A timeline of the creation and maintenance of the French Empire.
1500s
- 1555: France attempts to create a colony in Rio de Janerio, Brazil called 'French Antarctique'.
- 1562: France attempts to create a colony in Florida called Fort Caroline.
- 1565: France abandons Fort Caroline after a conflict with the Spanish Empire.
- 1567: France abandons French Antarctique.
1600s
1700s
1800s
1900s
- 1947: France begins the suppression of the Malagasy Uprising, using methods mass execution, torture, war rape, torching of entire villages, collective punishment and other atrocities such as throwing live Malagasy prisoners out of an airplane (death flights), estimates for death in the conflict range from 11,000 to 100,000.[1]
- 1954: France begins to fight against an anti-colonial revolution in Algeria, the conflict kills between 250,000 and 300,000 people and turns 3,000,000 into refugees.[2]