1844 in France

Events from the year 1844 in France.

Incumbents

6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins.
14 August – Battle of Isly, French victory over Moroccan forces near Oujda, Morocco, ending the First Franco-Moroccan War.
28 August – Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
10 September – Treaty of Tangiers, whereby Morocco officially recognized Algeria as part of the French Empire.
24 October – Treaty of Whampoa, a commercial treaty between France and China, is signed.
French Industrial Exposition of 1844

7 January – St. Bernadette Soubirous,
21 February – Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
26 February – Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist
30 March – Paul Verlaine, poet
16 April – Anatole France, author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921
3 May – Édouard Drumont, journalist and writer
21 May – Henri Rousseau, painter
3 August – Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, archaeologist
22 October – Sarah Bernhardt, actress
23 October – Edouard Branly, inventor and physicist
8 December – Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films