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700 BC - 050 BC
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Gaul
50 BC - 400 CE
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Gaul becomes a province
400 - 1792
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Germanic Franks led by Clovis conquer the province and convert to Christianity
1792 - 1804
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1804 - 1815
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Period of Napoleon Boneparte (begins as a general during the Revolution but then takes over as a military dictator and proclaims himself Emperor of the French)
1815 - 1848
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Restored Bourbon monarchy after Napoleon's defeat
1848 - 1852
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King Louis Philippe overthrown; "Second Republic" of France
1852 - 1870
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a nephew of Napoleon Boneparte gets elected as president of the republic but then proclaims himself emperor as Napoleon III
1871 - 1940
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Period of the "Third Republic" (government during and after WWI)
1940 - 1944
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France is overrun by Nazi Germany and occupied; a collaborationist French government is set up ("Vichy France") until France is liberated by the Americans, British, and Canadians in summer and fall 1944; French General Charles de Gaulle emerges as French national leader
1945 - 1958
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Period of the "Fourth Republic" (government that takes over after WWII, tries unsuccessfully to reestablish France's colonial empire in Vietnam and Africa, but collapses during a crisis over war in Algeria)
1958 - 2014
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Period of "Fifth Republic" (current French governmental system)
428 - 750
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Kings descended from Clovis
751 - 987
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Kings descended from warlords who took over from the Merovingian dynasty
775 - 825
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Charlemagne ("Charles the Great") becomes King of Franks and conquers a large empire in Western and Central Europe
987 - 1792
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Beginning of the medieval monarchy under King Hugh Capet
1180 - 1223
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1589
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After decades of civil war between Catholics and Protestants (Hugenots), protestant Henry of Navarre converts to Catholicism and becomes King Henry IV, the founder of the Bourbon dynasty.
1643 - 1715
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Reign of King Louis XIV (called the "Sun King"), considered the high-point of the absolute monarchy of France.
843
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Price, Roger. A Concise History of France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Google Books Edition, pg 47.
1150 - 1250
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King Philip II Augustus unifies most of modern France's territory under the French crown
1180 - 1223
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Price, Roger. A Concise History of France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Google Books Edition, pg 61.
1337 - 1453
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Hundred Years War against English; modern French "national" identity strengthened by Joan of Arc
1360
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Price, Roger. A Concise History of France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Google Books Edition, pg 64.
1789
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Period of the French Revolution (Louis XIV and his family are killed, France becomes a republic)
1870 - 1871
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Franco-Prussian War (France is quickly defeated and Napoleon III is deposed); radical "Paris Commune" is suppressed by new moderate French government