Timeline of Joan of Arc

[edit] 1412 (?)

January 6 (?) : Joan's birth at Domrémy

May 21: Treaty of Troyes was signed between Henry V of England and Charles VI of France making Henry V heir to the French throne

August 31: Henry V of England dies and is succeeded by his infant son. John, Duke of Bedford becmes Regent
October 21: Charles VI of France dies. The infant son of Henry V is delcared King of France with John, Duke of Bedford, Regent

Summer: Joan first hears her voices

February 12: Orléans. Battle of the Herrings
February 12: Joan's last meeting with de Baudricourt before being granted an escort for the journey to Chinon
February 22: Joan leaves for Chinon
March 4: Joan arrives in Chinon
March 6: Joan meets with the Dauphin
April 29: Joan enters the city of Orléans
May 4: Orléans. Saint-Loup bastide is taken
May 6: Orléans. Bastide of the Augustinians taken
May 7: Orléans. Les Tourelles taken
May 8: Orléans. Siege of Orléans is lifted
June 11-12: Battle of Jargeau
June 15: Battle of Meung-sur-Loire
June 16-17: Battle of Beaugency
June 18: Battle of Patay
July 17 Rheims. Charles VII crowned
September 8: Paris. Joan wounded in failed attack on Paris

January 9: Rouen. Joan's trial on various charges begins
February 21: Rouen. First public session of the trial. Joan is presented to the court.
March 10: Rouen. Trial sessions moved to prison
May 9: Rouen. Joan is threatened with torture
May 24. Rouen. Joan's abjuration
May 28: Rouen. Joan "relapses" by dressing in men's clothes and admitting that she was once again in communication with the voices since her abjuration and rejection of them. This opens the charge that she is a relapsed heretic.
May 30: Rouen. Joan is burned at the stake

December 16, 1431: Duke of Bedford stages a coronation in Paris of King Henry VI, styled of England and France
Spring 1432: English suffer military reverses around Paris
November 1432: Anne of Burgandy (the Duchess of Bedford) dies. Anne's marriage to the English regent had fortified and formalized the Anglo-Burgundian alliance
September 29, 1435: Treaty of Arras between Burgundy and France whereby Duke Philip of Burgunday, formerly an ally of the English, recognizes Charles VII as King of France
February 1436: Paris blockaded
April 1436: Paris opens its gates to Dunois and Richemont. Paris is once again in French hands.
April 15, 1450. The English field army is destroyed at the Battle of Formigny and the English are expelled from Normandy, the ancient seat of the Normans who conquered England.
July 17, 1453. English are expelled from Aquitaine following the Battle of Castillon, ending the Hundred Years' War.

July 7: Rouen. Rehabilitation trial adjourns, declaring the 1431 conviction null on the basis of procedural flaws