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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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| 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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