1866 in France
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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
- 29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1944)
- 17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist (died 1925)
- 6 July - Charles Mangin, general during World War I (died 1925)
- 13 July - La Goulue, dancer (died 1929)
- 4 August - Maurice Schutz, actor (died 1955)
- 7 September - Tristan Bernard, playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer (died 1947)
- 21 September - Charles Nicolle, bacteriologist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine (died 1936)
Deaths
- 8 March - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea (born 1814).
- 11 August - Philippe Buchez, author and politician (born 1796).
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