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| 6 Jan 1412 CE | According to some sources, French heroine Joan of Arc (1412-1431) was born on this day as Jeanette d'Arc, in the French village of Domrémy. The Roman Catholic Church recognized Joan of Arc as a saint in 1920. | |
| 1425 CE | Some time in 1425 Joan of Arc began to have visions: 'When I was thirteen, I had a voice from God to help me govern myself'. | |
| Feb 1429 CE | Joan of Arc (1412?–1431), a French peasant girl and daughter of a farmer from the border of Champagne and Lorraine, set out to seeks the French leader and relates her divinely-inspired mission to drive the English out of France. | |
| 29 Apr 1429 CE | Joan of Arc was sent to fight the English who were besieging Orleans during the Hundred Years War. Legend has it that King Charles VII of France had a suit of armor made for Joan at a cost of 100 war horses. In 1996 a suit of armor was found and proposed to be Joan's armor. | |
| 7 May 1429 CE | English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc. | |
| 9 May 1429 CE | Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans. | |
| Sep 1429 CE | Joan of Arc's attack on Paris fails. | |
| 23 May 1430 CE | Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians in a skirmish when she was defnding town of Compiegne. | |
| 14 Jul 1430 CE | Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to the English for trial for heresy. | |
| Jan 1431 CE | Joan of Arc handed over to the Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais and and Jean Lemaitre, vicar of the inquisitor of France. This began the first phase of her trial (an ecclesiastical investigation for heresy) which lasted until March. | |
| Apr 1431 CE | Britain begins the second phase of her trial against Joan of Arc (for witchcraft and fraud) which lasts until May. She was finally condemned on a technicality, for persisting in wearing male clothing. | |
| 28 May 1431 CE | The third phase of the trial against Joan of Arc began (trial as a relapsed heretic). | |
| 30 May 1431 CE | Joan of Arc, condemned as a relapsed heretic (a witch), was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. She was 19 years old. | |
| 7 Jul 1456 CE | Under the impetus of Charles VII, then under that of her mother and finally under that of the Inquisition, a reinvestigation the trial of Joan of Arc and her condemnation was undertaken. A commission of ecclesiastical lawyers subsequently declared Joan's trial null and void, thereby freeing Joan from the taint of heresy. | |
| 16 May 1920 CE | Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome. | |
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