Today in France History (Part 10)
Sub-Topics: French Polynesia - New Caledonia
Historical Events
Results 901 - 1,000 of 2,112
1815-06-16 - Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1815-07-09 - King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1815-07-09 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France.
1815-07-17 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
1815-11-20 - 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies
1816-01-12 - France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1816-07-03 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1816-07-19 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1818-09-30 - Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England
1818-10-09 - Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1821-08-19 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1822-03-31 - The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1822-05-03 - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1825-05-20 - Charles X becomes King of France
1825-06-20 - Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1825-10-17 - 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
1827-10-20 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet
1828-10-07 - The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1829-03-22 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1829-08-08 - French govt of De Polignac forms
1830-06-12 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1830-07-05 - France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
1830-07-28 - Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1830-07-31 - Charles X of France resigns by force
1830-08-09 - Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
1830-12-20 - England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium
1831-03-10 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1832-11-23 - French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1832-12-04 - French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1834-03-09 - French Foreign Legion is founded.
1835-07-09 - St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1838-11-30 - Mexico declares war on France
1839-01-02 - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1839-01-09 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1840-03-01 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
1843-11-28 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1848-02-24 - King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
1848-02-26 - 2nd French Republic proclaimed
1848-02-26 - 2nd French Republic forms
1848-03-05 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1848-03-12 - 2nd republic established in France
1848-04-28 - Free last slaves in French colonies
1848-09-16 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1849-07-03 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1851-11-02 - Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1851-12-02 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1851-12-04 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
1852-09-24 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight
1852-12-02 - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1853-09-24 - France annexes Caledonia
1854-03-28 - During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1854-07-13 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1854-09-04 - English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
1854-09-14 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1854-09-20 - British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
1854-11-05 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1855-06-17 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
1857-03-03 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1857-07-18 - Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1858-01-14 - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1858-02-11 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1859-02-16 - The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.
1859-06-24 - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1860-09-21 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
1860-10-12 - British & French troops capture Beijing
1862-03-10 - Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862-05-05 - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1862-06-25 - Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1863-04-30 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1863-06-07 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1863-08-11 - Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1864-06-19 - CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864-09-03 - US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1864-09-05 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1864-09-05 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1866-05-18 - French Govt of De Putte resigns
1867-01-31 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
1867-03-12 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1867-11-03 - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
1868-09-28 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
1868-09-30 - Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France
1869-07-15 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870-07-19 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1870-07-23 - Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1870-08-06 - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
1870-08-18 - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1870-09-04 - 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king
1870-09-20 - Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
1870-12-31 - J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
1871-05-10 - German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas
1871-05-10 - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany
1871-05-21 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1873-07-10 - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1873-09-15 - Last German troops leave France
1873-09-16 - German troops leave France
1877-05-16 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1878-12-18 - French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
1879-01-30 - French President MacMahon resigns
1879-04-08 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879-08-17 - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
Famous Birthdays
Results 901 - 1,000 of 2,645
1823-02-28 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1823-03-14 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
1823-06-02 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1823-06-21 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1823-09-28 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
1823-12-21 - Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
1824-01-15 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1824-02-22 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1824-02-28 - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
1824-03-15 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
1824-04-24 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1824-05-11 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
1824-06-28 - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
1824-07-12 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1824-07-27 - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1824-12-14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1825-03-17 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1825-04-11 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1825-05-04 - Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1825-10-31 - Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892)
1825-11-29 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1826-04-06 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
1826-05-05 - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France
1826-12-18 - Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
1827-02-01 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1827-04-16 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1827-04-17 - French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp)
1827-05-11 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1827-05-19 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
1827-09-16 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1827-10-29 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1827-11-30 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1828-02-08 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1828-02-14 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
1828-04-21 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
1828-05-02 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
1828-08-17 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1828-10-02 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
1828-10-08 - Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic
1828-11-26 - René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1829-07-08 - Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer
1829-12-05 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908)
1830-01-23 - Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900)
1830-03-15 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
1830-03-18 - Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
1830-05-10 - Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1830-05-20 - Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family)
1830-07-10 - Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism)
1830-12-17 - Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
1831-06-03 - Otho French Strahl, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1831-09-07 - Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
1832-01-06 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1832-01-23 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1832-04-05 - Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman
1832-11-09 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1832-12-15 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower)
1834-01-01 - Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
1834-06-19 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1834-07-19 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1834-08-02 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1834-09-17 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1834-12-16 - Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory)
1835-07-31 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835-07-31 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1835-10-02 - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian
1835-10-09 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1835-11-09 - Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835-12-07 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist
1836-01-14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1836-10-04 - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1836-10-15 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
1836-12-15 - Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
1837-04-29 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1837-05-31 - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
1837-08-11 - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated
1837-11-02 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
1837-12-09 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1838-01-05 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1838-02-28 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
1838-03-31 - Leon Dierx, French poet
1838-04-03 - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1838-04-18 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1838-05-20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1838-10-25 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
1838-11-07 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1838-12-31 - Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
1839-01-19 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1839-03-16 - René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1839-05-08 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1839-07-25 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1839-08-30 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1839-10-30 - Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter
1839-11-16 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840-01-10 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
1840-02-28 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1840-04-02 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1840-04-22 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1840-05-13 - L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1840-09-26 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1840-11-09 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
Famous Deaths
Results 901 - 1,000 of 2,121
1825-06-14 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (b. 1754)
1825-12-29 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
1826-01-03 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826-08-13 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
1827-03-05 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827-03-27 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1827-07-14 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1828-01-10 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1828-07-15 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1828-08-22 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70
1828-09-10 - Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67
1829-01-29 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1829-11-14 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
1829-12-18 - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85
1830-03-17 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1830-08-27 - Louis H J Condé, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1830-12-08 - H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63
1831-06-27 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1831-10-14 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1832-01-28 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1832-03-04 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1832-05-13 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1832-05-31 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1832-07-22 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1832-07-30 - Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
1832-08-24 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1832-11-15 - Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
1833-01-12 - Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
1833-01-19 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1833-02-06 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1833-05-10 - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74
1833-07-05 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1834-01-16 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1834-05-20 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
1834-07-14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1834-08-07 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1834-09-16 - Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
1835-03-20 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
1835-07-28 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1836-06-10 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1836-08-16 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1836-08-21 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1836-09-17 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1836-11-06 - Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1836-11-27 - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies
1837-08-09 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1837-10-05 - Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54
1837-10-09 - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1837-11-04 - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
1838-05-17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838-05-17 - René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)
1838-06-25 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1838-09-05 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1838-12-14 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1839-04-23 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1839-05-13 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1839-07-29 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1839-10-18 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68
1840-03-22 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1840-04-25 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1840-06-06 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1841-03-01 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1841-03-16 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1841-04-28 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1841-11-01 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
1842-03-23 - Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1842-03-24 - Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59
1842-03-30 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1842-05-08 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
1842-05-15 - Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1842-07-25 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1842-08-18 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1842-09-15 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1842-12-05 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82
1843-05-24 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
1843-09-19 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
1844-01-31 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1844-06-03 - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
1844-06-19 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1844-07-12 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
1844-07-15 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1844-09-27 - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1844-10-12 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
1845-07-04 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
1845-09-04 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82
1845-10-25 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1846-01-10 - Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
1846-07-24 - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1846-12-23 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
1847-03-29 - Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66
1847-05-29 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1847-06-09 - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies
1847-09-13 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1848-05-31 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1848-07-04 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1849-02-08 - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48
1849-05-11 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
1849-06-10 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1849-10-17 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
1850-08-26 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
