In Joan's life, there were quite a lot of events. Here is a timeline of the important events that changed her life.
1412: Joan was born and baptized in Domremy.
1425: Joan began hearing voices. She believed that these were the voices of the angels sent by God.
1428: After she cut her hair to look like a boy, she was prompted by the voices, to travel to Vaucouleurs to ask the Dauphin if she can join his forces to help save France from the English and the Burgundians, who are trying to take over. Unfortunately he rejected her.
1429: Joan returns to Dauphin and pleads to him, to let her fight. This time he accepts.
Febuary 13th, 1429: Joan then leaves Vaucoulers dressed in men's clothes and heads to Chinon. Once there, she asked to help France fight the English and the Burgundians. Her interrogation was ordered by Churchmen for the next three weeks.
April, 1429: Dauphin honors Joan command of a small force.
April 27th, 1429: Joan and her troops headed out from Blois to help the French army at the Seige of Orleans.
April 29th, 1429: Joan and her troops reached Orleans, where they were told to wait for reinforcements.
May 4th, 1429: After winnig the seige in Orleans, Joan was suddenly inspired, and decided to lead attacks on the English army.
May 7th, 1429: During the raging battle, Joan is wounded by an arrow to the chest. Nontheless, she still leads the battle onward. Her troops are shocked by her bravery and fight harder.
May 9th, 1429: Joan and her troops come out of the battle victoriously and head back to Dauphin to tell him to head immediately to Reims for the coronation ceremony, where he will be crowned the King of France. Joan was overjoyed to have won the rightful kingdom back for the king.
June 18th, 1429: Soon there was the battle of Patay.
July 16th, 1429: Dauphin's army finaly reach Reims.
July 17th, 1429: Dauphin is crowned King of France.
August 14th, 1429: French and English forces were starting to fight each other at Senlis.
August 28th, 1429: Burgundy and France decided to sign a four month truce.
September 8th, 1429: The assault on Paris began.
December, 1429: Joan, her parents, and brothers were raised to nobility status.
May 14th, 1430: Joan reaches Compiegne. Where she is to fight another invasion. The voices Joan hears warn her that she will get captured in this battle, she ignores them and goes on to fight. The voices were right, Joan was soon thrown off her horse and was captured by her enemy.
May 25th, 1430: Paris soon learned of Joan's capture.
January 3rd, 1431: Joan is transferred to Bishop Pierre Cauchon's control for her interrogation.
January 13th, 1431: Joan's trial begins.
May 24th, 1431: Upon the reading of her sentence, Joan gets frightened and signs a last-minute abjuration.
May 29th, 1431: After signing her abjuration, Joan is transferred from ecclesiastic to secular authority.
May 30th, 1431: Joan is burned at the stake, known now as a martyr.
1450: Charles VII orders an investigation of Joan's trial.
May 16th, 1920: Pope Benedict XV makes Joan of Arc a saint.
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