{"slug": "french-language", "label": "French language", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150", "qid": "Q150", "description": "Romance language", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1490, 1977], "span_label": ["1490 CE", "1977 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "english-language", "label": "English language", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palmyra", "label": "Palmyra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francis-i-of-france", "label": "Francis I of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-testament", "label": "New Testament", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-testament", "label": "Old Testament", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vulgate", "label": "Vulgate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bastille", "label": "Bastille", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1490, "year_label": "1490 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – English printer William Caxton prints his English language translation of the French book, Ars moriendi, which he renders as The art and crafte to knowe well to dye.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365746432#April–June", "title": "1490", "revid": 1365746432, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1539, "year_label": "1539 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – King Francis I of France issues the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêt, that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts, and makes French the language of those courts, and the official language of legal discourse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494992#July–September", "title": "1539", "revid": 1366494992, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1550, "year_label": "1550 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The first grammatical description of the French language is published by Louis Maigret.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369571608#Date_unknown", "title": "1550", "revid": 1369571608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – The Académie française in Paris is formally constituted, as the national academy for the preservation of the French language.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360049087#January–March", "title": "1635", "revid": 1360049087, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – French theologian Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy is imprisoned in the Bastille after his conviction for heresy in connection with the Jansenist movement. Sacy uses his two and one-half years of incarceration (which lasts until November 14, 1668), to create the Bible du Port-Royal, a first French language rendition of the Bible, finishing a translation of the Old Testament from the Vulgate, written in Latin, that had been started by his brother Antoine, and then beginning work on the New Testament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#April–June", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1671, "year_label": "1671 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Pomone, written by Robert Cambert and considered by modern scholars to be the first French opera, is given its first performance. Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the Académie d'Opéra at the Salle de la Bouteille theater in Paris is a success.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365991065#January–March", "title": "1671", "revid": 1365991065, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1753, "year_label": "1753 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362641691#Date_unknown", "title": "1753", "revid": 1362641691, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 26", "text": "August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue française) making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#August", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › August"}}]}