1906 in France

This page relates to the year 1906 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January 2nd: The government specifies the conditions of the inventory of the goods of the clergy, which causes sharp protests. Incidents with Holy-Clotilde in Paris.
January 16th - April 7th: Conference of Algeciras.
February 17th: Armand Fallières is elected president of the Republic.
March 7th: The government Rouvier resigns.
March 14th: Government Sarrien (fine the October 20th).
March 16th: Clemenceau orders the suspension of the inventories.
March 10th: Catastrophe of Courrières. 1099 minors perish following a firedamp explosion. Strikes burst to protest against the security condition in the mines. The Minister of Interior Department Clemenceau makes send the troop.
April 18th: Signature of the Russian loan.
May 1st: General strike to claim the day of 8 a.m.
May: Success of the lefts to the legislative ones.
July 12th: The Court of appeal break-in the verdict of Rennes, Dreyfus finally is rehabilitated, and reinstated in the army.
July 13rd: Adoption of the laws on the obligatory weekly rest and the closing of the trade Sunday.
October 8th: Congress of the CGT. Adoption of the Charter of Amiens proclaiming the independence of the trade union and recommending the general strike.
October 25th: Georges Clémenceau president of the Council (fine in 1909). Government Georges Clémenceau (1). A Ministry of Labor is created for the first time.

France has known its first surplus of the trade balance for 25 years, thanks to exports of cars.
560 000 shareholders. 960 000 servants.

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