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Originally created in 1895 as a union of Senegal, French Sudan, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire only, the federation was placed on a permanent footing in 19041904 is a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 7 The distress signal " CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by " SOS. February 7 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 with a governor-general based first in Saint-LouisSaint-Louis or Saint-Louis du Senegal (locally called Ndar in the Wolof language) is a city (pop. 180,000) in the northwest of Senegal near the mouth of the Senegal River. It is the capital of the Saint-Louis region. Saint-Louis was the capital of French, then (from 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage) in DakarDakar (2,079,000 inhabitants (2000)) is the capital city of Senegal, located at the country's Atlantic coast. Its position, on western edge of Africa, is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth int, both in Senegal, the oldest French settlement.
The federation ceased to exist after the September 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat referendumA referendum (plural: referendums or referenda or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may be the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the r on the future French Community , in which the constituent territories voted to became autonomous republicModern republics A republic is a form of government (and a state so governed) where the head of state is not a monarch. Many times people interchangebly use republic and democracy to refer the same. the truth is that in a country where the governmental sts except for Guinea, which voted overwhelmingly for independence. Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey subsequently formed the short-lived Sahel-Benin Union , later the Conseil de l'EntenteThe Conseil de l'Entente ("Council of Accord" or "Council of Understanding") is a West African regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin, and joined in 1996 by Togo. The body grew out of the short-.
With an area of some 4,689,000 km² (mostly the desert or semi-desert interior of Mauritania, Soudan and Niger) extending from Africa's westernmost point at Cape Verde to the depths of the Sahara, the federation contained rather more than ten million inhabitants at its creation and some 25 million at its dissolution.