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| 1966, March 11 |
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| De Gaulle, describing NATO as outmoded, yet desiring to retain membership, stated the decision of the French government to withdraw all French troops from the integrated NATO command and requested that all NATO bases and headquarters be removed from French soil by April 1, 1967. | 1 |
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| April 21–27 |
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| Visit of Soviet foreign minister Andrey Gromyko to Italy and reception by the pope. Beginning of closer economic and cultural relations between the two countries. | 2 |
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| June 20–July 1 |
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| Visit of President Charles De Gaulle to Russia, following visits of French foreign minister Couve de Murville to other Eastern European capitals. The French envisioned a “Europeanized Europe” free from both American and Soviet domination. | 3 |
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| July 1 |
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| Allied supreme headquarters in Europe moved from Paris to Casteau, Belgium. | 4 |
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| July 4–6 |
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Meeting of the Warsaw Pact powers at Bucharest. Romanian premier Ceau escu proposed the dissolution of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact, as well as the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the territory of other nations. | 5 |
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| July 6–8 |
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| Conference of British prime minister Wilson and French premier Georges Pompidou: decision to proceed with construction of a Channel tunnel and to collaborate in the design and development of a supersonic airliner, the Concorde. | 6 |
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