Paris

City

Capital of France on the Seine, centre of the French Revolution and of the uprisings of 1830, 1848 and 1871.

View on map 48.86° N, 2.35° E Wikipedia

Held by

1789 – May 23, 1808 France de facto
October 14, 1808 – April 12, 1814 France de facto
May 30, 1814 – June 21, 1940 France de facto
June 14, 1940 – August 15, 1944 Germany de facto Military occupation
since August 25, 1944 France de facto

Capital of

since October 5, 1789 France
July 10, 1940 – August 20, 1944 Vichy France

Events here 97

February 6, 1778 Treaty of Alliance
September 3, 1783 Treaty of Paris (1783)
April 26–29, 1789 Réveillon riots
May 5, 1789 – November 9, 1799 French Revolution
July 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille
August 26, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
June 20, 1792 Demonstration of 20 June 1792
August 10, 1792 Insurrection of 10 August 1792
September 2–7, 1792 September Massacres
December 10–26, 1792 Trial of Louis XVI
January 21, 1793 Execution of Louis XVI
September 5, 1793 – July 28, 1794 Reign of Terror
1795 Insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III
May 20, 1795 Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III
October 5, 1795 13 Vendémiaire
May 15, 1796 Treaty of Paris (1796)
September 4, 1797 Coup of 18 Fructidor
June 17–18, 1799 Coup of 30 Prairial VII
1800 Conspiration des poignards
December 24, 1800 Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise
July 15, 1801 – April 8, 1802 Concordat of 1801
October 9, 1801 Treaty of Paris (1802)
October 10, 1801 Treaty of Paris (8 October 1801)
March 21, 1804 Napoleonic Code
December 2, 1804 Coronation of Napoleon
January 6, 1810 Treaty of Paris (1810)
October 23, 1812 Malet coup of 1812
March 30–31, 1814 Battle of Paris (1814)
May 30, 1814 Treaty of Paris (1814)
March 20 – July 8, 1815 Hundred Days
November 20, 1815 Quadruple Alliance (1815)
November 20, 1815 Treaty of Paris (1815)
July 27–29, 1830 July Revolution
June 5–6, 1831 June Rebellion
1844 French Industrial Exposition of 1844
June 22–26, 1848 June Days uprising
December 2, 1851 1851 French coup d'état
May 15 – November 15, 1855 Exposition Universelle (1855)
March 30, 1856 Treaty of Paris (1856)
April 16, 1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
March 4, 1857 Treaty of Paris (1857)
January 14, 1858 Orsini affair
September 5, 1860 – September 1864 Règlement Organique (Mount Lebanon)
May 15, 1863 Salon des Refusés
September 19, 1870 – January 28, 1871 Siege of Paris (1870–1871)
March 18 – May 28, 1871 Paris Commune
March 18, 1871 Uprising of March 18, 1871
May 21–28, 1871 Semaine sanglante
May 26, 1871 Massacre in the Rue Haxo
April 15 – May 15, 1874 First Impressionist Exhibition
May 20, 1875 Metre Convention
March 30 – April 30, 1876 Second Impressionist Exhibition
August 15 – November 15, 1881 International Exposition of Electricity
March 9, 1883 Demonstration of 9 March 1883
March 20, 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
March 14, 1884 Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables
October 15, 1894 – July 12, 1906 Dreyfus affair
May 4, 1897 Bazar de la Charité
December 10, 1898 Treaty of Paris (1898)
October 3, 1899 Paris Arbitral Award
1900 Exposition Universelle (1900)
June 27, 1900 Treaty of Paris (1900)
October 31, 1903 Salon d'Automne
January 21, 1910 1910 Great Flood of Paris
February 9, 1920 Svalbard Treaty
April 28 – October 25, 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts
August 27, 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact
February 6, 1934 6 February 1934 crisis
May 2, 1935 Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
September 9, 1936 Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence
July 16–17, 1942 Vel' d'Hiv roundup
August 19–25, 1944 Liberation of Paris
February 10, 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
February 10, 1947 Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers
December 9, 1948 Genocide Convention
December 10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
April 18, 1951 Treaty of Paris (1951)
October 23, 1954 Bonn–Paris conventions
December 19, 1954 European Cultural Convention
December 14, 1960 Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
October 17, 1961 1961 Paris massacre
January 22, 1963 Élysée Treaty
May 2 – June 23, 1968 May 68
1972 World Heritage Convention
January 27, 1973 Paris Peace Accords
February 22, 1987 Louvre Accord
November 19, 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
October 23, 1991 1991 Paris Peace Agreements
January 13, 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention
August 31, 1997 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
October 17, 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting
November 13, 2015 November 2015 Paris attacks
December 12, 2015 Paris Agreement
2016 Nuit debout
April 15, 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire
December 23, 2022 2022 Paris shooting