Side by side
France and United States compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia
4 July 1776 — The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
- Shared indicators
- 42
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- 9
- Crossed events
- 2
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
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Entangled histories
2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1754–1763
French and Indian War
Britain's victory in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War expelled France from the continent but left Britain heavily indebted, prompting new colonial taxes.
War & Rupture · from the United States chronicle · European colonisation and the Thirteen Colonies · Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation; U.S. History Collections
- 1803
Louisiana Purchase
The United States bought France's Louisiana territory for $15 million, roughly doubling the nation's size and opening the trans-Mississippi West.
Politics & Power · from the United States chronicle · Revolution and the founding of the Republic · Lewis and Clark Expedition