The Judgment of Paris - Timeline
- 1517 Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg.
- 1540-1541 The historical Georg Faust is said to have died in Wittenberg, possibly torn apart by the Devil
- 1543 Copernicus shows that Earth is not the centre of the Universe
- 1546 Death of Martin Luther
- 1587 Anonymous chapbook Historia von D. Johann Fausten
- 1592 or 1593 Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
- 1620 Ninon de Lenclos is born
- 1626 Marquise de Sévigné is born
- 1635 Madame de Maintenon is born
- 1638 Louis XIV is born
- 1643 Louis XIV becomes King of France (Anne of Austria is regent)
- 1651 Sévigné's husband dies and she moves to Paris
- 1656 Ninon imprisoned by Anne of Austria in the Madelonnettes Convent in Paris; Christina of Sweden secures her release
- 1660 Maintenon's husband, Scarron, dies; she retains a pension
- 1664 Molière’s Tartuffe first produced
- 1667 Ninon theoretically retires as a courtesan to focus on her salon
- 1669 Maintenon becomes governess to Louis XIV's illegitimate children
- 1674 Maintenon becomes the mistress of Louis XIV and is able to buy Château de Maintenon
- 1683 Queen Maria Theresa dies (Louis XIV's wife)
- 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- 1685 Maintenon marries Louis XIV in secret
- 1686 King endows St. Cyr school for girls to Maintenon
- 1687 Newton’s Principia
- 1694 Birth of Voltaire
- 1696 Marquise de Sévigné dies
- 1705 Ninon dies
- 1715 Louis XIV dies
- 1719 Maintenon dies
- 1749 Goethe is born
- 1778 Death of Voltaire
- 1786 Goethe begins Italian trip, through 1788
- 1790 The first publication of a version of Goethe’s Faust
- 1806 Goethe marries Christiane de Vulpius
- 1808 First part of Goethe’s play Faust is published
- 1859 Gounod’s Faust