Chronology of France under IVe Republic (1946-1958)

1946

January 20th: De Gaulle resigns following a dissension on future the Constitution.
April 8th: Nationalization of gas and electricity, with the creation of Électricité de France (EDF) and of Gaz de France (GDF).
April 9th: Law Marthe Richard on the closing of the brothels.
March 19th: The Guadeloupe, the Guyana, the Martinique and the Meeting become French departments.
June 16th: Speech of Bayeux of the de Gaulle general, criticizing the institutions incipient from IVe Republic.
October 13rd: Adoption of the Constitution of IVe Republic.

January 16th: Election of Vincent Auriol with the presidency of IVe Republic.
March 29th: Insurrectionary rising with Madagascar against the French colonial mode.
May 5th: Reference of the communist Ministers for the government and end of the three-party government (PCF, MRP and SFIO).
June 5th: Marshall plan announces, for the economic rebuilding of Europe and to fight against the Communisme.
June: Important wave of working strikes.
Creation of the RPF by De Gaulle

April 12th: Creation by Leon Jouhaux of the trade union Working force following a scission with the CGT.
April: Beginning of the application of the Marshall plan.
December 10th: Meeting of the General meeting of the United Nations in Paris, adopting the Universal declaration of the Human rights.

January 24th: Beginning of the lawsuit Kravtchenko.
July 27th: Ratification of the entry in the Organization of the treaty of the North Atlantic (NATO).

February 11th: Creation of the guaranteed interprofessional minimum wage (SMIG).
May 9th: Plan Robert Schuman on Europe, proposing the pool coal steel (ECSC, European Coal and Steel Community).
October 8th: French defeat with the battle of Caobang in Indo-China.
December 6th: The general of Lattre de Tassigny is named Haut-Commissaire in Indo-China.

April 18th: Creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
November 24th: Departure of the first voyage of the ship of research and discovered Calypso of the commander Cousteau.
May 7th: Law on the political alliances of the political parties.
June 23rd: Died of Pétain on the island of Yeu.
August 11th: Nomination of the second government Rene Pleven.
December 19th: Discovered gas of Lacq.

January 11th: With died of the marshal of Lattre de Tassigny, the general Salan becomes commander-in-chief of French armed forces in Indo-China.
March 6th: Nomination of the government Antoine Pinay.
May 28th: Big demonstrations of the Communists against the American Matthew Ridgway, new general ordering forces of NATO, shown war crimes in Korea.
August 5th: Discovered bodies of the family Drummond (Business Dominici).
September 4th: Judgment of the Communists Andre Marty and Charles Tillon by the PCF.
October 25th: Inauguration of the Dam Donzère-Mondragon.
October 28th: The National Assembly vote the amnesty of the facts of Collaboration.
December 2nd: French Victoire of Na-San in Indo-China. The lesson drawn from this defeat Vietnamese soldier-Minh made it possible the general Giap to gain the Bataille of Điện Biên Phủ.

January 8th: Nomination of the government Rene Mayer.
May 16th: Launching of the Express train by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Francoise Giroud.
June 26th: Nomination of the government Joseph Laniel.
July: Parliamentary inquiry into the Traffic of piastres.
October 23rd: Agreements of officially fine Paris putting at the state of war with the Germany.
November 20th: Within the framework of the Operation Beaver, two battalions of French parachutists jump on Điện Biên Phủ.
December 23rd: Election by the indirect suffrage of Rene Coty with the presidency of the Republic.

January 7th: Nomination of Rene Coty with the presidency of the Republic.
February 5th: Surrounding of Điện Well Phủ by the Vietnamese soldier-Minh.
March 13rd: Release of the attack of the Vietnamese soldier-Minh on Điện Well Phủ.
March 23rd: Creation of the Companions of Emmaüs by the Abbot Pierre.
April 10th: Law founding VAT.
May 7th: Rendering of the French Army with Điện Well Phủ.
June 12th: Resignation of Joseph Laniel of the presidency of the Council.
June 18th: Nomination of the government Pierre Mendès France.
July 21st: Signature of the agreements of fine Geneva putting at the War of Indo-China.
July 31st: Pierre Mendès France makes the speech of Carthage on the acceptance of the autonomy of the Tunisia.
August 30th: Rejection of the European Community of defense (CED) by the National Assembly.
November 1st: red All Saints' day, beginning of the War of Algeria.
November 13rd: Decrees limiting the mode of the home distillers, measurement against the Alcoholism.

January 2nd: Legislative elections, opening of the Poujadisme.
: Beginning of the government Guy Mollet.
February 28th: Introduction of a third week of Paid vacations.
March 2nd: Independence of the Morocco.
March 20th: Independence of the Tunisia.
April 12th: Prolongation of the military service from six to nine months.
October 24th: Removal by the army of the Algerian independence leader Ben Bella.
October 29th - November 6th: Intervention against the Egypt, with dimensions of the the United Kingdom and of Israel, during the Crisis of Suez.

January 7th: Granting of the full powerss to the general Jacques Massu at the time of the Battle of Algiers.
March 25th: Signature of the the Treaty of Rome founding the EEC.
May 21st: Fall of the government Guy Mollet.

May 13rd: Constitution of a Committee of Public Hello by the general Massu, for maintenance of the French Algeria.
June 1st: Nomination of Charles de Gaulle to the presidency of the Council.
June 4th: Speech of de Gaulle on a journey to Algiers: “I included/understood you! ”
Constitution of October 4th, text founder of the V {{E}} republic

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