French Third Republic
1870–1940 · Event
Longest-lived French parliamentary government; survives WWI, ends with the Fall of France and the creation of Vichy in 1940.
On these timelines: France, Master, The Dreyfus Affair
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- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
Around 1870
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- Wars of German Unification (1864)
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- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)