Things that Happened in France

Can you guess these facts about notable events which happened in the history of France?

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Year	Event	Answer
1959	President who founded the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle
1940	Town from which British forces evacuated in advance of German troops	Dunkirk
1913	Composer whose ballet "The Rite of Spring" supposedly shocked concert goers	Igor Stravinsky
1889	Tower which became the tallest human-built structure in history	Eiffel Tower
1871	Country which besieged and captured Paris	Prussia
1858	Town where a peasant girl named Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary	Lourdes
1799	General proclaimed as "First Consul" of the Republic	Napoleon Bonaparte
1793	Queen beheaded by guillotine	Marie Antoinette
1789	Prison stormed by a mob	Bastille
1783	Flying device demonstrated by the Montgolfier brothers	Hot air balloon
1598	Group of people given rights by the Edict of Nantes	Huguenots (Protestants)
1429	City liberated from an English siege by Joan of Arc	Orleans
1307	Military order who were arrested en masse on Friday the 13th	Knights Templar
1306	Group of people banished from France and whose property was confiscated	Jews
1095	Conflict launched by Pope Urban at the Council of Clermont	First Crusade
845	Group who sailed up the Seine and sacked Paris	Vikings
732	King who halted the Muslim advance at the Battle of Tours	Charles Martel
508	Frankish king who was baptized	Clovis
52 BC	Conqueror to whom Vercingetorix surrendered	Julius Caesar

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