1816 in France

This page relates to the year 1816 Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of France

1815 in France - 1816 - 1817 in France

Events

  • consecutive Year without summer with the explosion of the volcano Tambora in Indonesia in April 1815. Continual rains. Late grape harvest in the North of France (October 24th). Bad harvest involving the food shortage.

  • January 12th: Law of amnesty.
  • February 29th: Letter of Wellington announcing to the king Louis XVIII the danger of parliamentary debates putting in danger “the budget on which all Europe is primarily interested”.
  • March 16th: Treaty of Turin with the Swiss .
  • March 21st: Ordinance of March 21st, 1816. Reorganization of the French Academy: 11 members are expelled and immediately replaced.

According to the bill (deposited by the Viscount of Bonald) aiming, like others, to thwart the legal and social transformations brought " all these last années" , the new Room (ultraroyalist, elected in August 1815, qualified then d'" untraceable " by the agreeably surprised King) the right to the divorce by 225 votes against 11.
abolishes ( France “will return” to the divorce only in 1884.)
  • 4 - May 5th: Conspiracy of Didier to Grenoble in answer to the stressing of purification.
  • May 29th: The Bourse de Paris coast only seven values when east restores the monopoly of the stockbrokers (38 in 1830).
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  • July 5th: Shipwreck of the Jellyfish, frigate started from Brest to restore French sovereignty on the Senegal, because of inexperience of captain, an emigrant returned in 1814. The crew and the passengers are distributed between the boats and a large raft. A series of wrong movements causes the rupture of the cables between the raft and the boats. The boats arrive at good port (July 8th). The July 15th, one finds on the raft 15 embarked survivors out of 150. The business is assembled out of pin by the liberal press to underline favoritism being exerted in favor of inefficient, but royalist officers.
  • the king yields at the requests of Allies and decreases the authority of his/her brother the count d' Artois which had in fact made up a parallel government supported on carefully purified national guards.
  • September 5th: Louis XVIII is constrained to dissolve the untraceable Chambre, dominated by the Ultras - royalist, entered in conflict with the ministry for the duke of Richelieu, right-hand man of the tsar Alexandre.
    • the elections of September, which are done under the mode of the electoral colleges, modify the distribution of the tendencies to Room: the extremists pass from 350 to 100 deputies (elected in the West and the South), the constitutional ones pass from 30 to 150 deputies (elected big cities, Center and North), the independent ones or liberal have ten seats. A little later the electoral law is amended: the voters, brought together with the chief town of department form a college electing the deputies directly. To be entitled to vote, it is necessary to pay 300 francs of direct taxes (approximately 100  000 voters). To be appointed, it is necessary to pay 1000 of them (15  000 eligible).

  • Royer-Collard and Guizot founds the party of the “Doctrinaires” which defends a certain limitation of the royal power by the Rooms.
  • Lazare Carnot is banished like regicide.
  • the France pushes back the decisions taken with London in 1816 for the suppression of the Corsaire S, hoping to limit the maritime power of the Great Britain.
  • the duke of Richelieu obtains a reduction of manpower of occupation.
  • official Re-establishment about the Jesuits in France. Strong opposition of holding of the Gallicanisme.

  • 54,3% of elimination of illiteracy in France (1816 - 1820).

Internal bonds

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