1890 in France

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Events from the year 1890 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Full date unknown 4 References

[edit] Events

• 2 January - Steamship Persia wrecked off Corsica: 130 lives lost.^[1]
• 21 February - First Franco-Dahomean War begins.
• 1 March - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as Minister of the Interior.
• 4 March - Battle of Cotonou, attack on French positions repulsed.
• 4 October - First Franco-Dahomean War ends in French victory.

[edit] Births

• 19 January - Élise Rivet, nun and World War II heroine (d.1945).
• 15 August - Jacques Ibert, composer (d.1962).
• 22 November - Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (d.1970).

[edit] Deaths

• 18 August - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (b.1846).
• 19 October - Émile Léonard Mathieu, mathematician (b.1835).
• 11 November - Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (b.1842).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (b.1817).

[edit] References