Today in France History (Part 8)
Sub-Topics: French Polynesia - New Caledonia
Historical Events
Results 701 - 800 of 2,112
1791-10-01 - 1st session of new French legislative assembly
1791-11-21 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1792-02-07 - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1792-04-14 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1792-04-20 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1792-06-13 - King Louis XVI fires French government
1792-07-08 - France declares war on Prussia
1792-07-11 - Prussia army moves into French territory
1792-07-25 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1792-07-30 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1792-08-13 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1792-09-02 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1792-09-20 - French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1792-09-21 - 1st French Republic forms
1792-09-21 - Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France
1792-09-22 - Origin of French Republican Era
1792-09-26 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1792-11-06 - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
1792-12-11 - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
1792-12-26 - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.
1793-01-19 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1793-02-01 - France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793-02-24 - French troops conquer Breda
1793-03-04 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
1793-03-05 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1793-03-18 - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1793-03-26 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1793-05-19 - Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1793-05-30 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1793-06-24 - 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1793-07-24 - France passes 1st copyright law
1793-08-01 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1793-08-08 - The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1793-08-29 - Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1793-09-05 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1793-09-20 - British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1793-10-05 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1793-11-03 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1793-11-10 - France ends forced worship of God
1793-11-26 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1793-12-18 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1793-12-26 - Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.
1794-02-04 - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1794-03-28 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1794-04-30 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
1794-05-06 - Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
1794-05-18 - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1794-06-01 - English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
1794-06-01 - The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1794-06-10 - France revolutionary regime begins trials
1794-06-25 - French troops occupy Charleroi
1794-06-26 - Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army
1794-07-02 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1794-07-13 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1794-08-26 - French troops occupy Lock
1794-09-27 - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
1794-10-09 - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1794-10-29 - French troops occupies Venlo
1794-11-03 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1794-11-07 - French troops conquer Nijmegen
1794-12-15 - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1794-12-30 - French troops conquer Grave Neth
1795-01-16 - French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth
1795-01-18 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795-02-05 - Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
1795-02-21 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1795-03-05 - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1795-04-07 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1795-05-16 - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1795-07-15 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1795-07-27 - Spain & France sign peace treaty
1795-10-01 - France annexes Southern Netherlands
1795-10-01 - Belgium is conquered by France.
1795-10-26 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1796-05-10 - French govt arrest 10 utopists
1796-05-15 - France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1796-05-15 - French troops occupy Milan
1796-08-19 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1796-09-08 - Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians
1796-11-17 - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1797-02-19 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
1797-02-22 - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1797-04-18 - France & Austria signs cease fire
1797-05-12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1797-10-17 - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
1798-03-07 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
1798-07-07 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1798-08-01 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
1798-08-02 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1798-08-22 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1798-08-27 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1798-09-05 - New conscription law goes into effect in France
1798-10-12 - Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
1798-12-24 - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1799-01-14 - King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
1799-02-09 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1799-03-12 - Austria declares war on France
1799-07-15 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1799-07-25 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1799-08-23 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
Famous Birthdays
Results 701 - 800 of 2,645
1779-11-27 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1779-12-12 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1779-12-19 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver
1780-04-29 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1780-08-29 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
1780-09-28 - Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
1780-12-23 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher
1781-02-17 - René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)
1781-06-21 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782-01-29 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer (Fra Diavolo)
1782-06-10 - Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian
1782-06-19 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1783-01-23 - Stendahl, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
1783-01-23 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1783-04-10 - Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1783-12-19 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem)
1784-07-27 - Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
1784-10-15 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
1785-02-12 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
1785-03-27 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1785-11-28 - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
1786-01-23 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1786-02-02 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
1786-02-28 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
1786-05-08 - Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859)
1786-06-20 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1786-07-09 - Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787)
1786-07-24 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1786-10-30 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1787-05-07 - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1787-06-04 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
1787-09-05 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1787-10-04 - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
1787-11-18 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1788-03-07 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1788-03-12 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1788-09-10 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1789-06-30 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1789-08-21 - Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1790-05-23 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1790-10-21 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
1791-06-30 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1791-09-26 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1791-12-24 - A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)
1792-05-21 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1792-09-05 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
1792-11-28 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
1792-12-20 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1793-11-15 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry)
1794-01-25 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1794-03-05 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1794-04-15 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1794-05-13 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795-01-06 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
1795-05-13 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1795-12-04 - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1796-02-22 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796-06-01 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1796-09-25 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1797-03-27 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)
1797-04-10 - Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1797-04-14 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1797-04-18 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France
1797-07-17 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1798-04-17 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
1798-04-26 - Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1798-08-21 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
1798-09-25 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1798-10-07 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1798-12-04 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)
1799-02-11 - Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873)
1799-02-26 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
1799-05-20 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1799-08-11 - Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
1799-09-19 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1800-03-25 - Paulin Paris, French historian
1800-05-05 - Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette)
1800-12-03 - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici)
1801-02-01 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
1801-04-11 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1801-05-11 - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
1801-08-28 - Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot)
1801-10-06 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1802-02-02 - Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
1802-02-26 - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1802-04-12 - Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart)
1802-07-24 - Alexandre Dumas Pere, France, author (3 Musketeers)
1802-09-06 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1802-09-24 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1803-05-24 - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano
1803-06-10 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1803-07-12 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1803-09-28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1803-09-29 - Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem)
1803-12-11 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1804-01-13 - Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
1804-01-20 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1804-07-01 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1804-07-21 - Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery
1804-09-14 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
Famous Deaths
Results 701 - 800 of 2,121
1773-03-13 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1773-10-26 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1774-02-04 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1774-05-10 - Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64
1774-08-11 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1774-10-23 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1774-12-16 - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80
1776-03-10 - Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1776-05-04 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1776-08-02 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1776-10-17 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1777-06-16 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1777-07-13 - Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
1778-01-04 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
1778-02-18 - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
1778-03-13 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1778-05-30 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1778-07-03 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1778-08-04 - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1778-08-05 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1779-01-03 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1779-12-06 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1780-07-14 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1780-08-03 - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
1780-08-29 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1781-03-18 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1782-01-04 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83
1782-01-28 - Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84
1783-09-27 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1784-02-13 - Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/min of For affairs, dies
1784-07-31 - Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies
1784-09-04 - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
1785-05-08 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
1785-06-02 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1785-08-21 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1785-11-18 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1786-01-07 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1787-02-13 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
1787-03-02 - Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73
1787-03-11 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1787-07-04 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
1788-01-14 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1788-04-16 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1788-05-29 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
1788-08-08 - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
1789-07-13 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1789-07-14 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789-07-22 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1789-12-03 - Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies
1789-12-23 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1790-01-13 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
1791-04-02 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
1791-06-10 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1791-08-16 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1792-04-25 - Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined
1792-05-12 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1792-07-29 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1792-08-25 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1792-10-22 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1793-01-21 - Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
1793-01-21 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
1793-04-13 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1793-06-16 - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1793-07-13 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday
1793-07-14 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1793-07-21 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1793-08-22 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
1793-08-28 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
1793-10-09 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1793-10-16 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France
1793-10-31 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40
1793-11-03 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1793-11-24 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1793-12-07 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
1793-12-09 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
1793-12-23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1794-04-05 - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
1794-04-13 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1794-04-23 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1794-05-10 - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30
1794-06-27 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1794-07-25 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1794-07-28 - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
1794-09-25 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1794-11-03 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1794-11-17 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1795-04-30 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1795-06-01 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1795-06-08 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10
1795-07-03 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795-11-15 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1796-01-01 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1796-03-06 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1796-07-30 - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
1796-09-21 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1797-05-17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1797-05-27 - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1797-09-18 - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
1797-11-18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1798-02-25 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
