History of the South West of France

Index

Prehistory

ProtoHistory and Antiquity

the Middle Ages

the Modern and Contemporary Times

dates

Presentation

The first men

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Indo- europeans

Gallo- Romans

Barbarians

Knights

Catholics and Protestants

Republicans

Key dates

& 2000 years in maps

Some key dates :

-400 000

Tautavel man

- 30 000

Cro-Magnon man(Sapiens Sapiens)

- 121

conquest of the Narbonaise land by the Romans

- 56

conquest of the Aquitan land by the Crassus' Romans

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413

conquest by the Ataulph's Visigoths

507
511
first conquest by Clovis' Francs
Aquitans county

668

first Aquitan Duchy

  768

  second conquest by Pépin le Bref's Francs

  849
850
877
  Toulouse County
Vascony Duchy
second Aquitan Duchy
   

1063

Gascony owned by Aquitan duke

1154

"Quitaine" owned by king of England with Alienor

1208
1271
1294
Crusade against Cathares
Toulouse County integrated to the kingdom of France
first Guyenne war
   

1452

Castillon battle

1539
1598
Villers Cotterêts ruling
Edit of Nantes promulgation by the king Henri IV
1659
1681
1685
Pyrenees treaty between France and Spain
Midi (=south) canal
Edit of Nantes revokated by the sun king Louis XIV

1790

departments creation

1855
1856
Médoc vintage wine delimited
railway between Bordeaux and Toulouse
1964
1982
Republican administrative regions created
Deux-Mers (=2 seas) motorway

 

 

Cliquer sur la carte de la période désirée :

An 1 * Rome An 100 * Rome An 200 * Rome An 300 * Rome An 400 * Rome An 500 * Wisigoths An 600 * Comté d'Aquitaine An 700 * Duché d'Aquitaine An 800 * Charlemagne An 900 * Francs An 1000 * Duché et Comté An 1100 * Duché et Comté An 1200 * Duché et Comté An 1300 * Duché et Comté An 1400 * Français et Anglais An 1500 An 1600 An 1700 An 1800 * départements An 1900 * Départements An 2000 * Départements

Origin of most of the maps herebefore : Vente du cédérom Atlas historique périodique

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