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.

Births

• 29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (d.1944).
• 17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist (d.1925).
• 6 July - Charles Mangin, general during World War I (d.1925).
• 13 July - La Goulue, dancer (d.1929).
• 4 August - Maurice Schutz, actor (d.1955).
• 7 September - Tristan Bernard, playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer (d.1947).
• 21 September - Charles Nicolle, bacteriologist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine (d.1936).

Deaths

• 8 March - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea (b.1814).
• Philippe Buchez, author and politician (b.1796).

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