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End of World War II is celebrated at Champ de Mars, Town Hall, Luna Park, Majestic, Citadel, Signal Mountain, and streets of Port Louis. Port Louis Theatre in the 1950s. 1951 - Fort Adelaide (La Citadelle) murders and hanging; 1952 - Population: 84,539. [24] 1953 - Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute founded in nearby Réduit. [12] 1956 ...
In the 13th century, King Louis IX (r. 1226–1270), known to history as "Saint Louis", built the Sainte-Chapelle, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, especially to house relics from the crucifixion of Christ. Built between 1241 and 1248, it has the oldest stained glass windows preserved in Paris.
3 May – Louis XVIII enters Paris, occupied by the allied armies. 1815 19 March – Louis XVIII leaves Paris at midnight, and Napoleon returns on the 20th, the beginning of the Hundred Days. After the battle of Waterloo, Paris is again occupied, this time by the Seventh Coalition. Hôtel Meurice opens for business.
By the treaty, Louis demanded Horik's obedience, which was further secured by Horik regularly sending embassies and gifts to Louis and his suspension of support to Viking raiders. [3] Although many Vikings had died in the plague during the siege of Paris, Ragnar lived to return home to King Horik.
This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France.
Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems. The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum. 23 August – French Revolution: The following universal conscription decree is enacted in France: "The young men shall go to battle and the married men shall forge arms. The women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals ...
At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India established warehouses in Port-Louis. They later built additional warehouses across the bay in 1628, at the location which became known as "L'Orient" (the Orient in French). In 1664, during the reign of King Louis XIV, the French East India Company was established at ...
French map from 1791 depicting Mauritius (then called "Isle de France"). Abandoned by the Dutch, the island became a French colony when, in September 1715, Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel landed and took possession of this port of call on the route to India. He named the island "Isle de France". Six years later, in 1721, the French started their ...