1805 in France
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other events of 1805,
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Events from the year 1805 in France
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1804 in France,
other events of 1805,
1806 in France
1806 in France
See 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....
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Events from the year 1805 in France
France
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
- 22 July - Battle of Cape FinisterreBattle of Cape Finisterre (1805)In the Battle of Cape Finisterre off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the Combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from the West Indies...
, British defeat of FrancoFirst French EmpireThe First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...
-SpanishSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
fleet. - 8 October - Battle of WertingenBattle of WertingenIn the Battle of Wertingen on October 8, 1805, French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes mauled a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Auffenberg. This was the opening battle of the Ulm Campaign.-Background:...
, French victory over Austrian forces, opening battle of the Ulm CampaignUlm CampaignThe Ulm Campaign consisted of a series of French and Bavarian military maneuvers and battles to outflank and capture an Austrian army in 1805 during the War of the Third Coalition. It took place in the vicinity of and inside the Swabian city of Ulm...
. - 11 October - Battle of Haslach-JungingenBattle of Haslach-JungingenThe Battle of Haslach-Jungingen, also known as the Battle of Albeck, fought on 11 October 1805 at Ulm-Jungingen north of Ulm at the Danube, was part of the War of the Third Coalition, which was a part of the greater Napoleonic Wars.-Background:...
, French victory over Austrian forces. - 14 October - Battle of ElchingenBattle of ElchingenThe Battle of Elchingen, fought on October 14, 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon I of France while other...
, French victory over Austria. - 16 October-19 October - Battle of UlmBattle of UlmThe Battle of Ulm was a series of minor skirmishes at the end of Napoleon Bonaparte's Ulm Campaign, culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army near Ulm in Württemberg....
, decisive French victory culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army. - 21 October - Battle of TrafalgarBattle of TrafalgarThe Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
, decisive British victory over French and Spanish Navies. - 30 October - Battle of Caldiero, French victory over Austrian forces.
- 3 November - Battle of Cape OrtegalBattle of Cape OrtegalThe Battle of Cape Ortegal was the final action of the Trafalgar Campaign, and was fought between a squadron of the Royal Navy and a remnant of the fleet that had been destroyed several weeks earlier at the Battle of Trafalgar...
, decisive British victory, the final action of the Trafalgar campaignTrafalgar CampaignThe Trafalgar Campaign was a long and complicated series of fleet manoeuvres carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets; and the opposing moves of the Royal Navy during much of 1805. These were the culmination of French plans to force a passage through the English Channel, and so achieve...
. - 5 November - Battle of AmstettenBattle of AmstettenThe Battle of Amstetten was a minor engagement during the War of the Third Coalition between the First French Empire and the alliance of the Austria and Russia. It occurred on 5 November 1805, when the Austrians retreating from Vienna fought a rear-guard action against Marshal Joachim Murat's...
, French victory over forces of AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and 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...
. - 11 November - Battle of DürensteinBattle of DürensteinThe Battle of Dürenstein , on 11 November 1805, was an engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition...
, between French, Austrian and Russian forces had an inconclusive result. - 16 November - Battle of SchöngrabernBattle of SchöngrabernThe Battle of Schöngrabern was an engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition, fought on 16 November 1805 near Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, four weeks after the Battle of Ulm and two weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz.The Russian army of Kutuzov was retiring north of...
, French tactical victory. - 2 December - Battle of AusterlitzBattle of AusterlitzThe Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition...
, decisive French victory, effectively destroying the Third CoalitionThird CoalitionThe War of the Third Coalition was a conflict which spanned from 1803 to 1806. It saw the defeat of an alliance of Austria, Portugal, Russia, and others by France and its client states under Napoleon I...
. - 4 December - Truce signed between France and Austria.
- 26 December - Peace of PressburgPeace of PressburgThe Peace of Pressburg refers to four peace treaties concluded in Pressburg . The fourth Peace of Pressburg of 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars is the best-known.-First:...
signed between France and Austria, as a consequence of the Austrian defeats by France. - Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinatedVaccinationVaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens...
. - SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
declares war on France.
Births
- 10 March - Auguste Joseph Alphonse GratryAuguste Joseph Alphonse GratryAuguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry was a French author and theologian.Gratry was born at Lille and educated at the École Polytechnique of Paris. After a period of mental struggle which he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained priest in 1832...
, author and theologian (d.18721872 in FranceSee also:1871 in France,other events of 1872,1873 in France.----Events from the year 1872 in France.-Events:*27 November - Meteor shower display over France.*Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph.-Births:...
). - 29 May - Paul-Martin Gallocher de LagalisseriePaul-Martin Gallocher de LagalisseriePaul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie was a French engineer. He was the son of Martin Pierre Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Marie Delphine Théodore Ménager.-Notable projects:...
, engineer (d.18711871 in FranceSee also:1870 in France,other events of 1871,1872 in France.----Events from the year 1871 in France.- Events :* 3 January - Battle of Bapaume...
). - 3 June - Adolphe DugléréAdolphe DugléréAdolphe Dugléré was a French chef and a pupil of Carême.- Les Frères Provençaux :Dugléré was a chef de cuisine to the Rothschild family until 1848, and was manager at the restaurant Les Frères Provençaux at the Palais-Royal from 1848 to 1866 which was owned by three men from Provence named...
, chef (d.18841884 in FranceSee also:1883 in France,other events of 1884,1885 in France.----Events from the year 1884 in France.-Events:*June - At Bac Le, Chinese forces attack a French column sent to occupy Tonkin in accordance with earlier treaties, starting the Sino-French War.*6 June - Treaty of Hué is signed between...
). - 13 June - Bénilde RomançonBénilde RomançonSaint ' Bénilde Romançon, FSC was a Christian Brother who was born as Pierre Romançon on June 13, 1805, in the town of Thuret, Puy-de-Dôme in France to a farming family. In 1818, Pierre, aged 13, first saw the Christian Brothers in a market at Clermont-Ferrand. He instantly felt a strong desire to...
, saint (d.18621862 in FranceSee also:1861 in France,other events of 1862,1863 in France.----Events from the year 1862 in France.-Events:*6 January - French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico....
) - 19 June - Mathieu-Richard-Auguste HenrionMathieu-Richard-Auguste HenrionMathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion was a Baron, French magistrate, historian, and journalist. After completing his studies in law, he became a member of the Paris Bar as avocat à la cour royale...
, magistrate, historian and journalist (d.18621862 in FranceSee also:1861 in France,other events of 1862,1863 in France.----Events from the year 1862 in France.-Events:*6 January - French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico....
). - 28 June - Napoléon CosteNapoléon CosteClaude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French guitarist and composer.-Biography:Napoléon Coste was born in Amondans , France, near Besançon. He was first taught the guitar by his mother, an accomplished player. As a teenager he became a teacher of the instrument and appeared in many...
, guitarist and composer (d.18831883 in FranceSee also:1882 in France,other events of 1883,1884 in France.----Events from the year 1883 in France.-Events:*27 March-28 March - Battle of Gia Cuc, French victory over Vietnamese forces....
). - 29 July - Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de TocquevilleAlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
, political thinker and historian (d.18591859 in FranceSee also:1858 in France,other events of 1859,1860 in France.----Events from the year 1859 in France.-Events:*26 March - A French amateur astronomer claims to have noticed a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury - later named Vulcan....
). - 19 August - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-HilaireJules Barthélemy-Saint-HilaireJules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France.- Biography :...
, philosopher, journalistJournalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and statesman (d.18951895 in FranceSee also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....
). - 24 October - Jean-Baptiste PallegoixJean-Baptiste PallegoixJean-Baptiste Pallegoix, M.E.P. was vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam.Born in Combertault, France, he was consecrated as a priest of the Société des Missions Etrangères on May 31, 1828. On June 3, 1838 he was assigned as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Siam and titular bishop of Mallus...
, vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam (d.18621862 in FranceSee also:1861 in France,other events of 1862,1863 in France.----Events from the year 1862 in France.-Events:*6 January - French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico....
). - 19 November - Ferdinand de LessepsFerdinand de LessepsFerdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, GCSI was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level...
, developer of the Suez CanalSuez CanalThe Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation...
(d.18941894 in FranceSee also:1893 in France,other events of 1894,1895 in France.----Events from the year 1894 in France.-Events:* 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb.* 14 May - Meteor shower in Southern France.* 22...
). - 19 November - Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (d.18811881 in FranceSee also:1880 in France,other events of 1881,1882 in France.----Events from the year 1881 in France.-Events:*13 February - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert....
). - 16 December - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology.He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
, zoologist (d.18611861 in FranceSee also:1860 in France,other events of 1861,1862 in France.----Events from the year 1861 in France.-Births:*15 February - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 ....
). - 31 December - Marie d'AgoultMarie d'AgoultMarie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny , was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern....
, author, pen name Daniel Stern (d.18761876 in FranceSee also:1875 in France,other events of 1876,1877 in France.----Events from the year 1876 in France.-Events:*20 February - Legislative Election held.*5 March - Legislative Election held.-Births:...
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Full date unknown
- Charles Marie Edouard ChassaignacCharles Marie Edouard ChassaignacCharles Marie Edouard Chassaignac was a French physician. He was born in Nantes and in 1835 became prosecutor and professor at the university and physician at the central bureau of the hospitals of Paris...
, physician (d.18791879 in FranceSee also:1878 in France,other events of 1879,1880 in France.----Events from the year 1879 in France.-Events:*1 June - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial , great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist Pretender to the throne, died in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.*Ferdinand Cheval begins to...
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Deaths
- 17 January - Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-DuperronAbraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-DuperronAbraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron was the first professional French scholar of Indian culture. He conceived the institutional framework for the new profession. He inspired the founding of the Ecole francaise d'extreme orient a century after his death and, later still, the founding of the...
, orientalistOriental studiesOriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies...
(b.1731). - 23 January - Claude Chappe, inventor (b.1763).
- 4 March - Jean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...
, painter (b.1725). - 18 March - Étienne Eustache BruixÉtienne Eustache BruixÉtienne Eustache Bruix was a French sailor.-Life:From a distinguished family originating from Béarn, he embarked as a volunteer on a slaving vessel commanded by captain Jean-François Landolphe...
, sailor (b.1759). - 19 June - Louis-Jean-François LagrenéeLouis-Jean-François LagrenéeLouis-Jean-François Lagrenée a.k.a. l'Aîné was a French painter, a pupil of Carlo Vanloo. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée was also a painter....
, painter (b.1724). - 2 October - Georges René Le Peley de PlévilleGeorges René Le Peley de PlévilleGeorges-René Le Pelley de Pléville was the governor of the port of Marseilles, a French admiral, minister for the navy and the colonies from 15 July 1797 to 27 April 1798, a senator, a knight of the Order of St Louis and the Order of Cincinnatus, and one of the very first Grand officiers of the...
admiral and Naval Minister (b.1726). - 8 November - François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'ArnaudFrançois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'ArnaudFrançois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud was a French writer and dramatist.-Life:A practitioner of the roman noir...
, writer and dramatist (b.1718). - 24 November - Jacques Antoine Marie de CazalèsJacques Antoine Marie de CazalèsJacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès was a French orator and politician.-Biography:He was born at Grenade, Haute-Garonne, in a family of the lower nobility....
, orator and politicianPoliticianA politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
(b.1758). - 1 December - Joseph Bernard de ChabertJoseph Bernard de ChabertJoseph Bernard, marquis de Chabert was a French sailor, geographer and astronomer.He marked himself out as a chef d'escadre during French involvement in the American War of Independence and was promoted to vice admiral in 1792...
, sailor, geographer and astronomer (b.1724).
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- Pierre-François Hugues D'HancarvillePierre-François Hugues D'HancarvillePierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville was a French pseudo-aristocrat . Son of a bankrupt cloth merchant of Nancy, Hancarville was born Pierre-François Hugues, adding the title ‘Baron’ and the aristocratic surname Hancarville himself...
, pseudo-aristocrat (b.1719).