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St. Devota (b.~2893), a Corsican martyr, died. Sainte-Devote was killed during the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximian. Monaco celebrates her feast day on Jan 27. In 1820 she was named a principal patron saint of Corsica. Links: Corsica, Monaco, Saint 
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1726 Apr 26 |
Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, was born. Links: Corsica
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1746 Mar 27 |
Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, father of emperor Napoleon, was born. Links: Corsica
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1755 |
Corsica accomplished centered around the leadership of Pascal Paoli, general of a Corsica which would be Independent for 14 years. During a brief period of independence the capital was Corte. Links: Corsica
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1765 |
Corsica’s National university was founded in Corte. Links: Corsica
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1767 May 15 |
By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa. Links: Corsica
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1768 May 15 |
By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa. Links: Corsica
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1769 Aug 15 |
Napoleon Bonaparte (d.1821), Emperor of France (1804-1813, 1814-1815) and continental Europe, was born on the island of Corsica. Links: Corsica
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1779 Sep 2 |
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (d.1844), French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), was born in Corsica. He was one of 3 younger brothers of Napoleon I. Links: Corsica
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1780 Oct 20 |
M. Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma and Guastalla, was born. Links: Corsica
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1785 Feb 24 |
Carlo Bonaparte (39), Corsican attorney, died. Links: Corsica
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1794 Aug 21 |
France surrendered the island of Corsica to the British. Links: Corsica
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1803 May 24 |
Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican, French prince of Canino, Musignano, was born. Links: Corsica
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1807 Feb 5 |
Pasquale Paoli (80), Corsican freedom fighter, died. Links: Corsica
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1820 Aug 6 |
M.A. Elisa Bonaparte (43), Corsican monarch of Lucca, died. Links: Corsica
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1943 Oct 4 |
Some 6,600 Moroccans accounted for the bulk of the fighting force that freed Corsica. In 2013 France honored the Moroccan veterans and fallen soldiers who freed Corsica. Links: France, Corsica, Morocco
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1948 |
Maurice Papon was the top French official and authorized American planes loaded with weapons bound for Israel to land on the island. Links: Corsica
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1975 |
In Corsica the separatist militant movement started. It initially kept its attacks limited to French government buildings. Links: France, Corsica
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1981 Dec 1 |
180 people were killed when a chartered Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slammed into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica. Links: Air Crash, Corsica, Yugoslavia
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1981 |
Corsica’s National university, founded in 1765, re-opened in Corte. Links: Corsica, Education
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1996 Jan |
Bombs were set off at more than a dozen businesses and government offices by separatists. Links: Corsica
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1996 May 29 |
Separatists called for self-rule. Opposition Socialists said more autonomy should be granted and French Prime Minister Juppe rejected both demands. Links: Corsica
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1996 Oct 5 |
A bomb exploded in the mayoral offices of French Prime Minister Alain Juppe. There were no casualties. A Corsican separatist group later claimed responsibility. Links: France, Corsica
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1996 Dec 2 |
Four main separatist groups vied for power, the strongest of which was the FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front), whose Cuncolta political arm was led by Francois Santoni. In the capital of Ajaccio, the French prefect was Claude Erignac. Links: Corsica
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1996 Dec 2 |
In Corsica four main separatist groups vied for power, the strongest of which was the FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front), whose Cuncolta political arm was led by Francois Santoni. In the capital of Ajaccio, the French prefect was Claude Erignac. Links: Corsica
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1996 Dec 6 |
The French National Assembly approved tax breaks for Corsica. Links: Corsica
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1996 Dec 6 |
In France the National Assembly approved tax breaks for Corsica. Links: France, Corsica
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1996 |
A Corsican separatist was shot to death and three bombs were exploded in the French-ruled island's capital, Ajaccio. Despite limited autonomy more-militant groups continue to battle for independence. Links: Corsica
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1997 Jan 8 |
A car bomb destroyed a restaurant in the town of Ghisonaccia. Links: Corsica
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1997 Jun 17 |
The Corsican National Liberation Front announced a truce in their 22-year bombing campaign. Negotiations with France were to follow. Links: France, Corsica
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1997 Jun 18 |
A bomb exploded at a bank in Sartene. Links: Corsica
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1997 |
The Sampieru militant group attacked a police station. A stolen Beretta pistol was used in 1998 to kill Claude Erignac. Links: Corsica
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1997 |
In Corsica the Sampieru militant group attacked a police station. A stolen Beretta pistol was used in 1998 to kill Claude Erignac. Links: Corsica
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1998 Jan 6 |
In Corsica Claude Erignac, the French governor, was shot a killed by 2 gunmen. He was replaced by Bernard Bonnet. Bonnet lost credibility when he ordered an illegal bar, slated for demolition, torched. Links: Corsica
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1998 Feb 6 |
In Corsica Claude Erignac, the French governor, was shot a killed by 2 gunmen. In 2003 French police arrested Yvan Colonna for the murder. Links: France, Corsica
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1998 May 8 |
In France a bomb exploded in Marseilles and damaged the Regional Council building. Corsican militants were suspected. Links: France, Corsica
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2000 Aug 7 |
Jean Michel Rossi, co-author of an expose on the Corsican separatist movement, was shot and killed along with bodyguard Jean-Claude Fratacci at a bar in Ile-Rousse. Links: Corsica
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2000 Aug 29 |
In France Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement resigned over a proposed peace plan for Corsica. The plan offered limited rights to pass laws beginning in 2004 for the 250,000 inhabitants. Links: France, Corsica
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2002 Jul 27 |
In Austria a hand grenade exploded in the X-Large Disco makeshift discotheque in Linz, frequented by young Serbian and Croatian immigrants, wounding 27 teenage revelers. Links: Austria, Serbia, Corsica
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2003 Jul 6 |
Corsicans voted in a historic referendum to give local officials more say in running the Mediterranean island, an attempt to end years of attacks by separatists fighting French rule. Links: France, Corsica
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2003 Jul 7 |
In Corsica explosions rocked vacation homes owned by mainland French in new nationalist violence a day after Corsicans rejected a plan designed to set up a single executive body to run Corsican affairs. Links: France, Corsica
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2005 Oct 1 |
Riot police forcibly expelled striking union workers who had blockaded ports in Corsica and southeastern France for days to protest against the planned privatization of a state-run ferry operator. Links: France, Corsica
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2010 Jan 22 |
Some 124 refugees, who said they are Kurds and Tunisians, landed on the southern shore of Corsica after a lengthy journey at sea. Links: Corsica, Kurds, Tunisia
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2012 Feb 11 |
In Europe snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes as the death toll from the big freeze rose past 550. On the French Mediterranean island of Corsica snow was up to one meter thick in the higher villages and all flights were cancelled from Bastia airport. Links: Corsica, Tragedy, WeatherEU
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2012 Jul 2 |
Corsican separatist gunmen (FNLC) attacked the luxury holiday villa of a French banker, evacuated the occupants and detonated 4 explosives inside. Links: France, Corsica
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2012 Nov 14 |
On France’s island of Corsica Jacques Nacer, a shopkeeper and chief of Corsica's chamber of commerce, was killed. He was the second high-profile killing on the island in a month. Links: France, Corsica
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2012 Dec 7 |
On the French island of Corsica a man was shot dead and at least 17 houses were bombed. The vacation destination is also home to criminal gangs and a simmering homegrown nationalist movement. Links: France, Corsica
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2015 Jun 10 |
On the French island of Corsica a violent storm lashed one of the world's top walking trails, leaving four people dead. Links: Corsica
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2015 Jul 31 |
A Picasso painting was seized from a yacht by Corsican customs agents. Spain accused the painting's owner, Jaime Botin (79), a well-known Spanish banker whose family founded the Santander banking group, of trying to illegally export it to Switzerland. Painted in 1906, "Head of a Young Woman" is considered by Spain to be a national treasure. Links: Artist, Spain, Corsica
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2015 Dec 25 |
In Corsica a crowd vandalized a Muslim prayer room a day after an ambush injured two firefighters responding to an emergency in a housing project. Links: Corsica
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2015 Dec 27 |
France banned demonstrations in part of the Corsican capital Ajaccio following two days of anti-Arab protests and sectarian tensions. Links: France, Corsica
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2016 May 3 |
In Corsica the so-called October 22 splinter group of the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) said it would end "military operations", two years after the main militant movement on the French island laid down its arms. Links: Corsica
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2017 Aug 12 |
Scorching temperatures and high winds fuelled huge wildfires on the French island of Corsica, forcing holidaymakers to flee, and in Portugal where firefighters have brought two major blazes under control. Links: Portugal, Corsica, Fire
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2017 Dec 3 |
Voters on the French island of Corsica island cast ballots in the first round of a territorial assembly election. The election will establish a single assembly with 63 seats to represent the whole island, instead of the three that do now. The second round of voting is scheduled for Dec. 10. The governing Pe a Corsica (For Corsica) alliance, which groups the pro-autonomy Femu a Corsica (Let's Make Corsica) and pro-independence Corsica Libera (Free Corsica), won 45.36 percent of the vote in elections to the regional assembly. Links: Corsica
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2017 Dec 4 |
Corsican nationalists seeking greater autonomy from France ruled out an imminent independence bid but demanded greater freedoms for the island after winning the first round of regional elections. Links: Corsica
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2018 Jan 19 |
French riot police clashed with striking prison guards who accused the government of doing little to counter spiraling violence and Islamist activism inside the country's overcrowded jails. The scuffles outside Fleury Merogis prison, one of Europe's largest with 3,800 inmates, coincided with news from Borgo prison in Corsica that two security guards were attacked and injured by inmates. Links: France, Corsica, Prison Riot
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2018 Oct 7 |
A cargo ship rammed into another freight vessel near the French Mediterranean island of Corsica early today, causing no injuries but causing a leak which officials say is most likely fuel. The Ulysse, operated by the Tunisian operator CTN, struck the Cyprus-based CLS Virgina while it was anchored about 30 km (20 miles) off the northern tip of the island. Links: Environment, Corsica, Ship
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2022 Mar 13 |
In Corsica 67 people injured during protests, including 44 police, as anger over the assault in prison of a nationalist figure reached boiling point.. Yvan Colonna, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination in 1998 of Corsica’s top regional official, Claude Erignac, has been in a coma since being beaten on March 2 in jail by a fellow prisoner. Demonstrations and riots have been ongoing since the prison attack, which protesters blame on the French government. Links: Corsica, Mad Crowd
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2022 Mar 21 |
Yvan Colonna, a Corsican nationalist, died after falling into a coma after he was strangled by a fellow inmate. Colonna, a shepherd, was serving a life sentence at a prison in the southern French city of Arles for the 1998 murder of Claude Erignac, who as prefect of Corsica embodied the power of the French state on the island. He said he was innocent. Links: France, Corsica
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2022 Aug 18 |
A violent and unexpected storm battered the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, killing at least five people including a teenage girl, and meteorologists predicted more bad weather to come. Links: Corsica, WeatherEU
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