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| | | Hundred Years War timeline |
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| 1328 |
| | When Charles IV dies, for the first time in more than 400 years of the Capetian dynasty there is no son or brother to inherit the French crown | |
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| 1328 |
| | A French cousin, Philip of Valois, is selected to succeed Charles IV - in preference to an English cousin, Edward III | |
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| 1337 |
| | Philip VI of France confiscates Guienne, a fief belonging to Edward III of England - whose response begins the Hundred Years' War | |
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| 1340 |
| | Edward III, in Ghent, publicly assumes the title and the arms of the king of France | |
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| 1346 |
| | The more mobile English force, of longbows and infantry, defeats at Crécy the unwieldy crossbows and heavy cavalry of the French | |
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| 1347 |
| | The English siege of Calais ends when six burghers of the town, with ropes around their necks, offer their lives to save their fellow citizens | |
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