1844 in France

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Events from the year 1844 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

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 -
  China
  , is signed.
• French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Births

• 7 January -
  St. Bernadette Soubirous, (died 1879
  )
• 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 -
  Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (died 1924
  )
• 3 May - Édouard Drumont, journalist and writer (died 1917)
• 21 May - Henri Rousseau, painter (died 1910)
• 3 August - Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, archaeologist (died 1920)
• 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 -
  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 -
  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 -
  King of Spain (born 1768
  )
• 14 November - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (born 1803)^[1]

Full date unknown

• Jean-Baptiste Lepère, architect (born 1761)

References