* 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.

The other is the Jacques Cartier Strait on the north side of Anticosti Island.

The Jacques Cartier Strait is approximately wide at its narrowest point.

Jacques Cartier Strait was officially named for the French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1934 by the Geographic Board of Quebec to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his arrival in North America.

* 1534: French explorer Jacques Cartier visits the Strait of Belle Isle ( Newfoundland ), enters and charts Gulf of St. Lawrence River, landing in Gaspé, July 14.

* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1952 – Jacques Audiard, French director

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* Jean Jacques Barthelemy's The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece ( French )

* 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer ( d. 1721 )

Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).

* 1823 – Jacques Charles, French chemist ( b. 1746 )

* 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.

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.

A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.

Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

* 1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician ( d. 1963 )

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).