Today in France History (Part 11)
Sub-Topics: French Polynesia - New Caledonia
Historical Events
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 2,112
1880-06-29 - France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1880-09-23 - Jules Ferry forms French govt
1880-11-08 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1881-03-23 - Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1881-04-25 - French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1881-05-12 - France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
1881-05-12 - Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
1881-07-26 - French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1881-10-24 - Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty
1881-11-05 - French government-Ferry resigns
1881-11-14 - Leon Gambetta forms French govt
1882-01-26 - France govt of Gambetta falls
1882-05-13 - Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1882-05-20 - Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance
1882-09-03 - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1883-02-01 - French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1883-02-21 - 2nd French government of Ferry begins
1883-04-02 - Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1883-04-12 - French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1883-05-31 - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1885-03-21 - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1885-05-12 - Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1885-06-12 - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1885-06-17 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
1885-12-17 - France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1887-02-20 - Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1887-02-23 - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1887-12-02 - French president Grevy (80) resigns
1888-12-11 - French Panama Canal company fails
1889-01-10 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1889-03-31 - 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1890-04-06 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1890-04-27 - French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan
1890-08-05 - British & French accord to divide African colonization
1891-01-01 - French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
1891-02-24 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
1891-07-26 - France annexes Tahiti.
1891-10-12 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1892-01-24 - battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
1892-08-17 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1893-03-10 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893-03-10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
1893-08-14 - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1893-08-14 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1893-12-17 - Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1893-12-28 - French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
1893-12-30 - Russia signs military accord with France
1894-01-04 - France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
1894-04-24 - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894-05-21 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1894-11-16 - French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1894-11-26 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1894-12-22 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1895-01-05 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
1895-01-15 - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
1895-01-17 - French president Casimir-Perier resigns
1895-01-17 - Félix Faure installed as president of France
1895-09-23 - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1895-09-30 - France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1896-02-28 - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1896-07-01 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1896-08-06 - France annexes Madagascar
1897-03-20 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1897-08-14 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1897-08-30 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1898-02-23 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1898-06-14 - France signs Niger Convention
1898-07-04 - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898-07-12 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
1898-09-29 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1898-11-02 - French government-Dupuy forms
1899-02-16 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
1899-03-21 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1899-09-09 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
1900-02-15 - General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
1900-03-13 - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1900-08-20 - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1900-09-05 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1900-10-28 - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
1902-06-28 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1902-11-20 - Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1903-01-19 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1903-07-01 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1903-11-17 - Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1903-12-29 - French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
1904-04-08 - Gr Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1904-10-03 - France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
1905-01-18 - French govt of Combes falls
1905-01-27 - Maurice Rouvier forms govt in France
1905-04-12 - French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1905-05-02 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1905-06-06 - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1905-11-22 - British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos
1905-12-09 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905-12-09 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1906-02-27 - France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
1906-03-03 - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1906-03-10 - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1906-06-26 - Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1906-07-04 - Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
Famous Birthdays
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 2,645
1840-11-12 - Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1840-11-14 - Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies)
1841-01-14 - Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist
1841-01-18 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui)
1841-01-30 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1841-02-04 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
1841-02-25 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
1841-02-28 - Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
1841-04-13 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
1841-05-22 - Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
1841-09-28 - Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss)
1841-11-06 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1841-11-16 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1841-12-06 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1841-12-20 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1842-01-02 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
1842-01-12 - Francois Coppee, French poet
1842-02-07 - Alexandre Ribit, premier (France)
1842-02-07 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
1842-03-18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
1842-04-04 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
1842-04-17 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
1842-05-12 - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1842-10-01 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)
1842-12-22 - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet
1843-01-20 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
1843-02-22 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1843-05-21 - Louis Renault, French lawyer
1843-09-27 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1843-10-21 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
1843-10-30 - A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter
1844-02-21 - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
1844-03-30 - Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
1844-04-16 - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921)
1844-05-03 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1844-05-20 - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
1844-08-07 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
1845-01-13 - Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
1845-01-22 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
1845-04-05 - Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
1845-05-12 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1845-06-18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1845-07-18 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1845-08-16 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1845-10-22 - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1846-04-04 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1846-07-11 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1846-08-25 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1846-12-02 - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
1847-04-01 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
1847-07-02 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
1847-11-02 - George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1847-11-08 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1847-12-17 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1848-01-21 - Henri Duparc, French composer
1848-02-05 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
1848-02-14 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
1848-06-07 - Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter
1848-07-31 - Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)
1848-08-19 - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)
1848-10-03 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1849-01-12 - Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
1849-02-04 - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
1849-03-28 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1849-06-02 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
1849-07-19 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849-07-19 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1850-01-14 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
1850-02-16 - Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
1850-04-20 - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
1850-08-05 - Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
1850-08-26 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
1850-10-08 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1851-03-27 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1851-04-06 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1851-04-21 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
1851-05-21 - Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1851-05-29 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
1851-06-08 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1851-06-09 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1851-10-02 - Ferdinand Foch, France, responsible for Allies winning WW I
1851-11-05 - Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
1852-01-01 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1852-01-12 - Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne)
1852-01-26 - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa)
1852-03-01 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
1852-09-02 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1852-09-28 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall
1852-09-28 - [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906)
1852-10-23 - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
1852-11-22 - Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
1853-01-16 - Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin)
1853-04-22 - Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1853-04-27 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1853-05-21 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1853-07-07 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1853-09-23 - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1853-12-17 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1853-12-26 - René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
1854-04-29 - Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
Famous Deaths
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 2,121
1850-12-10 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1851-07-10 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1851-11-26 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1852-01-06 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
1852-02-02 - Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49
1852-07-19 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1852-07-22 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1852-11-28 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1853-10-02 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies
1854-02-17 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71
1854-06-07 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1855-01-26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1855-12-15 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1856-01-05 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67
1856-05-03 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1856-05-12 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1856-08-14 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1856-11-04 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1857-02-16 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
1857-05-02 - LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
1857-05-11 - E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
1857-05-23 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1857-06-30 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1857-07-29 - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54
1857-08-03 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1857-09-05 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1857-10-28 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1858-05-04 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859-04-16 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1859-05-04 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1859-07-05 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1859-08-04 - Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)
1859-12-05 - Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
1860-08-14 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1860-10-24 - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80
1862-02-03 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87
1862-03-17 - Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
1863-01-17 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
1863-08-13 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1864-01-28 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1864-02-26 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1864-03-27 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1864-07-31 - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64
1864-08-31 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39
1864-10-04 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
1864-11-30 - Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 33
1865-01-08 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1865-01-16 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1865-01-19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1865-09-11 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1866-02-03 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1866-06-16 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1867-01-12 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74
1867-01-14 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1867-03-02 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
1867-08-23 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1867-11-13 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
1867-12-06 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1867-12-22 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1868-08-05 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1868-09-27 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
1868-12-24 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
1869-03-08 - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1869-03-24 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1869-12-26 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (b. 1797)
1870-01-26 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1870-09-23 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1870-11-24 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1870-11-28 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1871-01-10 - Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41
1871-01-29 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1871-05-12 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1872-10-21 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1872-10-23 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1873-01-09 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1873-03-27 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1873-05-20 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1873-09-23 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1873-10-29 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1873-12-21 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1874-01-08 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1874-02-09 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1874-04-04 - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1874-09-12 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
1874-09-21 - JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75
1875-01-03 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1875-01-20 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1875-02-19 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1875-02-22 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1875-03-01 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1875-03-27 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1875-04-30 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1875-06-03 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1875-06-09 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1875-06-25 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1875-10-12 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1876-05-12 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1876-06-08 - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1876-10-10 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1877-03-31 - Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
