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1749 Mar
Jean Godin, French geographer, left Quito, part of the Viceroyalty of Peru (later Ecuador), in an attempt to reach France to settle his family estate. He traveled by an eastern route across South America and became stranded in French Guiana for over 20 years. In 2004 Robert Whitaker authored “The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon.” It was an account of Jean Godin (d.1792), French mapmaker, and his wife, Isabel Godin. They managed to reunite in 1770.
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1769 Oct 1
Isabel Godin, the wife of French surveyor Jean Godin, departed Riobamba, Ecuador, with an escort of 31 Indians in an effort to reach her husband in French Guiana.
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1770 Jul 18
Isabel Godin, having traveled from Ecuador the length of the Amazon, reunited with her husband Jean Godin in French Guiana.
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1894 Sep 26
A French spy, working as a cleaning woman at the office of the German military attache in Paris, discovered an unsigned note in a wastebasket describing secret tests of new French artillery guns. French intelligence soon accused Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jewish officer who had access to the secret information. It later was found that the note had been written by Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.
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1895 Jan 5
French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. He was ultimately vindicated. Dreyfus, a Jew falsely accused of spying for the Germans, was imprisoned alone on Devil’s Island until 1899.
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1895 Apr 13
French Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrived on Devil’s Island where he was kept in solitary confinement.
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1899 Sep 19
French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus won a pardon after a retrial was forced by public opinion. He was soon released from Devil's Island in French Guiana.
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1946
French Guiana was designated as an overseas department of France giving it the same political status as the mainland.
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1996 Jun 4
The European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket was destroyed when it went off course during take-off from Kourou, French Guiana. The $7 billion rocket had taken 10 years to develop and was to be capable of carrying 7.6 tons into orbit.
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1998 Oct 21
In French Guiana the 3rd European Ariana 5 test rocket was launched at Kourou. It successfully simulated the launch of a mockup satellite.
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2002 Mar 1
Envisat ("Environmental Satellite"), an Earth-observing satellite, was launched aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Center in Kourou, French Guyana. After losing contact with the satellite on 8 April 2012, the European Space Agency formally announced the end of Envisat's mission on 9 May 2012.
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2003 Sep 27
Europe's first mission to the moon blasted off aboard a European Ariane rocket from French Guiana. The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles of the moon on Nov 15, 2004, and proceeded to move into an elliptical orbit. The spacecraft ended its mission Sep 3, 2006, when it crashed into the lunar surface.
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2004 Jul 17
An Ariane 5 rocket took off from French Guyana (Guiana) carrying the heaviest commercial telecom satellite ever.
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2009 May 14
A French rocket carrying the largest space telescope ever was launched into space on a mission that European scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the universe's creation. The Ariane-5 rocket was loaded with the Herschel space telescope and the Planck spacecraft, carrying a payload of 5.3 tons (4.81 metric tons) when it launched from the city of Kourou near the jungles of French Guiana.
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2010 Jan 10
Voters in French Guiana overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to give local government more autonomy while remaining a part of France. 70% voted "no," with 48% turnout.
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2011 Sep 9
Anglo Dutch Shell announced that it had discovered oil in deep waters around 150 km (90 miles) off the coast of French Guiana following a joint venture drilling project with venture energy partners Total, Tullow and Northpet.
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2011 Oct 21
A Russian rocket launched the first 2 satellites of the EU’s Galileo navigation system from French Guiana, in an ambitious bid to rival the American GPS network.
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2011 Dec 16
A Soyuz rocket carrying six satellites launched from French Guiana in the Russian-built rocket model's second mission this year. It was to first release a French Earth observation satellite, Pleiades 1. Next to come would be four French micro-satellites and a Chilean Earth observation satellite was to be released last.
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2012 May 16
In French Guiana an Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two Asian telecoms satellites into orbit from the Kourou space center. It placed into orbit two geostationary satellites, the JCSAT-13 for the Japanese SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, and the VINASAT-2 of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group.
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2014 Apr 3
The European Space Agency launched its Sentinel 1A satellite on a Russian Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. It was the first of six satellites for a new system designed to better monitor climate change, environmental disasters and catastrophes like floods, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
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2014 Jul 10
Arianespace launched a rocket from French Guiana carrying four satellites that will help provide Internet and mobile connectivity to people in nearly 180 countries.
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2015 Jun 23
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched overnight the second phase of a 4.3-billion-euro ($4.91-billion) program to deploy new-generation satellites to monitor environmental damage and aid disaster relief operations. Sentinel-2A was hoisted by a lightweight Vega rocket from ESA's base in Kourou, French Guiana.
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2017 Mar 17
A visit of Segolene Royal, the French minister of ecology, to French Guiana was cut short after masked demonstrators from the collective stormed into a regional conference on biodiversity she was attending in the department's capital city of Cayenne.
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2017 Mar 20
In French Guiana demonstrations started when workers from Endel-Engie, an engineering firm, and EDF, the local utility, blocked roads outside Kourou to prevent the launch of a rocket from the Guiana Space Center as they protested high living costs and neglect from Paris.
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2017 Mar 24
The US government to issue a travel warning for French Guiana in South America. Large protests have spread throughout the territory, blocking roads to neighboring Brazil and Suriname.
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2017 Mar 27
French Guiana faced a nationwide strike over crime and economic difficulties, amid protests that have paralyzed the French territory in South America, halted flights and a rocket launch and prompted a US travel warning.
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2017 Apr 1
France announced a billion euros ($1.07 billion) aid for strike-hit French Guiana, as representatives of the Guianese told visiting ministers the South American territory should be given "special status".
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2018 Jul 25
Europe launched four more Galileo satellites from French Guiana, taking the number in orbit to 26 and moving a step closer to having its own navigation system, just as the program has become the latest flashpoint in Brexit negotiations. The satellites will be part of the EU's alternative to the US Global Positioning System.
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2018 Oct 20
European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit for a joint mission to Mercury. The unmanned BepiColombo spacecraft successfully separated and was sent into orbit from French Guiana as planned to begin a seven-year journey to Mercury.
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2019 Dec 18
A European spacecraft was launched from Kourou, French Guiana, atop a Russian Soyuz rocket. The 3-year mission of Characterising ExoPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) is to study planets in other solar systems.
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2020 Jun 24
The French government said it is sending aid to French Guiana amid a surge of coronavirus infections there. The territory has recorded more than 2,500 infections within its population of 300,000.
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2020 Jul 4
France said it is sending medics to its South American territory of French Guiana, where infections have surged as the virus swept neighboring Brazil.
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2020 Jul 19
It was reported that more than 6,500 coronavirus cases have been recorded in French Guiana. Officials feared the number of infections is estimated to be much higher.
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2021 Dec 25
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world its first glimpse of the universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early today inside the cargo bay of an Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana, opening a new era of astronomy.
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