A timeline of the creation and maintenance of the French Empire.
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]
2000s
See Also
- Timeline of US Imperialism
- Timeline of British Imperialism
- Timeline of Spanish Imperialism
- Timeline of Portuguese Imperialism
- Timeline of Russian Imperialism
- Timeline of German Imperialism
- Timeline of Japanese Imperialism