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| 1889 |
| | | France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony | |
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| 1898 |
| | | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1906 |
| | | An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco | |
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