1958 in France

Events from the year 1958 in France.

Incumbents

1 January
*The European Economic Community comes into being.
*Carrefour group set up.
13 May – Crisis caused by putsch attempt in Algiers involving French officers.
1 June – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for six months.
4 June – Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria.
28 September – A majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the French Fifth Republic.
2 October – Guinea declares itself independent from France, rejecting the new French constitution.
4 October – The new Constitution of France is signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic.
3 November – New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
23 November – Legislative Election held.
25 November – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
28 November – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
30 November – Legislative Election held, to elect the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
1 December – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
21 December – Presidential Election won by Charles de Gaulle with 78.5% of the votes.

13 February – Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker
14 August – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate
22 August – Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature
23 September – Robert Mercier, footballer
11 October – Maurice de Vlaminck, painter, printmaker and author