| 1337 | Hundred Years War begins. |
| 1340 | English naval success at Sluys, but failure at the siege of Tournai. |
| 1346 | The English invade France and capture Caen. |
| 26 August. Battle of Crécy. | |
| 1347 | Calais falls to the English after a year-long siege. |
| 1348–9 | Black Death sweeps Europe. |
| 1356 | The Black Prince defeats the French Army at Poitiers. |
| John II of France captured by English and imprisoned in the Tower of London. | |
| 1360 | Treaty of Brétigny. |
| 1369 | Charles V regains Aquitaine from the English. |
| 1376 | Edward, the Black Prince, dies. |
| 1377 | Edward III dies and is succeeded by his grandson Richard II. |
| 1396 | Twenty-eight year truce between France and England embodied in the Treaty of Paris. |
| Defeat of Anglo-Franco-Burgundian crusade at Nicopolis. | |
| 1399 | Richard II overthrown by Henry IV. |
| 1407 | Louis of Orléans is assassinated in Paris. France is divided between the Burgundians under John the Fearless and the Armagnacs under Louis’s son, Charles of Orléans, and Bernard of Armagnac. |
| 1413 | Henry V ascends the English throne. |
| 1415 | 14 August. Henry V’s invasion force lands at the mouth of the Seine. |
| 22 August. Harfleur falls to the English. | |
| 25 August. French defeated by the English at the battle of Agincourt. | |
| 1418 | 29 May. Paris falls to John the Fearless of Burgundy. |
| 1419 | Rouen falls to the English and their conquest of Normandy is complete. |
| John the Fearless is murdered. | |
| 1420 | Treaty of Troyes between Henry V of England, Philip the Good of Burgundy and Charles VI of France, makes Henry heir to the French throne. |
| 1422 | Son born to Henry V and Catherine; he is soon to become Henry VI, king of France and England. |
| 31 August. Henry V dies at Vincennes. | |
| 1428 | May. Joan of Arc meets Robert de Baudricourt, captain of Vaucouleurs, to tell him of her mission for the first time. |
| 12 October. Thomas Montagu, earl of Salisbury, begins the siege of Orléans. | |
| Christmas. By now Jean, the Bastard of Orléans, has arrived at the city with a sizeable French force. | |
| 1429 | January. Joan probably has a second meeting with Baudricourt. |
| 12 February. Battle of the Herrings: the English defeat the French outside Orléans. | |
| 12 February. Joan meets Baudricourt for the last time before leaving for Orléans. | |
| 11 March. Joan arrives at Poitiers for questioning about her mission by ecclesiastics chosen by the dauphin. The interrogation lasts eleven days. | |
| c. 22 March. Joan dictates her ‘Letter to the English’ outlining her mission. | |
| After 21 April. Joan joins the royal army at Blois. | |
| 4 May. French soldiers, with Joan, attack and capture the boulevard of Saint Loup at Orléans. | |
| 7 May. French capture the Tourelles at Orléans; Joan is wounded but the siege is effectively lifted. | |
| 8 May. English leave Orléans. | |
| 12 June. With the reinforcements the dauphin has given her, Joan attacks and recaptures Jargeau from the English. | |
| 15 June. French army captures the bridge over the Loire at Meung. | |
| 17 June. Sir John Fastolf’s army arrives at Beaugency while Joan and the French are attacking the town. The English do not fight and Beaugency falls to the French. | |
| 18 June. Battle of Patay: another victory for the French. | |
| 24 June. French army marches to Gien to join the dauphin. | |
| 29 June. French army begins the march to Reims. | |
| 2 July. Burgundian-held Auxerre falls to the French without a fight. | |
| 5 July. French troops camp outside Burgundian Troyes but the city refuses to capitulate. | |
| 8 July. Joan persuades a council of war to begin a siege. | |
| 9 July. Troyes surrenders to the French. | |
| 12 July. French army leaves for Reims. | |
| 17 July. Dauphin crowned Charles VII of France at Reims; Joan is at his side during the ceremony. | |
| Early August. Joan starts to move against Burgundianheld Paris. | |
| 28 August. Charles VII signs a truce with Philip the Good of Burgundy without Joan’s knowledge. | |
| 7 September. Charles VII arrives at Joan’s camp at Saint-Denis, outside Paris. | |
| 8 September. Joan attacks Paris and is wounded. | |
| 9 September. Charles suspends the assault on Paris in the face of protests from Joan and others. | |
| 12 September. French army retreats to the Loire. | |
| 21 September. Charles dissolves Joan’s army and discharges Alençon. | |
| October. Joan is sent to the upper Loire to target the mercenary captain Perrinet Gressart. | |
| By 1 November. Joan begins the siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier. | |
| 4 November. Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier taken. | |
| November. Siege of La Charité-sur-Loire begins but is abandoned between 22 and 24 December. | |
| 25 December. Joan returns to Jargeau and receives news that she and her descendants have been ennobled. | |
| 1430 | End of March. Joan moves off, without permission, to help the people of Compiègne, who are planning to resist Burgundian recapture. |
| 29 March. Battle of Lagny; Joan defeats an Anglo-Burgundian force. | |
| 14 May. Joan has reached Compiègne. | |
| 16 May. Joan and others forced to withdraw from Choisy to Compiègne in the face of Burgundian fire. | |
| By 22 May. Compiègne is surrounded by Anglo-Burgundian forces. | |
| 23 May. Joan is captured during a skirmish from Compiègne. She is later tried by the English and convicted of heresy. | |
| 1431 | 30 May. Joan is burned at the stake in Rouen marketplace. |
| 1435 | Congress of Arras: Philip the Good of Burgundy swaps from the English to the French side in the Hundred Years War. |
| 1450 | April. Battle of Formigny: French recapture Normandy. |
| 1453 | July. Last battle of the Hundred Years War is fought at Castillon. |