| 1 | 1.12.1135 | Event | King Henry I died near Rouen, in France |
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| 2 | 31.8.1422 | Event | King Henry V died from dysentry in France |
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| 3 | 7.12.1431 | Event | In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France |
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| 4 | 27.6.1462 | Birthday | Louis XII, King of France |
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| 5 | 14.5.1610 | Event | Henry IV of France was assassinated |
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| 6 | 22.12.1715 | Event | The 'Old Pretender', James Stuart, landed at Petershead after being exiled in France |
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| 7 | 2.11.1755 | Birthday | Marie Antoinette, Former Queen of France |
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| 8 | 16.5.1770 | Event | The Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette were married |
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| 9 | 25.4.1792 | Event | The guillotine was used for the first time in France on a highwayman |
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| 10 | 21.9.1792 | Event | France became a republic, abolishing its monarchy |
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| 11 | 22.9.1792 | Event | France declared itself a Republic, scrapping its monarchy |
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| 12 | 21.1.1793 | Event | Louis XVI, the King of France, was guillotined during the French revolution |
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| 13 | 1.8.1793 | Event | The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, was introduced in France |
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| 14 | 23.8.1793 | Event | In France, the first ever national conscription was introduced for unmarried men from ages 18 to 25 |
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| 15 | 16.10.1793 | Event | The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was found guilty of treason & executed by guillotine in Paris |
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| 16 | 28.9.1794 | Event | Britain, Austria and Russia formed an alliance against France |
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| 17 | 30.4.1803 | Event | Louisiana was sold to the United States by France |
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| 18 | 16.5.1804 | Event | Napoleon was declared Emperor of France |
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| 19 | 2.12.1804 | Event | In Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of France |
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| 20 | 24.11.1849 | Birthday | Frances Burnett, Novelist; 'The Secret Garden' & 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' |
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| 21 | 15.7.1869 | Event | Margarine was patented in Paris, France |
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| 22 | 28.10.1886 | Event | The Statue of Liberty,a gift from the people of France,was unveiled by President Grover Cleveland,marking the 100th anniversary of independence |
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| 23 | 19.7.1903 | Event | The first ever 'Tour de France' cycle race ended |
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| 24 | 28.3.1910 | Event | Near Marseilles, France, the first ever seaplane took off |
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| 25 | 12.12.1917 | Event | The worlds worst train accident took place at Modane, France, when 543 people were killed |
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| 26 | 1.9.1920 | Event | The state of Lebanon was created by France, Beirut becoming the capital |
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| 27 | 5.10.1930 | Event | The British airship R101 crashed near Beauvais, in France; killing 48 passengers |
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| 28 | 29.11.1932 | Birthday | Jacques Chirac, Former prime minister of France |
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| 29 | 3.6.1937 | Event | The Duke of Windsor married Mrs Wallis Simpson in France |
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| 30 | 31.3.1939 | Event | Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany took any action against it |
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| 31 | 3.9.1939 | Event | Britain and France declared war on Germany, starting World War 2 |
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| 32 | 27.5.1940 | Event | The evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began |
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| 33 | 29.5.1940 | Event | British forces began their evacuation from Dunkirk, France |
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| 34 | 1.11.1940 | Event | A prehistoric cave painting was discovered in Lascaux, France |
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| 35 | 27.5.1941 | Event | The German battleship 'Bismark' was sunk off the coast of France |
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| 36 | 15.8.1944 | Event | Allied forces landed in the south of France; Marseilles was captured |
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| 37 | 14.5.1945 | Birthday | Francesca Annis, Film actress |
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| 38 | 27.8.1950 | Event | Live Television pictures were transmitted across the channel to France by the BBC for the first time |
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| 39 | 14.11.1954 | Birthday | Bernard Hinault, Cyclist; winner of the 'Tour de France' many times |
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| 40 | 20.3.1956 | Event | Tunisia gained independence from France |
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| 41 | 1.6.1958 | Event | General De Gaulle was named the premier of France |
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| 42 | 21.12.1958 | Event | Charles de Gaulle was elected, as President of France |
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| 43 | 11.5.1960 | Event | 'France', the worlds longest ocean liner, was launched |
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| 44 | 7.8.1960 | Event | The Ivory Coast became independent from France |
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| 45 | 11.8.1960 | Event | The African country of Chad gained its independence from France |
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| 46 | 24.4.1961 | Event | General de Gaulle of France ordered a blockade of Algeria |
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| 47 | 16.7.1965 | Event | The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, opened |
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| 48 | 16.12.1965 | Event | Somerset Maugham the English novelist died in Nice, France, at the age of 91 |
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| 49 | 27.11.1967 | Event | President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, refused British entry to the Common Market |
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| 50 | 2.3.1969 | Event | The supersonic aircraft Concorde made its first test flight in France |
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| 51 | 28.4.1969 | Event | General de Gaulle resigned as President of France |
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| 52 | 9.11.1970 | Event | General Charles de Gaulle,former leader of the 'Free French'army and President of France from 1958 to 1969,died |
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| 53 | 15.5.1972 | Event | The Queen went on a state visit to France |
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| 54 | 25.6.1973 | Event | The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev visited France |
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| 55 | 5.1.1976 | Event | A new law made French the only language allowed in advertising throughout France |
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| 56 | 24.5.1976 | Event | Concordes from Britain & France flew to Washington D.C for the first time |
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| 57 | 26.6.1978 | Event | A terrorist bomb caused damage at the palace of Versaille, France |
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| 58 | 18.9.1981 | Event | France abolished capital punishement |
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| 59 | 24.7.1985 | Event | France led an international campaign for sanctions against South Africa |
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| 60 | 10.2.1986 | Event | Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled the country to France |
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| 61 | 30.10.1987 | Event | A cloud of poisonous gas passed over south west Britain,caused by a fire in Nantes,western France |
