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| 1932 | Birth |  |
| 29th Nov Paris Birth of Jacques Chirac |
| 1967 | National Assembly | |
| Correze Appointed Correze Dept |
| 1969 | Minister of Interior | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1974 | President | |
| 27th May Nominated Prime Minister of France by Giscard d'Estaing |
| 1974 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 1st term |
| 1976 | Rally for the Rep | |
| Founds the conservative Rally for the Republic movement |
| 1976 | Resignation | |
| Paris Cites Giscard's unwillingness to give him authority |
| 1976 | RPR | |
| Founds the RPR party |
| 1977 | Mayor | |
| Paris Appointed Mayor of Paris |
| 1981 | Election | |
| Comes 3rd in the 1st round of the Presidential elections |
| 1981 | Mayor | |
| Paris Splits the center-right vote, Chirac & Giscard were defeated by Socialist Mitterrand |
| 1986 | Government | |
| Leads a Conservative coalition government |
| 1986 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 2nd term |
| 1987 | Diplomacy | |
| 17th July Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations |
| 1988 | Election | |
| Polls 46% on the vote during the 2nd round |
| Runs against Mitterrand for a 2nd time, defeated in runoff elections |
| 1995 | Dayton Accords | |
| 14th Dec Dayton The full and formal agreement is signed by French President Jacques Chirac, USAPresident Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl & Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| 1995 | Diplomacy | |
| Baden Baden Kohl & Chirac meet to confirm their committment to a single currency in the EU |
| 1995 | Election | |
| Elected President of France, "to reduce the social rift" |
| 1995 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| 5th Sep Mururoa Atoll France conducts nuclear tests beneath atolls southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia, breaking a 1992 test moratorium despite worldwide protests from environmentalists |
| 5th Sep Mururoa Atoll Resumes nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia |
| 1995 | Reform | |
| Baden Baden Kohl & Chirac meet to confirm their committment to a single currency in the EU |
| 1996 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| 31st Jan Fangataufa Atoll France carries out a nuclear test equivalent to approximately 120,000 tonnes of conventional explosives, six times the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| 1st Feb Chirac announces an end to nuclear tests, accedes to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| 1996 | Treaty of Test Ban | |
| 1st Feb Chirac announces an end to nuclear tests, accedes to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| 1st Feb Paris agrees to a 10-year compensation package for French Polynesia to rectify some of the damage caused by the programme of nuclear testing |
| 2002 | Election | |
| April Parties outside the National Front call for opposing Le Pen in favour of Chirac |
| April "We must reject extremism in the name of the honor of France in the name of the unity" |
| 2002 | Plot | |
| 14th July Chirac survives an assassination by Maxime Brunerie on Bastille Day |
| 2005 | Riots | |
| 27th Oct Paris Disaffected youths, primarily of French Muslim descent, began 20 nights of civil unrest in the suburbs of Paris |
| 27th Oct Paris The riots are triggered when two teenagers were electrocuted in a poor area of a suburb east of Paris after allegedly climbing a fence to hide in an electric substation from a routine police-identification check |
| 27th Oct Paris The riots, which began in Clichy-sous-Bois, quickly spread to more than 274 communes or towns, one person is killed and 126 police and fire personnel are injured in the unrest, in which nearly 9,000 cars and at least two buildings are set ablaze |
| 6th Nov Chirac calls for the arrest, trial and punishment of the rioters |
| 9th Nov Chirac declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the civil unrest |
| 2005 | State of Emergency | |
| 9th Nov Chirac declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the civil unrest |
