page_title: Saint-Python
section_title: Chronology
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Python / History / Chronology
caption_attribution_description: Español: Batalla de Rocroi (1643) por Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
context_page_description: Saint-Python is a commune in the Nord department in northern France named after Piatus of Tournai. Its inhabitants are called Saint-Piatiens or Piatonnais.
context_section_description: The following chronologically-ordered dates mark the historical events which had the most impact on Saint-Python:
  57 BC: The legions of Julius Caesar marched on the Mourmont, a lieu-dit between Saint-Python and Solesmes to lead the Battle of the Sabis, and were nearly defeated.
  1074: Saint Lietbertus donated lands and properties located in Saint-Python to the Abbaye Saint-André du Cateau in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
  1185: Saint-Python was set on fire by Philip I, Count of Flanders.
  April 1263: Founding of a chapel belonging to Abbaye Saint-André.
  February 24, 1416: The Burgundians are housed in Saint-Python.
  1437-1440: The écorcheurs (French: [ekɔʁʃœʁ], lit. "flayers") devastated the country including Saint-Python.
  1450: The plague struck Saint-Python at least in 1450 and around 1669 (as quoted in Solesmes' Public Registers).
  1536: Reconstruction of Saint-Python Church.
  1544-1581: The village is periodically abandoned during French occupation of the region, with some inhabitants taking refuge in Cambrai, Valenciennes or Le Quesnoy.
  1559: Traités du Cateau-Cambrésis: Peace between Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain.
  July 7, 1637: Landrecies and Le Cateau taken by the French (Turenne). Saint-Python is declared to have been abandoned after taking Landrecies.
  November 7, 1659: The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed to end the 1635–1659 Franco-Spanish war. Saint-Python then becomes French.
  May 2, 1668: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: France takes over Douai, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Lille.
  March 1675: Saint-Python is obliged to deliver to many cities many carts full of fodder for the king such as in Le Quesnoy, Avesnes-les-Aubert, Fayt, Charleroi, Ors, Philippeville).
  On August 10, 1678: Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen (Traités de Paix de Nimègue)that gives France Valenciennes, Bouchain, Cambrai, Bavay and Maubeuge.
  1757: Construction of the current Saint-Python's Church.
  1790: Saint-Python's first municipal election. The first mayor is Charles J. Marlier.
  1793: Several conflicts occur when Catholic clerics refuse to follow the Decadary Cult.
  1832, 1848 and 1866: Cholera raged in Saint-Python.
  May 9, 1944: Saint-Python hit by Allied bombing.
caption: Battle of Rocroi (1643) by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.
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