1866 in France

Events from the year 1866 in France.

Events

 * 31 May - Napoleon III announces the withdrawal of French forces in the French intervention in Mexico.
 * 26 July - French evacuate Monterrey.
 * 5 August - French evacuate Saltillo.
 * 14 October - French troops land at Ganghwa Island, Korea as part of French Campaign against Korea for the execution of French Jesuit priests. It is the first military contact between Korea and a Western force.

Arts and literature

 * 31 October - Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe La Vie parisienne is premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.

Births

 * 17 January - Joseph Bernard, sculptor (died 1931)
 * 29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1944)
 * 19 February - Louis-Henri Foreau, painter (died 1938)
 * 17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist (died 1925)
 * 23 May - Ellen Richards Ridgway, American golfer (died 1934)
 * 6 July - Charles Mangin, general during World War I (died 1925)
 * 13 July - La Goulue, dancer (died 1929)
 * 4 August - Maurice Schutz, actor (died 1955)
 * 7 September - Tristan Bernard, playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer (died 1947)
 * 21 September - Charles Nicolle, bacteriologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1928 (died 1936)

Deaths

 * 8 March - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea (born 1814).
 * 11 August - Philippe Buchez, author and politician (born 1796).