1805 in France

"See also:"
1804 in France,
other events of 1805,
1806 in France.

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Events from the year 1805 in France.

Events

*22 July - Battle of Cape Finisterre, British defeat of Franco-Spanish fleet.
*8 October - Battle of Wertingen, French victory over Austrian forces, opening battle of the Ulm Campaign.
*11 October - Battle of Haslach-Jungingen, French victory over Austrian forces.
*14 October - Battle of Elchingen, French victory over Austria.
*16 October-19 October - Battle of Ulm, decisive French victory culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army.
*21 October - Battle of Trafalgar, decisive British victory over French and Spanish Navies.
*30 October - Battle of Caldiero, French victory over Austrian forces.
*3 November - Battle of Cape Ortegal, decisive British victory, the final action of the Trafalgar campaign.
*5 November - Battle of Amstetten, French victory over forces of Austria and Russia.
*11 November - Battle of Dürenstein, between French, Austrian and Russian forces had an inconclusive result.
*16 November - Battle of Schöngrabern, French tactical victory.
*2 December - Battle of Austerlitz, decisive French victory, effectively destroying the Third Coalition.
*4 December - Truce signed between France and Austria.
*26 December - Peace of Pressburg signed between France and Austria, as a consequence of the Austrian defeats by France.
*Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
*Sweden declares war on France.

Births

*10 March - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (d.1872).
*29 May - Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie, engineer (d.1871).
*3 June - Adolphe Dugléré, chef (d.1884).
*19 June - Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion, magistrate, historian and journalist (d.1862).
*28 June - Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (d.1883).
*29 July - Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian (d.1859).
*19 August - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (d.1895).
*24 October - Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam (d.1862).
*19 November - Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal (d.1894).
*19 November - Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (d.1881).
*16 December - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (d.1861).
*31 December - Marie d'Agoult, author, pen name Daniel Stern (d.1876).

Full date unknown

*Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac, physician (d.1879).

Deaths

*17 January - Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, orientalist (b.1731).
*23 January - Claude Chappe, inventor (b.1763).
*4 March - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (b.1725).
*18 March - Étienne Eustache Bruix, sailor (b.1759).
*19 June - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter (b.1724).
*2 October - Georges René Le Peley de Pléville admiral and Naval Minister (b.1726).
*8 November - François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, writer and dramatist (b.1718).
*24 November - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, orator and politician (b.1758).
*1 December - Joseph Bernard de Chabert, sailor, geographer and astronomer (b.1724).

Full date unknown

*Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville, pseudo-aristocrat (b.1719).

References