1845 in France
Events from the year 1845 in France.
Incumbents
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
- 1845 – Mérimée writes Carmen
- 1845 – Alexandre Dumas writes La Reine Margot
Births
- 27 March – Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist
- 12 May – Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician
- 12 May – Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist
- 18 June – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 18 July – Tristan Corbière, poet
- 19 August – Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist
- 11 September – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer
- 9 October – Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and industrialist
- 30 October – Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter
Full date unknown
- Cécile Bruyère, abbess
- Jules Develle, politician
- Jean-Camille Formigé, architect
Deaths
- 4 January – Léopold Boilly, painter
- 13 March – Charles-Guillaume Étienne, dramatist and writer
- 17 March – Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, entomologist
- 30 March – Alexandre Soumet, poet
- 9 April – Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière, general
- 21 August – Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, politician, writer and artist
- 23 August – Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, entomologist
Full date unknown
- Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, philosopher
- Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician
- Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame
- Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, naturalist and artist