1884 in France
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Events from the year 1884 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 7 March – Eugène Poubelle introduces the dustbin to Paris.{{Cite web |last=Lafon |first=Cathy |date=2023-03-29 |title=Fin de la grève des éboueurs à Paris : de l'invention de la poubelle au recyclage, voici l’histoire de nos déchets |url=https://www.sudouest.fr/environnement/de-l-039-invention-de-la-poubelle-au-recyclage-voici-l-histoire-de-nos-dechets-2028119.php |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=SudOuest.fr |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2017-03-07 |title=7 mars 1884: invention des poubelles |url=https://www.lesoir.be/art/1452458/article/soirmag/soirmag-histoire/2017-03-03/7-mars-1884-invention-des-poubelles |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=Le Soir |language=fr}}
- June – At Bắc Lệ, Chinese forces attack a French column sent to occupy Tonkin in accordance with earlier treaties, starting the Sino-French War.{{cite book |last1=Barbier |first1=Hervé |title=Les canonnières françaises du Yang-tsé: de Shanghai à Chongqing, 1900-1941 |date=2004 |publisher=Indes savantes |isbn=978-2-84654-030-8 |page=26 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Les_canonni%C3%A8res_fran%C3%A7aises_du_Yang_ts/gX1xAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Bac-L%C3%A9+%C2%AB+23+juin+1884+%C2%BB+Guerre+franco-chinoise&dq=Bac-L%C3%A9+%C2%AB+23+juin+1884+%C2%BB+Guerre+franco-chinoise&printsec=frontcover |access-date=10 December 2024 |language=fr}}{{cite book |last1=D'Angio |first1=Agnès |title=Schneider & Cie et les travaux publics, 1895-1949 |date=1995 |publisher=École nationale des chartes |isbn=978-2-900791-13-4 |page=71 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Schneider_Cie_et_les_travaux_publics_189/IhYh3dp-fiQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bac-L%C3%A9+%C2%AB+23+juin+1884+%C2%BB+Guerre+franco-chinoise&pg=PA71&printsec=frontcover |access-date=10 December 2024 |language=fr}}
- 6 June – Treaty of Hué is signed between representatives of Vietnam and the French Empire.{{cite book |last1=Lưu |first1=Văn Lợi |title=The Sino-Vietnamese Difference on the Hoàng Sa and Trường Sa Archipelagoes: Lưu Văn Lợi |date=1996 |publisher=Thé̂ giới Publisher |page=47 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sino_Vietnamese_Difference_on_the_Ho/v-uPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%226%20june%201884%22 |access-date=10 December 2024 |language=en}}
- 23 August – Battle of Fuzhou: Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron virtually destroys China's Fujian Fleet.{{cite book |last1=Mau |first1=Chuan-hui |last2=Will |first2=Pierre-Etienne |title=Missions au pays de la soie: l'ambassade Lagrené (1843-1846) entre science, commerce et diplomatie |date=2017 |publisher=Collège de France, Institut des hautes études chinoises |isbn=978-2-85757-078-3 |page=279 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Missions_au_pays_de_la_soie/A_v9MUfe248C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%2223%20ao%C3%BBt%201884%22%20fujian |access-date=10 December 2024 |language=fr}}
- 1 October – French begin occupation of Keelung (Jilong).
- 23 November – Siege of Tuyên Quang begins in Indochina: The French Foreign Legion is besieged by forces of the Empire of China.{{cite book |last1=Durschmied |first1=Erik |title=Beware the dragon : China--a thousand years of bloodshed |date=2008 |publisher=Andre Deutsch |location=London |isbn=978-0-233-00231-6 |page=148 |url=https://archive.org/details/bewaredragonchin0000durs/page/148/mode/2up?q=23 |access-date=10 December 2024}}
Arts and literature
- 29 July – Société des Artistes Indépendants is founded in Paris.
Births
=January to June=
- 5 January – Arnaud Denjoy, mathematician (died 1974)
- 7 February – Achille Liénart, Cardinal (died 1973)
- 24 March – Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Cardinal (died 1972)
- 26 March – Paul Legentilhomme, military officer (died 1975)
- 31 March – Henri Queuille, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1970)
- 5 May – Jean Decoux, Governor-General of French Indochina (died 1963)
- 13 June – Étienne Gilson, Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy (died 1978)
- 18 June – Édouard Daladier, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1970)
- 19 June – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, writer and artist (died 1974)
- 27 June – Gaston Bachelard, philosopher (died 1962)
- 30 June – Georges Duhamel, author (died 1966)
=July to December=
- 4 July – Pauline Carton, actress (died 1974)
- 7 July – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
- 10 July – Pierre Larquey, actor (died 1962)
- 12 July – Edgar Stehli, French-born American actor (died 1973)
- 3 August – Georges Boillot, motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot (died 1916)
- 25 August – Léon Poirier, film director, screenwriter and film producer (died 1968)
- 27 August – Vincent Auriol, politician, President of France (died 1966)
- 4 September – Henri Meslot, athlete (died 1973)
- 24 September – Gustave Garrigou, cyclist, 1911 Tour de France winner (died 1963)
- 25 September – Rita Jolivet, American-born actress (died 1971)
- 4 October – Félix Gouin, politician (died 1977)
- 27 October – André Le Troquer, politician and lawyer (died 1963)
- 2 December – Jean Paulhan, writer, literary critic and publisher (died 1968)
=Full date unknown=
- Jacques Maroger, painter (died 1962)
Deaths
- 3 February – Eugène Rouher, statesman (born 1814)
- 4 April – Adolphe Dugléré, chef (born 1805)
- 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Dumas, chemist (born 1800)
- 6 May
- Judah P. Benjamin, American-born Jewish United States Senator from Louisiana from 1853 to 1861 (born 1811)
- Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Jew who became a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary (born 1814)
- 10 September – Jean-Augustin Barral, agronomist (born 1819)
- 13 December – Eugène Pelletan, writer, journalist and politician (born 1813)