1845 in France
Events from the year 1845 in France.
Events
- 12 October - The Société Mathématique de France was founded.
- 20 November - Battle of Vuelta de Obligado between the Argentine Confederation and an Anglo-French fleet on the waters of the Paraná River.
Arts and literature
- 1875- Bizet writes Carmen
- 1845- Alexandre Dumas writes La Reine Margot
Births
- 27 March - Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist (died 1917).
- 12 May - Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1922).
- 12 May - Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist (died 1924).
- 18 June - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1922).
- 18 July - Tristan Corbière, poet (died 1875).
- 19 August - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (died 1934).
- 11 September - Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (died 1903).
- 9 October - Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and industrialist (died 1924).
- 30 October - Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (died 1916).
Full date unknown
- Cécile Bruyère, abbess (died 1909).
- Jules Develle, politician (died 1919).
- Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (died 1926).
Deaths
- 4 January - Léopold Boilly, painter (born 1761).
- 13 March - Charles-Guillaume Étienne, dramatist and writer (born 1778).
- 17 March - Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, entomologist (born 1780).
- 30 March - Alexandre Soumet, poet (born 1788).
- 9 April - Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière, general (born 1765).
- 21 August - Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, politician, writer and artist (born 1756).
- 23 August - Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, entomologist (born 1770).
Full date unknown
- Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, philosopher (born 1766).
- Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (born 1801).
- Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (born 1775).
- Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, naturalist and artist (born 1772).