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List of events
Events from the year 1859 in
France.
Incumbents
Events
- 26 March - Attempting to explain
Mercury's solar orbit, mathematician
Urbain Le Verrier has proposed the existence of a
hypothetical planet, Vulcan, inside its orbit and amateur astronomer
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault claims to have observed it on this date.
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- 23 April - Austria issues an ultimatum seeking the complete de-militarization of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 29 April -
Second Italian War of Independence begins, when Austrian ultimatum is ignored.
- 14 May -
Napoleon III arrives in
Alessandria, taking command of the operations.
- 20 May -
Battle of Montebello, Piedmontese cavalry and French infantry defeat Austrian troops.
- 30 May -
Battle of Palestro, French-Sardinian victory.
- 4 June -
Battle of Magenta, French-Sardinian victory under
Napoleon III against the
Austrians.
- 24 June -
Battle of Solferino, French-Sardinian victory.
- 30 June -
Charles Blondin crosses
Niagara Falls on a
tightrope for the first time.
- 12 July -
Armistice of Villafranca ends the
Second Italian War of Independence.
- 24 November - The French Navy's
La Gloire ("Glory"), the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, is launched.
Arts and literature
Births
Deaths
- 18 March -
Jean Louis Lassaigne,
chemist (born
1800)
- 16 April -
Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian (born
1805)
- 5 July -
Charles Cagniard de la Tour, engineer and physicist (born
1777)
- 23 July -
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poet (born
1786)
- 7 November -
Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry, poet, novelist, historian and politician (born
1769)
- 19 November -
Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, playwright and theatre director (born
1790)
- Full date unknown -
Pierre Boitard, botanist and geologist (born
1789)
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