Chartres, France
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- -1C
- According to legend, a pagan sacred spring and shrine to a mother goddess exists on the site (historians doubt the shrine but confirm a sacred well)
- 5C
- First record of a bishop of Carnotum (Chartres), meaning its church was a cathedral; it would have been a simple wood structure
- 876
- According to tradition, Charles the Bald gives Chartres the Virgin Mary's tunic (Sancta Camisa), given to his grandfather Charlemagne in Constantinople; Chartres becomes a pilgrimage destination
- 1020
- Chartres Cathedral is destroyed by fire; Bishop Fulbert begins a grand rebuilding program funded by royal donations (the crypt survives from this building)
- 1134
- After Chartres Cathedral's west end is damaged by fire, Bishop Geoffrey de Lèves commissions the Romanesque west end that survives today
- 10 Jun 1194
- Chartres Cathedral is mostly destroyed by fire; the Sacred Tunic is believed to be lost, leading to widespread despair and no plans to rebuild