Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period. It was one of the most powerful states in Europe from the High Middle Ages to 1848 during its dissolution. It was also an early colonial power, with colonies in Asia and Africa, and the largest being New France in North America geographically centred on the Great Lakes.
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Rulers
- Franks and France
- Hugh Capet 987 – 996, Robert II the Pious 996 – 1031, Henry I 1031 – 1060, Philip I 1060 – 1108, Louis VI the Fat 1108 – 1137, Louis VII the Young 1137 – 1180, Philip II Augustus 1180 – 1223, Louis VIII the Lion 1223 – 1226, Saint Louis (Louis IX) 1226 – 1270, Philip III the Bold 1270 – 1285, Philip IV the Fair 1285 – 1314, Louis X the Quarreller 1314 – 1316, Philip V the Tall 1316 – 1322, Charles IV the Fair 1322 – 1328, Philip VI 1328 – 1350, John II the Good 1350 – 1364, Charles V the Wise 1364 – 1380, Charles VI the Mad 1380 – 1422, Charles VII 1422 – 1461, Louis XI 1461 – 1483, Charles VIII 1483 – 1498, Louis XII 1498 – 1515, Francis I 1515 – 1547, Henry II 1547 – 1559, Francis II 1559 – 1560, Charles IX 1560 – 1574, Henry III 1574 – 1589, Henry IV 1589 – 1610, Louis XIII 1610 – 1643, Louis XIV 1643 – 1715, Louis XV 1715 – 1774, Louis XVI 1774 – 1792
Events on its territory
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- 1598 Edict of Nantes
- 1709 Great Frost of 1709
- 1751–1772 Diderot's Encyclopédie
- 1783 First manned balloon flight
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution