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1356
 
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The battle of Poitiers ends, on the third day, with victory for the English and the capture of the French king, John II      
1360
 
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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      
1392
 
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Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness      
1407
 
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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      
1413
 
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Henry V succeeds his father, Henry IV, as king of England      
1415
 
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Henry V captures the French stronghold of Harfleur - where, in Shakespeare, he urges his dear friends 'once more unto the breach'        
1415
 
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Henry V wins a victory on St Crispin's day at Agincourt, against a much larger and more heavily armed French force       
Indenture committing an English gentleman to fight with Henry V in France
National Archives, Kew
1419
 
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After a six-month siege Henry V makes a triumphal entry into Rouen, the city of his Norman ancestors      
1419
 
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John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, is murdered by the Armagnac faction in the presence of the dauphin - escalating France's civil war      
1420
 
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The treaty of Troyes, between the English and the Burgundian faction, grants Henry V the status of heir to the French throne