* In 1534, Jacques Cartier entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.

However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.

Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.

Jacques Cartier was one of the great explorers who ventured deep into American territories during the 16th century.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.

André Thevet, the " Royal Cosmographer of France ", wrote about Jacques Cartier drinking maple sap during his Canadian voyages.

* 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.

In 1534, Jacques Cartier was the first European to see the island.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

In 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, exploring the St. Lawrence River, used the local natives ' knowledge to save his men who were dying of scurvy.

The insistence in all the main historical sources that grapes were found in Vinland suggests that the explorers ventured at least to the south side of the St. Lawrence River, as Jacques Cartier did 500 years later, finding both wild vines and nut trees.

April: Jacques Cartier.

* May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons ( taken by Cartier during his first voyage ).

* October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the area ( island ) in the St. Lawrence River that eventually becomes Montreal, Quebec.

* September 1 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer ( b. 1491 )

* May 10 – Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage.

* June 9 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.

* June 29 – Jacques Cartier discover Prince Edward Island, Canada.

* May 23 – Jacques Cartier departs from Saint-Malo, France on his third voyage.

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

In February 2004 Edmund Stoiber became a candidate of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder for the presidency of the European Commission but he decided not to run for this office.

During the period between World War I and World War II, Jacques Feyder became one of the founders of poetic realism in French cinema.

In 1698, he went to the Netherlands, and there became acquainted with Pierre Bayle, Pierre Jurieu and Jacques Basnage.

In 1791 France became the first nation to decriminalise homosexuality, probably thanks in part to the homosexual Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès who was one of the authors of the Napoleonic code.

Jean Jacques Dessalines became Haiti's first emperor in 1804.

President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

Jacques Dupuis became a Jesuit in 1941.

In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

Under Jacques Delors it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force in the Commission, although curbed by crises such as the resignation of the Santer Commission.

Soon after, he met Jacques Turgot, a French economist, and the two became friends.

Four of its pilots, Marcel Albert, Marcel Lefèvre, Jacques André and Roland de La Poype, became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

When Ravel became unable to compose, and could not write down the musical ideas he heard in his mind, Pabst hired Jacques Ibert.

He became sous-préfet of Nérac in 1830, and advanced rapidly in the civil service until in 1853 he was chosen by Persigny to be prefect of the Seine in succession to Jean Jacques Berger, who hesitated to incur the vast expenses of the imperial schemes for the embellishment of Paris.

Jacques ' uncle, Jacques Sr., was also a racing driver and in 1985 at Road America became the first Canadian to win a CART race.

In 1432, Jacques Cœur established himself in the city and it became an important economic centre, until 1481 when Marseille overshadowed it in this role.

In 2001, the TV film Lettre d ' une inconnue by French director Jacques Deray became the last production of this artist.

Philip ascended to the throne and became King at age 17, although according to the publication titled " The Life And Times Of Jacques de Molay ", Philip was 16.

He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.

His son, Jacques Villeneuve, became Formula One world champion in 1997 and, to date, the only Canadian to win the Formula One World Championship.

Gilles ' son, also named Jacques, won the Indianapolis 500 and CART championships in 1995 and became Formula One World Champion in 1997.

Eventually, Muppet show references became less evident, with the introduction of new characters unrelated to the Jim Henson show: Jean-Marie Le Pen as a vampire, Jack Lang as a goat, Édith Cresson as a panther, Jacques Chaban-Delmas as a duck, Charles Pasqua as a walrus, André Lajoinie as dimwitted dog, Michel Rocard as a crow, Laurent Fabius as a squirrel, Édouard Balladur as a pelican, Arlette Laguiller as a weasel, ...

Jacques de Noyon, a Frenchman who came from Trois Rivières, ( Quebec ), explored this area in 1688 and became the first white man to view the lake.

It became an unofficial club that included artists ( Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Amedeo Modigliani, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger and Louis Marcoussis ); writers ( Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Coquiot, Cremnitz ( Maurice Chevrier ), Paul Fort, André Warnod, Raymond Radiguet, Gertrude Stein ); actors ( Charles Dullin, Harry Baur, Gaston Modot ); and art dealers ( Ambroise Vollard, Clovis Sagot, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Berthe Weill ).