1845 in France

See also: 1844 in France, other events of 1845, 1846 in France.

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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

Births

• 27 March - Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist (d.1917).
• 12 May - Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (d.1922).
• 12 May - Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist (d.1924).
• 18 June - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d.1922).
• 18 July - Tristan Corbière, poet (d.1875).
• 19 August - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (d.1934).
• 11 September - Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (d.1903).
• 9 October - Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and industrialist (d.1924).
• 30 October - Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (d.1916).

Full date unknown

• Cécile Bruyère, abbess (d.1909).
• Jules Develle, politician (d.1919).
• Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (d.1926).

Deaths

• 4 January - Léopold Boilly, painter (b.1761).
• 13 March - Charles-Guillaume Étienne, dramatist and writer (b.1778).
• 17 March - Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, entomologist (b.1780).
• 30 March - Alexandre Soumet, poet (b.1788).
• 9 April - Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière, general (b.1765).
• 21 August - Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, politician, writer and artist (b.1756).
• 23 August - Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, entomologist (b.1770).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, philosopher (b.1766).
• Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (b.1801).
• Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (b.1775).
• Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, naturalist and artist (b.1772).