Biography:Leader of the Free French during World War II, head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 and President of France from 1959 to 1969.
Famous for saying 'non' to Britain's entry to the European Common Market.
1940-06-18 General Charles de Gaulle makes his first speech on the BBC to the French people, since arriving in London, an appeal to defy Nazi occupiers - regarded as the beginning of French Resistance during WWII
1940-08-02 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death in absentia
1943-05-30 French General Charles De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1944-01-12 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle begin a two-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
1944-04-04 French General Charles de Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1944-06-04 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in London
1944-06-14 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France, landing in Normandy, proclaiming Bayeux the capital of Free France
1944-07-06 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.
1944-07-12 US government recognizes authority of French General Charles de Gaulle
1944-08-20 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France
1944-08-25 German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Free French forces of Philippe Leclerc, disobeying Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city. President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle gives a famous speech at the Hôtel de Ville.
1944-08-26 French General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
1944-12-02 French General Charles De Gaulle arrives in Moscow, USSR
1951-06-18 Charles De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1958-05-28 French government of Prime Minister Pierre Pflimlin resigns; 200,000 demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle
1958-06-01 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958-06-04 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1958-06-06 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1958-12-21 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of the 5th Republic of France
1959-01-08 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic
1959-01-13 French President Charles De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death
1959-05-29 Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1959-09-16 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
Emmanuel Macron
François Mitterrand
Georges Pompidou
Jacques Chirac
Nicolas Sarkozy
Raymond Poincaré