1880 in France
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Events from the year 1880 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Jules Grévy[1]
- President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet (until 23 September), Jules Ferry (starting 23 September)[2]
Events
- 29 June â France annexes Tahiti.[3]
- Musée Carnavalet is opened to the public as a museum of Paris history.
- Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.[4]
Literature
Music
Births
- 14 January â Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (died 1965)[5]
- 5 February â Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (died 1973)[6]
- 20 February â Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (died 1923)[7]
- 21 February â Pierre Chaumié, politician (died 1966)[8]
- 17 April â Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (died 1967)[9]
- 25 May â Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (died 1967)[10]
- 26 August â Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (died 1918)[11]
- 12 October â Marcel-Bruno Gensoul, admiral (d. 1973)[12]
- 8 December â Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (died 1964)[13]
Full date unknown
- Charles Catteau, industrial designer (died 1966)[14]
- Désiré-Ãmile Inghelbrecht, composer and conductor (died 1965)[15]
Deaths
- 4 January â Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (born 1801)[16]
- 17 January â Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (born 1819)[17]
- 31 January â Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1806)[18]
- 8 May â Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821)[19]
- 24 June â Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (born 1822)[20]
- 9 July â Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1824)[21]
- 5 October - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (born 1819)[22]
- 22 October - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (born 1850)[23]
- 10 November â Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (born 1794)[24]
- 20 November â Léon Cogniet, painter (born 1794)[25]
- 24 November â Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)[26]