A timeline of the creation and maintenance of the [French
Empire](French_Empire "wikilink").

## 1600s

## 1700s

## 1800s

## 1900s

  - 1947: France begins the suppression of the [Malagasy
    Uprising](Malagasy_Uprising "wikilink"), using methods mass
    execution, torture, war rape, torching of entire villages,
    collective punishment and other atrocities such as throwing live
    Malagasy prisoners out of an airplane (death flights), estimates for
    death in the conflict range from 11,000 to 100,000.\[1\]
  - 1954: France begins to fight against an [anti-colonial revolution in
    Algeria](Algerian_Revolution "wikilink"), the conflict kills between
    250,000 and 300,000 people and turns 3,000,000 into refugees.\[2\]

## 2000s

## See Also

  - [Timeline of US Imperialism](Timeline_of_US_Imperialism "wikilink")
  - Timeline of British Imperialism
  - Timeline of Spanish Imperialism
  - Timeline of Portuguese Imperialism
  - Timeline of Russian Imperialism
  - Timeline of German Imperialism
  - Timeline of Japanese Imperialism

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1.  [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") - [Malagasy
    Uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_Uprising)
2.  [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") - [Algerian
    War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War)