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Agadir in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Agadir in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

11 records4 event labels1 people1911โ€“1912

Historical events in Agadir

1911

1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government 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.

1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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.

1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

April 1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

April 1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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.

April 1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

April 1911
Rule of Fez
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

7 July 1911
German Congo Compensation Proposal
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

9 July 1911
Franco-German Congo Negotiations
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

4 November 1911
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

1912

30 March 1912
Agadir Crisis
Aristide Briand ยท Government of France

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

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