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| c. 1220 |
| | | Nearly 200 windows make Chartres cathedral the most magnificent display of early stained glass | |
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| c. 1320 |
| | | Philippe de Vitry, in his Ars Nova ('New Art'), lays out the basis of musical notation | |
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| 1395 |
| | | Philip II of Burgundy commissions from Netherlands sculptor Claus Sluter a work, the Well of Moses, which launches the northern Renaissance | |
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| 1412 |
| | | The three Limburg brothers illustrate for the duke of Berry the Très Riches Heures, one of the masterpieces of International Gothic | |
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| 1452 |
| | | Étienne Chevalier commissions from Jean Fouquet a series of illustrations for his Book of Hours | |
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| 1517 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci moves to France, on the invitation of Francis I | |
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| 1624 |
| | | Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism | |
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| 1625 |
| | | Rubens completes a great narrative sequence of twenty-one paintings to celebrate the achievements of Marie de Médicis | |
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| 1662 |
| | | Jean-Baptiste Colbert buys the Gobelin family workshops in Paris and transforms them into a royal factory for Louis XIV | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque | |
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