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1867 in France

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Events from the year 1867 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

  • 1 January - Napoleon III announces liberal reforms.
  • 13 January - French military mission to Japan (1867–68) arrives in Yokohama.
  • February - Strike of bronzeworkers in Paris.
  • 5 February - Second French intervention in Mexico: French troops evacuate from the capital; on 12 March the last French forces leave the country.
  • 1 April–3 November - Exposition Universelle in Paris.
  • 10 April - Victor Duruy introduces legislation for female education.
  • 6 June - Polish nationalist émigré Antoni Berezowski makes an attempt on the lives of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Emperor Napoleon III in the Bois de Boulogne.
  • 7 June - Adolphe Dugléré prepares the Three Emperors Dinner.
  • 25 June - The provinces of Châu Đốc, Hà Tiên and Vĩnh Long, ceded by Annam, are added to French Cochinchina.
  • 24 July - Law on Sociétés anonymes.
  • Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.

Births

  • 21 January - Maxime Weygand, military commander (died 1965)
  • 14 April - René Boylesve, author (died 1926)
  • 17 May - Georgette Agutte, painter (died 1922)
  • 3 October - Pierre Bonnard, painter and printmaker (died 1947)

Deaths

  • 14 January - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painter (born 1780)
  • 17 January - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, naturalist and palaeontologist (born 1794)
  • 31 May - Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (born 1807)
  • 11 June - Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary to Southern Africa (born 1808)
  • 7 July - François Ponsard, dramatist (born 1814)
  • 31 July - Benoît Fourneyron, engineer, designed the first practical water turbine (born 1802)
  • 23 August - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, satirical poet (born 1796)
  • 31 August - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (born 1821)
  • 5 October - Achille Fould, financier and politician (born 1800)
  • 15 October - Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, philosopher and theologian (born 1796)
  • 28 November - Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain, "The Terror of Gonesse", serial killer, executed (born 1798)
  • 6 December - Jean Pierre Flourens, physiologist (born 1794)
  • 22 December - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (born 1788)
  • Full date unknown - Auguste Belloc, photographer (born 1800)

References

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