1805 in France

Events from the year 1805 in France.

Events

22 July - Battle of Cape Finisterre, British defeat of Franco-Spanish fleet.
8 October - Battle of Wertingen, French victory over Austrian forces, opening battle of the Ulm Campaign.
11 October - Battle of Haslach-Jungingen, French victory over Austrian forces.
14 October - Battle of Elchingen, French victory over Austria.
16 October-19 October - Battle of Ulm, decisive French victory culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army.
21 October - Battle of Trafalgar, decisive British victory over French and Spanish Navies.
30 October - Battle of Caldiero, French victory over Austrian forces.
3 November - Battle of Cape Ortegal, decisive British victory, the final action of the Trafalgar campaign.
5 November - Battle of Amstetten, French victory over forces of Austria and Russia.
11 November - Battle of Dürenstein, between French, Austrian and Russian forces had an inconclusive result.
16 November - Battle of Schöngrabern, French tactical victory.
2 December - Battle of Austerlitz, decisive French victory, effectively destroying the Third Coalition.
4 December - Truce signed between France and Austria.
26 December - Peace of Pressburg signed between France and Austria, as a consequence of the Austrian defeats by France.
Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
Sweden declares war on France.

10 March - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (d.1872).
29 May - Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie, engineer (d.1871).
3 June - Adolphe Dugléré, chef (d.1884).
13 June - Bénilde Romançon, saint (d.1862)
19 June - Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion, magistrate, historian and journalist (d.1862).
28 June - Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (d.1883).
29 July - Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian (d.1859).
19 August - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (d.1895).
24 October - Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam (d.1862).
19 November - Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal (d.1894).
19 November - Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (d.1881).
16 December - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (d.1861).
31 December - Marie d'Agoult, author, pen name Daniel Stern (d.1876).

17 January - Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, orientalist (b.1731).
23 January - Claude Chappe, inventor (b.1763).
4 March - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (b.1725).
18 March - Étienne Eustache Bruix, sailor (b.1759).
19 June - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter (b.1724).
2 October - Georges René Le Peley de Pléville admiral and Naval Minister (b.1726).
8 November - François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, writer and dramatist (b.1718).
24 November - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, orator and politician (b.1758).
1 December - Joseph Bernard de Chabert, sailor, geographer and astronomer (b.1724).