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The Roman Empire under Julius Caesar seizes the city, which becomes part of the Roman territory known as Gaul.
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Lutetia is common day Paris, it wasn't renamed to "Paris" until years later.
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Clovis I pronounces the kingdom of Gaul and renames Lutetia, Paris. Today in modern Paris, there is a hotel named Lutetia.
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The plague would lead to labor shortages that were beneficial to peasants, and the eventual formation of the bourgeoisie, or mercantile class.
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Bloody religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics led to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Over 3000 Protestant Huguenots perish in the massacre.
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Louis XVI ascends to the throne. Known for his political and social ineptitude and his curious fixation with locks and clocks, he is married to Marie Antoinette, the adolescent daughter of powerful Austrian empress Maria Theresa.
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The Revolutionary "reign of terror" leads to thousands of executions and general chaos, and Paris is the center of it. Religion is banned and a new calendar is established.
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His emperorship puts a hiatus on France's struggle toward a Republic—this is well-symbolized by Napoleon's moving into the former royal seat of power at Versailles.
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Paris is one of the world's most important hotbeds of experimentation in art and literature. English-speaking writers like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound make Paris their home.
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A four-year occupation begins. General Charles de Gaulle flees to London and leads a resistance movement from abroad, sending messages to resistants over British radio.
