1800 in France

This page relates to the year 1800 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January 7th: Benjamin Constant intervenes with the Tribunat, and, in a speech which reveals it like the leader of the opposition, denounces “the mode of constraint and silence” which prepares.
January 12th: Treaty of Pacification of the West enters the government, represented by Hedouville and the chouans chiefs, represented by of Andigné, Boumont, Kainlis and the Saint-Andrew Rock.
January 17th: The number of the newspapers authorized is tiny room to 11.
January 21st: Chaptal, Minister of Interior Department (fine in 1804).
January 24th: Minor Victoire of the Chouans to the Battle of the bridge of Loc' H.

February 13rd: Creation of the Banque de France by the meeting of several private banking made up in a joint stock company.
February 17th: Law of the 28 pluviôse year VIII , reorganizing the administration; Bonaparte widens the capacities of the police chiefs of the Republic who become the Préfet S and sub-prefects, named and revoked by the central capacity. A system of administrative supervision is exerted on the municipalities; The prefects name the mayors and the City council men of the towns of less than 5000 inhabitants, and the central capacity those of the cities of more than 5000 inhabitants. Paris has a prefect of the the Seine and a prefect of police. A general advice from 16 to 24 members; chooses on the list of departmental confidence by the government, has an advisory role.
February 17th: The department of the Mount-Terrible is built-in the Haut-Rhin.
March 18th: Law of the 27 ventôse, reorganizing the legal system: Justice of the Peace elected in the cantons, county courts in the districts, courts criminal in the departments, 28 courts of call. The judges are named by the government and are paid on the budget of the State. They are appointed for lives and irremovable.

centralizing Reforms of the Year VIII: The tax base and perception are allotted to direct tax authorities (November 24th 1799 and March 18th 1800).

April 27th ( 7 floréal year VIII ): Jean-Baptiste Attic, old appointed of the Third state of the Seneschalsy of Riom to the General states, is named sub-prefect of Brioude.
May 16th ( 26 floréal year VIII ): First general census of the population in France.
June 14th: Battle Marengo.

August 13rd: Bonaparte request with Cambacérès to direct a charged commission to compose the Code of the Laws (Civil code French).

October 19th: the Geographer and the Naturalist leave Le Havre within the framework of the Expédition Baudin.
November 21st: Foundation of the female religious congregation of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart by Madeleine-Sophie Barat.
December 3rd: Battle of Hohenlinden.
December 16th: Treaty of Mortefontaine, convention signed between the France and the the United States finishing the Quasi war.
December 24th ( 3 nivôse year IX ): Assassination attempt with the “explosive device” against the First Consul Napoleon street Saint-Nicaise with Paris formenté by Georges Cadoudal, supported by the British. The explosion made 22 dead. Initially suspected, the Jacobins are stopped and off-set in mass. The made proof that the attack is the work of royalists, the partisans of the king are stopped.

the industrial sector recovers its positions of before the Revolution of 1800 with 1804.

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