* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.

During the Battle of France, the French, who made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers, were constantly frustrated when German forces arrived there first and pressed on.

During the pontificate of Pius IX a strong Ultramontane movement arose against the French Breviaries of 1680 and 1736.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

During World War II, the 1940-1941 Franco-Thai War left the French Indochinese colonial authorities in a position of weakness.

During the middle of the 20th century the French reluctantly began to accede to reasonable requests, and in 1946 Comoros had become a separately administered colony from Madagascar.

During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis ( FTP ), a part of the French Resistance.

During the Franco-Prussian War, at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in 1870, a Prussian cavalry brigade decisively smashed the centre of the French battle line, after skilfully concealing their approach.

During the 1930s the French Army experimented with integrating mounted and mechanised cavalry units into larger formations.

During the French Revolution, the unpopularity of the Directory led to riots and rebellions.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.

During the 19th and early 20th century, many smaller or less developed languages saw their first encyclopedias, using French, German, and English role models.

During the French occupation, Eindhoven suffered again with many of its houses destroyed by the invading forces.

During a daring raid on Cremona on the night of 31 January / 1 February 1702 Eugene captured the French commander-in-chief.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

During the winter, the Great Auk migrated south either in pairs or in small groups, and never with the entire nesting colony.

During the era of New Imperialism the territorial claims of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) expanded into a fully fledged colony named the Dutch East Indies.

During the Second Boer War the colony was neutral.

During the first 80 years the French and Acadians were in Nova Scotia, there were nine significant battles as the English and Scottish ( later British ), Dutch and French fought for possession of the colony.

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War — 1757 – 1763 ), the British deported the Acadians and recruited New England Planters to resettle the colony.

During this century, Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January – February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.

During the 5 years of Italian rule over the whole Horn of Africa ( a colony in Eritrea was set by Rome in 1870 and Ethiopia occupied in 1936 ), Italian geographers accurately mapped the population of their colony and eventually referred to the Oromos preferably as Gallas in all the official maps as well as in a guide-book still available nowadays called " Guida all Africa Orientale Italiana " (" A Guide-Book to Italian Eastern Africa ").

During the 19th century the colony of Prince Edward Island began to attract " adventurous Victorian families looking for elegance on the sea.

During the next 200 years, the Roman Catholic Church, especially the ascetic members of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), influenced the colony more strongly than the governors who succeeded Irala.

During World War I this German territory was invaded by British troops from the neighbouring Gold Coast colony and French troops coming from Dahomey.

During the war the Americans took virtual control of the Yukon and the then-British colony of Newfoundland in building the Alaska Highway and major airbases.

During the 1650s, the colony experienced dramatic growth and became a major port for trade in the North Atlantic.

During the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 BC, the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.

During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term Canaan to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the south by a line extended from the Dead Sea to around Gaza.

During the European period ( 1623 – 1662 ) soldiers and traders representing the Dutch East India Company maintained a colony in southwestern Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ) near present-day Tainan City.

During this period, Assyrian merchants established a merchant colony ( kârum ) attached to the city, which was called " Kaneš ".

During the French colonial period, most settlement and agricultural development was concentrated in the area of New Orleans, which became a port for the colony.

During Baudouin's reign the colony of Belgian Congo became independent.

During King Phillip's War later in the century the Martha's Vineyard band did not join their tribal relatives in the uprising and remained armed, a testimony to the good relations cultivated by the Mayhews as the leaders of the English colony.

During the French colonial administration, Vietnam was administratively divided into three different territories: Tonkin protectorate ( in the North ), Annam protectorate ( in the center ), and the colony of Cochinchina ( in the south ).

During Napoleonic wars in Europe, the Netherlands fell under France Republic, and so did its colony in East Indies.