Gaulish History - Timeline

Proto-Celtic culture

Gaulish conquest of Transalpine Gaul(France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Western Germany)

Gaulish conquest of Iberia(Portugal and Spain)

Gaulish conquest of the Balkans

Gaulish conquest of Cisalpine Gaul(Northern Italy) and the Hercynian Forest(Southern and Central Germany)

Gaulish conquest of Phrygia(Turkey) & Failed invasion of Greece

Arverni Empire

Enslavement of the Gaulish Race by the Romans

Sack of Rome by the Gauls

Batavian rebellion

Gallic Empire

First Bagaudae(Gaulish insurgents)

Conquest by the Bagaudae of Armorica and the Loire Valley

Conquest by the Bagaudae of Central Gaul and the Ebro Valley

Frankish feoderati are settled in Toxandria(Belgium)

Enslavement of the Gaulish Race by the Chlodowig I, kings of the Germans

An anonymous author publishes "Lancelot-Grail" portraying Lancelot as a Gaulish warrior fighting to reconquer Gaul from a Frankish king named Claudias

Chrestien de Troyes publishes "Lancelot, the Knight of Cart" based on Gaulish folklore

François Hotman publishes "Franco-Gallia"

Henri de Boulainvilliers publishes "Dissertation of the Nobility of France"

Gaulish Revolution and slaughter of the German oppressors

Beheading of Chlodowig XVI, the German tyrant

Sieyes publishes "What is the Third Estate" and proclaims : "Why should it not repatriate to the Franconian forests all the families who wildly claim to descend from the race of the conquerors and to inherit their rights of conquest ?"

Citizen Ducalle proclaims : "Are we then the descendants of their(the Franks) impure blood? Citizens, please God, we are of the pure blood of the Gauls !"

Jacques-Antoine Dulaure proclaims : "You were at the mercy of the Barbarians, whose ancestors massacred your ancestors. They are all foreigners, savages escaped from the woods of Germany, of the frozen land of Saxony... I am of Gaulish race !"

Gaul's borders are restored

Enslavement of the Germans by the Gauls

Birth of Vercingetorix

Ernest Lavisse publishes "History of France" containing the famous phrase : "Our ancestors the Gauls"