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| 1914 | Election |  |
| Aubervilliers Laval enters politics winning a seat in the Chamber of Deputies as member of the Socialist SFIO |
| 1919 | Election | |
| Loses seat as a Socialist deputy, regarded as a defeatist during World War I |
| 1925 | Minister of Public Works | |
| Appointed Minister of Public Works |
| 1926 | Election | |
| Elected to the Senate |
| 1926 | Minister of Justice | |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1930 | Minister of Labour | |
| Appointed Minister of Labour |
| 1931 | Minister of Interior | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1931 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 1st term |
| 1934 | Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1934 | Referendum | |
| 4th Dec Saarland Accepts Eden's offer to send a force to preserve order against Nazi intimidation |
| 1935 | Alliance | |
| 7th Jan Paris A settlement between Abyssinia & Italy |
| 7th Jan Paris Parts of Abyssinia are ceded to Italy, the ensuing outcry forces Hoare to resign |
| 7th Jan Paris Signed by Samuel Hoare & Pierre Laval |
| 2nd May Paris Signs the Franco-Soviet pact, guaranteeing mutual assistance over 5 years |
| 1935 | Diplomacy | |
| 3rd Feb London A memo is issued to negotiate with Germany over arms & League of Nations membership |
| 3rd Feb London Flandin & Laval visit London |
| 7th Mar Paris Re-establishment of the French-Belgian military pact |
| 20th Mar Paris France complains to the League of Nations about Germany's conscription & the Luftwaffe |
| 2nd May French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation |
| 16th May Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties |
| 1935 | Pact | |
| 7th Mar Re-establishment of the French-Belgian military pact |
| 2nd May French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation |
| 16th May Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties |
| 1935 | Referendum | |
| Saarland Says he will act against German intervention after refering to the League of Nations |
| 1940 | Arrest | |
| 13th Dec Laval is dismissed and arrested, pressure from German ambassador Otto Abetz secures his release, Laval leaves for Paris and the protection of his German patron |
| 1940 | Collaboration | |
| 22nd Oct Montoire Laval meets with Hitler, offers his own collaboration and arranges a meeting two days later at which Petain pledges the collaboration of the French State as well |
| 13th Dec Laval is dismissed and arrested, pressure from German ambassador Otto Abetz secures his release, Laval leaves for Paris and the protection of his German patron |
| 1940 | Invasion of France | |
| 22nd Oct Montoire Laval meets with Hitler, offers his own collaboration and arranges a meeting two days later at which Petain pledges the collaboration of the French State as well |
| 1940 | Vice Prime Minister | |
| July Vichy Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France after the collapse of France |
| Oct Vichy Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain |
| 1941 | Collaboration | |
| 27th Aug Versailles Laval is shot four times while reviewing the Legion des Volontaires Francais at Versailles , he survives his wounds and is returned to power in Vichy on April 18,1942 |
| 1942 | Arrest | |
| Released from prison under Hitler's orders |
| 1942 | Collaboration | |
| 22nd Aug Laval goes on the radio to announce la Releve , under which the Germans agree to free one French prisoner for every three French workers who volunteer for work in Germany |
| 22nd Aug Laval proclaims on that he," hoped for German victory because without it tomorrow Bolshevism will be everywhere" |
| 1942 | Government | |
| Leads a German puppet Government |
| Raises an army for Hitler & allows deportation to Germany for forced Labour |
| 1942 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 2nd term |
| 1942 | Trial | |
| Vichy Blum & Daladier expose the trials & Vichy France loses American support |
| Riom Trials held by the Vichy government of those responsible for the 1940 French collapse |
| 1943 | Collaboration | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it |
| 1943 | Milice, La | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it |
| 1943 | Service du Travail Obligatoire | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it |
| 1944 | Arrest | |
| 31st July Innsbruck Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by USAtroops for treason |
| 1944 | Capital | |
| Belfort The French resistance force Laval to move his government to Belfort & into Germany |
| 1944 | Collaboration | |
| Aug Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany |
| 1944 | Exile of Laval | |
| 31st July Innsbruck Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by USAtroops for treason |
| Aug Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany |
| 1945 | Death | |
| 15th Oct Fresnes Death of Pierre Laval, executed |
| 1945 | Execution of Laval | |
| 15th Oct Fresnes Shot by a firing squad for high treason |
| 1945 | Exile of Laval | |
| July Flown to Spain a few days before the German surrender, Franco has Laval arrested and turned over to the Americans in Austria who extradite him to the French authorities in July |
| 1945 | Trial | |
| 9th Oct Fresnes The Prime Minister of France is sentenced to death for high treason |
