1844 in France

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	Other events of 1844; History of France • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1844 in France.

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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

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)

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