1844 in France
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Events from the year 1844 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins.
- 14 August - Battle of Isly, French victory over Moroccan forces near Oujda, Morocco, ending the First Franco-Moroccan War.
- 28 August - Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
- 10 September - Treaty of Tangiers, whereby Morocco officially recognized Algeria as part of the French Empire.
- 24 October - Treaty of Whampoa, a commercial treaty between France and China, is signed.
- French Industrial Exposition of 1844
[edit] Births
- 21 February - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (d.1937).
- 26 February - Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (d.1929).
- 30 March - Paul Verlaine, poet (d.1896).
- 16 April - Anatole France, author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (d.1924).
- 21 May - Henri Rousseau, painter (d.1910).
- 22 October - Sarah Bernhardt, actress (d.1923).
- 23 October - Edouard Branly, inventor and physicist (d.1940).
- 8 December - Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (d.1918).
[edit] Deaths
- 1 January - Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre, Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen (b.1773).
- 25 January - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Marshal of France (b.1765).
- 27 January - Charles Nodier, author (b.1780).
- 8 March - Charles XIV John of Sweden, King of Sweden and Norway, Marshal of France (b.1763).
- 26 May - Jacques Laffitte, banker and politician (b.1767).
- 3 June - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the last Dauphin of France (b.1775).
- 28 July - Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples and Sicily and later King of Spain (b.1768).
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- Jean-Baptiste Lepère, architect (b.1761).
