At the same time, he established centers and laboratories within France to provide an institutional context within anthropology, while training influential students such as Maurice Godelier and Françoise Héritier.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

The International Badminton Federation ( IBF ) ( now known as Badminton World Federation ) was established in 1934 with Canada, Denmark, England, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales as its founding members.

: According to the BIS, " The choice of Switzerland for the seat of the BIS was a compromise by those countries that established the BIS: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Good examples are the cities established by various rulers in the south of France and city expansions in old Dutch and Flemish cities.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

In 1886 Said Ali bin Said Omar, Sultan of Bambao, signed an agreement with the French government that allowed France to establish a protectorate over the entire island of Ngazidja ( Grande Comore ; protectorates were also established over Ndzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mwali ( Mohéli island in French ) the same year.

Comoros broke all ties with France and established itself as an independent republic.

Universities were established in France, Italy and England by the early 13th century.

The European colonial period was the era from the 1500s to, arguably, the 1900s when several European powers ( particularly, but not exclusively, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and France ) established colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Universal male suffrage was definitely established in France in March 1848 in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

Some of the new king's policies, however, led to conflict with France, thus damaging prosperous trade relationships for Defoe, who had established himself as a merchant.

France conquered Dahomey in the Second Franco-Dahomean War ( 1892 – 1894 ), and established a colonial government.

1648 ; i. e. after the Thirty Years ' War, in France and the French colonial empire, until established as the national language during the French Revolution of 1789 and subsequently multinational in all nations in or formerly in the various French Empires.

France established a colony at Port St. Louis, on East Falkland's Berkeley Sound coast in 1764.

In 1766, France agreed to leave, and Spain agreed to reimburse Louis de Bougainville, who had established a settlement at his own expense.

The significance of the film's message was established further in France, shortly after World War II began.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

After he discovered that France was not self-sufficient in gunpowder, a Gunpowder Administration was established ; to head it, the lawyer Antoine Lavoisier was appointed.

The previous year had been one of success for France and her allies, most particularly on the Danube, where Marshal Villars and the Elector of Bavaria had created a direct threat to Vienna, the Habsburg capital.

It is an overseas possession of France under direct authority of the Minister of Overseas France.

For a time, Leclerc met with some success ; he also brought the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola under the direct control of France in accordance with the terms of the 1795 Treaties of Bâle with Spain.

Matilda and her own son stood for direct descent by heredity from Henry I, and she bided her time in France.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the League of Nations mandated the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to the direct control of France.

Wanting to maximize the area under its direct control, contain an Arab Syria centered on Damascus, and insure a defensible border, France established the Lebanon-Syrian border to the " Anti-Lebanon " mountains, on the far side of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had belonged to the province of Damascus for hundreds of years, and was far more attached to Damascus than Beirut by culture and influence.

Henry IV of France was his direct male-line descendant.

Significant rebellions occurred on Tanna and Espiritu Santo and paperwork revealed the direct culpability of France in its desire to see Espiritu Santo become a separate French colony.

The acquisition of Lorraine for the former Polish king, however, proved of lasting benefit to France, as it passed under direct French rule with Stanisław's death in 1766.

Isabella of France ( consort of Edward II ) was also a direct descendant of Harold via Gytha.

In 1886, to support its claims of effective occupation, France again assumed direct control of its West African coastal trading posts and embarked on an accelerated program of exploration in the interior.

During 1501 Naples became under direct rule from France at the time of Louis XII, as Neapolitan king Frederick was taken as a prisoner to France ; this lasted only four years.

Since the late 1970s, there have been direct ferries from Cork to Roscoff, France.

Hollings served as an officer in the U. S. Army's 323rd and 457th Artillery units from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations from December 13, 1944 to May 1, 1945 in France and Germany.

Yet the royal authority made progress in the parts of France distant from the royal domains: more direct and more frequent connection was made with distant vassals, a result largely due to the alliance of the clergy with the crown.

For Gaul, Bruce Eagles has observed that " it has long been an academic commonplace in France that the medieval dioceses, and their constituent pagi, were the direct territorial successors of the Roman civitates.

There are many places in Europe, most notably in France, Italy, and the German-speaking countries ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ) where the model of EMS is different, and physicians take a more direct, ' hands-on ' approach to pre-hospital care.

The political and social status of the minority groups living in France have a direct influence on French hip hop.

In 2008, France was the second-largest recipient of foreign direct investment among OECD countries at $ 117. 9 billion, above the United Kingdom ($ 96. 9 billion ), Germany ($ 24. 9 billion ), or Japan ($ 24. 4 billion ).

In the same year, French companies invested $ 220 billion outside of France, ranking France as the second most important outward direct investor in the OECD, behind the United States ($ 311. 8 billion ), and ahead of the United Kingdom ($ 111. 4 billion ), Japan ($ 128 billion ) and Germany ($ 156. 5 billion ).