1974 Event Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris 1974 Event Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris 1970 Death Charles De Gaulle, Leader 1969 Event Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France 1968 Event President De Gaulle disbands French parliament 1968 Event President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1968 Event 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou 1967 Event French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Event Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' 1965 Event French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1962 Event French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 Event Failed assassination on president De Gaulle 1962 Event French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1961 Event John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 1960 Event Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle 1960 Event French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu 1959 Event President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination 1959 Event Charles de Gaulle forms French government 1959 Event French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1959 Event De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts 1959 Event Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic 1958 Event Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France 1958 Event De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave" 1958 Event Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French 1958 Event French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1958 Event Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 1958 Event French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle 1951 Event De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election 1946 Event F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government 1944 Event General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow 1944 Event De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees 1944 Event General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris 1944 Event General de Gaulle returns to France 1944 Event U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle 1944 Event French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C. 1944 Event General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France 1944 Event French general De Gaulle arrives in London 1944 Event Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution 1944 Event De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1944 Event Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh 1943 Event French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1942 Event Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich 1941 Event General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London 1940 Event French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle 1940 Event Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile 1940 Event Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1940 Event General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1940 Event General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London 1940 Event General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux 1940 Event General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 1940 Event General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense 1940 Event French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle 1914 Event German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured 1890 Birthday Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France 1890 Birthday Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France, 1958-69
