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Jacques Chirac
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Person

Jacques Chirac

1932 – 2019 · aged 87

President of France from 1995 to 2007

Born
29 Nov 1932 · place not recorded
Died
26 Sept 2019 · 6th arrondissement of Paris
Part ofFrance359 BCE – todayCatholicism305 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 100 years
  1. 29 Nov 1932BornBorn
  2. 1954 – 1962WarAlgerian War
  3. 1967RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  4. 1968RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  5. 1968 – 1988RoleGeneral councillor of Corrèze
  6. 1970 – 1979RolePresident of the general council
  7. 1971 – 1972RoleMinister Delegate for Relations with Parliament
  8. 1972 – 1973RoleMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development
  9. 1973RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  10. 1973 – 1974RoleMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development
  11. 1974RoleMinister of the Interior of France
  12. 1974 – 1976RolePrime Minister of France
  13. 1976 – 1978RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  14. 1976 – 1994RoleParty leader
  15. 1977 – 1995RoleMayor of Paris
  16. 1978 – 1981RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  17. 1979 – 1980RoleMember of the European Parliament
  18. 1981 – 1986RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  19. 1986 – 1988RolePrime Minister of France
  20. 1986RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  21. 1988 – 1993RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  22. 1993 – 1995RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  23. 1995 – 2007RoleFrench co-prince of Andorra
  24. 1995 – 2007RolePresident of the French Republic
  25. 1996AwardIg Nobel Prize
  26. 1997AwardCollar of the Order of the White Lion
  27. 1998AwardOrder of the Republic
  28. 1999AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  29. 1999AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
  30. 2000AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎
  31. 2002AwardGold Olympic Order
  32. 2004AwardHonorary Member of the Athens Academy
  33. 2004AwardOrder of the Rajamitrabhorn
  34. 2006AwardCollar of the Order of Charles III
  35. 2008AwardHonorary doctor of the China Foreign Affairs University
  36. 26 Sept 2019DiedDied in 6th arrondissement of Paris

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1932 – 2019).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Jacques René Chirac (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒak ʁəne ʃiʁak] ; 29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

After attending the École nationale d'administration, Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, entering politics shortly thereafter. Chirac occupied various senior positions, including minister of agriculture and minister of the interior. In 1981 and 1988, he unsuccessfully ran for president as the standard-bearer for the conservative Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR). Chirac's internal policies initially included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation.

After pursuing these policies in his second term as prime minister, Chirac changed his views. He argued for different economic policies and was elected president in 1995, with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, beating Socialist Lionel Jospin, after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale). Chirac's economic policies, based on dirigisme, allowing for state-directed investment, stood in opposition to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom under the ministries of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, which Chirac described as "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism".

Chirac was known for his stand against the American-led invasion of Iraq, his recognition of the collaborationist French government's role in deporting Jews, him ending conscription in 1997, and his reduction of the presidential term from seven years to five through a referendum in 2000. At the 2002 presidential election, he won 82.2% of the vote in the second round against the far-right candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and was the last president to be re-elected until 2022. In 2011, a Paris court declared Chirac guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, giving him a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Text from the Wikipedia article Jacques Chirac, CC BY-SA 4.0

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