Siege of Orleans Lifted
May 8, 1429
A seventeen-year-old peasant in a suit of white armor rode through the gates of the starving city and, in nine days, broke an English siege that had choked Orleans for seven months. Joan of Arc had told her captains where to attack and been right. The Dauphin's men were now believers.
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Also in 1429 (3 other events on record)
- Charles VII Crowned at Reims · Europe · Politics
- Battle of Patay · Europe · War
- Joan Examined at Poitiers · Europe · Religion
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.