1870
4 September Proclamation of the Republic
1871
18 January Proclamation of a united Germany
March?May the Paris Commune
1877
16 May President MacMahon dissolves the
Assembly
1879
MacMahon resigns
1882
Laws establishing free primary school education
1894
Dreyfus court-martialled for spying
1899
Establishment of the government of republican
defence under Waldeck-Rousseau
1901
1 June Establishment of the Radical Party
1905
Creation of the Socialist Party
9 December Separation of church and state
1906
Clemenceau government comes to power
1907
Repression of protests by winegrowers in Languedoc