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1853 in France
See also:1852 in France,other events of 1853,1854 in France.----Events from the year 1853 in France.-Events:*6 December - Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.-Births:...
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1855 in France
See also:1854 in France,other events of 1855,1856 in France.----Events from the year 1855 in France.-Events:*16 August - Battle of Chernaya River, Russian troops defeated by French and Sardinian forces in the Crimean War....
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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Events
- 27 March - United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
declares war on RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Crimean WarCrimean WarThe Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
begins. - 28 March - FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
declares war on RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. - 16 August - RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n troops in the island of BomarsundBomarsund, ÅlandThe Battle of Bomarsund was fought by an Anglo-French task force against Russian defenses at Bomarsund during the Crimean War.-Background:Bomarsund is a 19th century fortress which had started to built in 1832 by Russia in Sund on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea...
in Åland surrender to FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
-BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
troops. - 18 August - Siege of PetropavlovskSiege of PetropavlovskThe Siege of Petropavlovsk was the main operation on the Pacific Theatre of the Crimean War. The Russian casualties are estimated at 100 soldiers; the Allies lost five times as many....
by Anglo-French naval forces begins. - 20 September - Battle of AlmaBattle of AlmaThe Battle of the Alma , which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War , took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under General St...
, Anglo-French force defeats the Russians in the first battle of the war. - 17 October - Siege of Sevastopol by Anglo-French forces begins.
- 25 October - Battle of BalaclavaBattle of BalaclavaThe Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Anglo-French-Turkish campaign to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea...
, indecisive battle between the allied forces of the United KingdomUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
, Second French EmpireSecond French EmpireThe Second French Empire or French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.-Rule of Napoleon III:...
and the Ottoman EmpireOttoman EmpireThe Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
against RussiaRussian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. - 5 November - Battle of InkermanBattle of InkermanThe Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War on November 5, 1854 between the allied armies of Britain and France against the Imperial Russian Army. The battle broke the will of the Russian Army to defeat the allies in the field, and was followed by the Siege of Sevastopol...
, Anglo-French forces defeat the Russians.
Births
- 29 April - Henri PoincaréHenri PoincaréJules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science...
, mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science (d.19121912 in FranceSee also:1911 in France,other events of 1912,1913 in France.----Events from the year 1912 in France.-Events:*7 March - Aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours....
). - 6 September - Georges PicquartGeorges PicquartMarie Georges Picquart , was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.-Early career:...
, army officer and Minister of War, exposed the truth in the Dreyfus AffairDreyfus AffairThe Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...
(d.19141914 in FranceSee also:1913 in France,other events of 1914,1915 in France.----Events from the year 1914 in France.-Events:*16 March - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage...
). - 20 October - Arthur RimbaudArthur RimbaudJean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
, poet (d.18911891 in FranceSee also:1890 in France,other events of 1891,1892 in France.----Events from the year 1891 in France.-Events:*1 May - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies....
). - 5 November - Paul SabatierPaul Sabatier (chemist)Paul Sabatier FRS was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905....
, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
in 1912 (d.19411941 in FranceSee also:1940 in France,other events of 1941,1942 in France.----Events from the year 1941 in France.-Events:*17 January - Battle of Koh Chang...
). - 17 November - Hubert LyauteyHubert LyauteyLouis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France.-Early life:...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
(d.19341934 in FranceSee also:1933 in France,other events of 1934,1935 in France.----Events from the year 1934 in France.-Events:*6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.*9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new...
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Deaths
- 3 January - Adolphe DelattreAdolphe DelattreAdolphe Delattre was a French ornithologist.Between 1831 and 1851 he made several expeditions to America, where he was particularly interested in collecting hummingbirds...
, ornithologist (b.18051805 in FranceSee also:1804 in France,other events of 1805,1806 in France.----Events from the year 1805 in France.-Events:*22 July - Battle of Cape Finisterre, British defeat of Franco-Spanish fleet....
). - 28 January - Jérôme-Adolphe BlanquiJérôme-Adolphe BlanquiJérôme-Adolphe Blanqui was a French economist. His most important contributions were made in labour economics, economic history and especially the history of economic thought, in which field his 1837 treatise has been the first major work...
, economist (b.17981798 in FranceSee also:1797 in France,other events of 1798,1799 in France.----Events from the year 1798 in France.-Events:*10 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier....
). - 5 July - Émile SouvestreÉmile SouvestreÉmile Souvestre was a French novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Finistère.He was the son of a civil engineer and was educated at the college of Pontivy, with the intention of following his father's career by entering the Polytechnic School...
, novelist (b.18061806 in FranceSee also:1805 in France,other events of 1806,1807 in France.----Events from the year 1806 in France.-Events:*6 February - Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.*February - France invaded the Kingdom of Naples....
). - 2 September - Pierre Alphonse LaurentPierre Alphonse LaurentPierre Alphonse Laurent was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France...
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(b.18131813 in FranceSee also:1812 in France,other events of 1813,1814 in France.----Events from the year 1813 in France.-Events:*2 May - Battle of Lützen, French victory over a combined Prussian and Russian force....
). - 14 December - Léon FaucherLéon FaucherLéonard Joseph Léon Faucher was a French politician and economist.Faucher was born at Limoges, Haute-Vienne. When he was nine years old the family removed to Toulouse, where the boy was sent to school...
, politician and economist (b.18031803 in FranceSee also:1802 in France,other events of 1803,1804 in France.----Events from the year 1803 in France.-Events:*30 January - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase....
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- Jacques-François AncelotJacques-François AncelotJacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot was a French dramatist and litterateur.-Biography:Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play Warwick was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and...
, dramatist (b.17941794 in FranceSee also:1793 in France,other events of 1794,1795 in France.----Events from the year 1794 in France.-Events:*4 February - The French Republic abolishes slavery....
). - Louis Léon JacobLouis Léon JacobLouis Léon Jacob was a French admiral.He was born at Tonnay, Charente, was educated at Rochefort, and volunteered from a clerkship in the marine bureau to the navy . He was promoted to ensign in 1793, Commanded the Ça Ira in her brave fight against a superior English force , and was taken prisoner...
, admiral (b.1768).