Events from the year 1845 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis Philippe I
Events 12 October – The Société Mathématique de France was founded. 20 November – Battle of Vuelta de Obligado between the Argentine Confederation and an Anglo-French fleet on the waters of the Paraná River.
Arts and literature 1845 – Mérimée writes Carmen 1845 – Alexandre Dumas writes La Reine Margot
Births 27 March – Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist (died 1917) 12 May – Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1922) 12 May – Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist (died 1924) 18 June – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1922) 18 July – Tristan Corbière, poet (died 1875) 19 August – Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (died 1934) 11 September – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (died 1903) 9 October – Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and industrialist (died 1924) 30 October – Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (died 1916)
Full date unknown Cécile Bruyère, abbess (died 1909) Jules Develle, politician (died 1919) Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (died 1926)
Deaths 4 January – Léopold Boilly, painter (born 1761) 13 March – Charles-Guillaume Étienne, dramatist and writer (born 1778) 17 March – Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, entomologist (born 1780) 30 March – Alexandre Soumet, poet (born 1788) 9 April – Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière, general (born 1765) 21 August – Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, politician, writer and artist (born 1756) 23 August – Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, entomologist (born 1770)
Full date unknown Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, philosopher (born 1766) Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (born 1801) Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (born 1775) Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, naturalist and artist (born 1772)
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