1866 in France

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1866
in
France

Decades:
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
See also:Other events of 1866
History of France  • Timeline  • Years

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[]

Births[]

  • 29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1944)
  • 19 February – Louis-Henri Foreau, painter (died 1938)
  • 17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist (died 1925)
  • 23 May – Ellen Richards Ridgway, American golfer (died 1934)[1]
  • 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).

References[]

  1. ^ "Olympedia – Ellen Ridgway". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
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