1850 in France

1850
in
France

Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also:Other events of 1850
History of France   Timeline   Years

Events from the year 1850 in France.

Events

  • 15 April - Angers Bridge collapsed when 478 French soldiers marched across it. 229 were killed.
  • 16 May - French battleship Le Napoléon is launched.
  • France begins to transport colonists to Algeria.

Births

Deaths

January to June

July to December

  • 18 August - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (born 1799)
  • 26 August - Louis-Philippe of France, last king of France (born 1773)
  • 9 November - François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, writer on ethics, political science and political economy (born 1773)
  • 10 December - François Sulpice Beudant, mineralogist and geologist (born 1787)
  • 24 December - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (born 1801)

Full date unknown

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