January 5th, 1679
After a month and a half on the sea, François arrives in France. He will return from this third voyage in June 1680.

January 12th, 1700
Death of Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Notre-Dame Congregation. François said of her, “She was a fruit ripe for Heaven. She was a model of edification during her life; she must serve as an example to us in her death.”

January 14th, 1705
The Quebec Seminary buys a house and a piece of land called “de la Canardière”. It first runs the farm to feed and heat the personnel and the students, then, in 1777, partially turns the land into an outdoor center for the boarders of the Major and Minor Seminaries. Today, le Domaine Maizerets, one of Quebec City’s most beautiful urban parks, is on that land.

January 15th, 1661
Decree by François to have a solemn procession to the Jesuits’ chapel every January 1st, July 31st, and December 3rd in gratitude for their missionary work in the colony.

January 20th, 1685
Arrival of François in France. He fad left Quebec on November 14th, 1684 to hand in his resignation to the King.

January 23rd, 1660
François leaves for his first pastoral visit of the Beaupré Coast.

January 25th, 1688
Abbé de Saint-Vallier is consecrated as a bishop at Paris. He succeeds François, who is permitted by the King to go end his days in Canada.

January 26th, 1657
Louis XIV asks Pope Alexander VII to erect a diocese in Canada and nominates François de Laval as bishop.

January 29th, 1665
Union between the Quebec and Paris Seminaries of Foreign Missions.

February 1686
During François’s fourth voyage to France, he celebrates Mass for the funeral of his great friend François Pallu, who died of a congestion on October 29th, 1684 at Mo-Yang in Vietnam.

February 1st, 1662
Theologians at the Sorbonne University approve of the use of excommunication as a way of fighting the alcohol trade with the Natives.

February 1st, 1664
François lifts tithes until the King gives his answer to the people’s complaints.

February 2nd, 1673
During his second voyage to France, François renews the vow to the Blessed Virgin he had made when he was studying at the La Flèche College.

February 22nd, 1662
François leaves for his second pastoral visit of the Beaupré Coast.

February 23rd, 1697
François is ill. He sings a contract from his bedroom to allow the Sisters of the Notre-Dame Congregation to teach at the Château-Richer school for girls.

February 24th, 1660
François allows the eating of eggs, cheese and butter during Lent because of the harsh winter conditions in New France.

February 24th, 1662
François lifts the sentence of excommunication for those who trade alcohol with the Natives.

February 28th, 1654
François transfers his position of archdeacon of Évreux, which he had held since 1648, to his friend Henri-Marie Boudon.

February 28th, 1960
Pope John XXIII recognizes François as being “heroic in virtue”.

March 1st, 2011
The Minor Seminary, founded by François, becomes the François-de-Laval College.

March 10th, 1670
François solemnly exhibits Saint Anne’s relic to public veneration in the Sainte-Anne church, today Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica.

March 12th, 1663
François renounces to part of his inheritance in favour of his younger brother, Jean-Louis.

March 12, 1668
The Carcassonne Chapter gives a relic of Saint Anne to François, which he donates to a growing pilgrimage site in Canada, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré.

March 14th, 1665
François approves the Confraternity of the Holy Family.

March 19th, 1660
François gives First Communion in Quebec City.

March 26th, 1663
François founds the Quebec Seminary and tithing.

March 27th, 1659
Louis XVI appoints François as suffragan Bishop of Quebec, under the Archbishop of Rouen.

March 31st, 1659
In Paris, Anne of Austria, Queen Regent, corrects her son’s decree of March 27th, and writes to Governor d’Argenson asking him to recognize the full authority of the Apostolic Vicar in New France.

April 1663
King Louis XIV names François to the Sovereign Council of Quebec.

April to June 3rd, 1688
François’s ninth crossing of the Atlantic. During his 30 years as bishop, he spent the equivalent of one year on the sea and 11 years in France.

April 3rd, 2014
Pope Francis signs the decree of canonization of François de Laval, making the first bishop of Quebec a Saint!

April 6th, 1708
During Mass on Good Friday, François has a chilblain on his heel.

April 10th, 1708
François presides his last ordination of a deacon.

April 10th, 1980
Cardinal Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, announces the soon-to-come beatification of the Venerable François de Laval.

April 12th, 1680
During a stay in France, François donates all his property to the Quebec Seminary under a notarized deed, transferring all the land and seigneuries purchased since 1662.

April 13th, 1659
Oath of fidelity by François to the King. He sails from La Rochelle with Henri de Bernières and Jesuit Jérôme Lalemant. He arrives at Quebec on June 16th.

April 23rd, 1993
Translation of the remains of François to the funeral chapel in the Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame de Québec. Foundation of the Centre d’animation François-De Laval by the Quebec Seminary

April 24th, 1675
In France, François Berthelot sells Jesus Island to François in exchange for Orléans Island and also pays him 25,000 pounds. The money is used to pay for the construction of the Minor Seminary.

April 25th to May 25th, 1664
François’s second pastoral visit to Trois-Rivières and Montreal.

April 28th, 2007
Inauguration of the Metro station Montmorency in Laval City. The station is near the Montmorency College, where it gets its name. This name was for a long time attributed, erroneously, to François.

April 30th, 1623
Birth of François at Montigny-sur-Avre, France.

May to August 1676
François’s fifth visit of his diocese, from Tadoussac to Prairie-de-la-Madeleine.

May 1678
Laying of the foundation stone of the Quebec Seminary.

May 1680
François’s fourth return voyage from France, after failing to convince the King to forbid all trade of alcohol with the Natives.

May 1st, 1647
Ordination as a priest in Paris. François is 24. He had been ordained to the minor orders and the sub-deaconate in 1646, and as a deacon in 1647.

May 1st, 1698
With permission from Msgr de Saint-Vallier and François, the Seminary sends missionaries to the Mississippi and Acadia.

May 2nd, 1880
At the request of Msgr Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, then Archbishop of Quebec, an informative trial on the life and virtues of François in put on.

May 5th, 1660
François’s first excommunication of a person selling spirits to the Natives. First general pastoral visit of his diocese, from Quebec to Montreal.

May 6th, 1660
François publishes a decree of excommunication of those who sell alcohol to Natives.

May 6th, 1708
Death of François at Quebec City around 7:30 AM, at the age of 85.

May 9th, 1708
François’s funeral, who died on May 6th. He was buried under the choir of the Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral, since the Seminary had burned down in 1705 and was under construction. Glandelet pronounces a short funeral oration.

May 10th, 1950
François’s remains are translated from the crypt to de funeral chapel designed by Adrien Dufresne as part of the Seminary’s outer chapel.

May 11th, 1659
Letter from the King, written by Mazarin, confirming Abbé de Queylus in his role as general vicar of the Archbishop of Rouen in Canada.

May 14th, 1659
Corrected letter by the King declaring the sole authority of François as Apostolic Vicar in Canada.

May 15th, 1878
The bones of François are exposed for public veneration before their translation on May 23rd in the Quebec Seminary’s chapel.

May 16th, 1659
François arrives at Percé, in Gaspésie, and celebrates his first Mass in New France.

May 17th, 1659
Publication of the Altera Nova Positio by Georges-Édouard Demers, a collection of documents to demonstrates the virtuous and heroic life of François de Laval, one of the steps towards canonization.

May 20th, 1669
François allows Marguerite Bourgeoys to continue living with her companions, an important step towards the official recognition of the Notre-Dame Congregation.

May 20th, 2014
Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of François de Laval and Marie de l’Incarnation at the Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral.

May 23rd, 1878
François’s remains are exhumed and transferred to the crypt of the Quebec Seminary.

May 24th, 1679
Decree by Louis XIV on tithes, patronage in churches and fixed cures. Royal decree forbidding the trade of alcohol in Native villages.

May 28th, 1681
The King gives the Recollects a plot of land in the Upper-Town, on the Sénéchaussée (today Holy trinity Cathedral) to build a hospice. Disputes will ensue between them and both François and Saint-Vallier, as the Recollects wanted to make their chapel open to the public.

May 28th to September 15th, 1663
François’s return voyage from France after the King gave his approval for the foundation of the Quebec Seminary and the creation of a Sovereign Council in Canada.

May 29th to September, 1675
François’s return voyage from France after having finally received his Papal bulls as official Bishop of the Quebec Diocese.

May 29th, 1993
Msgr Maurice Couture, Archbishop of Quebec, inaugurates François’s funeral chapel inside the Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral.

June 1st to August 11th, 1681
François’s sixth visit of his diocese, from the Beaupré Coast to Montreal.

June 2nd, 1662
François gives 40 pounds-worth of wheat bushes as alms to Montreal, after it was attacked by the Iroquois.

June 3rd, 1658
Pope Alexander VII signs the bull naming François Bishop of Petra, Apostolic Vicar of New France.

June 3rd, 1658
François returns to Canada after handing in his resignation as bishop. It is his ninth and last crossing of the Atlantic. He had embarked in April.

June 6th, 1708
Funeral orations for François, 30 days after his death as was the custom, in Quebec City by De la Colombière and in Montreal by Vachon de Belmont.

June 8th, 1693
François pays for the education of twelve children at cap Tourmente; he reduces the number to eight in 1708. Work on the Petit-Pré mill is completed.

June 16th, 1659
François arrives in Quebec City around 6 PM with Abbés Charles de Charny, Jean Torcapel, Philippe Pèlerin and Father Jérôme Lalemant.

June 18th, 1659
François is welcomed with a procession in the streets and in the church of Quebec.

June 22nd, 1659
The Jesuits welcome François and Natives to a feast.

June 22nd, 1980
Beatification of François de Laval by Pope John Paul II.

June 22nd, 1908
Inauguration of the Monument Laval by Louis-Philippe Hébert on the côte de la Montagne for the 200th anniversary of François’s death.

June 25th, 1680
François approves the Collection of miracles by Abbé Thomas Morel, parish priest at Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap (now Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré).

June 28th, 1675
Theologians at the Toulouse University issue an opinion contradicting the Sorbonne on the prohibition of spirits sales to the Natives. François takes possession of the cathedral (today Notre-Dame de Québec).

June 29th, 1659
François celebrates his first Mass in Quebec City during the solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

July 1687
Abbé de Saint-Vallier is named by the King as Bishop of Quebec, first successor of François.

July 1st, 1658
Request to the Holy See by François Pallu, Pierre de la Mothe-Lambert and François de Laval for the foundation of the Paris Foreign Missions Seminary.

July 11th, 1666
François consecrates the parish church to the Immaculate Conception, which will become, in 1674, the Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral.

July 17th, 1658
The Canonical Information of 1657 are not ready; the Information of 1653 are used instead in Rome.

July 26th, 1666
François goes on pilgrimage to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré with Lieutenant-General de Tracy.

July 29th, 1657
The first Sulpicians arrive in New France.

July 31st, 1659
First letter from François to Pope Alexander VII on the general state of the Church in Canada.

July 31st, 1668
Arrival of Msgr de Saint-Vallier in Quebec City as Bishop. The “Old Monsignor”, François, then in Montreal, returns to Quebec to welcome his successor.

August 1643
François becomes a member of the Assembly of Good Friends (Aa), created by Jesuit Father Bagot in Paris.

August 1659
François writes to the Superior General of the Jesuits, Father Nickel, expressing his gratitude for the Jesuits’ work in New France.

August 1st, 1639
Arrival in Quebec of the first Ursuline and Augustinian nuns.

August 3rd, 1644
Death of François’s older brother, also named François, on the war fields of Fribourg, Germany.

August 3rd, 1645
Death of François’s other older brother, Gabriel, on the war fields of Nordlingen, Germany. François becomes Seigneur of Montigny, now head and in charge of the family domain.

August 6th, 1676
François officially approves of the Notre-Dame de Montreal Congregation.

August 12th, 1662
François’s first voyage to France.

August 17th, 1660
François leaves for his second pastoral visit to Trois-Rivières and Montreal.

August 24th, 1659
François gives the confirmation to 100 Natives at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Quebec.

August 30th, 1665
François approves the Confraternity of the Holy Scapular.
Priests at the Quebec Seminary make a vow to the Immaculate Conception.

August 30th, 1666
François establishes the Feast of the translation of the relics of Saint Flavian and Saint Felicity.

September 9th, 1984
Pope John Paul II visits the funeral chapel of Blessed François de Laval in the outer chapel of the Quebec Seminary.

September 10th, 1636
Death of François’s father, Hugues de Laval.

September 11th, 1659
François celebrates a Mass in honor of one of his spiritual fathers, Jean de Bernières, who had died in France earlier that year.

September 15th, 1664
First canonical erection of the parish of Quebec.

September 18th, 1663
First meeting of the Sovereign Council of Quebec in which François sits.

September 19th, 1877
During renovations under the choir of the Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral, workers find per chance the tomb of François de Laval around 4 PM.

September 24th, 1890
Pope Leon XIII signs the decree of introduction of the Cause of canonization and François is declared Venerable.

September 25th, 1637
François is named to one of the eight canonries of Évreux.

Septembre 25th, 1698
François and Msgr de Saint-Vallier write four letters to obtain financial aid for the Tamarois missions.

October 1700
In a return voyage from France, Msgr de Saint-Vallier is made a prisoner by the British and could not go back to Canada until the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713. During his absence, François completes a few of the bishop’s duties until his death in 1708.

October 1st, 1674
François is officially made Bishop of Quebec.

October 1st, 1705
Second fire at the Quebec Seminary, one of François’s foundations.

October 3rd, 1951
Laval University adopts new coats of arms: those of François, with an inversion of colors.

October 7th, 1671
François approves of the community of the Hospitaller Nuns of Saint-Joseph in Montreal.

October 8th, 1678
François approves of the Confraternity of Sainte-Anne.

October 10th, 1648
François renounces his second canonry of Évreux.

October 12th, 2014
Thanksgiving Mass presided by Pope Francis in the Saint-Peter Basilica to celebrate the canonisation of François de Laval and Marie de l’Incarnation, in the presence of Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix and over 130 pilgrims from Quebec.

October 21st, 1660
François leaves for him third pastoral visit of Trois-Rivières.

November 1677 to January 5th, 1678
François’s third voyage to France to settle the sale of spirits to the Natives.

November 1st, 1659
François gives 1,500 porcelain grains to help pay a Native boy’s ransom who was held by the Iroquois.

November 3rd, 1671
François asks Jesuit Father Ragueneau to write a memoir on the life of Catherine de Saint-Augustin, “Life of the great mystique of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Quebec”, which became a document of first importance in her Cause of canonization.

November 3rd, 1671
François leaves for his second voyage to France to obtain the erection of the official diocese of Quebec. He returns only in 1675.

November 4th, 1684
François establishes the Feast of the Holy Family. It is later moved to the third Sunday after Easter.

November 5th, 1653
The first Canonical Information are produced for François’s nomination as a bishop.

November 6th, 1684
François erects the Chapter of the Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral.

November 8th, 1702
François testifies in writing in favor of the beatification of Vincent de Paul.

November 10th, 1670
François approves of the Recollects’ return to Canada.

November 12th, 1682
François writes a recommendation for the book Le Coeur admirable by his friend Jean Eudes.

November 13th, 1684
François establishes the Feast of Saint-Louis in New France.

November 14th, 1684
François takes possession of the old store in Lower-Town to build a chapel (today Notre-Dame-des-Victoires church). To January 1685, François travels to France to hand in his resignation as bishop to the King.

November 15th, 1701
The Quebec Seminary, one of François’s foundations, burns down for the first time.

December 7th, 1648
François become Archdeacon of Évreux. He settles disputes, is responsible of candidates to the priesthood, and visits cures and parishioners. It is said he acted with zeal, diligence, integrity, and prudence.

December 7th, 1677
François blesses the Quebec Minor Seminary.

December 7th, 1683
François hires architect Claude Baillif to enlarge the parish church of Quebec, which became a cathedral after the erection of the first diocese in New France in 1674. The Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix church was renamed Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception Cathedral.

December 8th, 1658
François is ordained as a bishop in the chapel Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in Paris.

December 23th, 1662
François writes a letter to his friend Jean Eudes to congratulate him on his book Le Coeur admirable.

December 24th, 1639
François renounces his first canonry of Évreux. His maternal uncle, Msgr de Péricart, gives him a new one.