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1807
Events from the year 1807 in France.
Incumbents
Emperor – Napoleon IBBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bonaparte_napoleon.shtml?basic=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200512084438/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bonaparte_napoleon.shtml?basic=1 dead May 12, 2020 www.bbc.co.uk 26 June 2022
Events
7 January – The United Kingdom issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.Dudley, William S. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History Naval Historical Center 1985 34
7–8 February – Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat.
19 March – Siege of Danzig begins as French lay siege to Prussian and Russian forces.
4 May – Treaty of Finckenstein signed between France and Qajar dynasty Persia, guaranteeing the latter's integrity.
24 May – Siege of Danzig ends with Prussian and Russian capitulation.
10 June – Battle of Heilsberg, inconclusive.
14 June – Battle of Friedland: decisive French victory over Russian forces.
7–9 July – Treaties of Tilsit end the war with Russia and Prussia.
20 July – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powers a boat upstream on the river Saône.
27 October – Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Spain and France, dividing Portugal and all its dominions between the signatories.
9 September – Napoleon establishes the Free City of Danzig.
27 September – Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.Francis Haskell Nicholas Penny Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 Yale University Press 1982 281
24 November – Battle of Abrantes, Portugal: The French under Jean-Andoche Junot take the town.
17 December – Milan Decree issued by Napoleon, stating that no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom (the 'Continental System').
Births
January to June
6 January – Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (died 1888)
29 January – Édouard Dulaurier, orientalist and Egyptologist (died 1881)
2 February – Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician (died 1874)
5 February – Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (died 1903)
26 February – Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (died 1867)
4 March – Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet, entomologist (died 1889)
12 April – Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (died 1873)
20 April – Célimène Gaudieux, musician and innkeeper (died 1864)Épisode 5/10 : Célimène Gaudieux, la muse des Trois Bassins https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/une-histoire-de/celimene-gaudieux-la-muse-des-trois-bassins-7783008 Radio France 4 July 2024 fr
26 April – Charles Auguste Frossard, general (died 1875)
17 May – Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist (died 1872)
17 June – Auguste Nélaton, physician and surgeon (died 1873)
July to December
24 August
Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (died 1852)
Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (died 1873)
3 September – Raymond Gayrard, sculptor (died 1855)
21 October – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (died 1880)
14 November – Auguste Laurent, chemist (died 1853)
20 November – Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist (died 1885)
29 November – Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General (born 1714)
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Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter (died 1893)
Alphonse Sagebien, hydrological engineer (died 1892)
Deaths
January to June
13 January – Pierre Joseph Buchoz, physician, lawyer and naturalist (born 1731)
17 January – Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet, naturalist (born 1761)
14 February – Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul, General (born 1754)
25 February – Jeanne-Marie Marsan, singer and actress (born 1746)
4 April – Jérôme Lalande, astronomer and writer (born 1732)
5 May – Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte (born 1802)
10 May – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, aristocrat and Marshal of France (born 1725)
18 May – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France (born 1775)
July to December
5 August – Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe (born 1740)
19 August – Louis Binot, General (born 1771)
25 August
Sophie Ristaud Cottin, writer (born 1770)
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, jurist and politician (born 1746)
31 August – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, poet (born 1729)
October – Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur, soldier and Minister of War (born 1727)
2 November – Baron de Breteuil, aristocrat, diplomat and Prime Minister (born 1730)
8 November – Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, engineer, hydrographer and Minister of the Navy (born 1752)
23 November – Jean-François Rewbell, lawyer, diplomat and politician (born 1747)
See also
France History Lists
References
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