14 August 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

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1. France was the first country to introduce the registration plate with the enactment of the Paris Police Ordinance on 14 August 1893, followed by Germany in 1896.

2. Well-done ancestors!

3. The Italians in their Alfa Romeos disliked this.

   Or at least they would 17 years later when Alfa became a thing.

4. Ah yes, this plate model, looks like france also invented EU that year

5. Yes, but not exactly these plates

   Initially, the format was “NNNN LL NN”, where the first four numbers N were random, then two random letters L, and the departement numbers were the last two N.

   They changed to the new format “LL NNN LL” with seven random caracters, and the dept number aside, as they allow them to make more plates.