1862 in France
Events from the year 1862 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 January - French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
- 22 March - the vietnamese emperor Tu Duc suffers a heavy military defeat; French troops capture the provincial capital Vĩnh Long
- April - Tu Duc agrees to the Treaty of Saigon
- 5 June - This treaty is signed. It establishes the colony French Indochina
- 5 May - Battle of Puebla, victory for the Mexican Army against the French occupational forces.
Arts and literature
- 3 April - The first two volumes of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is published.
- 15 May - The remainder of Les Misérables is published.
Births
- 28 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 6 April - Georges Darien, writer
- 22 August - Claude Debussy, composer
- 19 October - Auguste Lumière, filmmaker
- 7 December - Paul Adam, novelist
- 8 December - Georges Feydeau, playwright
Deaths
- 11 January - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher
- 7 February - Prosper Ménière, scientist
- 11 February - Jules Lequier, philosopher
- 17 March - Fromental Halévy, composer
- 9 April - Charles Deval, ophthalmologist
- 18 June - Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam
- 5 July - Étienne-Denis Pasquier, statesman
- September - Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion, magistrate, historian and journalist
Full date unknown
- Louis Alfred Becquerel, physicist and medical researcher
- Antoine Fauchery, photographer
- Louis Petitot, sculptor