Chronology of France under the Third Republic (1870-1914)

1870

See also: 1870 in France

  • September 4th: the legislative Body proclaims the forfeiture of Napoleon III; the Republic is proclaimed with the Hotel-of-City of Paris by Parisian crowd. Formation of a Provisional government of 1870.
  • 12 September 18th: Thiers is in London
  • September 18th: beginning of the head office of Paris by the Germans.
  • September 23rd: capitulation of Toul
  • September 28th: capitulation of Strasbourg besieged by the Germans since August 9th. Failure of an insurrection bakouninist in Lyon
  • October 7th: Leon Gambetta, Minister of Interior Department leaves Paris in balloon and lands with Montdidier in the Sum; it tries to create new armies
  • October 24th: the decree Crémieux grants French nationality to the Jews of Algeria.
  • October 27th: the marshal Bazaine capitulates in Metz.
  • October 28th: the Prussians take Le Bourget
  • October 30th: The general Trochu, leaves without help, the Parisian combatants who for two days have seized the Le Bourget (to be checked)
  • October 31st: failure of an attempt at Parisian revolutionists to reverse the provisional government.
  • November 1st: proclamation of the Commune in Marseilles.
  • 1st November 5th: meet Thiers-Bismarck with Ferrières.
  • November 3rd: the government takes refuge in Bordeaux
  • November 9th: the Armée with the Loire beats the Bavarian ones with Coulmiers (Loiret)
  • November 27th: combat of Villers-Bretonneux, occupation of Amiens by the Prussians.
  • November 28th: the Armée with the Loire is beaten by the Prussians with Beaune-the-Rolande (Loiret)
  • December: the government is folded up with Bordeaux. (to be checked)
  • December 2nd: failure of the military exit of Parisian in Champigny
  • December 4th: Orleans is taken by the Germans. Rouen is occupied.
  • 8 December 10th: the Armée with the Loire is beaten with Beaugency (Loiret)

1871

See also: Chronology of the Commune of Paris (1871)

See also: 1871 in France

  • January: defeats of the French Armies vis-a-vis the Prussian .
  • January 18th: failure of the military exit of Parisian to Buzenval
  • January 22nd: the General Trochu, very discussed, resigns of the provisional government
  • January 28th: capitulation of Paris. Officialization of the Franco-German Armistice (signed makes the 26 of them).
  • February 6th: Gambetta resigns of its station of minsitre of the Interior.
  • February 8th: election of the National Assembly , crushing victory of the preserving S.
  • February 12th: Meeting of the Parliament with Bordeaux.
  • February 17th: the Parliament names Louis Adolphe Thiers, chief of the Executive power of the French Republic. Jules Grévy chairs the Parliament.
  • February 24th: In Paris, 4000 delegated National guard meet in the Vauxhall
  • February 26th: signature of the preliminaries of peace with Germany.
  • March 1st: the Parliament ratifies the preliminaries of peace. The Germans ravel in Paris.
  • March 3rd: creation of the Central committee of the National guard of Paris
  • March 10th: the National Assembly decides her transfer to Versailles. She votes the end of the moratorium on the rents
  • March 16th: Thiers settles in Paris with an aim of " pacifier" the capital.
  • March 17th: Auguste Blanqui is stopped in the Batch, on order of Thiers.
  • March 18th: the Vinoy general, commander-in-chief of the army of Paris, removes six republican newspapers
  • March 18th: revolt popular quarters, beginning of the Commune of Paris (1871). Thiers leaves Paris to settle with Versailles.
  • March 19th: Failure of the attempt at conciliation entrrpise by the Parisian deputies and mayors. Announces elections to create the Council of the Commune.
  • March 21st: The troops of Versailles occupy the Mount-Valérien. Anti-communarde demonstration of the Friends of the Order.
  • March 22nd: Place Vendôme, failure strapping of a new manifestation of the Friends of the Order
  • March 25th: the National Assembly votes the reinstatement of 15 magistrates who had been deposed by the government of National defense to have made condemn and off-set more than 30.000 republicans
  • March 26th: elections at the General advice of the Common of Paris
  • March 28th: proclamation of the Common of Paris.
  • April 2nd: with Courbevoie, offensive of the troops of Versailles against the Commune of Paris
  • April 3rd: failure of the counter-offensive of the Communards for Versailles.
  • 11 April 24th: the troops of Versailles bombard Paris.
  • April 19th: call solemnel of the Commune of Paris to the French
  • May 10th: Treaty of Frankfurt with the German Empire, France loses the Alsace - Lorraine (Alsace - the Moselle in fact).
  • 21 May 28th: “bloody Week” massacre of the last communards in Paris. End of the Commune of Paris.
  • June: launching of the first loan to refund Germany.
  • July 2nd: complementary elections in 46 departments: great success of the republicans.
  • July 5th: publication of proclamation of the “count de Chambord”, failure of royalist fusion .
  • August 31st: the Parliament proclaims itself constituent. Thiers is named President of the Republic on a purely provisional basis.

1872

See also: 1872 in France

  • July 27th: Vote law on recruitment (5 years law). France adopts the system of the obligatory and personal military service (fine of the replacement)
March 1872: Prohibition of the International worker.

1873

See also: 1873 in France

  • January 7th: died of the ex-emperor Napoleon III in exile.
  • May 24th: resignation of Thiers. The marshal of Mac-Mahon is elected President of the Republic.
  • September 16th: end of the German occupation.
  • September-October: failure of a monarchical attempt at Restoration with the “count de Chambord”.
  • November 20th votes Loi of the septennate. Mac-Mahon president for seven years.

1874

See also: 1874 in France

  • March 14th: treated with the emperor of Annam which recognizes the Cochinchine with the France.

1875

See also: 1875 in France

  • January 30th: vote Walloon Amendement on the Republic, official birth of the Third Republic.
  • February-July: vote constitutional Lois of 1875.

1876

See also: 1876 in France

  • February-March: legislative elections, success of the republican .
  • December 12th: formation of the government Jules Simon.

1877

See also: 1877 in France

  • May 16th: reference of the Ministry Jules Simon by Mac-Mahon.

  • June 25th: dissolution of the National Assembly by the president Mac-Mahon.
  • 14 October 28th: legislative elections , victory of the republican .

1878

See also: 1878 in France

1879

See also: 1879 in France

1880

See also: 1880 in France

  • July: amnesties for the communards.
  • September 23rd: formation of the ministry Jules Ferry

1881

See also: 1881 in France

  • May 12th: Treated of Bardo founding a Protectorate on the Tunisia.

  • June 16th: Law Jules Ferry (exemption from payment) on the exemption from payment of primary school education.
  • July 29th: liberal law on the press.
  • August-September: legislative elections , pushed left .
  • November 14th: formation of the ministry Leon Gambetta (until January 26th, 1882).

1882

See also: 1882 in France

  • March 28th: Law Jules Ferry (obligatory and laic) on the obligatory elementary school and Laic.

1883

See also: 1883 in France

  • February 21st: new ministry Jules Ferry.
  • August 24th: died of the “count de Chambord”. Extinction of the elder branch of the Bourbons.
  • August 25th: Treaty of Hooted, French protectorate on the Annam and the Tonkin.

1884

See also: 1884 in France

  • March 21st: Law Waldeck-Rousseau, on the trade unions, it bears the name of its inventor: the Minister of Interior Department to knowing Pierre Waldech-Rousseau. It authorizes in fact the trade unions.

1885

See also: 1885 in France

  • March 30th: resignation of Jules Ferry after the defeat of Lang-Sound in Indo-China.
  • June 1st: national funeral of Victor Hugo, buried with the the Pantheon of Paris
  • June 9th: Treaty of Tien-tsin, the China recognizes French protectorate on the Vietnam
  • July 28th: speech of Jules Ferry in front of the Parliament " justifiant" colonization, on the " plan; humain" , inter alia.
  • 4 October 18th: legislative elections , victory of the Republican left.
  • December 28th: Jules Grévy is re-elected president of the Republic.

1886

See also: 1886 in France

  • January 7th: the general Boulanger becomes Ministre for the War.

1887

See also: 1887 in France

  • May 30th: ousting of the general Baker of the government.
  • December 2nd: resignation of the president Grévy after the Scandal of decorations. Sadi Carnot is elected president of the Republic on December 3rd.
  • Business Schnaebelé

1888

See also: 1888 in France

  • March 27th: the general Boulanger is put at the retirement.

1889

See also: 1889 in France

  • January 27th: the Boulanger general is elected with Paris at the time of an partial legislative election.
  • February 13rd: re-establishment of the poll of district for the legislative elections.
  • April 1st: escape of Baker in Belgium. Commit suicide in September 1891.
  • July 15th: vote Loi reducing the military service to three years.
  • September-October: legislative elections , collapse of the Boulangisme.
  • World Fair to Paris. Construction of the Eiffel Tower.

1890

See also: 1890 in France

  • March 17th: fourth government Freycinet (until February 19th, 1892).

1891

See also: 1891 in France

  • ler May: incidents of Fourmies, repression of a working demonstration.

1892

See also: 1892 in France

  • February 20th: Encyclical papal In the middle of solicitudes, urging the French catholics to join itself the Republic.
  • July: Franco-Russian alliance, signature of a Franco-Russian military convention (Treated???).
  • Scandal of Panama

1893

See also: 1893 in France

  • August-September: legislative elections , victory of the Republican moderate S.
  • Establishment of a protectorate over the Laos, which enters the Indochinese Union.

1894

See also: 1894 in France

  • June 24th: assassination of the president of the Republic Sadi Carnot by an Anarchistic Italy N, Caserio. Jean Casimir-Périer is elected president of the Republic on June 27th.
  • July: vote “Lois scélérates” against the anarchists.
  • September: beginning of the Business Dreyfus, military French suspected of espionage to the profit of the Germany.
  • December: Dreyfus is condemned to the deportation.

1895

See also: 1895 in France

  • January 15th: resignation of the president Jean Casimir-Périer. Felix Faure is elected president of the Republic the 17.
  • ler October: treaty of protectorate on Madagascar.
  • Creation of CGT (General confederation of Work).

1896

See also: 1896 in France

1897

See also: 1897 in France

  • the Indochinese Union becomes the general Gouvernement of Indo-China.

1898

See also: 1898 in France

  • January 13rd: Emile Zola publishes in the Aurore, “I show”, text in favor of Dreyfus.
  • 8 May 22nd: legislative elections .
  • June 28th: Theophilus Delcassé becomes Minister for the Foreign affairs (until June 1905).
  • September-November: Business of Fachoda to the Sudan, Marchand moves back in front of the Britannique S.
  • publication of Ubu King d' Alfred Jarry

1899

See also: 1899 in France

  • February 16th: died of the president Felix Faure. Emile Loubet is elected president of the Republic on February 18th.
  • February 23rd: attempt at Coup d'etat of Paul Déroulède.
  • June 3rd: the judgment of Alfred Dreyfus is broken.
  • June 22nd: formation of the government Waldeck-Rousseau, “republican Defense”.
  • August-September: second lawsuit of Alfred Dreyfus, it is condemned then pardoned.
  • Creation of the factory Renault

1900

See also: 1900 in France

  • June: Olympic Games with Paris.
  • June-September: France takes part in international forwarding launched to subdue the revolt of the Boxers to Beijing.
  • July: inauguration of the first line of the subway in Paris.
  • September 30th: Law the 11 hours, law of Millerand lowering the duration of the work to eleven hours.
  • December 16th: secret agreement with the Italy on the Morocco.
  • World Fair to Paris.

1901

See also: 1901 in France

  • on July 1st, votes law on association under the government Waldeck-Rousseau. Its implementation will be carried out by the decree of August 16th.
  • June: First congress of the Radical party

1902

See also: 1902 in France

  • April-May: legislative elections , victory of the Block of the lefts.
  • June 6th: formation of the government Emile Combes.
  • July: Alliance Franco-Italian, secret agreement of neutrality.

1903

See also: 1903 in France

1904

See also: 1904 in France

  • April 8th: Franco-English colonial agreement, beginning of the Harmony.
  • July 30th rupture of the diplomatic relations with the the Vatican.

1905

See also: 1905 in France

  • January 18th: resignation of the government Emile Combes. Formation of the government Maurice Rouvier on January 24th.

  • March 31st: the German emperor Guillaume II goes to Tangier to the Morocco, Franco-German crisis.
  • April: creation of the S.F.I.O (French Section of the International Worker) at the time of the congress of Paris.
  • December 9th: Law on the separation of the Church and the State. End of the mode Legal settlement surface of 1801.
  • July: new law on associations

1906

See also: 1906 in France

  • January 17th: Armand Fallières is elected President of the Republic.
  • February: the pope Pie X condemns the Law of separation of the Church and the State. Beginning of the inventories of the goods of the Church.
  • 6 May 20th: legislative elections , victory of the radicals.
  • July 12th: rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus.
  • October 25th: formation of the government Georges Clémenceau.

1907

See also: 1907 in France

1908

See also: 1908 in France

1909

See also: 1909 in France

1910

See also: 1910 in France

  • April-May: legislative elections , maintenance of the radicals.
  • Law on the retirements at 65 years

1911

See also: 1911 in France

1912

See also: 1912 in France

1913

See also: 1913 in France

1914

See also: 1914 in France

  • April 26th - May 10th: legislative elections , victory of the left.
  • June 13rd: formation of the government Rene Viviani
  • June 28th: attack of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzégovine against the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, François-Ferdinand.
  • July 31st: assassination of the socialist director Jean Jaurès. German ultimatum in France.
  • Military service increased to three years by the Joffre General following the tensions with Germany
  • August 1st: General mobilization

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