Aristide Briand Biography

Appointed Prime Minister of France

A rebellion breaks out In Morocco against the Sultan, Abdelhafid. by April the Sultan is besieged in his palace in Fez and the French prepare troops to help put down the rebellion under the pretext of protecting European lives and property.

Britain tries to restrain France from adopting over-hasty measures and to dissuade her from sending troops to Fez, the efforts fail but Edward Grey the British Foreign Secretary felt that his hands were tied and that he is forced to support France.

The British support France as in the First Moroccan Crisis again showing the strength of the Entente Cordiale

The British support France as in the First Moroccan Crisis again showing the strength of the Entente Cordiale

A rebellion breakss out In Morocco against the Sultan, Abdelhafid. by April the Sultan is besieged in his palace in Fez and the French prepare troops to help put down the rebellion under the pretext of protecting European lives and property

Britain tries to restrain France from adopting over-hasty measures and to disuade her from sending troops to Fez, the efforts fail but Edward Grey the British Foreign Secretary felt that his hands were tied and that he is forced to support France.

The French dispatch a flying column at the end of April 1911 and Germany gives approval for the occupation of Fez.

The French dispatch a flying column at the end of April 1911 and Germany gives approval for the occupation of Fez

Receives Germany's demand for colonial compensation in French Equatorial Africa during negotiations over Morocco.

Authorizes negotiations offering territory in Middle Congo as part of a settlement of the Agadir crisis.

A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I

A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I

France establishes a full protectorate over Morocco, ending what remained of the countrys formal independence

France establishes a full protectorate over Morocco, ending what remained of the countrys formal independence

Briand seeks a binding international guarantee of France's frontier with Germany and the demilitarized Rhineland.

Briand combines demands for security with a willingness to pursue political reconciliation with Germany.

Briand accepts Britain and Italy as guarantors of the western settlement between France, Belgium and Germany.

Briand insists that the settlement preserve the Versailles restrictions on military forces in the Rhineland.

Briand represents France as the Locarno Conference opens to negotiate a European security settlement.

Article Two commits France and Germany not to attack, invade or resort to war against each other except under stated exceptions.

France accepts a separate arbitration convention requiring peaceful procedures for disputes with Germany.

Briand approves the five-power guarantee linking Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy.

Briand accepts a central League Council role in determining and responding to breaches of the western guarantee.

France keeps its separate commitment to assist Czechoslovakia while joining the western Locarno framework.

Briand ensures that the western pact does not cancel France's security commitments toward Poland.

Briand joins the final protocol's commitment to cooperate with League efforts toward a general disarmament agreement.

The pact allows action resulting from specified decisions of the League Assembly or Council.

Briand joins the other delegates in approving the final protocol and interdependent Locarno agreements.

Briand joins the other principal delegates in London for the formal signing of the Locarno agreements.

Briand formally signs the Rhineland Pact on behalf of France at the London ceremony.

Briand welcomes Germany's admission to the League as a further step in the reconciliation associated with Locarno.

Briand treats the activation of Locarno as confirmation that Franco-German reconciliation now has a functioning international framework.

Briand's award recognizes his advocacy of Franco-German rapprochement, including his role in negotiating the 1925 Locarno settlement.

The Nobel Peace Prize is shared by Gustav Stresemann of Germany and Aristide Briand of France

Sponsors the antiwar pact linked to League-era diplomacy.

Devised by Frank Kellog & Aristride Briand. 63 powers sign a pact renouncing war

The pact is implemented by the League of Nations

Stressman promises not to send German troops into the Rhineland and accepts that Alsace-Lorraine is permantely part of France. Germany refuses to guarantee its eastern frontiers & France seeks to give Poland and Czechoslovakia the security they required by signing treaties with them. Aristide Briand of France proposes a plan for the United States of Europe

Stressman promises not to send German troops into the Rhineland and accepts that Alsace-Lorraine is permantely part of France

Aristide Briand of France proposes a plan for the United States of Europe