Joan of Arc/Timelines

1412 (?)

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

1415

• October 25: Battle of Agincourt. French forces routed by English

1420

• 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

1422

• 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

1424 (?)

Summer: Joan first hears her voices

1428

• May 13: Joan meets for the first time with Robert de Baudricourt in Vaucouleurs
• July: Burgundian raid on Domrémy

1429

• 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
• December: Joan and her family receive letters of nobility from Charles VII

1430

• January: Joan in Orleans
• March 16: Joan sends a letter to the inhabitants of Reims promising aid against any Burgundian offensive
• March 23: In a letter addressed to the followers of John Hus, Joan condemns the Hussites
• March 28: Joan sends a second letter to the inhabitants of Reims
• late March: an attempted Armagnac coup in Paris is foiled
• May 23: Compiegne. Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians
• May 26: University of Paris, in the name of the Inquisitor of France, writes to Duke of Burgundy requesting that Joan be surrendered to the Inquisition and University for trial
• July 14: Bishop Pierre Cauchon presents a letter to the Burgundians demanding that Joan be transferred to the King of England for a Church trial and offers several thousand pound in exchange for her
• approx July to early November: Joan is held in the castle of Beaurevoir
• by November 21: Joan is under control of Henry VI and the University of Paris wtites asking that she be turned over to Cauchon and the Inquisition for trial
• December 23: Joan arrives in Rouen

1431

• 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. This opens the charge that she is a relapsed heretic
• May 30: Rouen. Joan is burned at the stake

1456

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