Hundred Years War (1337–1453) - events

24 May 1337	France	King Philip VI of France announces the confiscation of Gascony as a reaction to the ‘rebellion’ of King Edward III of England. Its seizure begins the Hundred Years' War.
7 October 1337	France	King Edward III of England claims the French crown through his mother, Isabella of France, daughter of Philip IV.
24 June 1340	Flanders, France, England	The English fleet wins a naval victory over the French at Sluys, Flanders.
24 September 1340	France, England	King Edward III of England and King Philip VI of France make a truce at Esplechin when Edward runs out of money to continue the war.
19 January 1343	France, England	King Edward III of England and King Philip VI of France make a truce under the Treaty of Malestroit.
12 July 1346	France, England	King Edward III of England, seeking to exploit Norman disaffection with King Philip VI of France, lands in northern Normandy at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.
26 August 1346	France, England	King Edward III of England defeats a French force at Crécy, France. Among those killed on the French side are King John I of Bohemia who is succeeded by Charles, and Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, who is succeeded by his son Louis de Maële. King Philip VI of France escapes to Amiens, France.
4 August 1347	France, England	Calais in France surrenders to King Edward III of England, who expels its citizens and establishes an English colony.
28 September 1347	France, England	King Edward III of England makes a truce with King Philip VI of France.
27 March 1351	France, England	The ‘Battle of the Thirty’ is fought between thirty English champions and the same number of Bretons and others of the Montfort party, in an attempt to end the dispute over the occupancy of the duchy of Brittany. The English party lose.
8 August 1352	France, England	The English forces in Brittany defeat the Montfort faction at Mauron, Brittany, ending the dispute over the occupancy of the duchy of Brittany.
19 September 1356	France, England	Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England, raids central France from Gascony, defeating and capturing King John II of France at Maupertuis, near Poitiers, France.
8 May 1360	France, England	King Edward III of England concludes the preliminary terms of a treaty of peace with France at Brétigny, France, later to be confirmed in the Treaty of Calais. It gives Edward full sovereignty of Gascony and other debatable lands, as well as territory in the north of France. In return he renounces his claim to the throne of France.
24 October 1360	France, England	The Treaty of Calais confirms the terms made between England and France at Brétigny, France.
3 December 1368	France, England	King Charles V of France accepts a judicial appeal from Gascon nobles against their governor, Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England, thus effectively renewing the war against England.
21 May 1369	France, England	King Charles V of France declares war on England.
3 June 1369	England, France	King Edward III of England reassumes the title king of France.
23 June 1372	France, Castile, Spain, England	In a naval battle off the coast of La Rochelle, France, King Henry II of Castile, as the ally of France, destroys an English fleet bringing John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke and lieutenant of King Edward III of England, to Gascony, France.
28 April 1373	France, England	Duke John IV of Brittany flees to England following a pro-French revolt by his subjects, leaving only the town of Brest, Brittany, remaining in English hands.
27 June 1375	England, France, Flanders	English and French embassies confer at Bruges, Flanders, and conclude a general treaty of truce. King Edward III of England now holds only Calais, Brest, Bordeaux, and Bayonne in France.
25 October 1415	England, France	King Henry V of England inflicts a crushing defeat on the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
19 January 1419	Normandy, France, England	Rouen, the capital of Normandy, France, surrenders to King Henry V of England, whose conquest of Normandy is thus complete.
29 April 1429	France, England	The French military leader Joan of Arc arrives at Orléans, France and relieves the English siege.
23 May 1430	France, England	Burgundian troops capture the French military leader Joan of Arc as she attempts to prevent the fall of the town of Compiègne, France. She is sold to the English for 10,000 livres tournois.
13 April 1436	France, England	The French city of Paris is taken from the English for King Charles VII of France, who restores it as his capital.
6 July 1439	France, England, Burgundy, Holy Roman Empire	English and French embassies meet at the Congress of Calais in France. They fail to make peace as the English will not renounce King Henry VI of England's title to be king of France, but the English make a truce with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (on 28 September).
19 October 1453	France, England	The beleaguered port of Bordeaux, France, finally surrenders to the forces of King Charles VII of France, an event which sees the fall of the last English stronghold in Gascony and in France (excepting Calais) and ends the Hundred Years' War.