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| 1964, Jan. 27 |
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| France agreed to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Communist China. The French denied that this step implied a disruption of relations with Taiwan (Jan. 28) or recognition of East Germany (Feb. 4). | 1 |
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| Jan. 28 |
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| France and the USSR agreed to negotiate a five-year trade agreement to increase French-Soviet trade. | 2 |
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| Feb. 10 |
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| Nationalist China broke diplomatic relations with France. | 3 |
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| March 14 |
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| Twenty-one administrative regions were established, each headed by a coordinating prefect who presided over a Commission of Regional Economic Development, to stimulate economic growth. | 4 |
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| March 15–24 |
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| De Gaulle visited Mexico and the French territories in the Western Hemisphere. | 5 |
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| April 16 |
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| In a radio and television address, de Gaulle declared that France would build its own nuclear striking force, and that he favored continued French economic aid to the poorer nations, thus providing an alternative to U.S. and Soviet aid. | 6 |
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| April 28 |
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| The government ordered the removal of French naval officers from NATO commands in the Mediterranean and the English Channel. | 7 |
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| June 9 |
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| The French government, retaliating against Tunisia's nationalization of foreign-owned farmlands, announced that, beginning Oct. 1, Tunisian products would no longer enter France on preferential terms, thus abrogating the 1959 trade agreement. | 8 |
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| Sept. 20–Oct. 16 |
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| President de Gaulle, during an unprecedentedly long absence from France, visited ten South American countries in an effort to strengthen economic and cultural relations. | 9 |
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| Oct. 22 |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre refused to accept the Nobel Prize for literature, lest extraneous influences unfairly affect the power of a writer's words. | 10 |
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