 1431Battle of Bulgnévillebattle▸
110. 15 January 1432Siege of Pouancébattle▸
111. 9 May 1435Battle of Gerberoybattle▸
112. 10 June 1435Siege of Parisbattle▸
113. 10 August 1435Siege of Saint-Denisbattle▸
114. 21 September 1435Arras: Philip the Good abandons the English. Without Burgundy, English France has no legs leftevent▸
115. 13 April 1436Paris returns to the king of France after sixteen years of English occupationevent▸
116. 1 June 1436Siege of Calaisbattle▸
117. 1 January 1438Famine and plague together: Paris counts its dead in thousands, and wolves come into the cityevent▸
118. 9 September 1441Siege of Tartasbattle▸
119. 11 November 1442Siege of Dieppebattle▸
120. 28 May 1444Truce of Tours: Henry VI marries Margaret of Anjou and secretly promises to hand back Maine. When it comes out, England has a scandalevent▸
121. 26 May 1445The compagnies d'ordonnance: Charles VII creates the first standing army in Europe, paid by royal tax instead of by its lordsevent▸
122. 16 March 1448Le Mans handed to the French: Maine goes without a blow, and the evicted English garrison takes it out on Brittanyevent▸
123. 24 March 1449The sack of Fougères breaks the truce: Charles VII had been waiting for a pretext, and in eighteen months he retakes all of Normandyevent▸
124. 15 April 1450Formigny: two French culverins force the archers out of their positions, and Normandy falls in five monthsevent▸
125. 29 May 1453As the war ends in the west, Constantinople falls: nobody in France really noticesevent▸
126. 17 July 1453Castillon: three hundred guns of the Bureau brothers destroy the last English army. It is the first battle decided by artilleryevent▸
127. 19 October 1453Bordeaux surrenders: after three hundred years Guyenne is French, and the English are left with Calaisevent▸

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