Senegal (French Colony): All Data

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

In 1659, France established the trading post of Saint-Louis, Senegal, starting the colonization of the region. The territories in the interior of Senegal were colonized in the XIX century. French Senegal was a predecessor of modern-day Senegal but before the early XX century the colony included several other territores, particularly those that were recently conquered by France.