1843 in France
Events from the year 1843 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 16 May – French conquest of Algeria: Battle of the Smala - French troops led by Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, are victorious over Algerian forces led by Emir Abdelkader.
- 4 July – Sanwi, a traditional kingdom located in the south-east corner of modern-day Côte d'Ivoire, becomes a protectorate of Louis Philippe.
- 2 September – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom arrives in Normandy to stay at the Château d'Eu with Louis Phillipe. It is the first formal visit to the country since Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
Births
January to June
- 10 February – Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais, entomologist
- 13 February – Célanie Carissan, composer, writer and pianist
- 14 February – Louis Diémer, pianist and composer
- 2 March – André Fernand Thesmar, enameler
- 5 March – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, poet, writer and pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry
- 14 March – Leon Dehon, clergyman
- 29 March – Paul Ferrier, dramatist
- 21 May – Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist
- 19 June – Charles-Edouard Lefebvre, composer
- 26 June – Paul Arène, poet and writer
July to December
- 13 July – Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan, statesman and naturalist
- 17 August – Alexandre Lacassagne, physician and criminologist
- 29 August – Alfred Agache, painter
- 6 September – Yves Guyot, politician and economist
- 13 September – Louis Duchesne, priest, philologist, teacher and historian
- 21 September – Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville, politician and author
- 29 September – Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician
- 16 October – Émile Delahaye, automotive pioneer
- 12 December – Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer
Full date unknown
- Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician
Deaths
- 4 January – Hippolyte de Bouchard, sailor and corsair
- 11 January – Antoine Bournonville, ballet dancer, actor, singer and choreographer
- 2 March – François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, nobleman
- 30 April – Gaspard de Chabrol, prefect of the Seine
- 24 May – Sylvestre François Lacroix, mathematician
- 7 June – Alexis Bouvard, astronomer
- 25 June – Marie Anne Lenormand, professional fortune-teller
- 12 August – Jean-Pierre Cortot, sculptor
- 4 September – Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo
- 11 September – Joseph Nicollet, geographer and mathematician
- 19 September – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist
- 24 October – Antoine Berjon, painter and designer
- 11 December – Casimir Delavigne, poet and dramatist
- 26 December – Albert Gaspard Grimod, general and nobleman
Full date unknown
- Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain, actor
- Casimir, Comte de Montrond, diplomatic agent
- Auguste Defauconpret, writer and translator
- Pierre-Philippe Thomire, sculptor