In 1429, a 17-year-old peasant girl, Joan of Arc, convinced the Dauphin Charles that she had been sent by God to drive out the English. She joined the army sent to help the besieged city of Orleans, and the French forces broke the siege on 8 May, just nine days after her arrival. She then took the Dauphin to Reims for coronation as Charles VII in July. Captured by the Burgundians in 1430 and sold to the English, she was tried for heresy by a pro-English court and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431. A retrial annulled the verdict in 1456, and she was canonised in 1920.
Before and after
- 1420The Forbidden City is completed
- from June 1422 to March 1430Siege of Thessalonica
- from 1423 to 1454Wars in Lombardy
- from 1427 to 1864Circassia
- 8 May 1429Joan of Arc relieves Orleans
- 1 January 1431Birth of Alexander VI
- 1431Construction of Šibenik Cathedral
- 1431Construction of Bratislava Castle
- 30 May 1431Death of Joan of Arc
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