1857: Longchamp racecourse opens in Paris’ shaggy neighborhood, Bois de Boulogne, after Champ de Mars was no longer fit for purpose.

1863: The Grand Prix de Paris is combined by a Société d’Encouragement, France’s former ruling physique of equine racing. It becomes a many prestigious eventuality until WWI, where three-year-old thoroughbreds competed over 3,000 meters.

1870: The racecourse is inebriated for a initial time during a Siege of a Paris in 1870 and a new wooden grandstand that can reason adult to 5,000 spectators is erected.

1904: The wooden stands are rebuilt in stone.

1914-18: Longchamp undergoes a vital mutation during WWI, it becomes a stockyard, afterwards a margin sanatorium and afterwards an airfield.

1920: The initial Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is held. Its name was selected to compensate reverence to a French soldiers who served in WWI.

1943: During a open competition meet, a march is inebriated a second time after a Germans had set adult an anti-aircraft battery during a observation lawn.

1962-67: The stands are rebuilt again in a identical character to what it replaced.

2015-18: The drift tighten temporarily to bear a vital renovations.

2018: Longchamp Racecourse reopens with a code new singular golden grandstand and a revamped paddock formidable that was designed by French architect, Dominique Perrault.