1814 in France
See also: 1813 in France, other events of 1814, 1815 in France.
Events from the year 1814 in France.
Events
- 26 January - First Battle of St-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces.
- 29 January - Battle of Brienne, French victory over Prussian and Russian forces.
- 1 February - Battle of La Rothière, Prussian victory over French forces.
- 10 February - Battle of Champaubert, decisive French victory over Prussia/Russia.
- 11 February - Battle of Montmirail, French victory.
- 12 February - Battle of Château-Thierry, French victory against Prussian forces.
- 14 February - Battle of Vauchamps, French victory.
- 17 February - Battle of Mormans, French victory.
- 18 February - Battle of Montereau, French victory over Austrian forces.
- 27 February - Battle of Bar-sur-Aube, Austrian victory.
- 27 February - Peninsular War: Battle of Orthez, Anglo-Portuguese victory over French forces.
- 7 March - Battle of Craonne, French victory.
- 9 March-10 March - Battle of Laon, French defeat.
- 10 March - Napoleon rejects the proposed Treaty of Chaumont.
- 12 March - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême enters Bordeaux, marking the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.
- 19 March - Battle of Reims, French victory.
- 20 March-21 March - Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Austrian victory over French forces.
- 25 March - Battle of La Fère-Champenoise, Prussian victory.
- 26 March - Second Battle of St-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces.
- 30 March - Battle of Montmartre, Austrian/Prussian victory.
- 30 March-31 March - Battle of Paris, decisive victory for Austria/Russia/Prussia.
- 31 March - Paris is occupied by Austrian and Prussian forces.
- 6 April - Napoleon abdicates. Louis XVIII of France accedes to the throne.
- 10 April - Peninsular War: Battle of Toulouse, indecisive.
- 11 April - Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon is stripped of his powers as ruler of the French Empire.
- 30 May - Treaty of Paris, ends the war between France and the Sixth Coalition and Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba.
Births
January to March
April to June
- 19 April - Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (d.1875).
- 1 May - Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Jew who became a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary (d.1884).
- 14 May - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea (d.1866).
- 15 May - Antoine Chintreuil, painter (d.1873).
- 21 May - Louis Janmot, painter and poet (d.1892).
- 22 May - Joseph-Louis Lambot, inventor of ferro-cement (d.1887).
- 1 June - François Ponsard, dramatist (d.1867).
- 3 June - Louis Alfred Becquerel, physicist and medical researcher (d.1862).
- 5 June - Pierre Wantzel, mathematician (d.1848).
- 25 June - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, geologist (d.1896).
July to September
October to December
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
- 14 January - Charles Bossut, mathematician (b.1730).
- 21 January - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, writer and botanist (b.1737).
- 30 January - Stephen Rochefontaine, military engineer in the Continental Army in America (b.1755).
- 2 February - Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, author and politician (b.1751).
- 27 February - Julien Louis Geoffroy, literary critic (b.1743).
- 13 March - Louis François II de Bourbon, prince de Conti, aristocrat (b.1734).
- 26 March - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, physician who proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties (b.1738).
- 29 March - Claude Michel, sculptor (b.1738).
- 31 March - Pierre Sonnerat, naturalist and explorer (b.1748).
- 25 April - Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and writer (b.1740).
- 29 May - Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I of France and thus the first Empress of the French (b.1763).
- 28 June - Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé, soldier and politician (b.1747).
July to December
- 5 July - Jean Baptiste Le Sueur Fontaine, actor and theatre director (b.1745).
- 7 September - Pierre Victor, baron Malouet, publicist and politician (b.1740).
- 13 September - Louis-François Bertin, journalist (b.1766).
- 17 September - Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, General (b.1740).
- 1 October - Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, entomologist (b.1756).
- 30 November - Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, draughtsman, illustrator and engraver (b.1741).
- 2 December - Marquis de Sade, aristocrat, revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography (b.1740).
- 11 December - Marie-Louise O'Murphy, child-courtesan, one of the several mistresses of King Louis XV of France (b.1737).
Full date unknown
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