The Judgment of Paris - Timeline

The Judgment of Paris - Timeline
Alexandre Cabanel: "Fallen Angel" (1847), Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • 1517 Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg.
  • 1540-1541 The historical Georg Faust is said to have died in Wittenberg, possibly torn apart by the Devil
  • 1543 Copernicus shows that Earth is not the centre of the Universe
  • 1546 Death of Martin Luther
  • 1587 Anonymous chapbook Historia von D. Johann Fausten
  • 1592 or 1593 Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
  • 1620 Ninon de Lenclos is born
  • 1626 Marquise de Sévigné is born
  • 1635 Madame de Maintenon is born
  • 1638 Louis XIV is born
  • 1643 Louis XIV becomes King of France (Anne of Austria is regent)
  • 1651 Sévigné's husband dies and she moves to Paris
  • 1656 Ninon imprisoned by Anne of Austria in the Madelonnettes Convent in Paris; Christina of Sweden secures her release
  • 1660 Maintenon's husband, Scarron, dies; she retains a pension
  • 1664 Molière’s Tartuffe first produced
  • 1667 Ninon theoretically retires as a courtesan to focus on her salon
  • 1669 Maintenon becomes governess to Louis XIV's illegitimate children
  • 1674 Maintenon becomes the mistress of Louis XIV and is able to buy Château de Maintenon
  • 1683 Queen Maria Theresa dies (Louis XIV's wife)
  • 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
  • 1685 Maintenon marries Louis XIV in secret
  • 1686 King endows St. Cyr school for girls to Maintenon
  • 1687 Newton’s Principia
  • 1694 Birth of Voltaire
  • 1696 Marquise de Sévigné dies
  • 1705 Ninon dies
  • 1715 Louis XIV dies
  • 1719 Maintenon dies
  • 1749 Goethe is born
  • 1778 Death of Voltaire
  • 1786 Goethe begins Italian trip, through 1788
  • 1790 The first publication of a version of Goethe’s Faust
  • 1806 Goethe marries Christiane de Vulpius
  • 1808 First part of Goethe’s play Faust is published
  • 1859 Gounod’s Faust