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France obtains Lille and other territories of Flanders from Spain. 1678: Treaties of Nijmegen: A series of treaties ending the Franco-Dutch War. France obtains the Franche-Comté and some cities in Flanders and Hainaut (from Spain). 1684: 15 August: Truce of Ratisbon: End of the War of the Reunions. France obtains further territories in the ...
4.4 Full date unknown. 5 See also. ... Other events of 1800 History of France • Timeline • Years: Events from the year 1800 in France. Incumbents
4 May – Channel 5's HD channel launches on Freeview and Freesat following the channel becoming free-to-air. 10 August – Channel 5 +24 is replaced by My5, featuring a selection of shows from across the network of channels. 2017. 31 October – Male-skewing channel Spike is rebranded as 5Spike to more closely associate itself with its sister ...
English claimants to the throne of France: kings of England and later of Great Britain (renounced by Hanoverian King George III upon union with Ireland in 1800). Jacobite claimants to the throne of France: senior heirs-general of Edward III of England and thus his claim to the French throne [broken anchor], also claiming England, Scotland, and ...
France's population was 13 million people in 1484 and 20 million in 1700. It had the second largest population in Europe around 1700. France's lead slowly faded after 1700, as other countries grew faster. [25] Political power was widely dispersed. The law courts ("Parlements") were powerful.
A map of France in 1843 under the July Monarchy. By the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.
The First French Empire [5] or French Empire (French: Empire français; Latin: Imperium Francicum), also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
To a large extent, modern France lies within clear limits of physical geography.Roughly half of its margin lies on sea coasts: one continuous coastline along "La Manche" ("the sleeve" or English Channel) and the Atlantic Ocean forming the country's north-western and western edge, and a shorter, separate coastline along the Mediterranean Sea forming its south-eastern edge.