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| 1356 |
| | The battle of Poitiers ends, on the third day, with victory for the English and the capture of the French king, John II | |
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| 1360 |
| | After four years of captivity in Bordeaux and London, the French king John II is released for a promised ransom of 3 million gold crowns | |
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| 1392 |
| | Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness | |
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| 1407 |
| | Rivalry between factions of the French royal family results in the murder in Paris of the king's brother, Louis duke of Orléans, and the onset of civil war | |
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| 1413 |
| | Henry V succeeds his father, Henry IV, as king of England | |
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| 1415 |
| | Henry V captures the French stronghold of Harfleur - where, in Shakespeare, he urges his dear friends 'once more unto the breach' | |
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| 1415 |
| | Henry V wins a victory on St Crispin's day at Agincourt, against a much larger and more heavily armed French force | |
| | Indenture committing an English gentleman to fight with Henry V in France National Archives, Kew
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| 1419 |
| | After a six-month siege Henry V makes a triumphal entry into Rouen, the city of his Norman ancestors | |
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| 1419 |
| | John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, is murdered by the Armagnac faction in the presence of the dauphin - escalating France's civil war | |
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| 1420 |
| | The treaty of Troyes, between the English and the Burgundian faction, grants Henry V the status of heir to the French throne | |
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