2005 in France

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See also: 2004 in France, other events of 2005, 2006 in France and the list of 'years in France'.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and Culture
4 Sport
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 References

[edit] Incumbents

President - Jacques Chirac
Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin then Dominique de Villepin
Interior Minister - Dominique de Villepin then Nicolas Sarkozy
Finance Minister - Hervé Gaymard then Thierry Breton
Foreign Minister - Michel Barnier then Philippe Douste-Blazy

[edit] Events

January 5 - Libération journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi are taken hostage in Iraq (freed on June 11)
February 11 - André Vingt-Trois is named Archbishop of Paris
February 25 - Resignation of Minister of Finance Hervé Gaymard, following a scandal over the low rent of the exclusive apartment he occupied
March - France released five of six suspects after their repatriation to France from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
March 3 - Oscar Temaru is elected president of French Polynesia, ending the rule of more than 25 years by Gaston Flosse
March 17 - René Girard is elected to the Académie Française
March 24 - Celebration of the 100-years anniversary of the death of Jules Verne
March 31 - Launch of Digital terrestrial television, with 14 new channels
March 31 - An amendment to the 35-hour workweek law is voted, extending possibilities of overtime
April - The Fillon law reforming France's education system is voted, among student protests numbering hundreds of thousands
April 6 - First mental 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by Alexis Lemaire
April 27 - First flight of Airbus A380 in Toulouse
May 8 - Olympique Lyonnais wins the Ligue 1
May 8 - Celebrations of the 60-year anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
May 16 - Pentecost Monday ceases to be a statutory holiday, leading to strong protests
May 29 - French referendum on the European Constitution fails
May 31 - A new government, headed by Dominique de Villepin, is nominated
June 28 - Official announcement that ITER will be built in Cadarache, Southern France
July 5 - Laurence Parisot becomes the president of the Mouvement des Entreprises de France
July 6 - Paris loses the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games to London
July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement
August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after skidding off the end of runway in Toronto, all passengers survive
August 11 - Ariane 5GS launches Thaïcom-4/iPStar-1, the heaviest telecommunications satellite to date at 6505 kg, into orbit
August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela, killing 160, mostly French citizens from Martinique
August 16 - Assassination of Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community
September 3 - Jacques Chirac is hospitalized for a "small vascular incident" affecting his eyesight
October 27 - 2005 civil unrest in France begins, and will last until November 17
November 16 - Ariane 5 launches Spaceway-F2 and Telkom-2, the rocket's heaviest dual payload to date, at more than 8000 kg
November 18 - Partial privatization of Électricité de France
November 27 - Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire. ^[1]