France - Notable Historical Events
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France - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
303-09-25 |
On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France. |
732-10-11 |
Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors |
754-07-28 |
Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France |
823-04-05 |
Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France |
843-08-10 |
Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France |
891-09-01 |
Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France |
921-11-07 |
Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other |
922-06-09 |
French republic chooses Robert I, King of France |
923-06-15 |
Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. |
939-10-02 |
Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans |
954-11-12 |
Lotharius becomes king of France |
979-06-08 |
Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France |
987-06-19 |
Louis IV, crowned king of France |
1027-05-14 |
Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France |
1031-07-20 |
Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France |
1059-05-23 |
Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France |
1070-06-04 |
Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France |
1108-08-03 |
Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned |
1131-10-25 |
Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France |
1148-07-24 |
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. |
1180-09-18 |
Philip Augustus becomes king of France. |
1199-03-25 |
Richard I, Lion Heart, King o f England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. |
1202-04-28 |
King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France |
1204-06-01 |
King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen. |
1214-01-08 |
Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France |
1214-07-02 |
Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim Normandy from France |
1217-05-20 |
The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. |
1217-08-24 |
Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France |
1223-07-14 |
Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II |
1249-02-16 |
Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols. |
1250-04-13 |
The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured. |
1250-07-03 |
Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself. |
1253-07-23 |
Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent IV |
1260-10-24 |
The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
1270-10-30 |
The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis. |
1288-04-24 |
Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder |
1295-07-05 |
Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. |
1306-07-22 |
King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France |
1310-05-11 |
Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics. |
1317-01-09 |
Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France |
1321-08-21 |
160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake |
1322-06-24 |
Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time |
1328-08-23 |
King Philip VI of France, crowned |
1340-01-26 |
English king Edward III proclaimed king of France |
1340-09-25 |
England & France sign disarmament treaty |
1346-08-26 |
Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle |
1362-04-06 |
Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France |
1367-04-13 |
Battle at Nájera Spain: Castile & England beat Aragon & France |
1380-11-14 |
King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12 |
1392-06-13 |
Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France fails |
1394-09-17 |
Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI |
1394-11-03 |
Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI |
1420-05-21 |
Treaty of Troyes following Englsh victory at Agincourt: Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France |
1422-10-28 |
Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France |
1429-07-17 |
Dauphin crowned king of France |
1431-01-09 |
Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. |
1431-05-30 |
Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. |
1431-12-16 |
King Henry VI of England crowned king of France |
1434-04-14 |
The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid. |
1451-07-31 |
Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. |
1483-05-14 |
Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable"). |
1489-07-22 |
Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France |
1490-01-04 |
Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty. |
1492-03-04 |
King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England. |
1492-10-02 |
King Henry VII of England invades France |
1492-11-07 |
The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. |
1492-11-09 |
Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France) |
1493-01-19 |
France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona |
1495-01-28 |
Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llançol i de Borgia) gives his son Cesare as hostage to Charles VIII of France |
1497-02-25 |
Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France |
1499-02-09 |
France & Venice sign treaty against Milan |
1500-04-10 |
France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan |
1500-11-11 |
Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide Naples |
1503-04-28 |
Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
1503-12-27 |
Battle at Garigliano] Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
1503-12-29 |
Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France |
1504-03-31 |
France & Spain sign ceasefire |
1506-10-07 |
Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna |
1509-04-07 |
France declares war on Venice |
1512-08-10 |
Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France |
1513-08-16 |
Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France |
1515-01-01 |
Francis, Duke of Angouleme succeeds King Louis XII as Francis I of France |
1515-09-13 |
-14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X |
1516-08-13 |
The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan. |
1520-06-06 |
France & England sign treaty of Scotland |
1520-07-10 |
King Charles V France & King Henry VIII of England sign treaty of Calais |
1521-11-19 |
Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan |
1522-04-27 |
Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France |
1523-10-27 |
English troops occupy Montalidier France |
1524-03-19 |
Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas |
1524-10-26 |
Spanish troops give Milan to France |
1526-03-26 |
King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France |
1526-05-22 |
Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac |
1527-04-30 |
England & France sign Treaty of Westminster to end the War of the League of Cognac |
1528-01-22 |
England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V |
1529-06-21 |
Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France |
1532-06-23 |
Henry VIII of England & Francois I of France sign secret treaty against emperor Karel V |
1534-07-24 |
Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France |
1536-02-18 |
France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel |
1544-08-17 |
Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France |
1544-09-30 |
King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France |
1547-03-31 |
Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France |
1547-07-25 |
Henry II of France is crowned. |
1548-08-15 |
Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France |
1549-08-08 |
France declares war on England |
1550-03-24 |
France & England sign Peace of Boulogne |
1552-01-15 |
France signs secret treaty with German Protestants |
1552-04-10 |
Henri II of France occupies Metz |
1557-06-07 |
England declares war on France |
1557-08-10 |
Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France |
1558-01-07 |
Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French |
1558-07-13 |
Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. |
1558-07-23 |
Battle of Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal of Egmont beat France |
1559-04-02 |
England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis |
1559-04-03 |
Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis |
1559-06-30 |
King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery. |
1560-03-15 |
Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France |
1561-08-19 |
Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith, Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France |
1562-01-17 |
Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France |
1563-04-30 |
Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI |
1563-08-17 |
King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult |
1564-04-11 |
England & France sign Peace of Troyes |
1567-09-29 |
War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX |
1572-04-21 |
France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant |
1574-02-23 |
France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots |
1574-05-30 |
Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France |
1575-02-13 |
Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims. |
1576-02-05 |
Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours |
1578-04-27 |
Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. |
1582-12-10 |
France begins use of Gregorian calendar |
1583-06-28 |
Duke Frans de Valois returns to France |
1585-01-02 |
Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville |
1590-09-05 |
Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. |
1591-04-19 |
Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France |
1591-09-21 |
French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France |
1593-07-25 |
France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith |
1594-02-27 |
Henri IV crowned king of France |
1595-09-17 |
Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France |
1596-05-26 |
England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain |
1597-03-11 |
Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France |
1598-05-02 |
France & Spain sign Peace of Vervins |
1600-08-06 |
Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 |
1601-01-17 |
France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain |
1609-06-17 |
Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant |
1610-05-14 |
Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne. |
1610-06-19 |
Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec |
1615-06-02 |
First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. |
1621-04-15 |
Hugo the Great arrives in France |
1624-06-10 |
Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne |
1624-08-13 |
Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII |
1627-03-20 |
France & Spain sign accord for fighting protestantism |
1629-04-14 |
England & France sign Peace of Susa |
1630-11-10 |
Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu |
1631-01-23 |
France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald |
1631-05-30 |
The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Kingdom of France, establishing a secret alliance between them during the Thirty Years' War. |
1632-07-23 |
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. |
1633-03-01 |
Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. |
1634-07-04 |
The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec. |
1634-08-18 |
Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. |
1635-05-19 |
France declares war on Spain |
1635-09-18 |
Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France |
1637-05-13 |
Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife |
1641-06-01 |
France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant |
1641-12-25 |
Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden & France |
1643-05-14 |
Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4 |
1643-11-24 |
Battle of Tuttlingen: Beiers army under Gen Mercy beats France |
1647-03-14 |
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. |
1651-11-07 |
King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age |
1653-02-07 |
Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France |
1654-06-07 |
Louis XIV crowned King of France |
1655-11-03 |
England & France sign miltary & economic treaties |
1656-09-15 |
England & France sign peace treaty |
1657-03-23 |
France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk |
1658-06-03 |
Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. |
1658-08-15 |
France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine |
1659-05-22 |
France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty |
1659-05-31 |
Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague |
1659-11-17 |
Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. |
1660-12-31 |
James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. |
1662-04-27 |
Netherlands & France sign military covenant |
1662-10-17 |
Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds) |
1663-07-26 |
France annexes Venaissin |
1664-04-06 |
France & Saxony sign alliance |
1664-05-07 |
Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. |
1666-01-26 |
France declares war on England & Munster |
1667-03-31 |
France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord |
1668-09-16 |
King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France |
1668-09-19 |
Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France |
1669-12-31 |
France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty |
1670-02-17 |
France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty |
1670-12-31 |
France & England sign Boyne-treaty |
1672-04-06 |
France declares war on Netherlands |
1672-04-29 |
Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands. |
1672-05-17 |
Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) |
1672-09-06 |
Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden from France |
1673-06-06 |
France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty |
1674-05-28 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1674-07-01 |
Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance |
1676-04-22 |
Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded |
1678-07-26 |
England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France |
1678-08-10 |
Netherlands & France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen |
1678-09-17 |
France & Spain sign Treaties of Nijmegen |
1678-09-29 |
France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty |
1679-02-05 |
German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
1682-04-09 |
Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France |
1682-05-06 |
Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. |
1684-08-15 |
Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France |
1685-02-18 |
Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. |
1686-11-18 |
Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants. |
1687-12-31 |
1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope |
1688-09-24 |
France declares war on Germany |
1688-12-09 |
King James II's wife & son flee England for France |
1688-12-19 |
King James II's wife & son flee to France |
1688-12-23 |
English King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France and from William of Orange |
1688-12-25 |
British king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France |
1689-02-15 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1689-05-09 |
English King William III declares war on France |
1689-07-25 |
France declares war on England |
1689-08-05 |
1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France. |
1691-07-22 |
Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France |
1692-05-29 |
Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France |
1693-07-29 |
War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. |
1696-07-29 |
Louis XIV. King of France, & Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg |
1698-10-11 |
France, England & Netherlands sign 1st Extermination treaty |
1699-06-11 |
England, France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain |
1701-03-09 |
France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance |
1701-08-02 |
Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk |
1702-05-14 |
England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain |
1702-09-16 |
Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria |
1708-07-11 |
Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France |
1709-09-11 |
Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France |
1710-12-11 |
Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) |
1712-07-17 |
England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th] |
1712-07-24 |
Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army |
1713-04-11 |
Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty |
1713-04-12 |
Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom |
1714-09-07 |
Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine |
1715-09-01 |
King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch. |
1716-02-10 |
Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France |
1716-10-09 |
Britain & France sign treaty |
1717-01-04 |
Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance |
1717-02-01 |
Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France |
1717-08-17 |
France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement |
1718-01-09 |
France declares war on Spain |
1718-12-17 |
France, Britain and Austria declare war on Spain. |
1721-03-27 |
France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid |
1725-09-03 |
Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover |
1727-05-31 |
France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris |
1727-11-12 |
France & Bavaria renew secret treaty |
1729-11-09 |
Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville |
1733-09-26 |
France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant |
1733-10-10 |
France declares war on emperor Charles VI |
1733-11-07 |
France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first 'Pacte de Famille' between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain) |
1734-06-21 |
In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. |
1735-10-03 |
France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord |
1738-08-02 |
France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey |
1738-11-18 |
France & Austria sign peace |
1741-05-08 |
France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg |
1744-06-06 |
France & Prussia sign peace treaty |
1744-09-30 |
France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo. |
1746-09-20 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland |
1746-10-01 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France |
1747-07-01 |
Battle at Lafeld: France beat British/Dutch army |
1748-12-26 |
France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands |
1751-07-29 |
1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England |
1751-12-23 |
France sets plan to tax clergymen |
1754-07-04 |
George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France |
1756-05-01 |
France & Austria sign alliance |
1756-05-17 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
1756-05-18 |
England declares war on France |
1756-08-29 |
England & France meet in war |
1757-05-01 |
Austria & France divide Prussia |
1758-09-11 |
Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War. |
1759-05-01 |
British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France |
1759-08-01 |
Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France |
1759-08-18 |
-19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France |
1764-11-26 |
France bans Jesuit enorde |
1772-02-12 |
Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India |
1774-05-10 |
Louis XVI ascends to throne of France |
1776-05-02 |
France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels |
1776-10-26 |
Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. |
1776-12-23 |
Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France |
1777-12-17 |
France recognizes independence of British colonies in America |
1778-02-06 |
Britain declares war on France |
1778-02-06 |
France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris; 1st US treaty |
1778-02-14 |
"Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France) |
1778-07-10 |
American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
1783-07-15 |
1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France |
1785-11-10 |
Netherlands & France sign treaty |
1786-09-26 |
Britain & France sign trade agreement |
1788-01-28 |
Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France |
1788-06-21 |
Vizille France population demands local parliament |
1789-06-17 |
3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly |
1789-06-20 |
Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken |
1790-03-04 |
France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land. |
1791-03-10 |
Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy |
1791-09-13 |
France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution |
1792-04-14 |
France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars |
1792-04-20 |
France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia |
1792-04-25 |
Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier |
1792-07-08 |
France declares war on Prussia |
1792-07-30 |
500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time |
1792-09-21 |
Collot D'Herbois, first man to propose to abolish the monarchy in France at National Convention |
1792-09-26 |
Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France. |
1792-12-11 |
France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state |
1793-01-21 |
Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason. |
1793-02-01 |
France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands |
1793-03-18 |
2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France |
1793-03-26 |
Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France |
1793-06-24 |
1st republican constitution in France adopted |
1793-07-24 |
France passes 1st copyright law |
1793-08-01 |
France becomes 1st country to use the metric system |
1793-10-05 |
French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. |
1793-11-10 |
France ends forced worship of God |
1793-11-26 |
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France |
1794-05-06 |
Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France |
1794-05-18 |
2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) |
1794-06-01 |
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win. |
1794-06-10 |
France revolutionary regime begins trials |
1794-07-02 |
2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria |
1794-12-15 |
Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
1795-02-21 |
Freedom of worship established in France under constitution |
1795-03-05 |
Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France |
1795-04-07 |
France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. |
1795-07-27 |
Spain & France sign peace treaty |
1795-10-01 |
France annexes Southern Netherlands |
1795-10-01 |
Belgium is conquered by France. |
1796-05-15 |
France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris |
1796-08-19 |
Spain & France sign anti-British alliance |
1797-02-19 |
One third of papal domain ceded to France |
1797-04-18 |
France & Austria signs cease fire |
1797-05-12 |
First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. |
1797-10-17 |
Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France |
1798-07-07 |
Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.' |
1798-09-05 |
New conscription law goes into effect in France |
1799-03-12 |
Austria declares war on France |
1799-08-23 |
Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. |
1799-11-09 |
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France |
1799-12-10 |
Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so |
1800-01-08 |
Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France |
1800-10-01 |
Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty |
1801-02-09 |
France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville |
1801-10-01 |
Britain & France signs Preliminary of London |
1802-03-25 |
France, Netherlands, Spain & Great Britain sign Peace of Amiens |
1802-06-04 |
Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel. |
1802-08-25 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France |
1802-09-11 |
France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. |
1803-04-26 |
Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France |
1803-05-18 |
Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland |
1803-08-09 |
Robert Fulton tests his steam paddle-boat on the River Seine, France |
1803-11-30 |
Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France |
1803-12-20 |
French flag lowered in New Orleans to mark formal transfer of Louisiana Purchase from France to US for $27M |
1804-01-01 |
Haiti gains independence from France (National Day) |
1804-05-18 |
Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate |
1804-08-03 |
Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, France completing his 5 year expedition to Latin America |
1804-12-02 |
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of France in Paris |
1805-10-14 |
Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria |
1805-12-26 |
France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg |
1805-12-31 |
End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism |
1806-10-09 |
Prussia declares war on France. |
1807-07-07 |
France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit |
1807-12-17 |
France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. |
1807-12-22 |
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France |
1808-04-17 |
Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships |
1809-01-05 |
Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France |
1809-02-08 |
Franz I of Austria declares war on France |
1809-03-28 |
Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. |
1809-05-17 |
Papal States annexed by France |
1810-08-21 |
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates. |
1814-03-07 |
Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. |
1814-05-04 |
Bourbon reign restored in France |
1814-11-01 |
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars. |
1815-02-26 |
Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France |
1815-06-01 |
Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. |
1815-06-18 |
Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher |
1815-07-09 |
King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France |
1815-07-09 |
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France. |
1815-11-20 |
2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies after 2nd defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. |
1816-01-12 |
France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever |
1818-09-30 |
Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England |
1818-10-09 |
Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya |
1822-05-03 |
Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded (Lyon, France) |
1825-05-20 |
Charles X becomes King of France |
1829-03-22 |
The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
1830-07-05 |
France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest |
1830-08-02 |
Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux |
1830-08-09 |
Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X |
1830-12-20 |
Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium |
1835-07-09 |
St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France |
1838-11-30 |
Mexico declares war on France |
1840-03-01 |
Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France. |
1843-11-28 |
Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. |
1848-03-12 |
2nd republic established in France |
1851-12-04 |
Pres Louis Napoleon Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France |
1853-09-24 |
France annexes New Caledonia |
1854-03-28 |
Britain & France declare war on Russia (Crimean War) |
1854-09-14 |
Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea |
1857-03-03 |
Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
1858-02-11 |
1st apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France |
1862-03-10 |
Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar |
1864-06-19 |
CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France |
1864-09-05 |
Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France. |
1868-09-28 |
Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France |
1868-09-30 |
Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France |
1870-07-19 |
France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins |
1870-07-23 |
Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France |
1870-08-06 |
Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France |
1870-08-18 |
Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties |
1870-12-31 |
J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done) |
1871-05-10 |
Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war |
1873-09-15 |
Last German troops leave France |
1873-09-16 |
German troops leave France |
1877-05-16 |
May 16, 1877 political crisis in France. |
1880-06-29 |
France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti) |
1881-03-23 |
Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die |
1881-10-24 |
Levi P Morton, US ambasador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty |
1882-01-26 |
France government of Gambetta falls |
1882-05-20 |
Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance |
1885-06-12 |
Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France |
1885-12-17 |
France declares Madagascar a protectorate |
1887-02-20 |
Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance |
1889-01-10 |
Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France |
1891-07-26 |
France annexes Tahiti. |
1891-10-12 |
Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated |
1893-08-14 |
France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test |
1893-12-17 |
Russia ratifies Double Alliance with France |
1893-12-30 |
Russia signs military accord with France |
1894-01-04 |
France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia |
1894-10-15 |
Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France |
1894-11-26 |
King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France |
1895-01-17 |
Félix Faure installed as president of France |
1895-09-30 |
France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar |
1896-02-28 |
France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar |
1896-08-06 |
France annexes Madagascar |
1897-03-20 |
France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia |
1897-08-30 |
The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar. |
1898-02-23 |
In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus |
1898-06-14 |
France signs Niger Convention |
1899-02-16 |
President Félix Faure of France dies in office. |
1900-03-13 |
In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law. |
1900-08-20 |
Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games |
1900-09-05 |
France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
1900-10-28 |
After over 5 months second Olympic games in Paris, France, close |
1900-11-22 |
Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France |
1900-12-14 |
France and Italy sign a secret agreement by which Italy recognizes France's right to exploit Morocco in return for France's conceding her the same right in Tripoli |
1900-12-24 |
The French Chamber of Deputies and Senate pass a bill calling for an end to agitation or prosecutions against those involved in the Dreyfus affair, which has divided France since 1894 |
1901-07-20 |
Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony |
1901-11-07 |
A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896 |
1902-03-20 |
France and Russia issue a joint declaration that approves the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but stipulates that they have the right to protect interests in China and Korea |
1902-10-20 |
The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France |
1902-11-01 |
France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France's attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente |
1902-11-20 |
Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race |
1903-01-19 |
New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced |
1903-06-06 |
President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France |
1903-07-01 |
1st Tour de France bicycle race begins |
1904-04-08 |
Great Britain and France establish their Entente Cordiale, a technical treaty settling long-standing disagreements over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific |
1904-04-24 |
President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church |
1904-05-21 |
France recalls its ambassador to the Vatican to protest the Pope's attempt to discipline two French bishops; this is yet another incident driving France and the Catholic Church apart |
1904-10-03 |
France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence |
1905-01-27 |
Maurice Rouvier forms government in France |
1906-02-27 |
France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
1906-03-03 |
Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
1906-03-10 |
Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France |
1906-06-26 |
Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France) |
1906-07-04 |
Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land |
1906-07-12 |
Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France |
1906-07-17 |
Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau |
1906-09-07 |
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully. |
1906-10-25 |
Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France |
1907-05-16 |
In the Pact of Cartagena, Great Britain, France, and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa |
1907-06-10 |
France and Japan sign an agreement to maintain the independence and integrity of China, equality for all nations in trading with China, and the status quo in the Far East |
1907-07-29 |
1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France |
1907-08-16 |
Mulay Hafid is proclaimed the Sultan of Morocco by supporters leading to civil war; Mulay is supported by Germany while France supports the existing Sultan |
1907-08-31 |
Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente |
1907-10-07 |
France's Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane |
1908-04-23 |
Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord |
1908-08-03 |
French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France. Known as the 'Old man of La Chappelle' his skeleton shows that Neanderthals led physically stressful lives with high risk of injury. |
1909-02-08 |
France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
1909-03-02 |
Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
1909-07-25 |
France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
1909-08-29 |
AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
1909-08-29 |
World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins |
1909-09-07 |
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. |
1909-09-17 |
Denis Peyrony and Louis Capitan discover the skull of an adult male Neanderthal (La Ferrassie 1) during excavations in a rock shelter near La Ferrassie, France |
1909-10-18 |
Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
1910-03-28 |
1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) |
1910-09-27 |
1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) |
1911-06-28 |
Joseph Caillaux forms government in France |
1911-11-04 |
France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo |
1912-01-10 |
Caillaux government in France resigns |
1912-01-14 |
Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France |
1913-01-17 |
Raymond Poincaré elected president of France |
1913-01-19 |
Raymond Poincaré installed as president of France |
1913-07-27 |
Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France |
1913-08-20 |
1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France) |
1913-09-06 |
1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France) |
1913-09-21 |
1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France |
1914-08-01 |
France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI |
1914-08-03 |
Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I |
1914-08-11 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1914-08-13 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1914-08-14 |
British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France |
1914-08-20 |
Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny, France |
1914-08-25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1914-09-02 |
-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux |
1914-09-04 |
General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
1914-09-04 |
France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace |
1914-09-05 |
Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
1914-10-31 |
Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey |
1915-04-26 |
Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia |
1915-10-29 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
1916-01-28 |
German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France |
1916-04-22 |
France battles at Fort Douaumont |
1916-05-09 |
British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey |
1916-09-17 |
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. |
1916-10-19 |
France extends formal recognition of the Provisional Government in Crete proclaimed Eleftherios Venizelos |
1916-11-02 |
Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France |
1916-12-26 |
Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France |
1917-04-09 |
Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops |
1917-06-26 |
1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I |
1917-09-20 |
British assault on Polygon Forest, France |
1917-09-26 |
British assault on Menin-street, France |
1917-10-04 |
British assault on Broodseinde, France |
1918-04-21 |
World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown was credited with the kill. |
1918-06-12 |
1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France |
1918-07-19 |
German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) |
1918-08-06 |
Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France during WWI |
1918-08-08 |
6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more |
1918-12-04 |
Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office |
1918-12-13 |
Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) |
1919-01-18 |
WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France |
1919-01-30 |
Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army |
1919-05-06 |
Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
1919-06-09 |
General steel strike in France |
1919-06-28 |
Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France - also established the League of Nations |
1920-01-17 |
Paul Deschanel elected president of France |
1920-02-02 |
France occupies (German) Memel territory |
1920-09-01 |
France creates Greater Lebanon |
1920-09-23 |
Alexander Millerand elected president of France |
1921-06-15 |
Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot |
1921-07-24 |
Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France |
1921-11-13 |
US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty |
1922-02-06 |
US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation |
1922-06-29 |
France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes." |
1924-01-25 |
1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France |
1924-02-04 |
1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France |
1924-05-04 |
8th Olympic games open at Paris, France |
1924-08-18 |
France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr |
1925-01-10 |
France-Saarland forms |
1925-02-09 |
German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
1925-06-22 |
Spain & France fight Morocco |
1925-07-20 |
Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France |
1925-09-12 |
20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0) |
1926-02-16 |
Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France |
1926-04-29 |
France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I |
1926-06-23 |
8th government of Briand van France forms |
1926-09-11 |
21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1), for their 7th straight championship |
1927-09-10 |
22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) |
1928-07-29 |
23rd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1) |
1928-11-11 |
France's 5th government of Poincaré forms |
1929-07-28 |
24th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
1929-07-29 |
Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France |
1929-07-31 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
1930-03-04 |
Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people. |
1930-07-27 |
Andre Leducq wins Tour de France |
1930-07-27 |
25th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1) |
1930-10-05 |
British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die |
1931-03-27 |
Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor |
1931-05-13 |
Paul Doumer elected president of France |
1931-06-14 |
French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 |
1931-07-23 |
France announces it can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics |
1931-07-26 |
26th Davis Cup: France beats Great Britain in Paris (3-2) |
1931-08-24 |
France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty |
1932-01-12 |
France's Laval government falls |
1932-02-21 |
Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France |
1932-05-10 |
Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France |
1932-06-04 |
Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
1932-06-13 |
Great Britain & France sign peace treaty |
1932-07-31 |
27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
1932-11-28 |
France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty |
1932-11-29 |
France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union |
1932-11-29 |
USSR & France sign no attack treaty |
1933-07-30 |
28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) |
1933-08-30 |
Air France forms |
1933-12-24 |
Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France) |
1934-02-06 |
Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France. |
1934-02-12 |
France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists |
1934-10-09 |
Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. |
1935-07-28 |
Belgium's Romain Maes wins Tour de France |
1936-01-24 |
Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France |
1936-05-16 |
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France |
1937-06-04 |
Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France |
1938-02-27 |
Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain |
1938-04-10 |
2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France |
1938-07-04 |
France-Turkish friendship treaty |
1939-02-06 |
Spanish government flees to France |
1939-02-27 |
France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain |
1939-03-31 |
Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
1939-04-15 |
Albert Lebrun elected president of France |
1939-04-17 |
Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-Nazi pact |
1939-05-20 |
1st regular transatlantic airmail (Pan Am: NY to Marsseille France) |
1939-06-17 |
Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre. |
1939-06-23 |
France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey |
1939-07-30 |
Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France |
1939-09-03 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1939-09-19 |
British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
1939-10-06 |
Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain |
1940-03-18 |
Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain |
1940-05-12 |
Nazi blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River |
1940-05-15 |
German armoured division moves into Northern France |
1940-05-17 |
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France |
1940-05-21 |
Allied counter attack at Atrecht, northern France |
1940-05-24 |
German tanks reach Atrecht France |
1940-05-29 |
In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France |
1940-06-04 |
British complete the "miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 300,000 allies troops from France |
1940-06-05 |
Battle of France begins in WW II |
1940-06-10 |
Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II |
1940-06-15 |
France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII |
1940-06-17 |
France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
1940-06-17 |
World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. |
1940-06-22 |
France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms |
1940-06-24 |
France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II |
1940-06-25 |
Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France |
1940-07-05 |
Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy government in France |
1940-07-11 |
Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France. |
1940-08-26 |
Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor. |
1940-09-06 |
Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France |
1940-09-12 |
4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings |
1940-10-03 |
France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status |
1941-02-26 |
Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory |
1941-04-12 |
Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalarn consults with Hitler |
1941-07-07 |
World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. |
1941-11-26 |
Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France |
1941-12-20 |
Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon |
1942-03-30 |
1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau |
1942-04-29 |
Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France |
1942-06-18 |
Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m |
1942-08-17 |
US bombers 8th Air Force stage 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France |
1942-08-19 |
WWI: Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France |
1942-08-26 |
7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France |
1942-11-08 |
Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US |
1942-11-11 |
During WW II Germany completes the occupation of France |
1942-11-11 |
Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David |
1943-11-08 |
France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate |
1943-11-22 |
France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government |
1943-12-27 |
France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government |
1944-03-21 |
Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy |
1944-03-27 |
1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp |
1944-04-06 |
Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis |
1944-06-06 |
Operation Neptune, D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France in WWII |
1944-06-10 |
Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
1944-06-14 |
General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France |
1944-06-27 |
Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies |
1944-07-06 |
US General Patton lands in France |
1944-07-07 |
RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France |
1944-07-21 |
British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery |
1944-07-28 |
Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
1944-07-28 |
US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
1944-08-11 |
Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz |
1944-08-20 |
Gen de Gaulle returns to France |
1944-08-23 |
Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
1944-08-25 |
France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
1944-09-03 |
Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
1944-10-05 |
Suffrage is extended to women in France. |
1945-01-01 |
France joins the UN |
1945-01-03 |
British Premier Winston Churchill visits France |
1945-04-26 |
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
1945-06-04 |
US, Russia, Britain & France agree to split occupied Germany |
1945-06-05 |
USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany |
1945-07-31 |
Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
1945-08-08 |
US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials |
1945-09-02 |
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
1945-10-21 |
Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time |
1945-10-24 |
France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
1946-03-06 |
France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
1946-03-19 |
French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France |
1946-04-07 |
Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. |
1946-04-12 |
Syria gains independence from France |
1946-06-24 |
Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
1946-12-24 |
France's Fourth Republic is founded. |
1947-01-16 |
Vincent Aurial elected president of France |
1947-07-02 |
Military coup discovered in France |
1948-03-18 |
France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
1948-09-05 |
In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. |
1949-04-03 |
North Atlantic Treaty signed by US, Britain, France & Canada |
1949-07-01 |
Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France |
1949-10-28 |
Georges Bidault elected president of France |
1950-06-12 |
2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die |
1950-09-09 |
Mass arrests of communists in France |
1950-12-30 |
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union |
1951-03-23 |
Wages in France increase 11% |
1951-04-18 |
France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community |
1951-07-16 |
1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est) |
1951-09-11 |
Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes |
1952-02-29 |
Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy GRB |
1952-07-20 |
Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France |
1953-09-29 |
US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China |
1953-10-22 |
Laos gains full independence from France |
1953-10-23 |
France grants Laos' sovereignty |
1953-12-24 |
René Coty elected president of France |
1954-05-07 |
US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO |
1954-06-04 |
France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
1954-07-21 |
At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam |
1954-08-01 |
Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France |
1954-10-23 |
Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
1954-11-01 |
The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France. |
1954-11-24 |
France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria |
1955-04-24 |
Gaullists lose elections in France |
1955-05-07 |
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain |
1955-05-15 |
Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence |
1955-06-13 |
Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France |
1955-07-28 |
The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. |
1955-07-30 |
Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1956-01-31 |
Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France. |
1956-03-02 |
Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France |
1956-03-03 |
Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
1956-03-20 |
Tunisia gains independence from France |
1956-07-05 |
France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria |
1956-07-20 |
France recognizes Tunisian independence |
1956-10-22 |
France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella |
1956-10-31 |
Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
1956-11-05 |
Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal |
1956-12-03 |
Bitain and France pull troops out of Egypt |
1957-01-01 |
France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep |
1957-09-19 |
Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino". |
1957-11-06 |
Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France |
1958-06-01 |
Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
1958-07-19 |
Charly Gaul wins Tour de France |
1958-09-28 |
France adopts constitution |
1958-09-28 |
Guinea votes for independence from France |
1958-10-02 |
Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
1958-10-04 |
Fifth Republic of France is established. |
1958-12-11 |
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France |
1958-12-21 |
Charles de Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France |
1959-01-08 |
Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic |
1959-04-12 |
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
1959-04-27 |
"Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) |
1960-01-01 |
Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs |
1960-01-01 |
Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France |
1960-01-11 |
Chad declares independence from France |
1960-02-13 |
France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
1960-04-01 |
France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria |
1960-04-04 |
Senegal declares independence from France |
1960-04-13 |
France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara |
1960-05-11 |
French liner "France" launched |
1960-06-20 |
Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
1960-06-25 |
Madagascar gains independence from France |
1960-06-26 |
Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
1960-08-01 |
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
1960-08-03 |
Niger gains independence from France |
1960-08-05 |
Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
1960-08-07 |
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France |
1960-08-11 |
Chad declares Independence from France |
1960-08-13 |
Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France |
1960-08-15 |
Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
1960-08-17 |
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) |
1960-09-15 |
France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments |
1960-09-22 |
Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France |
1960-10-19 |
France grants Mauritania independence |
1960-11-28 |
Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day) |
1960-12-07 |
Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
1960-12-27 |
France performs nuclear test |
1961-04-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
1961-11-07 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1962-02-18 |
France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war |
1962-03-14 |
Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France |
1962-04-08 |
Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France |
1962-04-14 |
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré |
1962-05-01 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1962-06-03 |
Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 |
1962-07-01 |
Algeria votes for independence from France |
1962-07-20 |
France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations |
1962-11-29 |
Great Britain & France decide to jointly build Concord(e) |
1963-01-22 |
The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. |
1963-03-18 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1963-03-30 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1963-10-10 |
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. |
1963-10-20 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1964-02-06 |
France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
1964-02-11 |
Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France |
1964-07-14 |
Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France |
1964-11-28 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1965-01-07 |
France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold |
1965-02-27 |
France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1965-05-30 |
France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground) |
1965-07-16 |
Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens |
1965-10-01 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1965-11-26 |
France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
1965-11-27 |
1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space |
1966-02-16 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1966-07-02 |
1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll |
1966-07-19 |
France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island |
1966-09-11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1966-09-24 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1966-10-04 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1966-11-26 |
1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
1967-03-19 |
French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France |
1967-07-02 |
Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament |
1967-12-11 |
SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France) |
1968-02-06 |
10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France |
1968-02-10 |
Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France |
1968-02-18 |
10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France |
1968-04-08 |
Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000 |
1968-05-27 |
The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. |
1968-07-07 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1968-07-12 |
Couve de Murville forms government in France |
1968-07-15 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1968-07-21 |
Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman |
1968-08-03 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1968-08-24 |
France became world's 5th thermonuclear power with detonation on Mururoa |
1968-09-08 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1968-09-11 |
Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew. |
1968-09-27 |
France denies UK entry into common market |
1969-01-04 |
France begins arms embargo against Israel |
1969-04-28 |
Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
1969-05-01 |
Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting |
1969-06-20 |
Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France |
1969-07-20 |
Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France |
1969-08-23 |
France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) |
1970-02-10 |
Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
1970-04-16 |
70 die in a snow crush (France) |
1970-05-15 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1970-05-22 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1970-07-27 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1970-08-02 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1970-08-06 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1970-11-01 |
Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die |
1970-11-01 |
Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
1971-03-14 |
The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes |
1971-07-04 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1971-07-18 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1971-08-08 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1971-08-14 |
France performs nuclear test |
1972-06-15 |
Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die |
1972-07-09 |
1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France) |
1972-07-23 |
Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France |
1972-07-29 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1973-04-12 |
France recognizes North Vietnam |
1973-06-25 |
Russian communist party leader Brezhnev visits France |
1973-06-28 |
New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone after France's refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing; NZ Prime Minister Norman Kirk told the crew of the Otago that their Mururoa mission was an 'honourable' one |
1973-07-21 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific |
1973-07-28 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1973-08-19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1973-08-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1973-08-28 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1974-03-08 |
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France |
1974-07-17 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1974-07-21 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France |
1974-07-26 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1974-07-29 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1974-08-15 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1974-08-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1975-06-28 |
The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria |
1975-07-06 |
Comoros declare independence from France (most of them) |
1975-10-01 |
Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production |
1975-11-26 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1976-01-21 |
Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France |
1976-04-03 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1976-05-24 |
In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. |
1976-06-27 |
Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda |
1976-06-27 |
Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany |
1976-07-03 |
Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers |
1976-07-04 |
Operation Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3 hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier) |
1976-07-11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1976-07-18 |
Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France |
1976-07-23 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1977-01-11 |
France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics |
1977-02-19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977-03-19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977-06-27 |
Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France |
1977-07-06 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977-09-10 |
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France. |
1977-11-12 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977-11-24 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977-12-17 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978-02-01 |
Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
1978-02-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978-03-22 |
France performs nuclear test |
1978-04-26 |
France sends troops to Chad |
1978-06-26 |
Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France |
1978-07-19 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1978-07-26 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1978-11-02 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978-11-30 |
France performs nuclear test |
1978-12-18 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978-12-19 |
France performs nuclear test |
1979-03-09 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1979-07-09 |
A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility. |
1979-07-27 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1979-07-28 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1980-02-16 |
Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France |
1980-02-23 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1980-03-03 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1980-03-23 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980-04-01 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980-04-03 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980-05-30 |
1st papal visit to France since 1814 |
1980-07-06 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980-07-18 |
Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France |
1980-07-20 |
Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France |
1980-07-30 |
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France |
1980-11-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1981-03-06 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1981-03-28 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981-04-10 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981-05-10 |
Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Presidency of France |
1981-05-21 |
Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France |
1981-07-08 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981-07-08 |
PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France |
1981-07-11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1981-08-03 |
France performs nuclear test in Pacific |
1981-09-18 |
Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. |
1981-10-09 |
Abolition of capital punishment in France. |
1981-11-07 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981-12-05 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981-12-08 |
France performs nuclear test |
1982-02-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1982-03-20 |
France performs nuclear test |
1982-07-21 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1982-07-25 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1982-07-31 |
46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France |
1982-07-31 |
Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die |
1982-07-31 |
Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) |
1982-10-11 |
English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England |
1982-11-28 |
71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1) |
1983-01-19 |
Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia |
1983-04-05 |
France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
1983-04-19 |
France performs nuclear test |
1983-04-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1983-05-25 |
France performs nuclear test |
1983-06-22 |
"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France |
1983-07-05 |
France invades Algeria |
1983-07-15 |
8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France |
1983-07-20 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1983-07-24 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
1983-08-04 |
France performs nuclear test |
1983-12-03 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1983-12-07 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984-04-21 |
Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS |
1984-05-08 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984-05-12 |
France performs nuclear test |
1984-06-27 |
France wins soccer's European Cup |
1984-07-17 |
Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France |
1984-07-22 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
1984-08-11 |
101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France |
1984-10-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984-11-02 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984-12-01 |
France performs nuclear test |
1984-12-06 |
France performs nuclear test |
1985-04-30 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1985-05-08 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1985-06-09 |
Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France |
1985-07-21 |
Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France |
1985-08-03 |
Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed |
1985-09-22 |
France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior |
1985-11-26 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1986-02-07 |
Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
1986-04-26 |
France performs nuclear test |
1986-05-06 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1986-05-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1986-05-30 |
France performs nuclear test |
1986-07-27 |
Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France |
1986-11-12 |
France performs nuclear test |
1986-12-06 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1986-12-10 |
France performs nuclear test |
1987-04-18 |
Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) |
1987-05-05 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1987-06-03 |
"Little Shop of Horrors" released in France |
1987-06-03 |
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" released in France |
1987-07-04 |
Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France |
1987-07-17 |
Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations |
1987-07-26 |
Stephen Roche wins Tour de France |
1987-08-11 |
France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
1987-08-30 |
Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57) |
1987-10-03 |
Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile |
1987-10-15 |
The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. |
1987-10-23 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1987-11-05 |
France performs nuclear test |
1987-11-19 |
France performs nuclear test |
1987-11-29 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1987-12-01 |
Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel |
1988-05-08 |
Francois Mitterrand elected president of France |
1988-05-11 |
France performs nuclear test |
1988-07-25 |
Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
1988-08-30 |
France performs nuclear test |
1988-10-25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1988-11-05 |
France performs nuclear test |
1988-11-23 |
France performs nuclear test |
1988-11-30 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1989-05-11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989-07-21 |
Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time |
1989-10-24 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989-10-31 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989-11-15 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989-11-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989-12-05 |
France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph |
1990-02-13 |
US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify |
1990-07-04 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1990-07-08 |
Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) |
1990-07-22 |
Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1990-09-12 |
US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge |
1990-09-15 |
France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
1990-09-27 |
Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House |
1990-10-30 |
Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel |
1990-11-14 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991-05-07 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991-05-15 |
Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
1991-05-18 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991-07-05 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991-07-15 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1991-07-28 |
Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race |
1991-11-18 |
France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti |
1991-12-01 |
80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1) |
1992-02-08 |
16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France |
1992-02-23 |
16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France |
1992-04-02 |
Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns |
1992-04-12 |
Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France |
1992-09-20 |
France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty |
1992-09-22 |
Heavy storm in South France, 34 die |
1992-09-23 |
Mud storm kills 30 in South France |
1993-06-09 |
"Amantes" (1991) premieres in France |
1993-06-09 |
"Body Snatchers" (1993) premieres in France |
1993-06-09 |
"Ce que femme veut" (1993) premieres in France |
1993-06-09 |
"Passion Fish" (1992) premieres in France |
1993-06-09 |
"Tout capour ca!" (1993) premieres in France |
1993-07-25 |
Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1994-05-06 |
Chunnel linking England & France officially opens |
1994-05-11 |
"Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" released in France |
1994-06-30 |
Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed) |
1994-07-24 |
Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France |
1994-12-24 |
4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers |
1994-12-26 |
French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille |
1995-07-23 |
Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France |
1996-01-27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1996-12-01 |
85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2) |
1997-06-02 |
Liberals beat Conservatives in France |
1997-06-13 |
American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years. |
1997-10-05 |
35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1) |
1997-11-23 |
Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ |
1998-04-20 |
TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53. |
1998-07-12 |
France beats Brazil 3-0 for soccer's 16th World Cup (1st title) |
1999-08-11 |
Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) |
1999-10-22 |
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. |
1999-12-05 |
88th Davis Cup: Australia beats France in Nice (3-2) |
1999-12-26 |
Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). |
2000-07-20 |
Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. |
2000-07-25 |
Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. |
2000-10-01 |
United States retain Basketball's Olympic gold medal defeating France 85-75 |
2001-09-21 |
AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people |
2001-12-20 |
90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2) |
2002-12-01 |
91st Davis Cup: Russia beats France in Paris (3-2) |
2003-02-10 |
France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. |
2003-07-20 |
France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. |
2004-11-27 |
New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris |
2004-12-14 |
The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. |
2005-04-27 |
The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. |
2005-05-29 |
France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution. |
2005-07-24 |
Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory (stripped for doping in 2012) |
2005-11-27 |
The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. |
2006-01-12 |
The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council. |
2006-02-07 |
Uma Thurman is named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature |
2006-03-28 |
At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law. |
2006-07-09 |
Italy beats France 5-3 for soccer's 18th World Cup in Germany |
2007-05-16 |
Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the 23rd President of France |
2009-06-01 |
Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed. |
2010-02-24 |
Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009 |
2010-06-24 |
John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history. |
2010-12-05 |
99th Davis Cup: Serbia beats France in Belgrade (3-2) |
2012-03-17 |
Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nations Championship |
2012-05-06 |
Francois Hollande elected President of France |
2012-06-17 |
France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election |
2012-08-29 |
The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles |
2012-11-09 |
An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people |
2013-01-19 |
Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories |
2013-04-28 |
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France |
2013-07-29 |
€103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France |
2013-08-11 |
2 people are killed and 30 are injured after a coach crash in southern France |
2014-07-27 |
Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the Tour de France |
2015-11-04 |
France lifts ban on gay men as blood donors |
2015-11-14 |
Paris attacks: Horror as terror strikes France again, killing 132 people |
2016-01-16 |
Drug trial participant brain dead, 5 others hospitalized in France |
2016-02-19 |
France Rejects Russia's Proposed UN Resolution on Syria |
2016-03-16 |
Al Qaeda says Ivory Coast attack was revenge against France |
2016-04-05 |
France opens probe after Panama leaks |
2016-04-24 |
France calls on EU to adopt new sanctions against North Korea |
2016-06-19 |
20 Russian Soccer Fans Deported by France for Fighting |
2016-07-11 |
Portugal stuns host France to win Euro 2016 |
2016-07-25 |
Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome completes third race victory |
2016-11-29 |
France calls for UN Security Council meeting on Aleppo |
2018-04-16 |
France's Macron says he persuaded Trump to keep troops in Syria |
2018-07-16 |
France overpowers Croatia 4-2 to win 2nd World Cup |
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France - Notable Birthdays
France - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
823-06-13 |
Charles II, the Bald, King of France (843-77)/emperor (875-77) |
879-09-17 |
Charles III, [The Simple], king of France (893-923) |
972-03-27 |
King Robert II of France (d. 1031) |
1008-05-04 |
King Henry I of France (d. 1060) |
1052-05-23 |
King Philip I of France (d. 1108) |
1081-12-01 |
Louis VI of France (d. 1137) |
1113-08-24 |
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, France, conquered Normandy (d. 1151) |
1160-10-04 |
Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220) |
1165-08-21 |
Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) |
1170-04-23 |
Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190) |
1187-09-05 |
Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26) |
1188-03-04 |
Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252) |
1214-04-25 |
Louis IX, King of France (1226-70) |
1220-11-11 |
Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271) |
1245-04-03 |
Philips III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85) |
1245-04-30 |
King Philip III of France (d. 1285) |
1254-05-13 |
Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321) |
1270-03-12 |
Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325) |
1289-10-04 |
Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France (1314-16) |
1315-05-20 |
Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349) |
1316-11-15 |
Jean I, King of France (Nov 15-19, 1316) (he lived only 5 days) |
1319-04-16 |
King John II of France (d. 1364) |
1326-05-08 |
Joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360) |
1338-01-21 |
King Charles V, (Charles the Wise), of France (1364-80) |
1338-02-03 |
Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) |
1344-09-18 |
Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404) |
1367-01-06 |
Richard II, Bordeaux, France, King of England (1377-99) (d. 1400) |
1368-02-03 |
Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422) |
1368-12-03 |
Charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422) |
1371-05-28 |
John, the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior |
1372-03-13 |
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407) |
1387-08-29 |
Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) |
1401-08-16 |
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436) |
1403-02-22 |
Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out the English from Northern France. Died 1461. |
1404-10-14 |
Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463) |
1412-01-06 |
Joan of Arc, Domrémy, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431) |
1423-07-03 |
Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) |
1462-06-27 |
Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515) |
1464-04-23 |
Johanna van Valois, Queen of France |
1470-06-30 |
Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy |
1493-03-15 |
Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France |
1494-09-12 |
King Francis I of France (1515-47), (d. 1547) |
1496-03-18 |
Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) |
1498-11-15 |
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558) |
1499-09-03 |
Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566) |
1499-10-14 |
Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524) |
1503-12-14 |
Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, astrologist/prophet (Les Propheties), (d. 1566) |
1510-10-25 |
Renée of France, French princess and Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1574) |
1515-12-22 |
Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland |
1516-10-23 |
Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524) |
1519-03-31 |
Henry II, King of France (1547-59) |
1519-04-13 |
Catherine de' Medici, Italian born Queen consort to Henry II of France and later regent to her sons |
1523-06-05 |
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573) |
1533-02-28 |
Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher |
1543-04-01 |
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626) |
1544-01-19 |
Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60) |
1547-04-13 |
Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and 3rd wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568) |
1547-11-12 |
Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
1550-06-27 |
Charles IX, King of France (1560-74) |
1551-09-19 |
Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France (1573/4-89) |
1553-04-30 |
Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601) |
1553-12-13 |
Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610) |
1553-12-14 |
Henri IV the Bourbon, King of Navarra (Henri III)/France |
1554-06-05 |
Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592) |
1573-04-26 |
Marie de'Medici, Queen of France |
1579-04-12 |
Francois de Bassompierre, marshal of France |
1585-09-09 |
Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42) |
1585-10-28 |
Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader |
1588-05-28 |
Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672) |
1588-09-08 |
Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher (Cartesian) |
1596-03-31 |
René Descartes, France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was) |
1601-09-22 |
Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III |
1601-09-27 |
Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43) |
1602-07-14 |
Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61) |
1606-02-10 |
Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663) |
1606-06-06 |
Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) |
1611-09-11 |
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675) |
1620-04-17 |
Marguerite Bourgeoys, Troyes France, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (first Canadian saint) |
1622-05-12 |
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698) |
1622-05-22 |
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698) |
1624-08-25 |
François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709) |
1625-06-08 |
Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) |
1628-01-12 |
Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose) |
1635-11-27 |
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719) |
1638-09-05 |
Louis XIV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, King of France (1643-1715), (Sun King), (d. 1715) |
1638-09-10 |
Maria Theresa of Spain, El Escorial, Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683) |
1641-10-05 |
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707) |
1643-12-22 |
Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana) |
1644-01-10 |
Louis Boufflers, marshall of France |
1646-12-04 |
Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) |
1650-02-15 |
Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot) |
1651-08-06 |
Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) |
1653-05-08 |
Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734) |
1656-04-10 |
René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718) |
1657-02-11 |
Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds) |
1663-10-18 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, Paris France, famous military commander for the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottomans and the French |
1664-08-04 |
Louis Lully, Paris France, musician |
1667-09-24 |
Jean-Louis Lully, Paris France, composer |
1668-11-10 |
Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux) |
1668-11-27 |
Henri F d'Aguesseau, chancellor of France (1717..50) |
1674-08-02 |
Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) |
1676-12-19 |
Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist |
1683-02-19 |
Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) |
1683-09-25 |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized) |
1683-12-19 |
Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) |
1685-12-06 |
Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712) |
1688-02-04 |
Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne) |
1689-01-18 |
Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes) |
1692-08-18 |
Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740) |
1694-11-21 |
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778) |
1698-09-28 |
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer |
1703-06-23 |
Maria Leszczyńska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768) |
1707-02-15 |
Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist |
1710-02-15 |
Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74) |
1712-06-28 |
Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession) |
1713-04-21 |
Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France |
1713-10-05 |
Denis Diderot, Langres, France, enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), (d. 1784) |
1714-02-25 |
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792) |
1715-01-26 |
Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher |
1715-07-16 |
Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France |
1717-10-05 |
Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744) |
1718-10-19 |
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804) |
1726-09-07 |
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion |
1727-08-14 |
Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752) |
1727-08-14 |
Louise-Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759) |
1732-01-24 |
Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville) |
1732-03-23 |
Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800) |
1733-05-11 |
Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) |
1736-09-15 |
Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France) |
1736-11-26 |
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France) |
1737-07-15 |
Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1787) |
1737-07-15 |
Louise de France, Movies for Louise |
1738-05-28 |
Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine) |
1739-03-19 |
Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824) |
1740-08-26 |
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning) |
1743-05-24 |
Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist |
1743-09-17 |
Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician |
1743-09-17 |
Marquis de Condorcet, Aisn France, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method), (d. 1794) |
1748-08-30 |
Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat) |
1749-06-19 |
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention) |
1752-10-17 |
Nicolas Appert, Châlons-sur-Marne, France, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet) |
1753-09-02 |
Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810) |
1754-08-02 |
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825) |
1754-08-23 |
Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined |
1755-11-02 |
Marie Antoinette, Vienna, Queen of France(1774-1792), "let them eat cake", (d. 1793) |
1755-11-17 |
Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24) |
1757-09-03 |
Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia |
1757-10-09 |
Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed |
1757-10-21 |
Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816) |
1759-10-26 |
Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice |
1760-03-02 |
Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader |
1761-12-07 |
Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Strasbourg, France, created wax museum, (d. 1850) |
1763-05-07 |
Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813) |
1763-06-23 |
Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I and first Empress of France (1804-14) at Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique (d.1814) |
1764-02-13 |
Talleyrand, France/Napoleon's foreign minster |
1764-05-03 |
Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI |
1766-11-16 |
Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv) |
1767-03-25 |
Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15) |
1767-12-22 |
Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, rebellion leader (fought Napoleon's France) |
1768-09-04 |
Francois René de Chateaubriand, France, poet/novelist (Atala) |
1769-05-10 |
Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France |
1769-08-15 |
Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15), (d. 1821) |
1769-08-23 |
Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist |
1771-06-24 |
E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont) |
1773-10-06 |
King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850) |
1775-08-06 |
Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France |
1779-12-19 |
Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver |
1780-09-28 |
Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure |
1781-02-17 |
René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope) |
1783-01-23 |
Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir) |
1783-12-19 |
Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem) |
1784-10-15 |
Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849) |
1785-03-27 |
Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95) |
1786-07-09 |
Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787) |
1787-11-18 |
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851) |
1790-10-21 |
Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René) |
1797-04-10 |
Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man) |
1797-04-18 |
Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France |
1798-08-21 |
Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) |
1800-12-03 |
France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici) |
1802-02-26 |
Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) |
1802-07-24 |
Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870) |
1804-07-01 |
George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro) |
1805-02-01 |
Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader) |
1805-07-29 |
Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) |
1805-11-19 |
Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal) |
1808-02-20 |
Daumier, Marseilles France, artist |
1808-04-20 |
Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71) |
1809-01-04 |
Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) |
1809-01-15 |
Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist) |
1809-03-24 |
Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers |
1809-03-27 |
Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect |
1811-08-31 |
Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus) |
1812-04-02 |
Louise-Marie of France, queen of Belgium (d. 1850) |
1817-10-24 |
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, Draguignan, France, French chemist and inventor of margarine |
1818-06-17 |
Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust) |
1819-09-21 |
Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864) |
1821-04-09 |
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil) |
1821-06-13 |
Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977) |
1821-08-04 |
Louis Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company |
1821-12-12 |
Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary) |
1822-02-08 |
Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres) |
1822-12-27 |
Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasturization), (d. 1895) |
1823-01-27 |
Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole) |
1823-12-21 |
Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders) |
1824-02-28 |
Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist |
1824-06-28 |
Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center) |
1824-07-27 |
Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille) |
1826-05-05 |
Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France |
1828-02-08 |
Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) |
1830-09-08 |
Frederic Mistral, Maillane, France, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), (d. 1914) |
1830-12-17 |
Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie) |
1834-07-19 |
Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist |
1834-08-02 |
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty) |
1838-10-25 |
Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen) |
1838-12-31 |
Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906) |
1839-03-16 |
René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901) |
1840-11-12 |
Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917) |
1841-01-18 |
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui) |
1841-02-25 |
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor |
1841-09-28 |
Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss) |
1842-05-12 |
Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid) |
1843-02-22 |
Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia) |
1844-02-21 |
Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory) |
1844-03-30 |
Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) |
1844-04-16 |
Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921) |
1844-04-16 |
Anatole France, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg |
1845-01-22 |
Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer |
1845-05-12 |
Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade) |
1845-10-22 |
Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth) |
1848-02-05 |
Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain) |
1848-07-31 |
Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville) |
1849-02-04 |
Jean Richepin, Mothers of France |
1850-02-16 |
Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid) |
1850-08-05 |
Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif) |
1851-05-21 |
Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) |
1851-10-02 |
Ferdinand Foch, France, Allied military commander and hero during WW I |
1852-09-28 |
Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1907) |
1853-01-16 |
Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin) |
1853-04-22 |
Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system |
1854-04-29 |
Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher |
1854-10-20 |
Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) |
1857-03-22 |
Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) |
1857-04-29 |
Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e) |
1859-05-15 |
Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903) |
1859-05-30 |
Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist |
1859-10-18 |
Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) |
1859-12-02 |
Georges Seurat, Paris France, post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), (d. 1891) |
1859-12-21 |
Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) |
1860-08-20 |
Raymond Poincaré, France, president/PM (1912) |
1861-12-08 |
Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman) |
1861-12-08 |
George Melies, Paris France, early film maker (A trip to the Moon) |
1862-03-28 |
Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926) |
1863-01-01 |
Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games) |
1863-08-01 |
Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34) |
1863-12-22 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier/explorer (Sudan) |
1864-01-17 |
Lucien Herr, France, scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller) |
1864-02-22 |
Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte) |
1864-11-24 |
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge) |
1865-01-31 |
Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940) |
1865-03-25 |
Pierre Weiss, Mulhouse, France, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism) |
1866-01-29 |
Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) |
1866-09-21 |
Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928) |
1868-04-01 |
Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) |
1868-06-30 |
C V France, Bradford England, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail) |
1868-06-30 |
C.V. France, The Skin Game |
1868-08-06 |
Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909) |
1869-04-05 |
Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende) |
1869-11-22 |
Andre Gide, Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) |
1870-09-30 |
Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) |
1870-12-10 |
Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet) |
1871-07-10 |
Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past) |
1872-01-18 |
Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami) |
1873-05-17 |
Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu) |
1873-06-28 |
Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912) |
1873-11-10 |
Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire) |
1875-02-21 |
Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122) |
1875-04-04 |
Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24) |
1875-07-31 |
Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door) |
1876-08-03 |
Francis Byrne, Rose-France |
1876-09-22 |
André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945) |
1877-06-03 |
Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm) |
1878-04-02 |
Émilie Charmy, Saint-Etienne France, avant-garde artist |
1878-10-15 |
Paul Reynaud, premier France (May-June 1940) |
1879-07-01 |
Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951) |
1879-07-15 |
Louis de Carbonnat, Le tour de France par deux enfants |
1880-08-26 |
Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola) |
1881-03-23 |
Roger Martin du Guard, France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937) |
1881-05-01 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist |
1881-08-29 |
Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines) |
1882-03-20 |
René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58) |
1882-11-18 |
Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas) |
1882-12-22 |
Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright |
1883-06-28 |
Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945) |
1883-12-16 |
Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director (Max Prend un Bain) |
1883-12-25 |
Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin, Montmartre) |
1884-01-28 |
Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun) |
1884-01-31 |
Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady) |
1884-06-18 |
Edouard Daladier, premier France (1933..40) |
1884-08-27 |
Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53) |
1885-02-01 |
Camille Chautemps, premier France |
1885-02-21 |
Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat) |
1885-07-26 |
Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer |
1885-08-26 |
Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will) |
1885-10-11 |
Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952) |
1886-06-29 |
Robert Schuman, The Cold War: Act 1 - France |
1887-05-31 |
Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31] |
1887-07-02 |
Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54) |
1887-12-24 |
Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise) |
1888-02-20 |
Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) |
1888-07-13 |
Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders) |
1889-07-05 |
Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphée) |
1890-08-15 |
Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales) |
1890-11-22 |
Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970) |
1891-11-17 |
Jean Del Val, [Gautier], France, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces) |
1892-03-10 |
Arthur Honegger, Le Havre, France, composer (King David, Pacific 231) |
1892-04-19 |
Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer |
1892-08-15 |
Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929) |
1892-08-21 |
Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor (Wages of Fear) |
1892-09-04 |
Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer (Maximilien) |
1893-12-16 |
Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat |
1894-06-13 |
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer |
1895-07-25 |
Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel) |
1896-09-04 |
Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir (Theatre Seraphin) |
1897-02-02 |
Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007) |
1897-04-04 |
Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion) |
1897-10-16 |
Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man |
1897-12-19 |
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator |
1897-12-23 |
Julien Carette, Paris France, actor (Sylvia & the Phantom) |
1898-01-20 |
Colin Clive, [Greig], St Malo France, actor (Bride of Frankenstein) |
1898-04-12 |
Lily Pons, Draguignan France, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris) (d. 1976) |
1898-05-15 |
Arlette-Leonie Arletty, [Bathiat], Courbevoie France, actress (Maxime) |
1898-08-13 |
Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) |
1898-08-22 |
Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman) |
1899-02-15 |
Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer |
1899-05-24 |
Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) |
1899-08-28 |
Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park) |
1899-09-23 |
Marcel Dalio, [Israel Blauschild], Paris France, actor (China Gate) |
1899-12-09 |
Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant) |
1899-12-31 |
Gaston Glass, Paris France, film executive |
1901-02-20 |
René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease) |
1901-05-18 |
Henri-Pierre Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte) |
1901-05-21 |
Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador) |
1901-09-16 |
Andree Joly Bunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32) |
1901-11-03 |
Andre Malraux, [Berger], Paris, France, novelist/art historian (La Condition Humaine) |
1902-01-31 |
Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer |
1902-04-03 |
Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances) |
1902-05-03 |
Alfred Kastler, Guebwiller France, French Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (Hertzian resonances within atoms) |
1902-06-28 |
Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32) |
1902-08-03 |
Ray Block, France, orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason) |
1902-08-09 |
Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939) |
1902-12-22 |
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero (liberator of Paris) |
1903-01-10 |
Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor |
1903-02-21 |
Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day) |
1903-05-08 |
Joseph Desire Fernandel, Marseilles France, comedian (Grand Chef) |
1903-08-19 |
Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported) |
1903-12-13 |
Richard De Rochemont, The Cold War: Act 1 - France |
1904-02-15 |
Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34) |
1904-06-18 |
Manuel Rosenthal, Paris France, composer (Bootleggers) |
1904-12-22 |
Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970) |
1905-01-21 |
Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (New Look) |
1905-04-08 |
George Baxter, Paris France, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged) |
1905-04-26 |
Jean Vigo, France, actor/director (Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante) |
1905-06-21 |
Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France) |
1905-06-26 |
Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Neth resistance fighter in France |
1905-07-02 |
Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer |
1905-08-08 |
Andre Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque) |
1906-04-28 |
Pierre [Louis] Boileau, Paris France, novelist (Vertigo) |
1906-06-24 |
Pierre Fournier, Paris France, violon cellist (Paris Conservatoire) |
1906-10-31 |
Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds) |
1907-01-11 |
Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982) |
1907-01-11 |
Pierre Mendès-France, The Sorrow and the Pity |
1907-01-24 |
Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69) |
1907-02-05 |
Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France |
1907-04-29 |
Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene) |
1907-09-25 |
Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette) |
1907-11-20 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director (Le salaire de la peur) |
1907-11-22 |
Dora Maar, Tours France, French painter and photographer and lover of Picasso |
1907-11-30 |
Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect), (d. 2012) |
1908-01-09 |
Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex) |
1908-01-31 |
René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934) |
1908-04-21 |
Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight, Olympic-gold-1932, 36) |
1908-07-03 |
Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo) |
1908-08-18 |
Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France (1952, 52-56) |
1908-08-22 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chanteloup, France, photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment' (d. 2004) |
1908-10-09 |
Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime) |
1908-12-10 |
Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon) |
1908-12-26 |
Georgette Le Tourneur de Marcay, Dawn Over France |
1909-09-26 |
Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992) |
1910-01-07 |
Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron |
1910-01-10 |
Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer |
1910-06-23 |
Jean Anouilh, France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival) |
1910-09-08 |
Jean-Louis Barrault, Vesinet France, actor (Les Enfants du Paradis) |
1910-09-20 |
Jacques-Baptise LeBrun, France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932) |
1910-12-19 |
Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks) |
1910-9-02 |
Rolla France, À Nous la Liberté |
1911-01-05 |
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) (d. 2001) |
1911-04-09 |
Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train) |
1911-04-23 |
Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love) |
1911-07-05 |
Georges Pompidou, Paris, President/Prime Minister of France (1962-74), (d. 1974) |
1912-04-06 |
France Aubert, Adventure in Paris |
1912-04-12 |
Georges Franju, France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage) |
1912-04-28 |
Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WW II) |
1912-08-10 |
Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist (Tour de France 1935) |
1912-10-08 |
France Ehren, T-Men |
1912-11-13 |
Claude Pompidou, Premières dames de France |
1913-01-02 |
Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist |
1913-03-18 |
Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning) |
1913-04-11 |
Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy) |
1913-10-19 |
Jean Urruty, France, Jai-Alai champion |
1913-12-11 |
Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus) |
1914-01-10 |
Claude Gallimard, France, publisher |
1914-04-04 |
Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall) |
1914-05-18 |
Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look") |
1914-06-26 |
Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse France, tenor (Stuttgart Opera) |
1914-07-31 |
Louis De Funes, Courbevoie France, actor (I Tartassati, Fantomas) |
1914-11-29 |
Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France |
1915-01-31 |
Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt) |
1915-02-16 |
Annie France, Mon amour est près de toi |
1916-01-22 |
Henri Dutilleux, Angers France, composer |
1916-03-20 |
Pierre Messmer, PM (France) |
1916-10-26 |
Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95) |
1916-12-31 |
Suzy Delair, Paris France, actress (Utopia, White Paws) |
1917-01-22 |
Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, De Gaulle à Matignon, sept mois qui ont changé la France |
1917-05-01 |
Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling) |
1917-10-20 |
Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop) |
1917-11-22 |
Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Paris France, Mexican surrealist painter |
1918-01-28 |
Suzanne Flon, Paris France, actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge) |
1918-08-10 |
France Cerar, Lucija |
1918-08-31 |
George Aldwin, Reunion in France |
1918-12-01 |
Basil Bookasta, Reunion in France |
1919-04-13 |
Robert Ripa, France |
1919-06-19 |
Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary) |
1919-11-12 |
France Stiglic, The Ninth Circle |
1920-01-08 |
Anny Gould, Un garçon de France |
1920-01-10 |
Georges Marchal, Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way) |
1920-01-22 |
George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede) |
1920-02-03 |
Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56) |
1920-04-04 |
Eric Rohmer, Nancy France, actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval) |
1920-05-16 |
Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana) |
1920-05-17 |
Jean Mercanton, Son of France |
1920-06-17 |
Francois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), (d. 2013) |
1921-04-02 |
France Roche, Gina Manès |
1921-05-19 |
Daniel Gelin, Angers France, Maria Schneider's dad, actor (Obsession) |
1921-07-04 |
Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983) |
1921-07-14 |
Cecile Starr, France: Conquest to Liberation |
1921-10-13 |
Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix) |
1921-9-16 |
France Jamnik, Valley of Peace |
1922-01-07 |
Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist |
1922-06-03 |
Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour) |
1922-06-03 |
M Alain Resnais, Vannes France, director (Melo, I Want to Go Home) |
1922-07-07 |
Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex) |
1922-08-18 |
Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur) |
1922-08-20 |
France Delahalle, Playtime |
1922-10-03 |
France Kosmac, Lucija |
1922-12-04 |
Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps) |
1922-12-23 |
Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948) |
1923-03-04 |
Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64) |
1923-03-13 |
France Asselin, Classe Tous Risques |
1923-03-22 |
Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) |
1924-01-20 |
Yvonne Loriod, Houilles France, pianist |
1924-04-29 |
Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson) |
1924-06-09 |
Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1924-09-12 |
Jean Le Poulain, Marseille, France, actor (Divine) |
1924-09-13 |
Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966) |
1925-03-12 |
Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55) |
1925-03-26 |
Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial) |
1925-04-30 |
Corinne Calvet, Paris France, actress (Phantom of Hollywood) |
1925-07-20 |
Frantz Fanon, Martinique, France, psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth), (d. 1961) |
1925-09-08 |
Denise Darcel, Paris France, actress (Dangerous When Wet) |
1925-12-27 |
Michel Piccoli, Paris France, actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools) |
1926-02-11 |
Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor) |
1926-03-01 |
Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes) |
1926-04-30 |
Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising) |
1927-02-21 |
Hubert de Givenchy, Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn) |
1927-04-13 |
Maurice Ronet, Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love) |
1927-05-26 |
Jacques Bergerac, France, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) |
1927-06-04 |
France Descaut, Procès au Vatican |
1927-07-04 |
France Degand, The Blonde Gypsy |
1927-07-13 |
Simone Veil, Pres European parliament (France) |
1928-01-23 |
Jeanne Moreau, Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim) |
1928-01-26 |
Roger Vadim, France, director (And God Created Women, Barbarella) |
1928-03-30 |
Robert Badinter, Being Jewish in France |
1928-04-18 |
Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor |
1928-05-05 |
Pierre Schoendoerffer, Chamalieres, France, director and screen-writer (The Anderson Platoon), (d. 2012) |
1928-06-20 |
Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party) |
1928-07-14 |
Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall) |
1928-10-03 |
Christian d'Oriola, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56) |
1928-12-29 |
William Pfaff, France: The Precarious Generation |
1930-03-06 |
Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941) |
1930-04-17 |
Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples) |
1930-05-22 |
Marisol (Maria Sol) Escobar, Paris France, Venezuelan sculptor |
1930-08-23 |
Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France |
1930-10-01 |
Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor (Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino) |
1930-10-15 |
Phillipe Leroy, Paris France, actor (Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci) |
1930-10-23 |
Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari) |
1930-12-11 |
Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z) |
1931-01-25 |
Paavo Haavikko, The King Goes Forth to France |
1931-06-05 |
Jacques Demy, France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey) |
1931-07-01 |
Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose) |
1931-10-25 |
Annie Giradot, Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise) |
1932-01-14 |
Caterina Valente, Paris France, singer (Entertainers) |
1932-02-19 |
Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana) |
1932-10-27 |
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paris France, actor (Trout) |
1932-10-30 |
Louis Malle, France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria) |
1932-11-08 |
Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall) |
1932-11-29 |
France Clidat, Episode dated 13 November 1966 |
1933-01-08 |
Jean-Marie Straub, France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach) |
1933-02-13 |
Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969) |
1933-02-26 |
James Goldsmith, Paris France, corporate raider (Referendum Party) |
1933-03-15 |
Philippe de Broca, Paris France, French film director |
1933-04-04 |
Bill France, Jr., NASCAR pioneer (d. 2007) |
1933-04-04 |
Bill France Jr., NASCAR: The IMAX Experience |
1933-04-09 |
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique) |
1933-06-20 |
Jean Boiteux, France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952) |
1933-08-24 |
Yasser Arafat, Paris France, PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994) |
1933-11-12 |
François Chardeaux, Douce France |
1934-01-08 |
Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner) |
1934-01-27 |
Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92) |
1934-03-06 |
Marie-France Garaud, Episode dated 21 February 2014 |
1934-04-02 |
Christopher France, British permanent secretary (Dept of Health) |
1934-06-06 |
Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch) |
1934-06-07 |
Philippe Entremont, Rheims France, concert pianist |
1934-09-28 |
Brigitte Bardot, Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women) |
1935-06-21 |
Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste) |
1935-11-08 |
Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro) |
1935-11-16 |
France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles (1977- ) |
1936-05-20 |
Ronald France, The Fall |
1936-06-15 |
Claude Brasseur, Paris France, actor (Josepha, Pardon Mon Affair) |
1936-09-29 |
Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses) |
1937-01-12 |
Marie Dubois, Paris France, actress (Wise Guys, Jules & Jim) |
1937-07-12 |
Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002 |
1938-03-10 |
Marina Vlady, Clichy France, actress (Conjugal Bed, The Hunt) |
1938-04-20 |
Bernard Malivoire, France, cox pair (Olympic-gold-1952) |
1938-04-22 |
Marie-France Boyer, Le Bonheur |
1938-05-05 |
Richard France, Dawn of the Dead |
1938-05-08 |
Jean Giraud, Val-de-Marne, France, comic artist (Alien, Tron), (d. 2012) |
1938-08-20 |
Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (T-6, TM-7, STS 86) |
1938-10-26 |
Bernadette Lafont, Nimes France, actress (Perils of Gwendoline), (d. 2013) |
1939-03-14 |
Bertrand Blier, Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places) |
1939-05-01 |
France Lambiotte, La femme de Jean |
1939-05-01 |
France Rumilly, Playtime |
1939-07-31 |
France Nuyen, Marseilles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head) |
1939-07-31 |
France Nuyen, Santa Barbara |
1939-12-06 |
Tomés Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude) |
1940-03-06 |
Joanna Miles, Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA) |
1940-05-15 |
Mireille Darc, Toulon France, actor (Week End, Hurried Man) |
1940-08-31 |
Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964) |
1941-01-16 |
Richard Bohringer, Paris France, actor (Diva, I Married a Shadow) |
1941-07-13 |
Jacques Perrin, Paris France, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon) |
1941-11-06 |
Dawson France, Winstanley |
1942-01-21 |
France Arnel, The Suitor |
1942-01-29 |
Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer |
1942-04-03 |
Marie-France Mignal, Hunting and Gathering |
1942-04-26 |
Claudine Auger, Paris, France, Miss France (1958)/actress (Thunderball) |
1942-07-17 |
France Anglade, People in Luck |
1942-09-29 |
Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa) |
1942-12-25 |
Francoise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles) |
1943-04-23 |
Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island) |
1943-08-30 |
Jean Claude Killy, Paris France, alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968) |
1943-08-31 |
France Castel, Karmina |
1943-10-01 |
Jean-Jacques Annaud, Draveil France, director (Bear, Black & White, Name of the Rose) |
1943-12-27 |
Penny France, Around with Allen |
1944-03-21 |
Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories) |
1944-05-05 |
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective) |
1944-05-10 |
Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, French actress and writer (Love on the Run, Cousin cousine) |
1944-05-10 |
Marie-France Pisier, Love on the Run |
1944-07-28 |
Daniel Morelon, France, 1K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72) |
1944-10-28 |
Coluche, [Michel Colucci] France, comedian (My Best Friend's Girl) |
1945-04-03 |
Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love) |
1945-06-17 |
Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France) |
1945-06-27 |
Catherine Lacoste, Paris France, golfer (US Women's Open 1967) |
1945-09-28 |
Marielle Goitschel, Ste Maxime France, alpine skier (Olympic-gold-64) |
1945-11-01 |
Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic) |
1946-02-09 |
Marie-France, Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski |
1946-02-17 |
Andre Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle) |
1946-03-11 |
Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice) |
1946-05-17 |
Charles France, Dancers |
1946-07-22 |
Mirelle Mathieu, Acignon France, singer (So Ein Schone r Abend) |
1946-09-03 |
Peter Morris, historian of France |
1946-9-10 |
Michèle Alliot-Marie, Cocori... couac! Quand la France torpille ses contrats |
1947-01-16 |
Juliet Berto, Grenoble France, actress (Le Sex Shop) |
1947-01-26 |
Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses) |
1947-03-11 |
Dominique Sanda, [Varaigne], Paris France, actress (1900, First Love) |
1947-06-18 |
Bernard Giraudeau, La Rochelle France, actor (L'Annee des Meduses) |
1947-10-09 |
France Gall, French singer |
1947-10-09 |
France Gall, Tous... pour la musique |
1947-11-25 |
Jonathan Kaplan, Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel) |
1948-04-11 |
Marcello Lippi, Final: Italy vs. France |
1948-04-21 |
Claire Denis, Paris France, actress (Boom Boom, Chocolat) |
1948-05-19 |
Jean-Pierre Haignere, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17) |
1948-06-30 |
David France, Dixie: The People's Legend |
1948-07-04 |
René Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980) |
1948-07-06 |
Nathalie Baye, Mainneville France, actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon) |
1948-09-28 |
Marielle Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968) [or 1945] |
1948-10-08 |
Stefanie Marrian, Paris France, comedienne (Benny Hill Show) |
1949-02-18 |
France Mary, Eu Faço... Elas Sentem |
1949-04-13 |
Philippe Petit, Nemours France, juggler/aerialist |
1949-04-19 |
Paloma Picasso, [Gilot], Paris France, actress (Immoral Tales) |
1949-09-30 |
Michel Tognini, Vincennes France, astronaut (Soyuz TM-15, sk: STS 93) |
1950-01-01 |
Patrick Cabouat, 1945, France année Zéro |
1950-02-22 |
Miou-Miou [Sylvette Herry], Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband) |
1950-03-23 |
Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor) |
1951-06-10 |
France Dougnac, Coup de tête |
1951-06-16 |
Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut |
1951-07-18 |
Elio Di Rupo, Standing with France - The Unitry Rally |
1952-04-24 |
Jean Paul Gaultier, Arcueil France, French fashion designer |
1952-12-26 |
Andre-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981) |
1953-01-03 |
Angelo Parisi, France, heavyweight judo (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1953-04-26 |
Doug France, North Dallas Forty |
1953-11-14 |
Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France |
1954-01-01 |
Fr David, Paris France, rocker |
1954-01-28 |
Anicee Alvina, Paris France, actress (Friends) |
1954-03-04 |
François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France |
1954-11-14 |
Bernard Hinault, French bicylist (Tour de France) |
1955-01-28 |
Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, President of France (2007-) |
1955-03-16 |
Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate) |
1955-04-18 |
Anne-Marie Palli, Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite) |
1955-10-07 |
Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom) |
1956-06-19 |
Ahmed Bouchaala, Made in France |
1957-04-28 |
Leopold Eyharts, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27) |
1957-05-13 |
Claudie Andre-Deshays, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24) |
1957-06-15 |
Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire) |
1958-02-20 |
Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985) |
1958-06-07 |
Phillipe Boccara, Le Mans France, US sprint kayak (Olympics-96) |
1958-10-17 |
France St Louis, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98) |
1959-01-01 |
Loïc Faujour, La France forte |
1959-11-19 |
Jean-Francois Clervoy, Longeville France, astronaut (STS 66, 84) |
1960-05-16 |
Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood) |
1960-05-18 |
Yannick Noah, Sedan France, tennis player (French 1983) |
1961-01-27 |
Jean-Paul Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96) |
1961-06-26 |
Greg LeMond, US bicyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990) |
1962-01-04 |
Michael France, Cliffhanger |
1962-02-10 |
Jean-Marie Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96) |
1962-05-22 |
Andrew Donald Magee, Paris France, PGA golfer (1988 Pensacola Open) |
1962-08-19 |
Valerie Kaprisky, Paris France, actress (Breathless, Public Woman) |
1962-9-16 |
Claudio von Planta, A Place in France |
1963-07-04 |
Henri Leconte, Lillers France, tennis player (French finalist 1988) |
1963-07-12 |
Thierry Tulasne, France, tennis star |
1963-10-05 |
Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress (Sans Interdits) |
1963-11-25 |
Steve Ave, St Germain Enlay France, US 1500m runner |
1964-03-09 |
Juliette Binoche, Paris France, actress (Unbearable Lightness) |
1964-04-15 |
Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital) |
1964-05-15 |
Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1964-07-16 |
Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist (Tour de France winner 1991-95) |
1964-09-11 |
Jean-Phil LeMoine, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1964-12-13 |
Gina Kimmel, Party Like the Queen of France |
1964-12-19 |
Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath) |
1965-02-08 |
Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce) |
1965-02-23 |
Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina (Royal Ballet) |
1965-04-25 |
Denis Perez, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1965-05-28 |
Catherine Tanvier, France, tennis star |
1965-07-31 |
Tom Stankowski, Paris France, Nike golfer |
1965-08-14 |
Emmanuelle Seigner, Paris France, actress (The Smile) |
1965-10-02 |
Roger Dube, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1965-10-04 |
France Parent, Bouledogue Bazar |
1965-12-28 |
Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984) |
1966-01-11 |
Christian Pouget, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1966-03-28 |
Nathalie Herreman, France, tennis star |
1966-03-28 |
Serge Djelloul, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1966-03-30 |
France D'Amour, Les Boys III |
1966-04-22 |
Serge Poudrier, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1966-04-24 |
Pascale Paradis-Mangon, France, tennis star |
1966-04-25 |
Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue) |
1966-05-08 |
Eileen Bowman, Killer Tomatoes Eat France! |
1966-08-14 |
David Hallyday, Boulougne France, actor (He's My Girl) |
1966-09-18 |
Isabelle Demongeot, Gassin France, tennis star |
1966-10-18 |
Angela Visser, Killer Tomatoes Eat France! |
1966-11-17 |
Sophie Marceau, Paris France, actress (Braveheart, L'Amour Braque) |
1966-11-30 |
Phillipe Bozon, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1966-9-09 |
Brian A. Levine, Dead in France |
1967-05-15 |
Lisa France, Anne B. Real |
1967-05-31 |
Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police) |
1967-06-01 |
Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles) |
1967-06-08 |
Stephane Simian, France, tennis star |
1967-08-09 |
Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 National Amat France) |
1967-09-09 |
Laurence Tremolet, Rodez France, actress (Cyclo, Metisse,) |
1967-11-04 |
Alex Rousseau, Paris France, US water polo 2m Offense (Oly-4th-92, 96) |
1967-12-11 |
Eric Magnan, Patrouille de France |
1968-03-18 |
Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1968-10-21 |
Francois Gravel, hockey goaltender (Team France 1998) |
1969-01-13 |
Katarzyna Nowak, Lodz Poland, tennis star (1994 Futures France) |
1969-04-01 |
Arnaud Boetsch, Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior) |
1969-05-18 |
Jean-Chris. Filippin, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1969-06-15 |
Cedric Pioline, Neuilly France, tennis star (1996 Coopenhagen) |
1970-02-14 |
Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star |
1970-04-29 |
Arnaud Briand, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1970-05-03 |
Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Aust) |
1970-09-10 |
Julie Halard, Versailles France, tennis star (1995 Prague) |
1971-01-08 |
Stephane Barin, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1971-05-28 |
Manuel Beltrán, Tour de France 2008 |
1971-08-24 |
Demetrio Albertini, Quarter-finals: Italy vs France |
1971-09-18 |
Lance Armstrong, Plano Texas, American road cyclist (7 Tour de France wins) barred from sport for using banned drugs |
1971-10-21 |
Jade Jagger, Paris France, daughter of Mick & Bianca Jagger |
1971-9-02 |
Leonardo Piepoli, Tour de France 2008 |
1972-02-21 |
Karl DeWolf, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1972-03-30 |
Peggy Zlotkowski, Miss France-Universe (1989) |
1972-04-03 |
Sandrine Testud, Lyon France, tennis star (1993 Strasbourg) |
1972-04-04 |
Claire, Popstars: France |
1972-06-29 |
Fabrice L'Henry, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1972-08-19 |
Pierre Allard, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1972-12-22 |
Vanessa Paradis, France, model (Channel)/actress (White Wedding) |
1972-9-01 |
Benjamin Esdraffo, La France |
1973-01-05 |
Mark France, Eo Ire Itum |
1973-01-24 |
Richard Aimonetto, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1973-08-14 |
Romane Bohringer, Pont-Sainte-Maxene France, actress (Savage Nights) |
1973-08-19 |
Marco Materazzi, Final: Italy vs. France |
1973-10-24 |
Levi Leipheimer, Tour de France 2009 |
1973-11-22 |
Alexandra Fusai, St Cloud France, tennis star (1995 Futures-Szczecin) |
1974-02-10 |
Lea Ghirardi-Rubbi, Colombes France, tennis star (1994 Futures NC) |
1974-02-13 |
Anthony Mortas, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1974-08-11 |
Marie-France Dubreuil, Champion Revealed |
1974-08-18 |
France Massartic, Cause toujours! |
1975-03-27 |
Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) |
1975-06-20 |
Francois Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1975-06-20 |
Maurice Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1975-07-16 |
Jonathan Zwinkel, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1975-07-17 |
Cécile de France, Belgian actress |
1975-07-17 |
Cécile De France, Hereafter |
1975-09-03 |
Christobal Huet, hockey goalie (Team France 1998) |
1975-09-13 |
Patricia Spehar, Miss France Universe (1997) |
1975-11-03 |
Grischa Niermann, Tour de France 2009 |
1975-11-13 |
Sarah Pitkowski, Seclin France, tennis star (1995 Futures-Koksijde) |
1976-01-24 |
Laure Belleville, Miss Universe-France (1996) |
1976-03-15 |
Laurent Gras, hockey forward (Team France 1998) |
1976-10-04 |
Mauro Camoranesi, Final: Italy vs. France |
1977-01-04 |
David Millar, Blood Sweat and Gears: Racing Clean to the Tour de France |
1977-02-04 |
Danforth France, Housewarming Party |
1977-03-18 |
Willy Sagnol, Final: Italy vs. France |
1977-05-06 |
Christophe Brandt, Tour de France 2008 |
1977-05-29 |
Massimo Ambrosini, Group C: France vs. Italy |
1977-08-17 |
William Gallas, Final: Italy vs. France |
1977-10-07 |
Coralie, Popstars: France |
1977-11-28 |
Fabio Grosso, Final: Italy vs. France |
1977-9-17 |
Simone Perrotta, Final: Italy vs. France |
1978-06-26 |
Alexandra, Popstars: France |
1978-08-08 |
Louis Saha, Semi-Finals: Portugal vs France |
1978-11-30 |
Pierrick Fédrigo, Tour de France 2009 |
1979-03-14 |
Nicolas Anelka, Group A: Uruguay vs France |
1979-07-27 |
Sidney Govou, Semi-Finals: Portugal vs France |
1979-11-21 |
Vincenzo Iaquinta, Final: Italy vs. France |
1979-9-11 |
Éric Abidal, Final: Italy vs. France |
1980-01-04 |
Miguel, Semi-Finals: Portugal vs France |
1980-04-30 |
Amber France, Sleep |
1980-06-13 |
Florent Malouda, Final: Italy vs. France |
1980-07-07 |
Marie-France Monette, L'enfant d'eau |
1980-10-08 |
Marjorie, Popstars: France |
1981-03-18 |
Fabian Cancellara, Tour de France 2009 |
1981-07-15 |
Alou Diarra, Final: Italy vs. France |
1982-03-30 |
Frédéric Deltour, Mister France 2003 |
1982-03-30 |
Philippe Mexes, Group D: Sweden vs France |
1982-04-20 |
Matt Sausmer, Blood Sweat and Gears: Racing Clean to the Tour de France |
1982-07-05 |
Alberto Gilardino, Final: Italy vs. France |
1982-12-06 |
Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner |
1984-03-13 |
Friedelise Stutte, Pour la France |
1984-03-21 |
Franck Perera, Montpellier France, racing car driver |
1984-04-13 |
Jacques Ballard, May Allah Bless France! |
1984-10-25 |
Lee Cheney, Dead in France |
1986-04-12 |
Severin France, Prom Night |
1986-05-25 |
Geraint Thomas, Tour de France 2010 |
1986-07-12 |
Simone Laudehr, Germany vs. France |
1988-02-14 |
Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7 |
1989-01-14 |
Sextuplets, Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman) |
1990-04-15 |
Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series) |
1991-03-21 |
Antoine Griezmann, Quarter-Finals: France vs. Germany |
France - Notable Weddings
France - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1152-05-16 |
Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henri of Anjou, handing the future King Henry II of England most of France, which is why kings of England claimed France for centuries thereafter. |
1160-11-13 |
Marriage of Louis VII of France with Adele of Champagne. |
1491-12-06 |
King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne |
1514-10-09 |
King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII) |
1533-10-28 |
Prince Henry of France (later Henry II) (14) marries Florentine noblewoman Catherine de' Medici (14) |
1575-02-13 |
Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont. |
1600-12-17 |
Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. |
1770-05-16 |
Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France |
1771-05-14 |
King of France Louis XVIII weds princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy at the Palace of Versailles |
1849-05-29 |
Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (26) weds secretary Marie Laurent (23) in Strasbourg, France |
1895-07-26 |
Physicist and chemist Marie Curie (27) weds physicist Pierre Curie (36) in Sceaux, France |
1919-02-15 |
Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon in Nice, France |
1925-01-28 |
Actress Gloria Swanson (25) weds aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (26) in Paris, France |
1926-10-04 |
Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie (26) in Paris, France |
1929-12-07 |
Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France |
1937-06-03 |
Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France |
1940-12-03 |
Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France |
1944-10-09 |
Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (67) weds 1930 Miss France Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (38) in Geneva, Switzerland |
1962-08-17 |
Actor Jack Lemmon (37) weds actress/model Felicia Farr (29) in Paris, France |
1971-05-12 |
Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger (27) weds actress and model Bianca Pérez-Mora Macia (26) at St Tropez Town Hall, France |
1983-08-06 |
Film director Philippe de Broca (50) weds actress Margot Kidder (34) in France |
1984-09-14 |
Stage and screen actor Gene Wilder (51) weds "Saturday Night Live" actress-comedian Gilda Radner (38) in France |
1994-12-17 |
Actress Heather Locklear (33) weds Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora (35) at The American Cathedral in Paris, France |
1995-02-11 |
Tennis star Yannick Noah (34) weds Victoria's Secret model Heather Stewart-Whyte (25) in France |
1999-07-28 |
"Sixteen Candles" actress Molly Ringwald (31) weds French writer Valery Lamerignere in Bordeaux, France |
2006-05-06 |
Race car driver "Champ Car World Series" two time winner Sebastien Bourdais (27) weds Claire Bagot at Cathedral Saint-Julien in Le Mans, France |
2006-07-29 |
"Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) weds singer Kid Rock (35) at Thunder Gulch yacht in Saint-Tropez, France |
2006-09-16 |
Aga Khan's son Prince Hussain weds Kristin White on the grounds of Chateau de Chantilly in France |
2007-07-07 |
Actress and model Eva Longoria (37) weds NBA player Tony Parker (30) at The Church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, France |
2008-02-02 |
23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France |
2008-03-23 |
France's former first lady Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz (50) weds Moroccan-born public relations executive Richard Attias (48) in Manhattan, New York |
2010-03-15 |
Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris, France |
2010-12-10 |
Tennis player Martina Hingis (30) weds equestrian show jumper Thibault Hutin at a private civil ceremony in Paris, France |
2011-09-03 |
English DJ and musician Mark Ronson (36) weds french actress Josephine De La Baume (27) in Aix-en-Provence, France |
2013-05-04 |
Actress Keira Knightley (28) weds musician James Righton (29) in France |
2013-07-01 |
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne (28) weds Canadian singer Chad Kroeger (38) at the Château de La Napoule, a reconstructed medieval castle on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France. |
2013-07-13 |
"Catwoman" actress Halle Berry (46) weds actor Olivier Martinez (47) at Chateau des Conde in Vallery, France |
2014-08-23 |
Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France |
France - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1499-01-08 |
Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown |
France - Notable Deaths
France - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
511-11-11 |
Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45 |
511-11-27 |
Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45 |
524-06-21 |
Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28 |
558-12-23 |
Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 |
561-11-29 |
Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61 |
768-09-24 |
Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53 |
804-05-19 |
Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 |
856-02-04 |
Hrabanus Maurus, East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies |
875-08-12 |
Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 |
876-08-28 |
Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies |
877-10-06 |
Charles II the Bald, King of France/ Holy Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54 |
882-08-05 |
King Louis III of France (b. 863) |
882-08-25 |
Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19 |
884-12-12 |
Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies |
898-01-01 |
Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 |
899-12-08 |
Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies |
923-06-15 |
Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle |
929-10-07 |
Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies |
936-01-15 |
King Rudolph of France |
943-11-02 |
Queen Emma of France, (b. 894) |
954-09-10 |
Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies |
956-06-16 |
Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies |
986-03-01 |
King Lothair of France (b. 941) |
986-03-02 |
Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44 |
987-05-21 |
Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies |
987-05-22 |
Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20 |
996-10-24 |
Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58 |
1031-07-20 |
Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies |
1060-08-04 |
Henry I, King of France (1027-60), dies at 52 |
1067-09-01 |
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders/guardian of King of France, dies |
1101-10-18 |
Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053) |
1137-08-01 |
Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) |
1154-11-18 |
Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092) |
1180-09-18 |
Louis VII, King of France, dies |
1180-09-19 |
Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59 |
1188-10-11 |
Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France |
1198-03-11 |
Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) |
1201-07-20 |
Agnes of France, queen of France, dies [or 7/18] |
1206-06-04 |
Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France |
1223-07-14 |
King Philip II of France (1180-1223) dies at 57 |
1226-11-08 |
Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39 |
1252-11-26 |
Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188) |
1270-08-25 |
Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56 |
1271-01-28 |
Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) |
1271-08-21 |
Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) |
1285-10-05 |
King Philip III of France (b. 1245) |
1295-12-21 |
Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) |
1298-03-14 |
Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies |
1305-04-04 |
Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217) |
1314-11-29 |
Philip IV, the Handsome, King of France (1285-1314), (b. 1268) |
1316-06-04 |
Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26 |
1316-11-19 |
Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies |
1317-02-14 |
Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282) |
1319-05-19 |
Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276) |
1321-01-12 |
Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256) |
1322-01-03 |
Philip V, the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies |
1325-12-16 |
Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270) |
1327-12-19 |
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy |
1328-02-01 |
Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies |
1349-09-11 |
Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315) |
1350-08-12 |
Philip VI, king of France, dies |
1350-08-22 |
Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies |
1364-04-08 |
John II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44 |
1378-02-06 |
Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338) |
1380-09-16 |
Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies |
1405-05-29 |
Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France |
1418-06-12 |
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360) |
1419-09-10 |
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France |
1421-06-21 |
Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366) |
1422-08-31 |
Henry V, King of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19), dies |
1422-10-21 |
Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54 |
1435-09-24 |
Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen and wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370) |
1443-01-28 |
Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France |
1445-08-16 |
Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424) |
1450-02-09 |
Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421) |
1461-07-22 |
Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58 |
1471-05-20 |
Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies |
1483-08-30 |
Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60 |
1498-04-07 |
Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27 |
1498-04-08 |
Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27 |
1505-02-04 |
Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40 |
1514-01-09 |
Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477) |
1515-01-01 |
Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 |
1522-11-14 |
Anne of France, daughter of French King Louis XI, Princess and French Regent (for her brother King Charles VIII during his minority). Born 1461 |
1524-07-20 |
Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499) |
1533-06-25 |
Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496) |
1547-03-30 |
Francois I of Valois-Angouleme, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52 |
1547-03-31 |
Francis I, King of France (b. 1494) |
1558-02-25 |
Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498) |
1559-07-10 |
Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies |
1560-12-05 |
Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 |
1562-11-17 |
Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518) |
1567-11-12 |
Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74 |
1574-05-30 |
Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies |
1575-07-12 |
Renée/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies |
1589-01-05 |
Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 |
1589-08-01 |
Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) |
1589-08-02 |
Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 |
1599-04-10 |
Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571) |
1607-09-05 |
Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529) |
1610-05-14 |
Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56 |
1610-05-27 |
François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) |
1615-05-27 |
Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553) |
1621-12-15 |
Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43 |
1626-09-21 |
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543) |
1643-05-14 |
Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41 |
1643-11-17 |
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602) |
1646-10-12 |
Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies |
1661-03-08 |
Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 |
1661-03-09 |
Jules "Cardinal" Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies at 58 |
1666-01-20 |
Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64 |
1672-01-28 |
Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588) |
1673-06-25 |
Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611) |
1675-07-27 |
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies |
1683-07-30 |
Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44 |
1698-11-28 |
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622) |
1707-05-27 |
Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640) |
1707-10-02 |
Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 |
1708-05-06 |
François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) |
1709-01-20 |
François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624) |
1712-06-11 |
Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654) |
1715-09-01 |
Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76 |
1718-08-04 |
René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656) |
1719-04-15 |
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635) |
1725-10-10 |
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643) |
1730-06-06 |
Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646) |
1734-06-17 |
Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653) |
1740-01-27 |
Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692) |
1744-12-08 |
Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717) |
1747-08-08 |
Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678) |
1749-07-12 |
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France |
1751-02-09 |
Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82 |
1764-04-15 |
Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged 42 |
1768-03-18 |
Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies |
1774-05-10 |
Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 |
1787-07-04 |
Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 |
1787-12-23 |
Louise de France, Movies for Louise |
1792-07-29 |
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714) |
1793-08-22 |
Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80 |
1793-10-16 |
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, beheaded at 37 |
1794-05-10 |
Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 |
1795-06-08 |
Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10 |
1800-01-01 |
Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 |
1801-10-03 |
Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724) |
1804-03-30 |
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718) |
1810-02-20 |
Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 |
1813-10-19 |
Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle |
1814-05-29 |
Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I and first Empress of France (1804-14), dies of pneumonia aged 50 |
1815-10-13 |
Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed |
1816-06-12 |
Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757) |
1817-04-04 |
André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince d'Essing and Marshal of France (b. 1758) |
1824-06-16 |
Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739) |
1824-09-16 |
Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies |
1832-07-22 |
Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis |
1836-11-06 |
Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79 |
1847-03-29 |
Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66 |
1849-02-08 |
France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48 |
1849-06-10 |
Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784) |
1850-08-26 |
Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773) |
1873-01-09 |
Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) |
1874-02-09 |
Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75 |
1879-04-16 |
Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France |
1890-07-29 |
Vincent van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France |
1891-09-09 |
Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813) |
1893-10-16 |
Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808) |
1894-06-24 |
M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 |
1899-02-16 |
Francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 |
1902-03-03 |
Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79 |
1916-12-09 |
P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73 |
1917-09-20 |
Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17 |
1917-11-14 |
William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 |
1920-07-10 |
Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France, dies at 94 |
1923-02-06 |
Francis Byrne, Rose-France |
1924-10-12 |
Anatole France, writer, dies at 80 |
1924-10-12 |
Anatole France, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg |
1924-10-13 |
Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais), dies |
1926-12-12 |
Jean Richepin, Mothers of France |
1928-01-03 |
Claude France, Madonna of the Sleeping Cars |
1929-03-20 |
Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77 |
1932-03-07 |
Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69 |
1932-05-01 |
Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov |
1934-10-15 |
Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 |
1937-06-18 |
Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies |
1939-01-28 |
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73 |
1939-06-17 |
Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France |
1940-08-16 |
Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 |
1941-08-29 |
Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36 |
1943-04-07 |
Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859) |
1945-09-15 |
André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876) |
1945-10-15 |
Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 |
1947-11-04 |
Jean Mercanton, Son of France |
1949-04-13 |
C V France, dies at 80 |
1949-04-13 |
C.V. France, The Skin Game |
1950-03-06 |
Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871) |
1953-03-23 |
Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France |
1959-11-30 |
Louis de Carbonnat, Le tour de France par deux enfants |
1960-11-28 |
Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France |
1961-03-07 |
Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60 |
1962-01-06 |
Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 |
1962-11-11 |
René Coty, pres of France, dies at 80 |
1963-07-01 |
Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies |
1963-09-04 |
Robert Schuman, The Cold War: Act 1 - France |
1966-01-01 |
Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 |
1966-09-21 |
Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies |
1970-10-10 |
Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 |
1970-11-09 |
Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79 |
1970-11-10 |
Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 |
1971-06-25 |
Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
1976-05-11 |
J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered |
1982-03-29 |
George Aldwin, Reunion in France |
1982-04-30 |
Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67 |
1982-08-04 |
Richard De Rochemont, The Cold War: Act 1 - France |
1982-10-18 |
Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55), dies at 75 |
1982-10-18 |
Pierre Mendès-France, The Sorrow and the Pity |
1983-02-22 |
Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70 |
1983-03-13 |
Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58 |
1983-09-08 |
Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies |
1987-10-28 |
Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 |
1987-11-18 |
Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53 |
1988-06-25 |
Alexis France, 1900-1910: The Years of Plenty |
1988-11-03 |
Josette France, Captain Fracasse |
1991-10-17 |
Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies |
1992-06-07 |
William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 |
1992-06-08 |
William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 |
1992-08-22 |
France Jamnik, Valley of Peace |
1993-01-13 |
Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies |
1993-02-10 |
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies |
1993-05-04 |
France Stiglic, The Ninth Circle |
1994-05-19 |
Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48 |
1994-12-13 |
Antoine Pinay, PM of France (1952-53), dies |
1995-03-03 |
Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85 |
1996-01-08 |
Francois Mitterrand, Pres of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79 |
1996-08-02 |
Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies |
1996-10-12 |
René Lacoste, The Soul of France |
1997-02-01 |
Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50 |
1997-02-05 |
Pamela Harriman, US Ambassador (to France), dies of stroke at 76 |
1999-12-24 |
Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907) |
2000-11-10 |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915) |
2004-02-08 |
France Delahalle, Playtime |
2005-02-06 |
Robert Ripa, France |
2005-09-04 |
Penny France, Around with Allen |
2005-12-25 |
Charles France, Dancers |
2006-02-22 |
France Aubert, Adventure in Paris |
2007-06-03 |
Bill France Jr., NASCAR: The IMAX Experience |
2007-06-04 |
Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933) |
2007-07-03 |
Claude Pompidou, Premières dames de France |
2007-08-05 |
Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France |
2008-10-06 |
Paavo Haavikko, The King Goes Forth to France |
2011-04-24 |
Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944) |
2011-04-24 |
Marie-France Pisier, Love on the Run |
2011-06-09 |
François Chardeaux, Douce France |
2011-06-17 |
Ronald France, The Fall |
2012-05-17 |
France Clidat, Episode dated 13 November 1966 |
2012-12-21 |
Annie France, Mon amour est près de toi |
2013-04-12 |
Michael France, American screenwriter, dies from complications from diabetes at 51 |
2013-04-12 |
Michael France, Cliffhanger |
2013-11-14 |
Anny Gould, Un garçon de France |
2013-12-14 |
France Roche, Gina Manès |
2015-04-08 |
Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, De Gaulle à Matignon, sept mois qui ont changé la France |
2015-04-30 |
William Pfaff, France: The Precarious Generation |
2016-09-07 |
World's first face transplant recipient, Isabelle Dinoire, dies aged 49 in France |
2017-02-10 |
Tour de France stage winner Serge Baguet dies, aged 47 |
2018-01-19 |
Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence author, dies in France age 78 |
