Editing Compiègne (section)

==History by year==
* 665 - Saint [[Wilfrid]] was consecrated Bishop of [[York]]. Wilfrid refused to be consecrated in [[Northumbria]] at the hands of [[Anglo-Saxon]] bishops. [[Deusdedit of Canterbury|Deusdedit]], Archbishop of Canterbury, had died, and as there were no other bishops in Britain whom Wilfrid considered to have been validly consecrated, he travelled to Compiègne, to be consecrated by [[Agilbert]], the Bishop of Paris.
* 757 - Byzantine emperor [[Constantine V]] sent to Compiègne a gift for [[Pepin the Short]] : France's first organ.
* 833 - [[Louis the Pious]] (also known as King Louis I, the Debonair) was deposed in Compiègne.<ref name="EB1911" />
* February 888 - [[Odo, Count of Paris]] and king of the [[Franks]] was crowned in Compiègne.
* 23 May 1430 - During the [[Hundred Years' War]], [[Joan of Arc]] was captured by the [[Burgundians]] while attempting to [[Siege of Compiègne|free Compiègne]]. They then sold her to the English.<ref>{{cite book|author=Deborah A. Fraioli|title=Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRnX7Wmk_N4C&pg=PA101|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32458-1|pages=101}}</ref>
* 1557 - [[Battle of St. Quentin (1557)|Battle of St. Quentin]], where [[Habsburg Spain|Habsburg Spanish]] forces defeat a French army in the [[Italian War of 1551–1559]]
* 1558 - The English occupy Compiègne
* 1624 - Compiègne gave its name to the [[Treaty of Compiègne (1624)|Treaty of Compiègne]], a treaty of alliance concluded by [[Cardinal Richelieu]] with the Dutch.<ref name="EB1911" />
* 1630 - [[Marie de' Medici]]'s attempts to displace [[Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] ultimately led to her exile to Compiègne, from where she escaped to [[Brussels]] in 1631.
* 17 July 1794 - The [[Martyrs of Compiègne]] are executed in [[Place de la Nation|Paris]] during the [[Reign of Terror]].
* 1900 - The [[Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics|golf]] events for the [[1900 Summer Olympics]] took place.<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1900/1900.pdf 1900 Summer Olympics official report.] p. 15. Accessed 14 November 2010. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
* 11 November 1918 - The [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]], agreed at [[Le Francport]] near Compiègne, ends fighting of [[World War I]]
* 22 June 1940 - Another [[Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)]] was signed between [[Nazi Germany]] and the defeated France in Le Francport, near Compiègne, in the same place as in 1918, in the same railroad carriage, but with the seats swapped.
* 1941 - During the German occupation of France, the [[Compiègne internment camp]] was established in Compiègne. A memorial of the camp, and another along the railway tracks, commemorate the tragedy.
* 1972 - Creation of the [[University of Technology of Compiègne]]
* 1977 - The starting location of the [[Paris–Roubaix]] [[bicycle]] race was changed from [[Paris]] to Compiègne.

===Population===

Compiègne is the central commune of an [[urban unit]] with 70,699 inhabitants, and a larger [[functional area (France)|commuter zone]] with 141,504 inhabitants as of 2017.<ref>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=UU2020-60502+AAV2020-078 Comparateur de territoire: Unité urbaine 2020 de Compiègne (60502), Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Compiègne (078)], INSEE</ref> The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Compiègne proper.

{{Historical populations
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| source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|10039|Compiègne}}</ref> and INSEE (1968–2017)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-60159#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 |8000
|1800 |7058
|1806 |7165
|1821 |7228
|1831 |8879
|1836 |8895
|1841 |9076
|1846 |9762
|1851 |10795
|1856 |10364
|1861 |12137
|1866 |10714
|1872 |10775
|1876 |13393
|1881 |14008
|1886 |14375
|1891 |14498
|1896 |15225
|1901 |16503
|1906 |16868
|1911 |17046
|1921 |16179
|1926 |17361
|1931 |17852
|1936 |18885
|1946 |18218
|1954 |22325
|1962 |24427
|1968 |29700
|1975 |37699
|1982 |40384
|1990 |41896
|1999 |41254
|2007 |41714
|2012 |40028
|2017 |40199
}}