1) March 1885 event
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The Tonkin Affair (French: l`affaire Tonkin) of March 1885 was a major French political crisis that erupted in the closing weeks of the Sino-French War. It effectively destroyed the political career of the French prime minister Jules Ferry, and abruptly ended the string of Republican governments inaugurated several years earlier by Leon Gambetta.....
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