1843 in France

Events from the year 1843 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

16 May â French conquest of Algeria: Battle of the Smala - French troops led by Henri d'OrlÃ©ans, duc d'Aumale, are victorious over Algerian forces led by Emir Abdelkader.
4 July â Sanwi, a traditional kingdom located in the south-east corner of modern-day CÃ´te d'Ivoire, becomes a protectorate of Louis Philippe.
2 September â Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom arrives in Normandy to stay at the ChÃ¢teau d'Eu with Louis Phillipe. It is the first formal visit to the country since Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold

10 February â Philippe Alexandre Jules KÃ¼nckel d'Herculais, entomologist (died 1918)
13 February â CÃ©lanie Carissan, composer, writer and pianist (died 1927)^[1]
14 February â Louis DiÃ©mer, pianist and composer (died 1919)
2 March â AndrÃ© Fernand Thesmar, enameler (died 1912)^[2]
5 March â Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, poet, writer and pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry (died 1925)
14 March â Leon Dehon, clergyman (died 1925)
29 March â Paul Ferrier, dramatist (died 1928)
21 May â Ãdouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist (died 1928)
19 June â Charles-Edouard Lefebvre, composer (died 1917)
26 June â Paul ArÃ¨ne, poet and writer (died 1896)

13 July â Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan, statesman and naturalist (died 1919)
17 August â Alexandre Lacassagne, physician and criminologist (died 1924)
29 August â Alfred Agache, painter (died 1915)
6 September â Yves Guyot, politician and economist (died 1928)
13 September â Louis Duchesne, priest, philologist, teacher and historian (died 1922)
21 September â Gabriel Paul Othenin de ClÃ©ron, comte d'Haussonville, politician and author (died 1924)
29 September â Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (died 1907)
16 October â Ãmile Delahaye, automotive pioneer (died 1905)
12 December â Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer (died 1918)

4 January â Hippolyte de Bouchard, sailor and corsair (b. c. 1780)
11 January â Antoine Bournonville, ballet dancer, actor, singer and choreographer (born 1760)
2 March â FranÃ§ois-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, nobleman (born 1771)
30 April â Gaspard de Chabrol, prefect of the Seine (born 1773)
24 May â Sylvestre FranÃ§ois Lacroix, mathematician (born 1765)
7 June â Alexis Bouvard, astronomer (born 1767)
25 June â Marie Anne Lenormand, professional fortune-teller (born 1772)
12 August â Jean-Pierre Cortot, sculptor (born 1787)
11 September â Joseph Nicollet, geographer and mathematician (born 1786)
19 September â Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist (born 1792)
24 October â Antoine Berjon, painter and designer (born 1754)
11 December â Casimir Delavigne, poet and dramatist (born 1793)
26 December â Albert Gaspard Grimod, general and nobleman (born 1772)