Masked gun-toting brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi stormed into the offices of controversial satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 workers including its prominent editor-in-chief, writers and cartoonists.

In the wake of the attack on the newspaper officer, the brothers then unflinchingly shot dead an injured police officer in the street.t.

After police chased the two Kouachi brothers, at a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris, Amedy Coulibaly took more than a dozen people hostage. Dozens of heavily armed officers stormed the store and killed Coulibaly. Four hostages were killed in the attack.

Yassin Salhi, later identified as a suspected follower of the ultra-conservative Salafist movement, a radical branch of Sunni Islam, assassinates and beheads his boss Herve Cornara in an industrial zone in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon.

Three Americans tackle and disarm a gunman on a train between Amsterdam and Paris. One of the men, Spencer Stone, was stabbed and recovered from his wounds. The suspect is identified as Moroccan-born Ayoub El-Khazzani.

Three suicide bombings outside the Stade de France begin a night of carnage on the streets of the French capital. Shootings later take place at bars and the Bataclan music venue inside central Paris. A total of 129 people are killed and 352 people injured in the worst terror attack in the country's history.

Nine of the attackers are killed, while survivor Salah Abdeslam, goes on the run.

Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suspected of organising the November 13 attacks, is killed during a police raid on an apartment where he had been hiding in the Saint-Denis area north of Paris.

A truck runs over people celebrating the 2016 Bastille Day military parade in an apparent terrorist attack. Reports of gunfire as men began shooting from the vehicle. Around 34 people are reported dead and 100 injured.

A man armed with knife stabbed two women to death at the Saint Charles train station in the southern French city of Marseille before being shot dead by patrolling soldiers in a suspected terror attack.