1844 in France

See also: 1843 in France, other events of 1844, 1845 in France.

Events from the year 1844 in France.

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

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).

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).
• 14 November - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (b.1803).

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• Jean-Baptiste Lepère, architect (b.1761).