Chronological list of events in the Hundred Years War, military and civil
Year Month Day Event
1351
Black Death toll to this point is 75 million people in Europe alone. Zurich joins the Swiss league. Tennis becomes an open air game in England.
Apr. French Royal Ordinance of 1351: Raises pay for Soldiers and in an attempt to curb the Right of Independent Withdrawal forbids nobles to leave the battlefield without the permission of the commanders.
1352
Glarus and Zug join Swiss league. Arab geographer Ibn Battuta explores Sahara. Corpus Christi College founded at Oxford.
Parliament limits the English kings powers of conscription.
Jan. 6 Foundation of the French Order of the Star.
Battle of Mauron: Walter Bently, Edward III's commander in Brittany, defeats a French army, inflicting heavy casualties on the Blois - Penthièvre party.
1353
Nicholas d'Autrecourt, noted French philosopher, dies
Apr. Walter Bently is removed as Edward III's commander in Brittany, having failed to achieve any notable success in campaigns in the area below the Loire.
Jun. Walter Bently is imprisoned on his return to England
1354
Turks take Gallipoli, gaining a foothold in Europe. Mechanical clock installed at Strasbourg cathederal.
Jan. Philippe of Navarre, at the instigation of his brother Charles (the Bad) of Navarre, assassinates Constable Charles d'Espagne.
Charles lands in Normandy are confiscated.
Mar. King Jean and Charles of Navarre are officially reconciled.
1355
Scots defeat English at Nesbit.
Midsummers Day The Black Prince sails to Bordeaux and leads a destructive raid into Languedoc.
Jun. 6 Edward III orders Walter Bently released.
End of Oct. Henry, Duke of Lancaster and King Edward sail for Normandy.
Oct.-Nov. Plaisance, Mont Giscar, Carcassone and Narbonne are pillaged by the Prince.
Nov. Walter Bently, cleared of the charges against him, returns to Brittany, with his stepson, Olivier IV de Clisson.
Nov. 2 Duke Henry and King Edward Land in Calais, raid in Pas de Calais, Artios and Picardy.
Nov. 5-7 French Royal host is in Amiens.
Nov. 12 French Royal host is in St. Omer. Between Amiens and there Jean burned or carried off provisions, leaving the English without supplies.
Nov. 15 Facing a threat of Scottish invasion, and not wanting to spend the winter in France, Henry and Edward return to England.
Estates of Langued'oil (Northern France) meet in Paris, agree to support 30,000 man at arms, at a cost of 5,000,000 livres despite the grave misgivings of it's members, expressed by Etienne Marcel.
1356
Charles de Blois, having promised a large ransom to the English, is released. The ransom is never paid.
Apr. King Jean and Marshal d'Audrehem personally arrest Charles of Navarre, Jean de Harcourt and several other Norman lords for treason.
Jean de Harcourt and the other minor lords are executed.
Charles of Navarre is imprisoned in the Chatelet, and his lands in Normandy are confiscated (again).
Sep. 3 Prince Edward reaches the Loire but, finding the bridges burnt turns west towards Tours, where he has reports of a large French Army.
First Week Sep. French army gathers at Chartres.
Sep. 8-13 French army crosses the Loire at Orleans, Blois and other points. The city forces, disaffected about taxes, withdraw, though according to Froissart King Jean dismisses them.
Sep. 12 Prince Edward is in Montbazon, receives Cardinal Tallyrand, on a mission to negotiate a truce, which Edward refuses.
Sep. 17 At a farm called La Chavoterie a French force led by Raoul de Coucy overtakes an English scouting party. They engage and, though outnumbered, the English win. Raoul is taken captive.
Morning, Sep. 18 King Jean and the French army block the line of march of Prince Edward. Edward draws up his forces for battle.
mid morning, Sep. 18 In response to pleas by Cardinal Tallyrand to maintain the Truce of God, given the fact that it was Sunday, King Jean agrees to delay battle until the next day. English entrench their position.
Sep. 19 Battle of Poitiers: Capture of King Jean II and son Phillipe, 1 Archbishop, 13 Counts, 5 Viscounts, 21 Barons and Bannerets and Ap 2,000 knights, squires and men-at-arms. Most were released on their promise to bring their ransom to Bordeaux before Christmas. Charles IV of the Holy Roman Empire issues "Golden Bull" setting forth process for election of German kings (legitimizes the the "Elector" system).
Sep. 20 Edward withdraws to Bordeaux.
Oct. The Estates General is summoned in Paris, to raise money for defense. The 800 delegates vote themselves into a standing committee of 80, the rest depart. Etienne Marcel, Provost of Merchants of Paris confronts the Dauphin Charles and demands the dismissal of the seven most notoriously greedy of King Jean's councillors, the institution of a Council of Twenty-Eight to take their place, and the release of Charles of Navarre. The Dauphin Charles rejects their demands, and dismisses them.
Oct. 2 Henry of Lancaster, Edward III's commander in Brittany, lays siege to Rennes.
Nov. After the Dauphin Charles leaves Paris the committee reforms and, inciting strikes and the arming of the public, forces Charles to return to Paris and reconvene the Estates General.
1357
Revolution in Paris against the Dauphin, led by Marcel and Robert le Coq.
Feb.-Mar. The Estates General write the Grand Ordinance, a sweeping attempt to reform the government of France.
By threats of mob violence Charles is forced to sign it as Regent of France.
May. King Jean repudiates Dauphin Charles' signature, and the Grand Ordinance.
Prince Edward returns to England escorting King Jean, and the significant French prisoners.
Summer Charles goes on progress through the countryside.
Gradual collapse of all government outside of Paris, exacerbated by the rise of the Brigand Companies.
Aug. Charles, emboldened by the support he received on progress, reinstates the dismissed councillors, and dismisses the Council of Thirty-Six.
Nov. Charles of Navarre is released (or escapes) from prison in Picardy. He addresses a crowd in Paris and mentions that his claim to the throne is as least better that King Edward's. The crowd favors Navarre.
1358
The Jacquerie. The Hapsburgs defeated twice at Zurich by Swiss pikemen, sign peace treaty with Swiss League.
Jan. 11 The Dauphin Charles reenters Paris with 2,000 men-at-arms, and addresses the crowd at Les Halles. The crowd favors the Dauphin. Etienne Marcel raises a crowd, and storm the Palace. Regnaut d'Acy is killed in the streets, and Marshal Roger de Clermont and Marshal Jean de Conflans are slain in front of the Dauphin.
The crowd favors Marcel, but he looses the last of his support amongst the nobility.
Feb. Parisian bourgeoise rebels, led by Etienne Marcel, murdered the Marshals of Champagne and Normandy; and threatened the life of the dauphin Charles, who was forced to flee the city.
May. The Dauphin orders the nobles along the water routes to Paris to fortify their castles, in order to blockade Paris.
A peasants' rebellion, known as the jacqerie, began, but was put down near Meaux by Charles "the Bad," King of Navarre.
May. 28 At St. Leu the peasants of the town rise up and kill the local nobles (a knight, his wife and children) and burn the manor. The unrest quickly spreads, becoming the Jacquerie.
Jun. 9 A large force of the Jauques (9000?) reach the city of Meaux, where the French royal family is in residence. They are confronted by the Captal de Buch and the Comte de Foix, with about 120 followers. Pandemonium ensues, and on the narrow bridge connecting the fortress to the town, where the peasants cannot make use of their superior numbers many are slaughtered.

Meaux burned for two weeks, and the tide turned against the Jacques.
Jun. Charles of Navarre faces Guillame Caen, the leader of the Jacques, in battle. Charles invites Caen to parley, seizes him and beheads him, according to some sources after crowning him King of the Jacques with a crown of red hot iron.
Jun. Engurrand de Coucy hunts down and destroys the remaining bands of Jaques.
Jun. 24 The Jacquerie is crushed between Seine and Marne.
Jul. Charles of Navarre enters Paris, and again addressing the crowd, makes a bid for the crown.
Etienne Marcel plans to turn the city over to him.
The English are ravaging the outskirts of the city on a daily basis.
Jul. 22 Charles brings a band of English men-at-arms into Paris, where an enraged crown attacks them, driving them into the Louvre.
Jul. 31 At the Port St. Denis Marcel orders the guard to give the keys to the city to Charles of Navarre. They refuse and a riot breaks out. Marcel tries again later, at the Port de St. Antoine, with the same result, only this time he is caught in the rioting and trampled to death in the streets.
Aug. 2 Paris opens it's gates to the Dauphin, who proclaims a pardon for all, except those of of Navarre and Marcel's party, who are executed or banished.
Aug. 10 After angry demonstrations result from an attempt to arrest more of Marcel's followers, the Dauphin issues a general amnesty.
Aug. 23 Isabella, the She-Wolf of France, widow of Edward II, dies.
In St. Denis, Charles of Navarre defies the Dauphin, and renews his alliance with the King of England.
1359
1359-60 Hoping to gain from the dauphin's difficulties, Edward III launched his last great campaign in France. He failed to get himself crowned 'king of France' at Reims, was unable to take Paris, and agreed to the preliminaries of a peace at Brétigny near Chartes (8 May 1360). A modified version of the treaty was ratified at Calais (24 Oct 1360). There was relative peace in terms of direct combat between English and French armies until 1369.
King Jean signs the Treaty of London, surrendering most of western France and agreeing to pay 4,000,000 gold ecus ransom.
May. 19 The Estates General at Paris reject the treaty, and order war to be made on England.
Aug. Charles of Navarre is reconciled with the Dauphin, and through him the King (again).
End of Oct. King Edward sets out with a massive force from England, landing in Calais.
The Dauphin pursues a policy of avoiding pitched battle.
1st week Dec. Edward reaches Reims, having encountered no resistance. He is low on supplies, Picardie having been ravaged by the Companies, and the suppression of the Jacquerie.
In the interim, Reims has increased it's fortifications, and destroyed all the buildings outside the walls that could shelter him.
1360
Jan. Edward lifts the siege of Reims, and marches to Burgundy, to pillage.
Mar. 1 King Jean is moved from Lincolnshire to the Tower of London.
March 15 Engurrand Ringoes, lands in Winchelsea and takes and pillages the town. Alarms fly out across England, panic ensues.
Mar. 16 Rye is likewise pillaged. The French return to Winchelsea and then to France.
End of Mar. Philip de Rouvre, Duc de Bourgogne, pays Edward 200,000 moutons to leave. Edward turns and marches towards Paris.
1st week Apr. Edward invests Paris for siege, issuing challenges to fight. The Dauphin remains behind the walls.
Second week Apr. After burning the outskirts of Paris for a week, Edward picks up and moves towards Chartres.
Apr. 13 Black Monday - While camped on the approach to Chartres the English army is devastated by a storm of immense hail and freezing rain. Yielding to the wrath of heaven (and the advice of the Duke of Lancaster) Edward agrees to negotiate a peace.
May. 8 Treaty of Bretigny is signed. Jean's ransom is reduced to 3,000,000 ecus, and Edward renounces the crown of France, and any territories not covered by the treaty. Edward is granted Guienne and Calais free of homage, and large grants of land were made between the Loire and the Pyrenees, amounting to approximately a third of France. Forty hostages are to be sent to England to ensure compliance.
Jul. King Jean is returned to Calais and kept there pending the delivery of the first installment of his ransom.
End of Jul. King Jean notifies the clergy, nobles, towns and inhabitants of Poitou that the region is being turned over to the English. Sir John Chandos travels through the region receiving homages on behalf of Edward III.
Mid-Oct. Jean's daughter is married to the son of Galeazzo Visconti, in return for a payment of 600,000 florins.
Oct. 24 A payment of 400,000 ecus is made to the English at Calais. It is less than the the stipulated 600,000, but it is accepted. The treaty is ratified, with some slight modifications, as the Treaty of Calais between Edward III and Philip of Burgandy. Jean returns to Paris.
28 Oct. The party of hostages sails for England.
Dec. The French king, Jean II was released from English captivity.