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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
Timeline of Events
1945
10.21.1945
Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1946
3.6.1946
Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
3.19.1946
French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas ''départements'' of France.
4.7.1946
Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
7.5.1946
The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention).
10.13.1946
France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
12.24.1946
France's Fourth Republic is founded.
1948
3.17.1948
Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1953
10.22.1953
Laos gains independence from France.
11.9.1953
Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1954
3.13.1954
Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
10.31.1954
Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
1955
8.20.1955
In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1956
3.20.1956
Tunisia gains independence from France.
7.23.1956
The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
10.31.1956
Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
11.7.1956
Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1957
3.31.1957
Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958
6.1.1958
Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
9.28.1958
France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
10.2.1958
Guinea declares its independence from France.
10.4.1958
Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960
1.1.1960
The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2.13.1960
Nuclear weapons testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
3.4.1960
French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
4.27.1960
Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
6.26.1960
Madagascar gains its independence from France.
7.20.1960
Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the United States and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.
8.1.1960
Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
8.3.1960
Niger gains independence from France.
8.13.1960
The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
8.15.1960
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
8.17.1960
Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
10.22.1960
Independence of Mali from France.
11.28.1960
Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1961
1.8.1961
In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962
7.5.1962
Algeria becomes independent from France.
8.22.1962
An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1963
1.22.1963
The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
10.10.1963
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.