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A Short Chronology



 * 52 BC - Lutetia, later to become Paris, is built by the Gallo-Romans
 * 1113 - Pierre Abélard opens his school
 * 1163 - Building of Notre Dame begins
 * 1257 - The Sorbonne University is founded
 * 1682 - Louis XIV moves the French court from the Tuileries palace to Versailles
 * July, 1789 - Storming of the Bastille
 * Royal family forced from Versailles back to Paris
 * 1814 - Paris occupied by the armies of the Sixth Coalition after the fall of Napoleon
 * 1815 - Paris is again occupied, this time by the Seventh Coalition, after the end of the Hundred Days
 * 1840 - Napoleon's remains are buried at Les Invalides
 * 1853 - Baron Haussmann rebuilds the center of Paris
 * 1855 - Exposition Universelle (1855)
 * 1856 - Congress of Paris is held
 * 1867 - Exposition Universelle (1867)
 * 1870 - Prussian Siege of Paris. Gen von Blumenthal refuses to bombard.
 * January 28, 1871 - Paris Commune falls
 * 1878 - Exposition Universelle (1878)
 * 1889 - Exposition Universelle (1889) - Eiffel Tower
 * 1900 - Exposition Universelle (1900)
 * Paris Métro is opened
 * 1925 - Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (1925)
 * 1931 - French Colonial Exposition (1931)
 * June 13, 1940 - Nazis enter Paris
 * August 24, 1944 - Allies liberate the city
 * 1968 - Student riots in Paris, combined with a series of strikes by workers across the country, threaten to bring down the Gaullist government
 * 1999 - Opening of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Paris hosted the Summer Olympics twice, in 1900 and 1924. The 1998 World Cup was hosted by France; several matches were held in Paris proper at Parc des Princes, and several others, including the final, were held at Stade de France in the suburb of Saint-Denis.