| 1748 | |
| 1751 | - Beginning of the publication of Diderot ‘s Encyclopedia .
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| 1756 | - Essai sur les mœurs et l’Esprit des nations de Voltaire.
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| 1762 | |
| 1788 | - Louis XVI convenes the Estates General.
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| 1789 | - July 9th: Constituent Assembly.
- July 14th: Storming of the Bastille.
- August 26th: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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| 1792 | - September 11th: Proclamation of the Republic.
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| 1799 | - November: coup d’état of Bonaparte (18 Brumaire).
- The Consulate succeeds the Directory.
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| 1800 | - Bonaparte appointed First Consul.
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| 1804 | - Civil Code, Bank of France.
- Napoleon 1st, emperor.
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| 1814 | - Defeat of Leipzig, Napoleon deported to Elba.
- Louis XVIII, King of France.
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| 1824 | - Charles X, King of France.
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| 1830 | - Louis Philippe, King of France, beginning of the July Monarchy.
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| 1848 | - February 24th: Abdication of Louis Philippe, proclamation of the Second Republic.
- Universal suffrage (only for men).
- November: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, President of the Republic.
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| 1852 | - Napoleon III, beginning of the Second Empire.
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| 1870 | - Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III prisoner at Sedan.
- Proclamation of the Third Republic (September 4th).
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| 1871 | - May 10th: Treaty of Frankfurt, France loses Alsace and Lorraine.
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| 1882 | - Ministry Jules Ferry: decree on free, secular and compulsory education from 6 to 13 years old..
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| 1905 | - Separation of Church and State.
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| 1914 | - Beginning of the First World War.
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| 1918 | - November 11th: Signing of the armistice.
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| 1919 | - Treaty of Versailles: Alsace and Lorraine returned to the France.
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| 1939 | - Declaration of war on Germany.
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| 1940 | - May: Germany invades the France north of the Maginot Line.
- June 18: from London, General de Gaulle calls for French resistance.
- June 22nd: signing of the armistice by the Pétain government.
- July 11th: Proclamation of the Vichy government.
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| 1941 | |
| 1942 | - November 11th: The free zone in the south is invaded by the Germans.
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| 1944 | - June 6th: Allied landing in Normandy.
- August 15th: landing of Franco-American troops in Provence and August 25th: liberation of Paris.
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| 1945 | - Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF), led by General de Gaulle: laws on women’s suffrage and nationalizations, creation of Social Security.
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| 1946 | - January: General de Gaulle resigns from the GPRF.
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| 1958 | - June: de Gaulle returns to power following the Algerian crisis.
- September: adoption of the new constitution of the Fifth Republic.
- December: de Gaulle is elected President of the Republic.
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| 1966 | - Withdrawal of the France from NATO’s military posture.
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| 1968 | |
| 1969 | - April: resignation of General de Gaulle.
- Georges Pompidou is elected President of the Republic in June.
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| 1974 | - Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the Republic. Jacques Chirac was Prime Minister until 1976.
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| 1981 | - François Mitterrand, President of the Republic.
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| 1986 | - First cohabitation: Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister.
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| 1988 | - Re-election of François Mitterrand as President of the Republic.
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| 1995 | - Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic (re-elected in 2002).
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| 1997 | - Jacques Chirac’s visit to my country, Mauritania.
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| 2007 | - Nicolas Sarkozy elected President of the Republic.
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| 2012 | - François Hollande elected President of the Republic.
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