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Second Opium War: British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Beijing. 1866: 31 May: French intervention in Mexico: French troops start withdrawing from the country. 1870–1940: Third Republic: 1871: 10 May: The end of the Franco-Prussian War: France's loss marked the downfall of Napoleon III and led to the end of the Second French ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. ... (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "French history timelines" The following 11 pages are in this ...
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
The high forehead look was favored during this time period, so women tended to shave or pluck their eyebrows. 1920-1930s: During the Roaring 20's, women took after the stars with a super thin ...
The most important of these conquests for French history was the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror. [17] An important part of the French aristocracy also involved itself in the crusades, and French knights founded and ruled the Crusader states. The French were also active in the Iberian Reconquista to Rechristianize Muslim Spain and ...
Ancient history of France (1 C, 2 P) Medieval history of France (19 C, 31 P) ... Contemporary French history (13 C, 44 P) * Centuries in France (32 C) Decades in ...
That would be compounded by the massive French losses of World War I, roughly estimated at 1.4 million French dead including civilians (or nearly 10% of the active adult male population) and four times as many wounded — and World War II, estimated at 593,000 French dead (one-and-a-half times the number of American dead), of which 470,000 were ...
30 January – Édouard Daladier forms a government in France [1] 15 July – Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany, and Italy 7 October – Air France is formed from a merger of Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne (CIDNA), and Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA).