1860 in France
Events from the year 1860 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January - Paris administratively annexes neighbouring communes.
- 23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France.
- 9 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings "Au clair de la lune" into his phonautograph, producing the world's earliest known sound recording of a song. However, it would not be converted back into audible sound until 2008.
- 18 October - At the end of the Second Opium War, British and French troops enter the Forbidden City in Beijing.
- 24 October - Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France.
Births
- 11 February - Rachilde, author
- 25 June - Gustave Charpentier, composer
- 16 August - Jules Laforgue, poet
- 20 August - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France
- 26 November – Gabrielle Petit, feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist, and newspaper editor
Deaths
- 29 January - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden
- 14 March - Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor
- 31 March - Évariste Régis Huc, Catholic priest and traveller
- 28 May – Rosine de Chabaud-Latour, French religious thinker and translator
- 24 June - Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia
- 22 August - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter
- 3 December - Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist
- 17 December - Désirée Clary, wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte