1844 in France
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Events from the year 1844 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins.
 - 14 August – Battle of Isly, French victory over Moroccan forces near Oujda, Morocco, ending the First Franco-Moroccan War.
 - 28 August – Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
 - 10 September – Treaty of Tangiers, whereby Morocco officially recognized Algeria as part of the French Empire.
 - 24 October – Treaty of Whampoa, a commercial treaty between France and China, is signed.
 - French Industrial Exposition of 1844
 
Births
- 7 January – St. Bernadette Soubirous, (died 1879)
 - 21 February – Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (died 1937)
 - 26 February – Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (died 1929)
 - 30 March – Paul Verlaine, poet (died 1896)
 - 16 April – Anatole France, author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (died 1924)
 - 3 May – Édouard Drumont, journalist and writer (died 1917)
 - 21 May – Henri Rousseau, painter (died 1910)
 - 3 August – Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, archaeologist (died 1920)
 - 22 October – Sarah Bernhardt, actress (died 1923)
 - 23 October – Edouard Branly, inventor and physicist (died 1940)
 - 8 December – Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (died 1918)
 
Deaths
- 1 January – Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre, Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen (born 1773)
 - 25 January – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Marshal of France (born 1765)
 - 27 January – Charles Nodier, author (born 1780)
 - 8 March – Charles XIV John of Sweden, King of Sweden and Norway, Marshal of France (born 1763)
 - 26 May – Jacques Laffitte, banker and politician (born 1767)
 - 3 June – Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the last Dauphin of France (born 1775)
 - 28 July – Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples and Sicily and later King of Spain (born 1768)
 - 14 November – Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (born 1803)[1]
 
Full date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Lepère, architect (born 1761)
 
