1866 in France
Events from the year 1866 in France.
Events
- 31 May - Napoleon III announces the withdrawal of French forces in the French intervention in Mexico.
- 26 July - French evacuate Monterrey.
- 5 August - French evacuate Saltillo.
- 14 October - French troops land at Ganghwa Island, Korea as part of French Campaign against Korea for the execution of French Jesuit priests. It is the first military contact between Korea and a Western force.
Arts and literature
- 31 October - Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe La Vie parisienne is premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
Births
- 17 January - Joseph Bernard, sculptor
- 29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature
- 19 February - Louis-Henri Foreau, painter
- 17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist
- 23 May - Ellen Richards Ridgway, American golfer
- 6 July - Charles Mangin, general during World War I
- 13 July - La Goulue, dancer
- 4 August - Maurice Schutz, actor
- 7 September - Tristan Bernard, playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer
- 21 September - Charles Nicolle, bacteriologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1928
Deaths
- 8 March - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea.
- 11 August - Philippe Buchez, author and politician.