1844 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

21 February - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (died 1937).
26 February - Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (died 1929).
30 March - Paul Verlaine, poet (died 1896).
16 April - Anatole France, author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (died 1924).
21 May - Henri Rousseau, painter (died 1910).
22 October - Sarah Bernhardt, actress (died 1923).
23 October - Edouard Branly, inventor and physicist (died 1940).
8 December - Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (died 1918).

1 January - Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre, Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen (born 1773).
25 January - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Marshal of France (born 1765).
27 January - Charles Nodier, author (born 1780).
8 March - Charles XIV John of Sweden, King of Sweden and Norway, Marshal of France (born 1763).
26 May - Jacques Laffitte, banker and politician (born 1767).
3 June - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the last Dauphin of France (born 1775).
28 July - Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples and Sicily and later King of Spain (born 1768).
14 November - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (born 1803).