page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 18th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Visit of Louis XIV of France to Les Invalides.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1701
  December – A royal edict divides the city into twenty police districts, added to the sixteen quarters created by the Hôtel de Ville.
  1706
  28 August – Consecration of the church of Les Invalides, in the presence of the King.
  1709
  6 January – Extreme cold hits Paris, that will last until the end of March. Temperature drops to -40 Celsius, (estimated as the thermometer was invented that year.)the Seine freezes, causing shipments of food by boat to be stopped. The cold wave paralyzes all of France, making it also impossible to bring supplies to Paris by road. In that period, twenty four to thirty thousand persons die from hunger and cold in Paris alone; near one million in all of France.
  15 March – Seine begins to thaw, causing flood.
  5 April – First food shipment reaching Paris by road.
  20 August – Food riot quelled by the army, leaving two dead.
  1714
  7 August – Royal Council prohibits building on the boulevards from the Porte Saint-Honoré to Porte Saint-Antoine without authorization of the Bureau de la Ville.
  1715
  1 September – Death of Louis XIV. Philippe d'Orléans becomes Regent and on 30 December moves the five-year-old king Louis XV and Court from Versailles to Paris.
  31 December – An ordinance authorizes the first public ball in Paris, the masked ball at the Paris Opera.
  1716
  2 May – The founding of the Banque générale, the first private bank in Paris, by the Scotsman John Law.
  18 May – The Comédie Italienne theater troupe, banned by Louis XIV in 1697 to perform in Paris, is allowed to return and performs at the Palais Royal.
  1718
  4 December – The Banque générale becomes the Banque royale and effectively the central bank of France. Two-thirds of its assets are government bills and notes.
  10 July – The construction begins of the Hôtel d'Évreux, the town house of Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Évreux, finished in 1720. In the 19th century it became the Élysée Palace, residence of the presidents of the French Republic.
  1720
  Completion of Place Louis-le-Grand, now Place Vendôme.
  24 March – Bank of John Law closes, unable to pay its subscribers. Financial panic follows, and the Paris stock market is closed until 1724.
  10 July – Rioters storm the Banque royale, demanding to exchange their banknotes for silver. Banker John Law flees to Brussels, then Venice.
  1721
  28 November – Public execution of the bandit Louis-Dominique Cartouche, famed for robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Thanks to a play about him the same year by the Comédie Italienne, he became a Parisian folk hero.
  1722
  Construction begins of the Palais-Bourbon, finished in 1728. After the Revolution of 1789, it became the seat of the National Assembly.
  1723
  23 February – A royal regulation forbids printing houses and publishing outside of the Latin quarter on the Left Bank. The law is intended to make censorship more effective.
  1728
  16 January – First street signs, made of iron painted white with black letters, put in place. They were easy to steal, and in 1729 were replaced by carved stone plaques.
  1731 – Académie royale de chirurgie (Royal Academy of Surgery) established.
  1732–1775 – Construction of Church of Saint-Sulpice
  1735
  10 September – A new royal regulation simplifies the procedure for searching publishing houses and bookstores, strengthening censorship.
  Premiere of Rameau's Les Indes galantes.
  1738 – The founding of the royal porcelain manufactory in Vincennes; it was transferred in 1757 to Sèvres.
  1745
  26 March – Permission given by the royal censors for the publication of the first Encyclopédie. It was published between 1751 and 1772.
  1749
  March – The exhibition at the Saint-Germain fair of the first rhinoceros ever to be seen in Paris.
  1751
  22 January – The École Militaire is established.
  1752
  31 January – The first Encyclopédie is condemned by the archbishop of Paris.
  1756–1772 – The construction of Place Louis XV (now the Place de la Concorde).
  Construction begins on the church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon).
  1760
  9 June – First postal delivery begins in Paris.
  1761 – City bans hanging shop signs.
  1763
  Bibliothèque h
caption: Louis XIV visits the unfinished Les Invalides in 1706
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