Chronology of the Normandy Campaign

6 June 1944	Allied landings in Normandy.
7 June	Bayeux falls.
8 June	U.S. First and British Second Armies link near Port-en-Bessin.
12 June	Omaha and Utah beachheads united.
13 June	British 7th Armored Division checked and repelled at Villers-Bocage. Germans open V-1 flying bomb offensive against Britain.
17 June	Rommel meets Hitler at Margival, near Soissons.
18-21 June	The ‘great storm’ in the Channel.
18 June	U.S. VII Corps reach west coast Cherbourg peninsula at Barneville.
19 June	Americans take Montebourg.
22 June	Russians open their summer offensive against Army Group Center with 146 infantry divisions and 43 tank brigades attacking on a 300-mile front.
25-29 June	British Operation EPSOM southwest of Caen.
26 June	Americans in Cherbourg.
27 June	Resistance in Cherbourg ends.
29 June	Rommel meets Hitler at German Armed Forces High Command in Berchtesgaden.
1 July	General Gyre von Schweppenburg (Panzer Group West) sacked and replaced by General Hans  Eberbach. Americans secure Cap de la Hague.
2 July	Von Rundstedt (OB-West) sacked and replaced by von Kluge.
8 July	British attack Caen, Americans seize La Hay-au-Puits.
10 July	British occupy Caen.
17 July	Rommel wounded and replaced as commander of Army Group B by von Kluge.
18 July	British Operation GOODWOOD east of Caen. Americans take St. Lo.
20 July	Hitler wounded by assassination attempt at his headquarters at Rastenburg (Prussia), abortive conspiracy and its aftermath rocks the Third Reich.
25 July	American Operation COBRA launched west of St. Lo.
30 July	British Operation BLUECOAT launched southeast of Caumont. Americans “turn the corner” at Avranches.
31 July	Russians within 10 miles of Warsaw.  Uprising begins.
1 August	Hodges assumes command of U.S. First Army; Patton’s Third Army activated; Bradley becomes commander of U.S. Twelfth Army Group.
7 August	Germans launch Mortain counter-attack. Canadian Operation TOTALIZE launched towards Falaise.
10 August	TOTALIZE broken off.
12 August	U.S. XV Corps takes Alencon.
14 August	Canadian Operation TRACTABLE launched towards Falaise. DRAGOON landings in southern France.
17 August	Model assumes command of German armies, orders full retreat east from Allied pocket. Falaise falls.
19 August	Polish Armored Division and U.S. 90th Division reach Chambois.
21 August	Falaise Gap closed.
25 August	Paris falls.
1 September	Eisenhower assumes direct command of Allied ground forces. Montgomery promoted to Field Marshal
2 September	U.S. First AND Third Armies ordered to halt by Eisenhower in view of huge fuel and supply problems.
3 September	Brussels falls.
16 September	U.S. First Army units cross the German border near Aachen.
17 September	Operation MARKET-GARDEN launched against Arnhem and the Maas and Waal bridges.

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Source:  Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), 333.