page_title: Paris in the 17th century
section_title: Chronology
hierarchical_section_title: Paris in the 17th century / Chronology
context_page_description: Paris in the 17th century was the largest city in Europe, with a population of half a million, matched in size only by London. It was ruled in turn by three monarchs; Henry IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV, and saw the building of some of the city's most famous parks and monuments, including the Pont Neuf, the Palais Royal, the newly joined Louvre and Tuileries Palace, the Place des Vosges, and the Luxembourg Garden. It was also a flourishing center of French science and the arts; it saw the founding of the Paris Observatory, the French Academy of Sciences and the first botanical garden in Paris, which also became the first park in Paris open to the public. The first permanent theater opened, the Comédie-Française was founded, and the first French opera and French ballets had their premieres. Paris became the home of the new Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and of some of France's most famous writers, including Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, La Fontaine and Moliere. Urban innovations for the city included the first street lighting, the first public transport, the first building code, and the first new aqueduct since Roman times.
context_section_description: 1600
  2 January – Construction begins La Samaritaine, a giant pump, located at the Pont Neuf, to raise drinking water from the Seine and to irrigate the Tuileries gardens.
  1603
  20 June – King Henry IV crosses the Pont Neuf to inaugurate the bridge.
  1605
  July – Henry IV signs letters patent ordering construction of Place Royale (now Place des Vosges), the first residential square in Paris.
  1606
  1 August – Royal authorization given to build a Protestant church at Charenton.
  1607
  28 May – Approval given for creation of Place Dauphine, on the site of the old royal gardens on Île de la Cité.
  1608
  1 January – Inauguration of the galerie du bord-de-l'eau of the Louvre, connecting the Louvre with the Tuileries Palace.
  1610
  14 May – Assassination of Henry IV by Ravaillac on Rue de la Ferronnerie, while the King's carriage is caught in a traffic jam.
  1612
  5–7 April – Celebration of the wedding contract between Louis XIII and Anne of Austria and inauguration of the Place Royale, with the Ballet équestre du Carrousel taking place within the Place Royale.
  1614
  19 April – Contract signed to create the Île Saint-Louis by combining two small islands, the Île aux Vaches and Île Notre-Dame, and building a new bridge, the Pont Marie, to the Right Bank. The work was finished in 1635.
  1615
  2 April – Construction begins of the Luxembourg Palace and gardens by Marie de' Medici, widow of Henry IV. It was completed in 1621.
  1616
  30 January – A major flood washes away the Pont Saint-Michel and damages the Pont aux Changeurs.
  24 April – Concini, Minister of King Louis XIII and favorite the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici, is murdered on the entry bridge of the Louvre, probably on Louis XIII's orders; Marie de' Medici is exiled to Blois.
  1617
  22 October – Letters of patent given for three companies of chair bearers, the first organized public transport within the city.
  1618
  June – Authority over printers, bookbinders and book stores is transferred from the Church to secular authorities.
  1619
  27 July – First stone placed for the convent of the Trinity of the order of the reformed Petits Augustins, on the site of the modern École des beaux-arts. 
  1620
  Opening of the first Pont de la Tournelle, made of wood. The bridge was destroyed by blocks of ice floating on the river in 1637 and 1651 and rebuilt in stone in 1654.
  1621
  26 September – The Protestant temple at Charenton is burned by a Catholic mob, after the news of the death of Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne fighting the Protestants in the unsuccessful Siege of Montauban.
  23 October – Both the Pont Marchand and the Pont au Change are burned; the Protestants are blamed.
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  1622
  A windmill, called the moulin du palais, is built atop Montmartre. In the 19th century, it is renamed the Moulin de la galette (it became a famous landmark in the 19th century).
  2 September – Cardinal Richelieu becomes the proviseur, or dean, of the Sorbonne.
  22 October – For centuries, the bishop of Paris was under the authority of the archbishop of Sens. On this date Paris was given its own archbishop, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris established.
  1623
  19 May – First water arrives from Arcueil, in a new channel following the route of the ancient Roman aqueduct, at the new reservoir on rue d'Enfer, near the present Observatory.
  1624
  Construction begins of the church of Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle.
  24 April – First stone placed for the Pavillon de l'Horloge of the Louvre.
  31 July – Anne of Austria lays the first stone of the monastery of Val-de-Grâce, on the site of the modern hospital of that name.
  1625
  17 April – Saint Vincent de Paul founds the Congregation of the Mission charitable community of monks.
  1626
  Construction of the Pont au Double to connect the right bank with the Hôtel-Dieu hospital on the Île-de-la-Cité.
  January – Royal decree establishes the Jardin royal des plantes médicinales, future Jardin des Plantes, though the site is not specified.
  February – Royal edict forbids duels.
  25 February – Consecration of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, begun in 1492.
  25 April – Civil disturbances at Les Hal
caption: The Porte Saint-Denis, built by Louis XIV on the site of the old city wall, which he declared was no longer needed (1675)
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