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

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).

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