1844 in France

Events from the year 1844 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins.
14 August â Battle of Isly, French victory over Moroccan forces near Oujda, Morocco, ending the First Franco-Moroccan War.
28 August â Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
10 September â Treaty of Tangiers, whereby Morocco officially recognized Algeria as part of the French Empire.
24 October â Treaty of Whampoa, a commercial treaty between France and China, is signed.
French Industrial Exposition of 1844

7 January â St. Bernadette Soubirous, (died 1879)
21 February â Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (died 1937)
26 February â Ãtienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (died 1929)
30 March â Paul Verlaine, poet (died 1896)
16 April â Anatole France, author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (died 1924)
3 May â Ãdouard Drumont, journalist and writer (died 1917)
21 May â Henri Rousseau, painter (died 1910)
3 August â Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, archaeologist (died 1920)
22 October â Sarah Bernhardt, actress (died 1923)
23 October â Edouard Branly, inventor and physicist (died 1940)
8 December â Charles-Ãmile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (died 1918)