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The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
French Congo
French Congo (Vichy France)
Republic of the Congo
People's Republic of the Congo
Establishment
January 1842: In 1838 and 1841, France established a protectorate over the coastal regions of Gabon.
Chronology
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Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.
1.1.World War I African Theatre
Was the African Theatre of World War I.
1.1.1.Kamerun Campaign
Took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony.
March 1916: Provisional division of militarly occupied German Kamerun between France and the United Kingdom.
Was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (it started sooner in certain regions) between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (mainly the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., China and France). It was the war with more fatalities in history. The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war in Europe began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The war ended with the complete defeat of the Axis powers, which were occupied by the Allies.
2.1.World War II (All other Vichy France Colonies)
Refers to the events that happened in French Colonies that decided to be loyal to the German puppet state of Vichy France.
July 1940: With the creation of Vichy France, initially all French colonies were aligned with Vichy.
2.2.World War II (West African Theatre)
Was the West And Central African theatre of World War II.
August 1940: Pierre Boisson, the governor-general of French Equatorial Africa, was a staunch supporter of the Vichy regime, unlike Félix Éboué, the governor of French Chad. On 26 August, with the help of his top military official, Éboué pledged his colony's allegiance to Free France.
January 1874: The fall of the Orungu Kingdom was directly tied to the fall of the slave trade. The king had become dependent on it and was unable to maintain the custom of royal patronage without it. This caused the kingdom to disintegrate and in 1873, King Ntchengué signed a treaty granting the French a post on Orungu territory.
September 1880: The French Congo, under the leadership of French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, established a protectorate over the Bateke people in the territories along the north bank of the Congo River on September 10, 1880.
November 1882: Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà signs with Illoy I a treaty in which his kingdom is under French protection. France ratified it on November 12, 1882.
November 1882: French authorities formally established the French Congo on 30 November 1882.
January 1884: In 1883, Loango became a French protectorate.
January 1885: In 1884 the people of Boma were forced to grant a protectorate of their country to the International Association of the Congo, made up of European powers.
February 1885: The Berlin Conference divides Africa: parts of the Congo absorbed by France, Belgium and Portugal.
February 1885: This Makoko Treaty is one of the causes of the convening of the Berlin Conference, in 1884-85, aimed, among other things, at the partition of the Congo between the European powers.
January 1886: France occupied Gabon in 1885.
December 1888: The General Commissioner was created by the decree of December 11, 1888 which brought together the establishments of Gabon with the Territories of the Congo, under the authority of the General Commissioner of the Government in the Congo.
January 1892: Gabon formally added to French Congo in 1891.
December 1903: The Territory of Oubangui-Chari is created by decree by French authorities.
January 1907: In 1906 the French Colonial Authorities made Gabon a separate colony.
November 1911: With the Morocco-Congo Treaty of 1911, Germany recognized French domination over Morocco in exchange for new territories in Central Africa (the so-called Neukamerun territories). A smaller area in north-eastern Cameroon, known as Duckbill (German: "Entenschnabel", French: "Bec de canard), was incorporated into French Equatorial Africa instead.
August 1960: Independence of Congo.
December 1969: The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist state that was established in 1969 in the Republic of the Congo.
March 1992: After 1992, the People's Republic of the Congo was simply referred to as the Republic of Congo.
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