French Madagascar: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

France acquired its first colonial possession in Madagascar in 1774 when the French set up a trading-post at Antongil on the east coast. It lasted only a couple of years. The colony was created (again) officially in 1897 as a successor to the Malagasy Protectorate. Madagascar would become fully independent from France only in 1960.