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1863
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6.7.1863
During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. |
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1867
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1.31.1867
Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship for Algeria |
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1868
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9.28.1868
Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
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1870
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10.27.1870
Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. |
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1871
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1.18.1871
Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans. |
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3.18.1871
Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris. |
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5.21.1871
French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
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1873
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1880
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1885
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6.9.1885
A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France. |
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1886
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1893
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8.14.1893
France introduces motor vehicle registration.
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1894
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7.22.1894
The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion. |
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1895
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1897
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2.28.1897
Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. |
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8.14.1897
The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. |
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8.30.1897
The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar. |
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1898
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1902
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9.1.1902
''A Trip to the Moon'', considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
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1904
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7.21.1904
Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the convert 100 barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium. |
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1905
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12.9.1905
In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
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1906
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3.10.1906
The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France. |
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4.7.1906
The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. |
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9.7.1906
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully. |
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1909
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9.7.1909
Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first ' pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. |
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1910
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3.28.1910
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
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1911
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9.7.1911
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the '' Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre museum.
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1912
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1913
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2.18.1913
Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
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11.29.1913
Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, the international organizing body of competitive fencing is founded in Paris, France. |
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1914
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8.26.1914
World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. |
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1915
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4.18.1915
French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
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1916
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2.21.1916
World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
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