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List of events
Events from the year 1805 in
France .
Incumbents
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.
16–19 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.
23 October - On the early death of her husband, François,
Madame Clicquot Ponsardin takes over his
champagne house as
Veuve Clicquot .
30 October -
Battle of Caldiero , French victory over Austrian forces.
31 October -
Sweden declares war on France.
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.
31 December - The
French Republican calendar is used for the last time, 8 days after being annulled by
Napoleon with effect from 1 January 1806, the final official date being "9
Nivôse in Year XIV of the Revolution".
[2] This year also he has ordered his soldiers to be
vaccinated .
Pernod Fils founded in
Pontarlier ,
Franche-Comté , by Henri-Louis Pernod and starts the production of the
anise -flavored
liquor known as
absinthe .
Births
15 January -
Louise Bertin , composer (died
1877 )
[3]
10 March -
Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry , author and theologian (died
1872 )
29 May -
Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie , engineer (died
1871 )
3 June -
Adolphe Dugléré , chef (died
1884 )
13 June -
Bénilde Romançon , saint (died
1862 )
19 June -
Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion , magistrate, historian and journalist (died
1862 )
28 June -
Napoléon Coste , guitarist and composer (died
1883 )
29 July -
Alexis de Tocqueville , political thinker and historian (died
1859 )
19 August -
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire ,
philosopher ,
journalist and statesman (died
1895 )
24 August -
Jean-Jacques Meyer , steam locomotive engineer (died
1877 )
24 October -
Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix ,
vicar apostolic of
Eastern Siam (died
1862 )
19 November -
Ferdinand de Lesseps , developer of the
Suez Canal (died
1894 )
19 November -
Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys , statesman and diplomat (died
1881 )
16 December -
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , zoologist (died
1861 )
31 December -
Marie d'Agoult , author, pen name Daniel Stern (died
1876 )
Deaths
Full date unknown
See also
References
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