French History This Month - June

• Events:
  • Overthrow of Girondins - 2.06.1793
    Jacques Brissot arrested, begins the Reign of Terror
  • The second battle of Ypres - 2.06.1916
    World War I
  • Francis I and Henry VIII meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold - 4.06.1520
    Between Gravelines and Ardres, signing a treaty confirming the marriage contract of Mary Tudor and the Dauphon.
  • Napoléon founded the Ligurian Republic in Genoa - 6.06.1797
    
  • D-Day / Jour-J - 6.06.1944
    Allied forces successfully land at beaches in Normandy
  • Treaty of Tientsin - 9.06.1885
    Between France and China recognizing the French protectorate in Annam
  • Riots in Paris - 13.06.1949
    Easily put down, and led to repressive legislation
  • French invade Amsterdam - 15.06.1672
    Sluices were opened to save the city
  • French fort in Nova Scotia captured - 16.06.1755
    By US forces from Boston
  • Rudolf Nureyev defects in Paris - 16.06.1961
    At Le Bourget Airport
  • Battle of Patay - 18.06.1429
    Led by Joan of Arc, French defeat the English
  • La Poste - Postal Service - created - 19.06.1464
    By ordinance of Louis XI
  • French and Indian War begins - 19.06.1754
    George Washington skirmishs with French near Fort Duquesne
  • Vikings sail up the Seine to Rouen - 20.06.340
    For the first time
  • Dahomey proclaimed French colony - 22.06.1894
    
  • French armies routed at Victoria - 23.06.1813
    By the Duke of Wellington
  • Napoléon crosses the River Niemen - 24.06.1812
    Enters Russia
  • Cherbourg taken by Allied forces - 27.06.1944
    
• Births:
  • Nicolas Carnot - 1.06.1796 - Founder of thermodynamics
  • François Quesnay - 4.06.1694 - Economist and physician
  • Nicolas Poussin - 5.06.1594 - Painter
  • Pierre Corneille - 6.06.1606 - Playwright
  • Paul Gauguin - 7.06.1848 - Painter
  • Jacques Cousteau - 11.06.1910 - Popular oceanographer
  • Charles Augustin Coulomb - 14.06.1736 - Physicist
  • Edouard Daladier - 18.06.1884 - Politician
  • Jacques Offenbach - 20.06.1819 - Composer
  • Jean Andouilh - 23.06.1910 - Playwright
  • Claude Chabrol - 24.06.1930 - Film director
  • Louis XII - 27.06.1462 - King of France
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau - 28.06.1712 - Philosopher and writer
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 29.06.1900 - Author (The Little Prince), and aviator
• Deaths:
  • Georges Bizet - 3.06.1875 - Composer (including the opera Carmen)
  • Georges Feydeau - 5.06.1921 - Dramatist
  • George Sand (Amandine Dudevant née Dupin) - 8.06.1876 - Novelist
  • André Ampère - 10.06.1836 - Physicist
  • Louis, duc de Vendôme - 11.06.1712 - Soldier
  • Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal - 15.06.1750 - Writer
  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - 20.06.1836 - Revolutionary leader
  • Jean-Edouard Vuillard - 21.06.1940 - Painter
  • Joseph-Michel Montgolfier - 26.06.1810 - Balloonist, co-inventor (with his brother) of the hot-air balloon
  • Albert Sorel - 29.06.1906 - Historian