Events from the year 1803 in France.
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Events
- 30 January
- Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
- Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May.[1]
- 30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
- May - The First Consul of France Citizen Bonaparte begins making preparations to invade England.
- 18 May - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France, after French refuse to withdraw from Dutch territory.
- 5 July - Convention of Artlenburg, the surrender of the Electorate of Hanover to Napoleon's army.
- 18 November - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Vertières, decisive Haitian victory over the French colonial army.
Births
January to June
- 16 February - Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, politician (died 1878).
- 3 March - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (died 1860).
- 15 March - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist (died 1875).
- 7 April - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (died 1844).
- 24 May - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist and ornithologist (died 1857).
July to December
- 22 July - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1886).
- 24 July - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (died 1856).
- 8 September - Léon Faucher, politician and economist (died 1854).
- 12 September - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (died 1858).
- 13 September - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (died 1847).
- 23 September - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (died 1875).
- 28 September - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (died 1886).
- 28 September - Prosper Mérimée, dramatist, historian and archaeologist (died 1870).
- 11 December - Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869).
- 24 December - Jean-Rémy Bessieux, founder of Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and first Bishop there (died 1876).
Full date unknown
- Jean Étienne Bercé, entomologist (died 1879).
- Hélène Jégado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed (died 1852).
Deaths
January to June
- 18 January - Sylvain Maréchal, essayist, poet and philosopher (born 1750).
- 29 January - La Clairon, actress (born 1723).
- 9 February - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (born 1716).
- 11 February - Jean-François de La Harpe, playwright, writer and critic (born 1739).
- 16 February - Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, Cardinal (born 1734).
- 20 February - Marie Dumesnil, actress (born 1713).
- 4 March - Madame de Marsan, Royal children's governess (born 1720).
- 24 April - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painter (born 1749).
- April - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, mathematician (born 1759).
- 29 May - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, writer, poet, historian and biographer (born 1719).
- 6 June - Louis Gallodier, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. c1734).
July to December
- 16 August - Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, writer (born 1736).
- 5 September
- François Devienne, composer and flautist (born 1759).
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, General and novelist (born 1741).
- 7 October - Pierre Vachon, composer (born 1731).
- 12 October - Jacques Gamelin, painter and engraver (born 1738).
- 7 November - Pierre Brugière, priest and Jansenist (born 1730).
- 27 November - Antoine Guenée, priest and Christian apologist (born 1717).
References
- ^ William Fortescue (2002). The Third Republic in France 1870-1940: Conflicts and Continuities. Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 1134740220.