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Joan of Arc

French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death

19 dated entries naming Joan of Arc, drawn from 10 separate years between 1412 CE and 1909 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1412January 6 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and patron saint of France (tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence) (d. 1431)source
  • 1428May 13 – Joan of Arc makes her first attempt to reach the Armagnac court at Chinon, arriving at Vaucouleurs speaking to Robert de Baudricourt, captain of the royal garrison, and tells him that God told her in a vision that she had a mission to help restore the Dauphin Charles to the throne. Baudricourt initially declines her request to be given an escort to visit Charles in person.source
  • 1429April 29 – Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.source
  • 1429June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.source
  • 1429March 8 – After hearing that Joan of Arc says that voices from heaven have told her that she will lead a royalist army to relieve the siege of Orleans and help him secure the French throne, the Dauphin Charles of France meets with her at the Château de Chinon and is persuaded that he should provide her supplies and troops.source
  • 1429May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning, wounded, to lead the final charge.source
  • 1429November 24 – Joan of Arc besieges La Charité.source
  • 1429September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris, and is wounded.source
  • 1430December 23 – Seven months after her capture at Compiegne, Joan of Arc is moved from the castle of Le Crotoy to the tower at the Rouen Castle.source
  • 1430May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundian troops, led by John II, Count of Ligny, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne. After her surrender to Lyonnel de Wandomme, she is turned over to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and incarcerated at the castle of Beaulieu-les-Fontaines.source
  • 1430November 21 – Joan of Arc is sold by the Burgundians to the Kingdom of England for 10,000 livre tournois, equivalent to 808.8 kg (28,530 oz or 1,783.1 lbs) of silver.source
  • 1431January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin at Rouen in France, which is under English occupation.source
  • 1431May 30 – 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen.source
  • 1431May 30 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (b. c. 1412)source
  • 1452May 2 – Jean Bréhal, chief of the French inquisition, reopens the case of Joan of Arc, who had been executed more than 20 years earlier for heresy and begins taking testimony from witnesses.source
  • 1458date unknown – Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arcsource
  • 1461October 7 – Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390)source

20th century

  • 1902August 24 – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the French town which she stormed in 1429.source
  • 1909April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.source

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