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France

1,989 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for France, 1212 CE to 1962 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

13th century

105 entries, 1212 CE to 1291 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1212February 25 – The Treaty of Pont-à-Vendin is signed at Pont-à-Vendin between king Philip II of France and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders and Joan, Countess of Flanders. The treaty cedes the two captured towns of Saint-Omer and Aire-sur-la-Lys to France.Francesource
  • 1212Late June – Stephen of Cloyes led his largely juvenile Crusaders from Vendôme to Marseille. They survived by begging for food, while the vast majority seem to have been disheartened by the hardship of this journey and returned to their families. Two French merchants (Hugh the Iron and William of Posqueres) offered to take them by boat to Palestine. They were then taken to Tunisia instead of Palestine, where they were sold into slavery by the merchants.Francesource
  • 1212Bertran de Gourdon writes two coblas on doing homage to Philip II of FranceFrancesource
  • 1214February 15 – John, King of England lands with an invasion force at La Rochelle in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. He sends his half-brother William Longespée to Flanders, with money to assemble a mercenary army there. John pushes the French forces northeast from Poitou towards Paris, while Emperor Otto IV marches southwest from Flanders.Francesource
  • 1214July 27 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II defeats an army of 25,000 German, English and Flemish soldiers led by Otto IV near Bouvines. The French forces take 9000 soldiers prisoner, including 131 knights and five counts with Count Ferdinand of Flanders, Count Renaud I of Boulogne and William Longespée among them.Francesource
  • 1215At Narbonne, Louis VIII of France ordered the destruction of the town's fortifications in response to a disagreement between Simon de Montfort and Arnaud Amalric and forced the viscount of Narbonne Aimery III of Narbonne and other authorities to swear loyalty to Simon.Francesource
  • 1215Giraut de Bornelh (or de Borneil), French troubadour (b. 1138)Francesource
  • 1216November 12 – Prince Louis of France besieges Hertford Castle, held by Sir Walter de Godarville.Francesource
  • 1216Early May – Albigensian Crusade: French forces under Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, besiege Castle Beaucaire.Francesource
  • 1217September 12 and 13 – Louis VIII of France and Henry III of England, together with Henry's mother Isabella of Angoulême, Cardinal Guala and William Marshal, came to an agreement on the final Treaty of Kingston.Francesource
  • 1217September 9 – A letter is brought to Louis VIII of France from William Marshal asking for a day's truce and requesting that Hugh de Malaunay might be sent to speak with Marshal and the council. Both of these requests were granted by Louis. A parley was then fixed for September 12, and a prolongation of the truce till the 14th.Francesource
  • 1217September 22 – Papal legate issues his terms of the ratification of the Treaty of Lambeth at Merton.Francesource
  • 1217May 20 – Thomas of Perche, French nobleman (b. 1195)Francesource
  • 1232Gaucher II de Châteaurenard, Count of Joigny, was given permission to rebuild the fortress Château de Châteaurenard.Francesource
  • 1232As part of the Maimonidean Controversy, rabbis of northern France, led by Yonah Gerondi and Solomon of Montpellier, issued a ban against the study of philosophy.Francesource
  • 123228 January - Peire de Montagut, Grand Master of Knights Templar (birth date unknown)Francesource
  • 1237Louis IX grants Artois to his brother Robert.Francesource
  • 1237Blacatz, Occitan troubadour (b. 1165)Francesource
  • 126724 March - In a parliament held in Sainte-Chapelle, King Louis IX and his three sons declared their intention to take part in the Eighth Crusade.Francesource
  • 1267Rainier I, Lord of Cagnes (died 1314)Francesource
  • 1271Philip III of France was crowned king of France on 15 August 1271.Francesource
  • 1274Construction of Coutances Cathedral was complete.Francesource
  • 1274Philip III acquired the Lordship of Nemours from the house of Villebéon.Francesource
  • 127415 August - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian (born 1201)Francesource
  • 1291Luis de la Cerda, French noble and expatriate prince of Castile (died 1348)Francesource

14th century

60 entries, 1302 CE to 1373 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1302July 11 – The Battle of the Golden Spurs takes place as retaliation against Flanders for the May 18 Matins of Bruges massacre. Flemish forces led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat the French army on the outskirts of Kortrijk in Flanders. Many French nobles (some 500 knights) are killed.Francesource
  • 1302March 4 – After learning of the rejection of the papal bull Ausculta Fili by King Philip of France, Pope Boniface VIII sends Cardinal Jean Lemoine to inform King Philip of the Pope's plans for an ecclesiastical council to control the appointment of French clergy.Francesource
  • 1302March 3 – Roger-Bernard III, French nobleman and knight (b. 1243)Francesource
  • 1305June 23 – The Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge is signed between King Philip IV of France and Robert III of Flanders. The treaty was signed at Athis-sur-Orge and concluded the Franco-Flemish War, as it recognised Flemish independence as a fief, but at the cost of the cities of Lille, Douai and Béthune, which were transferred to the French crown-lands, and the paying of exorbitant fines to Philip IV.Francesource
  • 1305Philip IV of France loses the title of Philip I King of Navarre and Count of Champagne upon the death of his wife Joan I of Navarre. Philip refused to remarry after Joan's death, despite the great political and financial rewards of doing so.Francesource
  • 1324September 22 – The War of Saint-Sardos ends after Charles, Count of Valois forces the surrender of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent at La Réole, the last English fortress at the Duchy of Aquitaine. A six-month truce followsFrancesource
  • 1324The Gothic sculpture Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux was created sometime between the years 1324 and 1339.Francesource
  • 1324June 23 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1270)Francesource
  • 133926 September - English King Edward III laid siege to Cambrai as part of his effort to take the throne of France.Francesource
  • 133924 October - English forces retreated into Duchy of Brabant, ending the Thiérache campaign.Francesource
  • 133922 November - Philip VI convinced Joan of Savoy, Duchess consort of Brittany, to renounce her rights of succession to Count of Savoy in return of an annual payment.Francesource
  • 1339Blanche of Bourbon, Queen consort of Kingdom of Castile and Leon (died 1361)Francesource
  • 1339Marie of Brittany, daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany (born 1268)Francesource
  • 1345Late August – The Battle of Bergerac is fought between Anglo-Gascon and French forces at the town of Bergerac, Gascony resulting in an Anglo-Gascon victory. Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, breaking the previous policy of cautious advance in the Hundred Years' War, struck directly at the largest French concentration, at Bergerac, surprising and defeating the French forces under Bertrand I of L'Isle-Jourdain and Henri de Montigny.Francesource
  • 1345January 8 – The marriage of Blanche of France, daughter of King Charles IV of France and his third wife Joan of Évreux, to her second-cousin, Philip, Duke of Orléans, son of King Philip VI of France and Queen Joan the Lame.Francesource
  • 1351February – The French besiege the town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély with an army of several thousand men led by Guy II de Nesle and his deputy Arnoul d'Audrehem.Francesource
  • 1351April 1 – The Battle of Saintes between French and English forces takes place near Saint-Jean-d'Angély. The English force led by the Seneschal of Gascony, John de Cheverston and Arnaud-Amanieu are victorious, but was unable to fulfil its mission to resupply the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.Francesource
  • 1351August 31 – The French captured the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély upon the arrival of the King of France.Francesource
  • 1351May – Joan of France, French nobleFrancesource
  • 1351L. Salembier, Petrus de Alliaco (Lille, 1886)Francesource
  • 1351June 8 – Édouard I de Beaujeu, Marshal of France, Lord of Beaujeu and MontpensierFrancesource
  • 1351August 4 – Jean de Vienne, French noblemanFrancesource
  • 13683 December – Charles VI of France (died 1422).Francesource
  • 1373April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.Francesource
  • 1373September 9 – The French attack an isolated English corps at Oulchy, killing its captain Walter Hewitt and numerous men, and capturing several knights and squires, including Thomas Despenser, brother of the Constable of England Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester.Francesource

15th century

467 entries, 1400 CE to 1499 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1400Unknown – Jean Froissarsete completes Froissarsete's Chronicles, a work charting the historicum events of the previous century.Francesource
  • 14064 December – Margaret, Countess of Vertus, Duchess of Brittany (died 1466)Francesource
  • 1412May – Treaty of Bourges is signed between Henry IV, of England and dukes of Berry, Bourbon and Orléans. The treaty involved ceding Aquitaine and other lands to the English throne in exchange for support in a civil war.Francesource
  • 1417September 20 – Hundred Years War: Henry V of England captures Caen in Normandy which remains in English hands until 1450.Francesource
  • 1420Unknown - Jean Fouquet, painter (died 1481)Francesource
  • 142417 August - The English army under John, Duke of Bedford win a major victory at the Battle of Verneuil over Franco-Scottish forces as part of the Hundred Years War.Francesource
  • 142912 February – Battle of the Herrings during the Hundred Years WarFrancesource
  • 143116 December – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre-Dame de ParisFrancesource
  • 14354 October – The siege of Saint-Denis ends in an English victoryFrancesource
  • 144022 October – Gilles de Rais is executed in NantesFrancesource
  • 144626 December Charles, Duke of Berry, Nobleman (died 1472)Francesource
  • 1449October 29 – Peter of Foix the Younger (Fr.: Pierre de Foix, le jeune), French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1490)Francesource
  • 145213 June – Jean d'Harcourt, Roman Catholic priest and bishop.Francesource
  • 1459Unknown – Jacques Morel, sculptor (born 1395)Francesource
  • 1464Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, soldier (died 1534)Francesource
  • 147022 July: In the Angers Agreement, Louis XI reconciles the Earl of Warwick and Margaret of Anjou. Both agree to restore Henry VI to the English throne.Francesource
  • 1472Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, invaded northern France during his conflict with King Louis XI of France. Burgundian forces ravaged Picardy and Normandy, burning towns and countryside to pressure the French crown.Francesource
  • 14768 September – The future Louis XII marries his cousin Joan of FranceFrancesource
  • 148110 December – The Duchy of Anjou and the Provence revert to the French crown.Francesource
  • 1484March 22 – The Auld Alliance between the kingdoms of Scotland and France is renewed.Francesource
  • 1486Date uncertain – Marguerite de Foix, Duchess of BritannyFrancesource
  • 1488André Tiraqueau, jurist and politician (d. 1558)Francesource
  • 1491December 31 - Jacques Cartier, explorer (died September 1 1557)Francesource
  • 1494November 28 – French military under Charles VIII marched on to Rome from Florence.Francesource
  • 14961 January – Charles, Count of Angoulême (born 1459)Francesource

16th century

491 entries, 1500 CE to 1599 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1500November 11 – The Treaty of Granada is signed by Louis XII and Ferdinand II of Aragon in secret, in which they agree to partition the Kingdom of Naples between them.Francesource
  • 1503February 23 – French–Spanish Wars in Italy – Battle of Ruvo: The Spanish defeat the French.Francesource
  • 1507May 14 – In Italy, King Louis XII departs from Genoa and makes a triumphant entry into Milan on May 24.Francesource
  • 1510March 25 – Guillaume Postel, French linguist, diplomat and scholar (d. 1581)Francesource
  • 15145 November – Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of France by the Bishop of Bayeux at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis.Francesource
  • 1518Françoise de Brézé, Noblewoman and courtier.(d.1577)Francesource
  • 1522February 28 – The Viscount of Lautrec, leader of the French Army, spares the Italian residents of Treviglio, apparently after witnessing a miracle of seeing a fresco of the Virgin Mary shed tears.Francesource
  • 1525February 24 –The French army is defeated in the Battle of Pavia, this was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26.Francesource
  • 1528April - August – Siege of Naples is carried out by French tropes led by Odet de Foix, the siege ended when a plague of Cholera swept through the French army, killing Odet de Foix and reducing the army by two-thirds .Francesource
  • 1532October 21 – King Francis I meets with Henry VIII of England for the first time in 12 years at Saint-Inglevert, where they agreed to form an alliance against their common enemies.Francesource
  • 1535February 24 – Eléanor de Roye, noblewoman (d.1564)Francesource
  • 1540August 5 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French-Italian religious leader and scholar. (d.1609)Francesource
  • 1544September 18 - The Treaty of Crépy is signed between representatives of King Francis I and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.Francesource
  • 1550Catherine d'Amboise, writer and poet (b.1475)Francesource
  • 1555The French troops ransack the Couvin castellany, in Belgium.Francesource
  • 1556November 25 – Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal, politician and poet (d. 1618)Francesource
  • 1560December 13 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, French duke (d. 1641)Francesource
  • 156422 June – French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the modern-day United States, and establish Fort Caroline in FloridaFrancesource
  • 1569September – A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers.Francesource
  • 1572Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (b. 1515)Francesource
  • 1577November 14 –François Leclerc du Tremblay. French Frier. (d.1638).Francesource
  • 1585July 7 – The Treaty of Nemours is signed, which forces Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League (founded 1576) which triggers the Eighth War of Religion.Francesource
  • 158812 May – The Day of the Barricades in ParisFrancesource
  • 1593July 8 – The king takes Dreux, entrepôt for the Paris food supply.Francesource
  • 15955 June – Battle of Fontaine-FrançaiseFrancesource

17th century

382 entries, 1600 CE to 1699 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1600August- King Henry IV declares war on Charles Emmanuel of Savoy and shortly after the French army invaded Savoy starting the Franco-Savoyard War of 1600–1601.Francesource
  • 1604Henry IV advances Parisian development, working on projects like the Louvre and Place Royale.Francesource
  • 160710 January – Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priest and missionary (died 1646)Francesource
  • 1610May 14 – Henry IV, King of France, is fatally stabbed by François Ravaillac during a parade marking the recent coronation of his wife; he is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Louis.Francesource
  • 161527 March – Margaret of Valois, dowager queen of France (born 1553)Francesource
  • 1621May – Huguenot rebellions: Capture of Saumur by Louis XIII.Francesource
  • 162410 June – Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.Francesource
  • 162431 July – Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, "the Good" (born 1563)Francesource
  • 163029 April – Agrippa d'Aubigné, poet, soldier and chronicler (born 1552)Francesource
  • 163229 March – The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.Francesource
  • 1633February 25 – Arrest of Charles de L'Aubespine, Keeper of the Seals of France; he is imprisoned at Angoulême. On the same day his friend François de Rochechouart, chevalier de Jars, is imprisoned in the Bastille.Francesource
  • 1634October 8 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, leaves Brussels and returns to Paris. On October 21 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he swears before the king "to love the cardinal as much as he had hated him".Francesource
  • 16371 June – Royal troops, commanded by the Duke of Valette suppresses the Croquant revolt, resulting in over 1,000 deaths.Francesource
  • 1639October 18 – Appearance of maize ("Spanish millet") in the market at Toulouse. It is available between 1644 and 1655.Francesource
  • 1639December 22 – Birth at La Ferté-Milon of dramatist Jean Racine.Francesource
  • 1644October 1 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)Francesource
  • 1646The Quiberet fountain is built in AnnecyFrancesource
  • 164911 March – signing of the Peace of RueilFrancesource
  • 1659The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris.Francesource
  • 1665Colonisation of Réunion begins with the French East India Company sending twenty settlers.Francesource
  • 166724 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory.Francesource
  • 167114 July – Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)Francesource
  • 1677August – The guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris.Francesource
  • 1682Construction of the Canal de la Bruche startedFrancesource
  • 16913 April - Jean Petitot, painter (born 1607)Francesource

18th century

236 entries, 1700 CE to 1799 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 170015 November – Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).Francesource
  • 170526 February – A French Navy fleet of 18 warships, commanded by Admiral Desjean, the Baron de Pointis arrives in the Bay of Gibraltar to aid the French and Spanish attempt to retake Gibraltar from BritainFrancesource
  • 1710August 20 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Saragossa: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay is soundly defeated by the forces of the Habsburg monarchy under Guido Starhemberg and their allies.Francesource
  • 17147 March – The Treaty of Rastatt, between France and AustriaFrancesource
  • 1718January – France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.Francesource
  • 1724The Rémy Martin cognac house is established.Francesource
  • 1736June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley of Finland.Francesource
  • 174310 May – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.Francesource
  • 1746May 9 – Voltaire, on being admitted into the Académie française, gives a discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetryFrancesource
  • 17513 December – Battle of Arnee in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led force under Robert Clive defeats and routs a much larger Franco-Indian army under the command of Raza Sahib at Arni.Francesource
  • 175721 March – France signs an alliance treaty with Sweden and Austria in the multinational effort to remove King Frederick the Great, even though Queen Consort Ulrika of Sweden is Frederick's sister. Sweden agrees to contribute 25,000 troops to the Frenco-Austrian force.Francesource
  • 17594 March–20 November – Étienne de Silhouette serves as Controller-General and attempts major financial reformsFrancesource
  • 1762Tassinari et Chatel, Lyon silk weavers, establishedFrancesource
  • 176415 March – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.Francesource
  • 176724 November – Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège, a three-act operatic tragédie lyrique, composed by François-André Danican Philidor, was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle des Machines in the Palais des Tuileries in Paris.Francesource
  • 176923 October – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (or 'automobile').Francesource
  • 17703 June – The 7.5 Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or moreFrancesource
  • 1773Lagrange presents his work on the secular equation of the Moon to the Académie Française, introducing the idea of the potential of a body. He also publishes on the attraction of ellipsoids and other mathematical matters.Francesource
  • 1776August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.Francesource
  • 178214 December – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2 kmFrancesource
  • 17877 November - Louis XVI signs the Edict of Versailles, giving religious freedom to non-Catholics in France.Francesource
  • 179116–18 May – Elections begin; Robespierre proposes and carries the motion that no deputy who sat in the Constituent assembly can sit in the succeeding Legislative assembly.Francesource
  • 179225 April – Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.Francesource
  • 179313 July – French Revolution: Charlotte Corday kills Jean-Paul Marat in his bath.Francesource
  • 17957 April – France adopts the metre as the unit of length.Francesource

19th century

192 entries, 1800 CE to 1898 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 180024 December - Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris.Francesource
  • 18028 April - Organic Articles presented by Napoleon.Francesource
  • 180531 December - The French Republican calendar is used for the last time, 8 days after being annulled by Napoleon with effect from 1 January 1806, the final official date being "9 Nivôse in Year XIV of the Revolution". This year also he has ordered his soldiers to be vaccinated.Francesource
  • 180912 December - Siege of Gerona ends as Spanish forced to capitulate by disease and famine.Francesource
  • 18153 October - Fall of the Mars meteorite Chassigny in Chassigny, Haute-Marne.Francesource
  • 1819Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) is first exhibited at Salon of 1819 in Paris.Francesource
  • 18254 November - Canal Saint-Martin opened in Paris.Francesource
  • 182917 November – Jules de Polignac becomes president of the council of ministers.Francesource
  • 1832Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opens on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître.Francesource
  • 18399 January – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.Francesource
  • 1841Uranium is first isolated, by Eugène-Melchior Péligot.Francesource
  • 18487 March - The Provisional government establishes the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, a national bank which is the earliest predecessor of BNP Paribas.Francesource
  • 1858September - Cochinchina Campaign: French warships, under Charles Rigault de Genouilly, attack and occupy Da Nang, Vietnam.Francesource
  • 18609 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings "Au clair de la lune" into his phonautograph, producing the world's earliest known sound recording of a song. However, it would not be converted back into audible sound until 2008.Francesource
  • 18651 January - The French government suppresses promulgation of the Papal "Syllabus of Errors" from the pulpit.Francesource
  • 18692 May - Folies Bergère opens in Paris as the Folies Trévise.Francesource
  • 1872Jules Massenet - Don César de BazanFrancesource
  • 1873Émile Zola - Le Ventre de ParisFrancesource
  • 1876Jacques Offenbach - Pierrette et JacquotFrancesource
  • 1879Jacques Offenbach - La fille du tambour-majorFrancesource
  • 1883Émile Zola - Au Bonheur des Dames / Pot-BouilleFrancesource
  • 1887Guy de Maupassant - Le Rosier de Madame HussonFrancesource
  • 188928 May – The Michelin rubber tire company is registered by Édouard and André Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand.Francesource
  • 1891Gustave Moreau becomes a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Francesource
  • 189515 March – Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island off French Guiana.Francesource

20th century

56 entries, 1902 CE to 1967 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1902January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the crisis of modernism in the Catholic Church.Francesource
  • 190224 August – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the town which she stormed in 1429.Francesource
  • 1903John Antoine Nau - Force ennemieFrancesource
  • 19042 July - The second Tour de France begins.Francesource
  • 190514 July – The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.Francesource
  • 190616 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.Francesource
  • 1906Arnould Galopin - Doctor OmegaFrancesource
  • 190629 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.Francesource
  • 1907Gaston Leroux - Le mystère de la chambre jauneFrancesource
  • 1908Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou le Truc du potardFrancesource
  • 19091 August - Tour de France ends, won by François Faber of Luxembourg.Francesource
  • 191015 January – Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro becomes filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.Francesource
  • 191327 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.Francesource
  • 191917 November – American expatriate Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.Francesource
  • 192031 July - France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.Francesource
  • 19226 February – Washington Naval Treaty is signed by United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy.Francesource
  • 19221 August – Two trains carrying pilgrims from Moulins to Lourdes collide at Miélan killing at least 33.Francesource
  • 192519 July – Tour de France ends, won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy.Francesource
  • 193114 June – Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.Francesource
  • 193528 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of BelgiumFrancesource
  • 193725 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Lapébie.Francesource
  • 19391 September – Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. France and Britain deliver ultimatums to Germany and France declares full mobilization.Francesource
  • 194012 September – Lascaux: 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.Francesource
  • 194415 March – The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.Francesource
  • 196222 June – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.Francesource