| 891.Sep.01 | | Norsemen defeated near Louvaine, France |
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| 911 | | Treaty of St-Claire-sur-Epte: Rolf (or Rollo) became the ruler of Normandy. The Duchy of Normandy
founded and Viking raids on northern France stopped as Rollo does homage to Charles the Simple and converts to Christianity |
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| 1052 | | Godwin's fleet recruits men from the Cinque Ports of Hastings, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich, sails up the Thames gaining the support of London and forces Edward the Confessor to send his Norman advisers back to France |
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| 1074 | | Pope Gregory VII excommunicated married priests.
He sent legates to France to reform the Church there |
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| circa 1077 | | Making of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings
The 70-metre-long tapestry was made in Kent or France |
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| 1095.Nov.27 | | Pope Urban praches at Clermont, France, and launching the First Crusade
He preached of relieving the pressure by the Seljuk Turks on the Eastern Roman Empire and securing free access to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims |
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| 1144 | | Louis VII of France formally grants Henry of Anjou (Henry II of England) the Duchy of Normandy |
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| 1145.Dec.01 | | Pope Eugene III sends papal bull to Louis VII of France and the French proclaim the Second Crusade
Led by Louis and Emperor Conrad III from 1147-1149, the crusade fails to accomplish its goals |
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| 1154.Oct.25 | | Death of King Stephen of chronic flux of haemorroids or an heart attack at Dover.
Henry II becomes the first Plantagenet king of England (as settled by the Treaty of Wallingford the previous year)
As count of Anjou, Henry II possessed almost half of France as a vassal of the French King |
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| 1200 | | The 13th century was the
culmination of the Middle Ages which would decline until the birth of the
Renaissance in the 15th century.
The kings of England had lost much of the
French possessions brought by the first Plantagenet king and Normandy was lost
during this century. Edward I (Longshanks ) conquered the Welsh princes and
attempted to rule Scotland.
Abroad, the succession of crusades to wrest the
Holy Land from the hands of the Muslims continued but would end with the fall of
Acre at the end of the century.
Asia was dominated by the Mongols, the
Mongol Dynasty in China at its zenith during the reign of Kublai Khan - during
the century they advanced through Russia and even attacked Central Europe. |
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| 1204.Jun | | King John loses Normandy which is taken by Philip II of France |
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| 1250 | | St Louis of France captured on crusade in Egypt |
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| 1270.Aug.25 | | Death of King Louis IX of France at Tunis on the Second Crusade
Later canonized as Saint Louis; the patron saint of barbers and hairdressers |
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| 1282.Mar.31 | | The Sicilians rise against
their French ruler (The Sicilian Vespers)
8,000 French were murdered in Sicily starting with a religious pageant on the eve of Easter Monday (see also St Bartholemews Day Massacre, 1572) |
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| 1324 | | Outbreak of war between England and France |
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| 1326 | | Isabella of
France (Edward IIs wife) and
Roger Mortimer landed in Essex and were unopposed; Edward II captured |
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| 1337 | | Beginning of the sporadic Hundred Years' War between England and France (�1453) |
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| 1340.Jan.26 | | Edward III claims the French throne (starting the Hudred Years War)
The claim is reflected in the Royal Arms
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| 1346.Aug.26 | | The Battle of Crecy; led by King Edward III and his son the Black Prince, English longbows defeat the French |
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| 1347 | | English capture Calais in France |
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| 1356.Sep.19 | | English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers |
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| 1368.Dec.03 | | Birth of Charles VI, (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422) |
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| 1377 | | Part of Poole burnt by French raiders |
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| 1379 | | A graduated poll tax
was introduced to pay for the war with France |
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| 1380 | | A flat-rate poll tax was
introduced to pay for the war with France |
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| 1405 | | French and Spanish make combined attack on Poole |
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| 1431 | | Henry VI crowned as king of France by Cardinal Henry Beaufort |
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| 1450.Apr | | French army under Guy de Richemont besieges the English commander in France (Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset) in Caen |
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| 1450.Apr.15 | | Battle of Formigny: French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen |
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| 1450.Jul.06 | | English surrender Caen to the French |
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| 1450.Aug.12 | | Surrender of Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, to the French
The loss of Normandy was a great blow to the prestige of Henry VI |
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| 1453 | | England lost all its French possessions excepting Calais |
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| 1485.Aug.01 | | Henry, Earl of Richmond. leaves for Wales with about 3000 men
Most of his force are French convicts given freedom in return for military service
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| 1492.Nov.22 | | Emperor Maximillian visits Ensisheim, Alsace, to view the Thunderstone of Ensisheim meteorite
Maximillian decided the landing of the triangular meteorite in his territory was a good omen in his ongoing wars with the French and the Turks |
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| 1494 | | Start of the Habsburg-Valois or Italian Wars between various European powers; chiefly France and Spain, for control of several Italian city-states |
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| 1512 | | Navarre south of the Pyranees is annexed to Castile by Ferdinand
The remainder (Lower Navarre) remains independent until its ruler Henry III became Henry IV of France and it is absorbed into France |
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| 1513 | | Ferdinand objects to the marriage of his grandson, Charles of Flanders, to Mary, sister of Henry VIII, abandons Henry and makes peace with France |
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| 1513.Jun | | Expedition to France: English capture Terouenne and Tournay, the French defeated at Guinegate (the battle of Spurs)
Organised by Thomas Wolsey who accompanied the King. Wolsey was followed by a train of two hundred gentlemen
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| 1515 | | Death of Louis XII; succeeded by Francis I as king of France |
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| 1518 | | Treaty of London: Wolsey secures an alliance with France and Spain and the Emperor Maximilian (nominally to check the Turks), ensuring peace in W Europe
Turnay given up in return for cash payment from Francis I |
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| 1520.Jun.07 | | Field of Cloth of Gold: meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France is spectacular, continuing for 3 weeks with each monarch trying to outdo the other in splendor - it yielded no results and Francis failed to secure an alliance with Henry VIII
one of the most expensive charades ever staged in history |
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| 1525 | | Defeat and capture of Francis I of France (who attempted to regain Milan) by the imperialists at the Battle of Pavia
France loses Italy |
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| 1527 | | Alliance with France
Henry VIII considering divorce from Catherine of Aragon sought to make the papacy independant of her nephew, Charles V |
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| 1529 | | Peace of Cambrai; a pause in the Hapsburg-Valois struggle between Charles V and Francis
The end of
French intervention in Italy as France renounces territorial claims there. One of the causes of the fall of Wolsey |
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| 1544 | | War with France |
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| 1545.Jul | | Battle of the Solent: French fleet enters the Solent intending to destroy the English fleet and invade the Isle of Wight |
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| 1548 | | Mary, Queen of Scots, formally promised in marriage to the French dauphin - a French fleet rescues 5-year-old Mary from Dumbarton, taking her to France |
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| 1549 | | War with France |
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| 1557.Jul.07 | | Queen Mary declares war on France in support of her husband, Philip II of Spain |
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| 1557.Aug.10 | | Battle of St Quintin: Spanish forces defeat the French |
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| 1558.Jan.07 | | Loss of Calais, Englands last domain in France, taken by French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise |
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| 1559.Apr.03 | | Peace of Cateau-Cambr�sis; end of the Hapsburg-Valios Italian Wars for control of the States of Italy (1494-). brings peace with France
Sicily and Milan granted to Spain. Queen Elizabeth was one of the parties |
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| 1559.Jul.10 | | Death of Henry II of France; his son, Francis becomes King; Mary Queen of Scots declares herself Queen of England |
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| 1559.Oct.21 | | Scottish Lords depose Mary of Guise for not preventing the French fortification of Leith |
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| 1560.Jul.06 | | Treaty of Edinburgh secures peace with Scotland, French undertaking to withdraw troops from Scotland and recognise Elizabeth\\\'s right to rule England; Mary, Queen of Scots claims to the English annulled - but 18-year-old Mary (still in France) refuses to ratify the treaty |
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| 1562 | | Treaty of Richmond; Elizabeth I makes it secretly with French Huguenots |
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| 1562.Mar.01 | | Massacre of Huguenots at Vassay, ordered by Duc de Guise, starts the First War of Religion in France
The wars were to continue, intermittently, until 1598 |
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| 1562.Sep.22 | | Elizabeth I signs the Treaty of Hampton Court giving assistance to the French Huguenots |
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| 1564.Apr.11 | | Peace of Troyes between England and France; England renounces its claim to Calais on payment of 222,000 crowns by the French |
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| 1567.Sep.29 | | Huguenot conspiracy of Meaux to capture Charles IX provokes the second phase of the French wars of religion |
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| 1570 | | Elizabeth persuaded by the French into promise to help Mary, Queen of Scots, regain her throne but she insisted Mary ratify the Treaty of Edinburgh (July 1560)which , something Mary refused to do
William Cecil continued negotiations with Mary on behalf of Elizabeth |
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| 1572.Aug.24 | | St Bartholomew\'s Day Massacre: King Charles IX orders the massacre of French Protestants by Catholics
70,000 people are killed, leaving France virtually devoid of intellectual, educational and financial resources |
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| 1576 | | Catholic League led by the Guise family
formed in France |
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| 1593 | | Henry IV of France becomes
Catholic |
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| 1598 | | The French Wars of Religion (commenced 1562) end |
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| 1598 | | French Protestants guaranteed liberty of worship
by the Edict of Nantes |
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| 1604 | | France begins settling French Guiana |
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| 1607 | | Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell |
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| 1624.Aug.13 | | The
French King Louis XIII made Cardinal Richelieu his first minister |
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| 1651.Sep.03 | | Future Charles II of England defeated at the Battle of Worcester (the last major battle of the civil war) and flees to France |
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| 1657 | | Cromwell makes an alliance with France |
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| 1685.Oct.18 | | Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant population, the Huguenots |
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| 1688.Dec.11 | | King James II of England defeated with little bloodshed and flees from Britain to France, effectively ending his reign of England and Scotland |
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| 1690.Jun.26 | | French ships bombard and devastate Teignmouth |
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| 1708.Aug.29 | | Haverhill Massachusetts destroyed by combined French and Native American forces |
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| 1715.Sep.01 | | Death of Louis XIV, Sun King of France, aged 76 (1643-) |
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| 1722 | | Last major European outbreak of bubonic plague at Marseilles in France |
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| 1743 | | British defeated by the French at the Battle of Dettingen - George II,
the last British king to command an army in the field |
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| 1743.Aug.26 | | Birth of French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (-1794) |
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| 1782.Nov.30 | | Britain and US sign the preliminary peace articles in Paris (recognizing US independence), ending the Revolutionary War |
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| 1789 | | The beginning of the French Revolution |
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| 1789.Jul.14 | | The
storming of the Bastille in France |
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| 1789.Aug.26 | | The French Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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| 1792 | | France became a
republic |
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| 1792.Sep.21 | | Declaration of the First French Republic |
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| 1793 | | Louis
XVI of France beheaded |
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| 1793.Oct.16 | | Marie Antoinette beheaded in France
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| 1794.May.08 | | Death of French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-)
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| 1798 | | Malta taken by the French |
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| 1803.Nov.30 | | Spain cedes all claims to the Louisiana Territory to France |
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| 1804.Dec.02 | | Napoleon becomes the first French emperor - placing the crown on his own head |
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| 1806 | | Dartmoor Prison constructed at Princetown to house French prisoners of war |
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| 1809.Nov.30 | | French Emperor Napoleon informs Josephine over dinner that he would have to divorce her and marry a member of European royalty to bear him an heir |
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| 1830 | | Four weeping beeches were introduced into Britain from France
One of these, known as the cathedral beech because of its size, is the largest beech in the UK |
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| 1852.Dec.02 | | The 2nd French empire established as Louis Napoleon becomes emperor |
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| 1859.Dec.02 | | Birth of Georges Seurat, French painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte) |
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| 1884 | | Greenwich Meridian adopted by 26 countries at the International Meridian Conference in Washington
The French referred to it as Paris Mean Time, retarded by 9 minutes 21 seconds |
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| 1907.Aug.31 | | The Triple Entente formed by Britain, france and Russia |
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| 1909.Aug.29 | | Frenchman AH Latham sets the world airplane altitude record at 155 meters at the world's first air race held in Rheims France
The race was won by Glenn Curtis of the USA |
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| 1911.Aug.21 | | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris |
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| 1914.Aug.03 | | Germany declares war on France |
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| 1914.Sep.06 | | Germans prevented from occupying Paris at the Battle of the Marne
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| 1917.Oct.15 | | Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who spied for the Germans was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris |
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| 1918.Sep.14 | | The 647-ton merchantman Gibel Hamam torpedoed off the Dorset coast at Abbotsbury by UB-103, whilst on a voyage from Swansea to France with cargo of coal, with the loss of twenty-one lives including that of the master |
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| 1918.Dec.04 | | US President Wilson sets sail on the USS George Washington for the Versailles Peace Conference in France
Becomming the first US chief executive to travel outside the country while in office |
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| 1933.Aug.30 | | French company Aeropostale merges with another airline to become Air France |
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| 1938.Nov.07 | | Assassination of German diplomat, Ernst von Rath, in Paris by the Jewish Herschel Gr�nspan |
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| 1939.May.23 | | France signs a defensive agreement with Turkey |
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| 1939.Sep.01 | | Britan and France
mobilise
1.2 million people were moved as evacuation schemes were set in
motion in England and Wales between the 1st and the 4th |
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| 1939.Sep.11 | | The first British troops land
on French soil |
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| 1942.Aug.11 | | Pierre Laval, an official of the Vichy government publicly declared that
the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the
war. |
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| 1942.Aug.17 | | USA bombers stage the first WWII independent raid on Europe by
attacking Rouen France |
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| 1942.Aug.19 | | 1,000
British and Canadian soldiers are killed raiding Nazis in Dieppe France
The action saw casualties at 50 per cent |
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| 1942.Aug.26 | | 7,000 Jews are rounded up in the Vichy Free Zone of France controlled by the Nazis |
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| 1942.Nov.27 | | French navy scuttles ships and submarines at toulon to keep them from sizure by Nazi occupation forces |
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| 1944.Aug.25 | | Allies liberate Paris after 4 years of Nazi occupation |
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| 1951.Nov.29 | | US conducts the world\'s first underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
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| 1953.Nov.17 | | Italian steamer Vittoria Claudia sunk of Kent coast after collision by French vessel Perou
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| 1954.Aug.11 | | a formal peace took hold in Indochina,
ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist
Vietnam |
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| 1954.Oct.23 | | Britain, France and the USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
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| 1955.Aug.20 | | Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria |
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| 1956.Nov.06 | | British and French troops capture Port Said - ceasefire declared |
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| 1957.Oct.17 | | French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize for Literature |
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| 1960.Mar.02 | | Maiden flight (from Tolouse) of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde |
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| 1968.Aug.24 | | France explodes a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific making it the world's fifth thermonuclear power |
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| 1970.Nov.01 | | Nightclub fire at St Laurent du Pont, nr Grenoble, France kills 142 people |
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| 1971 | | Calne, Wiltshire, twinned with
Charlieu in France |
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| 1973.Apr.08 | | Death of artist Pablo Picasso of a heart attack at his chateau near Cannes |
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| 1973.Sep.26 | | Anglo-French Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington to Orly airport, Paris) in 3 hours 32 mins (avaraging 954 mph, 1,535 kph) |
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| 1974.Aug.07 | | French stuntman Philippe Petit
walks a tightrope stretched between the twin towers of World Trade Center
in New York |
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| 1977 | | Anglo-French Concorde makes first commercial flight to New York |
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| 1978.Aug.17 | | Three Americans (Maxie
Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman) complete the first trans-Atlantic
balloon crossing in the Eagle II
From Presque Isle, Maine, to
Miserey, France |
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| 1983.Oct.23 | | Two bombs kill over 140 American marines and 27 French servicemen in the Lebanese capital Beirut |
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| 1985.Sep.01 | | The wreck of the Titanic (sank in 1912) is found by French and American scientists off Newfoundland |
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| 1985.Nov.03 | | 2 French secret service agents change plea to guilty - accused of setting fire to the Rainbow Warrior |
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| 1987.Dec.01 | | Digging begins on the Channel Tunnel to link England and France under the English Channel |
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| 1989 | | Cricklade (Wilts.) twinned with Suce-sur-Erdre in France |
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| 1990.May.30 | | france bans imports of British beef because of BSE fears |
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| 1990.Dec.01 | | British and French tunnelers digging the Channel Tunnel meet after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel |
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| 1995.Sep.01 | | French troops seize the vessel Rainbow Warrior protesting against French nuclear tests at Mururoa |
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| 1995.Sep.06 | | France carry out an atomic bomb test in Mururoa Atols despite huge international protests |
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| 1997.Aug.31 | | Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in an automobile accident in thePont D\'Alma tunnel by the Seine in Paris (the accident also killed Emad Mohammed Dodi al-Fayed, the Harrod\'s heir)
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| 1997.Nov.03 | | Angry French truckers blockade ports in pay dispute |
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| 1998.Jul | | The Tour de France marred by a
doping scandal |
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| 1998.Aug.02 | | Tour de
France won by Italian Marco Pantani |
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| 1999.Dec.03 | | Tori Murden of the United States arrives at the French Carribean island of Guadeloupe, 81 days after leaving the Canary Islands near the coast of Africa, becomming the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone |
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| 2000.Jul.25 | | Anglo-French Concorde airliner crashes 2 minutes after leaving Charles de Gaulee airport, Paris, for NY killing 113 people |
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| 2003.Apr.09 | | Successful launch of the European Ariane V rocket from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana carrying an Indian and a US satellite |
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| 2003.Oct.24 | | Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde to make its last commercial flight |
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