1850 in France

"See also:"
1849 in France,
other events of 1850,
1851 in France.

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Events from the year 1850 in France.

Events

*15 April - Angers Bridge collapsed when 478 French soldiers marched across it. 229 were killed.
*16 May - French battleship "Le Napoléon" is launched.
*France begins to transport colonists to Algeria.

Births

*14 January - Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (d.1923).
*5 August - Guy de Maupassant, writer (d.1893).
*6 August - Henri Chantavoine, writer (d.1918).
*25 August - Charles Robert Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (d.1935).

Deaths

January to June

*22 January - William Joseph Chaminade, priest, beatified (b.1761).
*22 March - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (b.1810).
*16 April - Marie Tussaud, wax sculptor (b.1761).
*1 May - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, zoologist and anatomist (b.1777).
*9 May - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist (b.1778).

July to December

*18 August - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (b.1799).
*26 August - Louis-Philippe of France, King of the French, last king of France (b.1773).
*9 November - François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, writer on ethics, political science and political economy (b.1773).
*10 December - François Sulpice Beudant, mineralogist and geologist (b.1787).
*24 December - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (b.1801).

Full date unknown

*Armand-Benjamin Caillau, Roman Catholic priest, a missionary and writer (b.1794).

References