600 B.C.
120 B.C.
6th Century
8th Century
11th–12th Century
13th Century
The crusade against the Cathars and their sympathisers, ordered by the Pope, developed into a bloodbath, in which in Beziers alone 15.000 people died.
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| 600 B.C. | The Greeks founded Agde. | |
| 120 B.C. | The Romans founded Narbo, the present Narbonne. | ||
| 6th Century | The Francs and Burgundies fought successfully for Western Languedoc, including Toulouse. The seven towns Nimes, Maguelone, Beziers, Agde, Carcasonne, Narbonne and Elne remained in the Visigoth Empire, the so called Septimania, up to the 8th Century. | ||
| 8th Century | Arab troops brought the Septimania under their rule for 40 years. In 759 Pippin I. “liberated” the region and integrated it to the Franconian Empire. | ||
| 11th–12th Century | The Dukes of Toulouse manifested a strong sympathy for the anticlerical, ascetic living community of Cathars. | ||
| 13th Century | The crusade against the Cathars and their sympathisers, ordered by the Pope, developed into a bloodbath, in which in Beziers alone 15.000 people died. | ||
| 14th Century | The pest decimated the population by a half up to middle of the 15th Century. | ||
| 17th Century | Pierre Paul de Riquet convinced Ludwig XIV to construct the Canal du Midi and founded the town of Sète. | ||
| 18th Century | After the French Revolution the Languedoc was divided into nine Departements, the name of the province only served as a geographic designation. | ||
| 19th Century | The phylloxera plague destroyed the majority of the vines. | ||
| 20th Century | 500 000 vintners and their families revolted in 1907 against the rapid price fall of the wine, caused by overproduction and imports from Algeria. Montpellier became the metropolis of the new economic region Languedoc-Roussillon ... >>> | ||
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