The Order of the Black Star was founded on 1 December in 1889 by King Toffa of Porto Novo as civil and military merit and recorded by decrees of 10 and 23 May 1896 the French President Félix Faure in the series of the French Order. On September 1, 1950, the name was changed to the Ordre de la France d'Outre-mer was carried out.