Congo-Brazzaville (03)

1880-1960 French rule


1880-1958

YEAR DATE EVENT GENERAL GOVERNOR
1880 1 october French colony
1886 27 april French Equatorial African Protectorate Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
1897 28 september Henri Félix de Lamothe
1900 28 april Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire
1900 december Louis-Albert Grodet
1904 21 janaury Émile Gentil
1908 28 june Martial Henri Merlin
1917 15 may Gabriel Louis Angoulvant
1920 16 may Maurice Pierre Lapalud
1920 5 september Jean Victor Augagneur
1923 21 august Robert Paul Marie de Guise
1924 8 july Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa
1924 16 october Raphael Valentin Marius Antonetti
1934 14 october Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard
1935 20 march Marcel Alix Jean Marchessou
1936 5 april Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste
1939 21 april Léon Solomiac
1939 3 september Pierre François Boisson
1940 17 july Hussons
1940 28 august Edgar René de Larminat
1941 11 august Félix Éboué
1944 15 february Ange Marie Charles André Bayardelle
1946 3 august Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux (I)
1946 27 october French overseas territory
1947 5 june Laurent-Elisée Péchoux
1947 5 july Charles Luizet
1947 15 november Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux (II)
1948 26 march Bernard Cornut-Gentille
1951 21 september Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet
1958 29 january Pierre Messmer
1958 15 july Yvon Bourges

1958-1960

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER
1958 28 november Independent in the French Comunity Jacques Opangoult
1958 8 december Fulbert Youlou


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