1807 in France

Incumbents

• First Consul / Emperor - Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I

  Events

• 7 February-8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat.
• 19 March - Siege of Danzig begins as French lay siege to Russian and Prussian forces.
• 4 May - Treaty of Finckenstein signed between France and Persia, guaranteeing the integrity of Persia.
• 24 May - Siege of Danzig ends with Russian and Prussian capitulation.
• 10 June - Battle of Heilsberg, inconclusive.
• 14 June - Battle of Friedland, decisive French victory over Russian forces.
• 7 July - Treaty of Tilsit ends the war with Russia.
• 9 July - Treaty of Tilsit ends the war with Prussia.
• 27 October - Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Spain and France, dividing Portugal and all its dominions between the signatories.
• 9 September - Napoleon establishes the Free City of Danzig.
• 17 December - Milan Decree issued by Napoleon, stating that no European country was to trade with the United Kingdom.

  Births

January to June

• 6 January - Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer.
• 29 January - Édouard Dulaurier, Orientalist and Egyptologist.
• 2 February - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician.
• 5 February - Ernest Legouvé, dramatist.
• 26 February - Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist.
• 4 March - Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet, entomologist.
• 12 April - Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral.
• 26 April - Charles Auguste Frossard, general.
• 17 May - Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist.
• 17 June - Auguste Nélaton, physician and surgeon.

  July to December

• 24 August
• *Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor.
• *Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist.
• 3 September - Raymond Gayrard, sculptor.
• 21 October - Napoléon Henri Reber, composer.
• 14 November - Auguste Laurent, chemist.
• 20 November - Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist.
• 29 November - Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General.

  Full date unknown

• Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter.
• Alphonse Sagebien, hydrological engineer.

  Deaths

January to June

• 13 January - Pierre Joseph Buchoz, physician, lawyer and naturalist.
• 17 January - Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet, naturalist.
• 14 February - Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul, General.
• 25 February - Jeanne-Marie Marsan, singer and actress.
• 4 April - Jérôme Lalande, astronomer and writer.
• 5 May - Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte.
• 10 May - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, aristocrat and Marshal of France.
• 18 May - Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France.

  July to December

• 19 August - Louis Binot, General.
• 25 August
• *Sophie Ristaud Cottin, writer.
• *Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, jurist and politician.
• 31 August - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, poet.
• October - Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur, soldier and Minister of War.
• 2 November - Baron de Breteuil, aristocrat, diplomat and Prime Minister.
• 8 November - Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, engineer, hydrographer and Minister of the Navy.
• 23 November - Jean-François Rewbell, lawyer, diplomat and politician.