Hundred Years' War Timeline of Events

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Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...

Timeline of Events

1340

6.24.1340

Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys

1346

8.26.1346

Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.

1360

10.24.1360

The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.

1419

1.19.1419

Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.

1423

7.31.1423

Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant

1429

5.7.1429

Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.

6.11.1429

Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.

6.12.1429

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.

6.18.1429

French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.

1431

5.30.1431

Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.

1435

9.21.1435

An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War.

1450

4.15.1450

Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

1453

7.17.1453

Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.

10.19.1453

The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.