G8 - Sommet Evian Summit 2003

Haute-Savoie department

Timeline

218 BC:	Hannibal crosses the Alps.

121 BC:	Roman conquest begins.

443:	The Roman general Aetius establishes the Federation of the “Burgundian” Germans.

534:	Demise of the Burgundian Kingdom.

888:	Rudolf I becomes King of Transjurane Burgundy (with lands stretching from the Jura to the Grand-Saint-Bernard).

1032:	Rudolf III dies. Savoy falls under the sway of the Holy Roman Empire.

12th C:	Savoy becomes “Gatekeeper to the Alps.”

13th to 15th C:	Savoy vastly expands its territory.

1401:	Purchase of the County of Geneva.

1416:	Savoy becomes a Duchy.

1536:	Geneva embraces the Reformation and wins its independence.

1559:	Savoy establishes a Senate.

1563:	Capital of Savoy transferred from Chambéry to Turin.

1550 à 1600:	Saint Francis of Sale begins to win back Savoy for Catholicism.

1713:	The House of Savoy secures a royal title. Signature of the Treaty of Utrecht.

1786:	First ascension of Mont Blanc.

1792:	French Department of Mont Blanc established.

1815:	Restoration of the Sardinian monarchy. Congress of Vienna.

1848:	Charles-Albert of Savoy (father of Victor Emmanuel II) grants a Constitution to Savoy as the latter increasingly goes its separate way from Piedmont.

1860:	Savoy is incorporated into France.

1924:	Olympic Games held in Chamonix.

1940:	French Alpine troops (“chasseurs alpins”), based in Savoy, land in Narvik. The French Army of the Alps resists the Italians and Germans.

1944:	French Resistance establishes stronghold on the Glières Plateaux.

1965:	Mont Blanc Tunnel inaugurated.