France

• 987: The Kingdom of France is founded with Hugh Capet as monarch. They don't own Catalonia except the Aran valley, Normandy, nor they do with Toulouse, Béarn. Bourbonnais, Flanders and Brittany, all of these being vassals of France. Current flag is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oriflamme.png
• 992: France loses control of Urgell
• 996: Robert II starts to rule. Normandy is maden a French vassal
• 1031: Henry I starts to rule
• 1060: Philip I starts to rule
• 1064: Control over Brittany lost
• 1066: Brittany regained as a vassal, but Normandy is lost
• 1108: Louis VI starts to rule
• 1112: The lands around Marseille are obtained by the house of Barcelona
• 1137: Louis VII starts to rule
• 1152: England captures most of France
• 1175: Aragon takes the Aran Valley from France
• 1180: Philip II starts to rule
• 1203: France takes Normandy from England
• 1211: Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg
• 1215: Occuppation of Kent
• 1217: Kent abandoned
• 1223: Louis VIII starts to rule
• 1224: France gains English territory in Guyenne
• 1226: Louis IX starts to rule
• 1234: Navarre enters a personal union with France
• 1242: English territory in Aquitaine is reduced to the river
• 1266: Occuppation of Naples
• 1270: Philip III starts to rule. Naples abandoned
• 1271: France annexes the county of Toulouse
• 1284: France occuppies the Rousillon and Girona
• 1285: Philip IV starts to rule. Girona and Rousillon lost to Aragon
• 1302: Flanders is no longer a French vassal
• 1305: France gains land from the HRE
• 1314: Louis X starts to rule
• 1316: Philip V starts to rule
• 1320: Flanders falls again under French influence
• 1322: Charles IV starts to rule
• 1324: France takes southeastern English Guyenne
• 1327: France annexes Bourbonnais
• 1328: Philip VI starts to rule. Navarre ends the PU with France
• 1342: The Southern part of Brittany is lost to English control
• 1345: Small English advance in Brittany. England makes small advances in eastern Aquitaine
• 1346: Englad occuppies Flanders and takes Calais and the nearby gulf
• 1347: Northwestern Brittany conquered by England
• 1348: Northern Brittany taken. France sieges Calais
• 1349: France gains land from the HRE. The siege of Calais is lifted. More of Brittany is occuppied and English advance in northern aquitaine
• 1350: John II starts to rule
• 1352: A part of Brittany is retaken
• 1356: England takes Brittany and Aquitaine south of the Loire
• 1360: France releases Auveregne as a vassal. England takes more of South France
• 1364: Charles V starts to rule
• 1374: France expels the English invasion, restoring the vassals of Béarn and Brittany
• 1380: Charles VI starts to rule
• 1383: Burgundy gains control of Flanders, ending the French vassal of it
• 1407: Burgundy takes over the modern French province of Burgundy
• 1418: Anglo-Burgundian invasion of Northern France
• 1420: England takes Northern France including Brittany and Paris
• 1422: Charles VII starts to rule. England and Burgundy push further into France
• 1429: The siege of Orléans is lifted and France recaptures Burgundian and English territory
• 1427: England begins the siege of Orléans
• 1435: France expels Burgundy all the way to the modern province of Burgundy
• 1436: Burgundy leaves France. Flanders is restored as a French vassal, same for Brittany. Paris is also liberated from the English
• 1448: England loses southern Normandy
• 1450: France captures all of Normandy
• 1453: France expells England from Aquitaine
• 1461: Louis XI starts to rule
• 1462: France gains the Rousillon
• 1477: The French vassal of Flanders is given to Austria
• 1482: France conquers the Provence from the HRE. Nize remains owned by them.
• 1483: Charles VIII starts to rule
• 1493: France loses the Rousillon
• 1498: Louis XII starts to rule
• 1499: France conquers the Duchy of Milan
• 1513: France loses Milan
• 1515: Francis I starts to rule. Milan recaptured
• 1531: France annexes Auveregne
• 1536: France conquers the Duchy of Savoy
• 1539: Savoy is restored with no influence
• 1547: Henry II starts to rule. Brittany is annexed to France
• 1554: France colonizes the area around Sao Paulo
• 1558: France takes Calais from England
• 1559: Francis II starts to rule
• 1560: Charles IX starts to rule
• 1562; France gains a fort in Florida
• 1565: French Florida lost
• 1567: French Brazil collapses
• 1574: Henry III starts to rule
• 1589: Henry IV starts to rule
• 1598: Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Standard_of_the_King_of_France.svg
• 1604: France colonizes southern New Brunswick and Saint Pierre. French Guyanna founded
• 1605: The colony on New Brunswick is abandoned by one in Nova Scotia
• 1608: The city of Quebec founded
• 1610: Louis XIII starts to rule
• 1612: France colonizes Saint Louis, in Northern Brazil
• 1613: The French colony in Nova Scotia is abandoned
• 1615: French Brazil conquered by the Spanish
• 1621: France annexes Béarn
• 1634: France vassalizes the Duchy of Lorraine
• 1635: France takes Guadeloupe and Martinique
• 1638: France takes the island of Réunion
• 1642: France occuppies Spanish territory until reaching Lleida and Barcelona. New France obtains most of the Saint Lawrence area
• 1643: Louis XIV starts to rule
• 1648: French armies reach the Ebre river. France also gains southern Spanish Flanders
• 1650: France takes Grenada island. French armies lose Catalonia up to Barcelona and Lleida. Virgin Islands taken
• 1651: Spain recaptures Barcelona
• 1652: French armies leave Spain, but the Rousillon is annexed to France
• 1658: France expands taking a bit more of the Spanish Flanders, around Dunkirk
• 1659: The Duchy of Lorraine is no longer a French vassal. The French border is expanded and reaches Luxembourg
• 1660: France takes the island of Saint Lucia
• 1664: France takes Saint Vicent and Dominica
• 1666: Tobago gained for a year
• 1668: France obtains the area to the Great Lakes, taking their Canadian shore except the Superior
• 1670: France expands in the HRE until reaching modern border. Burgundy remains uncontrolled
• 1674: France gains Pondicherry and expands in Canada by taking the Superior lake area
• 1679: Spanish Burgundy is given to France and the border in the Netherlands is set in the modern border. New France takes inner Quebec
• 1680: All of the Great Lakes basin is taken by France
• 1681: France takes half of the Mississipi river course
• 1682: France takes all of the Mississipi
• 1685: France gains a fort in Texas
• 1689: Conquest of Nova Scotia. The fort in Texas conquered by the Spanish
• 1693: France expands west of the Great Lakes
• 1697: France loses most of Lorraine, but gains Haiti
• 1700: A part of Mantua is taken by France. France gains the Michigan peninsula and part of the Gulf of Mexico
• 1703: France loses it's Southern Italian enclave
• 1705: France takes Saint Kitts island
• 1708: France loses it's Northern Italian enclave
• 1713: France takes the island of Curaçao. New France gains a lot of territory in Eastern Canada, but loses Saint Pierre. Nova Scotia lost
• 1714: France loses Curaçao. New France expands in the South
• 1715: Louis XV starts to rule. France takes Mauritius
• 1717: New France expands in the USA
• 1721: Chagos Archipelago obtained
• 1730: New France expands and takes the Winnipeg lake. France obtains trading posts in Bengal
• 1733: Virgin Islands lost
• 1737: France regains Lorraine
• 1745: Chagos islands lost
• 1746: France conquers Madras
• 1753: New France expands in the USA. Turks and Caicos islands obtained
• 1754: Turks and Caicos Abandoned. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AUk7yW040 until 1763
• 1756: France takes Minorca and the Seychelles
• 1757: France loses Bengal
• 1759: France loses Guadeloupe
• 1760: France loses Pondicherry
• 1761: France loses Dominica
• 1762: France loses all of the Caribbean small islands except Saint Vincent
• 1763: Britain takes Saint Vincent, but France gains Guadeloupe and Martinique. France loses all of it's North American posessions except Saint Pierre and Miquelon. French Bengal is also regained.
• 1764: Falkland Islands colonized
• 1767: Falklands lost
• 1768: Chagos regained
• 1769: France gains Corsica
• 1774: Louis XVI starts to rule
• 1775: Corsica lost
• 1778: Corsica regained. Turks and Caicos taken for a year
• 1781: Tobago gained
• 1782: Occuppation of Guyana
• 1783: France colonizes Senegal. Turks and Caicos taken for a year
• 1784: French Guyanna reduced to it's modern day use
• 1789: French Revolutionary wars begin. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdzwKHAPpaw
• 1790: Avignon conquered. Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_France_(1790-1794).svg
• 1791: Haitian revolution begins. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMPAxozZHQ until 1804
• 1792: The French monarchy ends. The National convention rules France
• 1793: Saint Pierre is occuppied by British. Monaco conquered by France. Tobago lost
• 1794: Corsica and Martinique lost to the British. Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_France.svg
• 1795: The Directory begins to rule France, with Paul Barras on the head. The border is extended to the Rhine
• 1796: Corsica recaptured
• 1797: France conquers the Ionian Islands
• 1798: France conquers Malta, annexes Jura and southwestern Swiss Canton and aswell invades Egypt, occuppying the northwest nile delta
• 1799: Paul Barras is deposed and the French Consulate rules. Ionian islands lost. French army occuppyes the Nile Delta and the Sinai
• 1800: Parma obtained by France. Lousiana gained. Egyptian army is destroyed
• 1802: Napoleon declares himself as the only Consul, thus ruling France. Martinique recaptured. Tobago obtained for a year
• 1803: French Louisiana lost. Napoleonic wars begin. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCUYMlUNA8
• 1804: Napoleon starts to rule as an emperor, becoming the First French Empire
• 1807: Annexion of the Septinsular Republic and formation of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw as a vassal
• 1808: Invasion of Spain begins. Tuscany annexed into France. French Guyana is invaded. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y9TIZijND4
• 1809: Martinique lost. All of the Ionian islands lost except Corfu
• 1810: Guadeloupe lost. Reunion, Chagos, Seychelles and Mauritius lost aswell. Annexion of Dalmatia, European Netherlands and parts of Germany
• 1812: Annexion of Catalonia and Andorra
• 1814: The French Empire ends, becoming the kingdom of France, with Louis XVIII on the power. Saint Pierre is regained. Most of the acquisitions during the Napoleonic wars lost.
• 1815: Reúnion gained. Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pavillon_royal_de_France.svg
• 1824: Charles X starts to rule France
• 1830: The ports of Oran, Bône and Algiers obtained. Louis-Philippe I starts to rule. Flag becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_France.svg
• 1834: French Algiers city expands. The port of Bougie gained
• 1837: Conquest of Wallis and Futuna
• 1839: Equatorial Africa founded
• 1840: French Algeria expands https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/French_Algeria_evolution_1830-1962_map-fr.svg
• 1842: France vassalizes Tahiti
• 1848: Further French expansion into Algeria (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/French_Algeria_evolution_1830-1962_map-fr.svg) The Kingdom of France becomes a Republic with Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte on the power
• 1849: Shanghai obtained
• 1852: The Republic is dismantled and the Second French Empire is proclaimed, with Napoleon III on the throne.
• 1853: New Caledonia obtained
• 1854: Expansion down the Senegal river
• 1857: Dakar obtained. Algeria expands
• 1858: Santa Helena island gained
• 1860: Expansion of French Senegal. Tianjin gained
• 1861: Veracruz occuppied
• 1862: French occuppy the Mexican coast between Tampico and Campeche
• 1863: Colonization of coastal Benin. France occuppies Mexico DF
• 1864: Capture of Cochinchina and Cambodia. Most of Mexico until reaching Durango, Acapulco and Guadalajara is occuppied
• 1865: Expansion of Senegal. Durango lost, but the French capture the Rio G
• 1866: Santa Helena lost. Massive French retreat from North mexico
• 1867: Mexico abandoned
• 1870: Second French Empire collapses. The government of National Defense is formed with Louis Jules Trochu on the head. Franco-Prussian war. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ96cIKYDmM
• 1871: The Third French Republic proclaimed. Adolphe Tiers is proclaimed president
• 1873: Patrice Mac-Mahon is elected as president
• 1879: Jules Grévy is elected as president. Annexation of the kingdom of Cayor
• 1880: Incorporation of the Polynesia and annexion of Tahiti. Expansion of Equatorial Africa. Obtaining of New Ireland
• 1881: Expansion of the Senegal and obtaining of Tunisia
• 1882: New Ireland abandoned
• 1884: Conquest of Vietnam
• 1885: Expansion of Equatorial Africa
• 1886: Annexation of Comoros
• 1887: Marie François Sadi Carnot is elected as president. Djibouti obtained. New Hebrides becomes a French protectorate
• 1888: Border territories gained from Siam
• 1892: French expansion into West Africa. Northeast Nigeria taken for a year. Annexation of the islands northeast of Kerguelen
• 1893: Extra land gained from Siam. Conquest of Kerguelen and Crozet islands
• 1894: Jean Casimir-Perier is elected as president. Expansion of Equatorial Africa
• 1895: Félix Faure is elected as president. Conquest of Madagascar
• 1897: Conquest of Baguirmi
• 1898: Accession of Zhanjiang. Expansion of Africa. Hankou gained
• 1899: Émile Loubet is elected as president
• 1900: Expansion in Africa
• 1901: Conquest of Ouaddai
• 1904: French conquest of the Sahara. Extra land gained from Siam
• 1906: Amand Falliéres is elected as president. Annexation of the New Hebrides
• 1907: Further land gained from Siam
• 1909: Border adjustement between France and Spain in the Sahara
• 1912: Conquest of Morocco. German Kameroon expanded into French lands
• 1913: Raymond Poincaré is elected as president
• 1916: Protectorate begins in Southeastern Albania
• 1918: A protectorate is stablished in Syria. Parts of Turkey occuppied. Occuppation of Alsace-Lorraine
• 1919: Annexion of Alsace-Lorraine. Obtaining of Togo and Cameroon. Expansion of the Syrian protectorate
• 1920: Alexandre Millerand is elected as president. Parts of Turkey lost. Protectorate of Albania abandoned
• 1921: French leave Turkey except Hatay, which is annexed
• 1924: Gaston Doumergue is elected as president. Adélie land Claimed
• 1931: Paul Doumer is elected as president
• 1932: Albert Lebrun is elected as president
• 1933: Occuppation of Andorra
• 1934: Andorra left
• 1939: Hatay handed to Turkey. WW2 begins. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUWAFtnx_0
• 1940: France falls and is divided between Free France (with no ruler) and Vichy France (Ruled by Philippe Pétain). Indochina and Chinese bases lost to Japan
• 1941: French Syria occuppied by Britain
• 1942: Djibouti obtained by the Brits
• 1943: French occuppation of a part of Italian Libya. Djibouti given to Free France.
• 1944: Vichy France is dissolved. Charles de Gaulle takes the power of France as a provisional governor
• 1945: Occuppation of parts of Germany and Austria
• 1946: León Blum takes the charge of provisional governor
• 1947: Vincent Auriol is elected as president of France, ending the provisional government and installing another French Republic. A vassal maden in the Saar
• 1949: Unocuppation of Germany. Saar remains a vassal
• 1951: Cease of the occuppation in Libya
• 1953: Cambodia abandoned
• 1954: René Coty is elected as president. Indochina lost
• 1956: Morocco and Tunisia (except Bizerte) lost. Evacuation of the armies in Austria. Saar abandoned
• 1959: Charles de Gaulle is elected as president
• 1960: France leaves Madagascar, The Congo, Gabon, C.A.R., Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin
• 1962: Algeria lost
• 1963: Bizerte lost
• 1969: Georges Pompidou is elected as president
• 1974: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is elected as president
• 1975: Comoros abandoned
• 1976: Djibouti lost
• 1981: François Mitterand is elected as president
• 1995: Jacques Chirac is elected as president
• 2007: Nicolas Sarkozy is elected as president
• 2012: François Hollande is elected as president