1848 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis Philippe I

  Events

• 22 February - In Paris, revolt erupts against the king, Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates.
• 23 February - Prime Minister François Guizot resigns.
• 26 February - Provisional government is organised called the Second Republic.
• 7 March - The Provisional government establishes the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, a national bank which is the earliest predecessor of BNP Paribas.
• 23 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
• 24 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
• 6 May - Executive Commission of the French Republic is set up, jointly heads of state during the Second Republic.
• 15 May - Radicals invade the Chamber of deputies.
• 23 June - June Days Uprising begins after closure of the National Workshops created by the Second Republic to give work to the unemployed.
• 25 June - June Days Uprising ends with 1,500 killed; 15,000 prisoners were deported to Algeria.
• 28 June - Term of the Executive Commission of the French Republic ends.
• 28 August - Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French parliament, as a representative of Guadaloupe.
• 4 November - France ratifies a new constitution. The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.
• 10 December - Presidential election held. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected president of the French Republic.
• 20 December - President Bonaparte takes his oath of office in front of the French National Assembly.

  Unknown dates

• Slavery is abolished in France.

  Births

• 21 January - Henri Duparc, composer
• 4 February - Jean Aicard, poet, dramatist and novelist
• 5 February - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist
• 14 February - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer
• 16 February - Octave Mirbeau, journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist and playwright
• 10 April - Hubertine Auclert, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage
• 7 June - Paul Gauguin, painter
• 28 June - Jean Bourdeau, writer
• 4 July - Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor
• 31 July - Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas
• 19 August - Gustave Caillebotte, Impressionist painter
• 22 September - Jules Coutan, sculptor
• 3 October - Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron
• 1 November - Jules Bastien-Lepage, painter
• 22 November - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle

  Deaths

• 2 February - Rosalie Lamorlière, last servant of Marie Antoinette
• 17 February - Jean-Antoine Dubois, Catholic missionary in India
• 29 February - Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer
• 8 March - Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide
• 15 March - Ferdinand de Géramb, Trappist monk
• 27 March - Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel, politician and naval officer
• 21 May - Pierre Wantzel, mathematician
• 27 June - Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris
• 28 June - Jean-Baptiste Debret, painter
• 4 July - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer, politician and diplomat
• 3 September - François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
• 3 November - Jean Vatout, poet and historian
• 2 December - Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois, admiral
• 14 December - Jean Antoine Letronne, archaeologist
• 28 December - Louis François Cauchy, government official