Paris timeline
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Treaty of Paris
The treaty document was signed at the Hôtel de York – which is now 56 Rue Jacob – by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay (representing the... Read more
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Sullivan Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts
After six fruitful months with William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Henry Sullivan decided to return to school for theoretical grounding, this time to... Read more
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Nikola Tesla begins working for Continental Edison
In 1882 Tesla moved to Paris, to work as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company, designing improvements to electric equipment brought... Read more
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Eiffel Tower Opens
The Eiffel Tower is an 1889 iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the... Read more
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'Salome' Premieres in Paris
Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage began in 1892, but were halted when the Lord Chamberlain's licensor of plays banned Salomé on... Read more
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Treaty of Paris is Signed, Ending the Spanish-American War
American and Spanish delegates met in Paris on October 1, 1898 to produce a treaty that would bring an end to the war after six months of... Read more
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Games of the II Olympiad held in Paris, France
The 1900 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1900 in... Read more
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Oscar Wilde Dies
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday,... Read more
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Couronnes Disaster - Paris Métro Fire
The first sign of trouble was at 6:53 p.m., when double train 43 completed the climb to Boulevard Barbès station with heavy smoke pouring from one... Read more
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T. S. Eliot Attends the Sorbonne
In May 1910 a suspected case of scarlet fever almost prevented Eliot's graduation. By fall, though, he was well enough to undertake a postgraduate... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets Ezra Pound
At the end of 1921, Ezra Pound rented a ground-floor apartment at 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs (southwest of the Luxembourg Gardens). Hemingway... Read more
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The First Edition of 'Ulysses' is Published in Paris
The court claimed the content of Ulysses to be pornographic based on the characters preoccupation with sex and their colorful language. Soon after... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets James Joyce
Hemingway was quick to see the merit in the work of James Joyce, not always a limpid writer. In a letter to Sherwood Anderson dated March 9, 1922,... Read more
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Games of the VIII Olympiad Held in Paris, France
The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, he describes the first time he met F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Dingo Bar on the rue Delambre where, as... Read more
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Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway Are Divorced
Hemingway's marriage to Hadley broke down as he was writing and revising The Sun Also Rises. In the spring of 1926, Hadley became aware of his... Read more
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'Pomes Penyeach' is Published
Published in 1927, Pomes Penyeach is a collection of 13 poems, a gathering of works written while Joyce was busy working on Ulysses. The collection... Read more
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'Tropic of Cancer' is Published in Paris
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. Its publication in 1961 in the United States by... Read more
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Liberation of Paris
The Liberation of Paris (also known as Battle for Paris) took place during World War II from August 19, 1944 until the surrender of the occupying... Read more
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Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation Opens
The Mémorial de la Déportation is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second... Read more
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Air France Orly Crash
On June 3, 1962, an Air France charter flight from Paris to Atlanta crashed on takeoff from France’s Orly Field. The crash, at the time the... Read more
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Signing of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam as Part of the Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973, intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam Conflict, ended direct U.S. military involvement... Read more
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UTA Flight 772 is Bombed
The DC-10 was operating as UTA Flight 772 on the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris route. The aircraft took off from N'Djamena at 13:13 and climbed to a... Read more
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Centennial Paris Air Show Opens on Somber Note Amid Continuing Air France Flight 447 Investigations
The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000... Read more
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Protests of Iranian Election Irregularities Intensify in Paris
Several dozen journalists and the press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged a protest rally outside the Iranian embassy in Paris on... Read more