See also: 1804 in France, other events of 1805, 1806 in France.

Events from the year 1805 in France.

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 October-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.
• 30 October - Battle of Caldiero, French victory over Austrian forces.
• 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 D renstein, between French, Austrian and Russian forces had an inconclusive result.
• 16 November - Battle of Sch ngrabern, 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.
• Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
• Sweden declares war on France.

Births

• 10 March - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (d.1872).
• 29 May - Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie, engineer (d.1871).
• 3 June - Adolphe Dugl r , chef (d.1884).
• 13 June - B nilde Roman on, saint (d.1862)
• 19 June - Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion, magistrate, historian and journalist (d.1862).
• 28 June - Napol on Coste, guitarist and composer (d.1883).
• 29 July - Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian (d.1859).
• 19 August - Jules Barth lemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (d.1895).
• 24 October - Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam (d.1862).
• 19 November - Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal (d.1894).
• 19 November - douard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (d.1881).
• 16 December - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (d.1861).
• 31 December - Marie d'Agoult, author, pen name Daniel Stern (d.1876).

Full date unknown

• Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac, physician (d.1879).

Deaths

• 17 January - Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, orientalist (b.1731).
• 23 January - Claude Chappe, inventor (b.1763).
• 4 March - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (b.1725).
• 18 March - tienne Eustache Bruix, sailor (b.1759).
• 19 June - Louis-Jean-Fran ois Lagren e, painter (b.1724).
• 2 October - Georges Ren Le Peley de Pl ville admiral and Naval Minister (b.1726).
• 8 November - Fran ois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, writer and dramatist (b.1718).
• 24 November - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazal s, orator and politician (b.1758).
• 1 December - Joseph Bernard de Chabert, sailor, geographer and astronomer (b.1724).

Full date unknown

• Pierre-Fran ois Hugues D'Hancarville, pseudo-aristocrat (b.1719).

References

fr:1805 en France