1848 in France

The year 1848 in France, like other European countries, is mostly remembered as the year of a revolution that deposed king Louis Philippe and brought Napoleon III to power as president of the second republic.

Incumbents

22 February - In Paris, revolt erupts against the king, Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates.
23 February - Prime Minister François Guizot resigns.
26 February - Provisional government is organised called the Second Republic.
7 March - The Provisional government establishes the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, a national bank which is the earliest predecessor of BNP Paribas.
23 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
24 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
27 April - Slavery is abolished in France.
6 May - Executive Commission of the French Republic is set up, jointly heads of state during the Second Republic.
15 May - Radicals invade the Chamber of deputies.
23 June - June Days Uprising begins after closure of the National Workshops created by the Second Republic to give work to the unemployed.
25 June - June Days Uprising ends with 1,500 killed; 15,000 prisoners were deported to Algeria.
28 June - Term of the Executive Commission of the French Republic ends.
28 August - Louisy Mathieu becomes the first black member to join the French parliament, as a representative of Guadeloupe.
4 November - France ratifies a new constitution. The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.
10 December - Presidential election held. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected president of the French Republic.
20 December - President Bonaparte takes his oath of office in front of the French National Assembly.

21 January - Henri Duparc, composer
4 February - Jean Aicard, poet, dramatist and novelist
5 February - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist
14 February - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer
16 February - Octave Mirbeau, journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist and playwright
10 April - Hubertine Auclert, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage
7 June - Paul Gauguin, painter
28 June - Jean Bourdeau, writer
4 July - Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor
31 July - Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas
19 August - Gustave Caillebotte, Impressionist painter
22 September - Jules Coutan, sculptor
3 October - Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron
1 November - Jules Bastien-Lepage, painter
22 November - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle