1807 in France

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Events from the year 1807 in France.

Incumbents

7 January - The United Kingdom issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.^[2]
7–8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat.
19 March - Siege of Danzig begins as French lay siege to Prussian and Russian forces.
4 May - Treaty of Finckenstein signed between France and Qajar dynasty Persia, guaranteeing the latter's integrity.
24 May - Siege of Danzig ends with Prussian and Russian capitulation.
10 June - Battle of Heilsberg, inconclusive.
14 June - Battle of Friedland: decisive French victory over Russian forces.
7–9 July - Treaties of Tilsit end the war with Russia and Prussia.
20 July - Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powers a boat upstream on the river Saône.
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.
27 September - Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.^[3]
24 November - Battle of Abrantes, Portugal: The French under Jean-Andoche Junot take the town.
17 December - Milan Decree issued by Napoleon, stating that no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom (the 'Continental System').

24 August
- Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (died 1852)
- Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (died 1873)
3 September - Raymond Gayrard, sculptor (died 1855)
21 October - Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (died 1880)
14 November - Auguste Laurent, chemist (died 1853)
20 November - Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist (died 1885)
29 November - Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General (born 1714)

5 August - Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe (born 1740)
19 August - Louis Binot, General (born 1771)
25 August
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin, writer (born 1770)
- Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, jurist and politician (born 1746)
31 August - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, poet (born 1729)
October - Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur, soldier and Minister of War (born 1727)
2 November - Baron de Breteuil, aristocrat, diplomat and Prime Minister (born 1730)
8 November - Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, engineer, hydrographer and Minister of the Navy (born 1752)
23 November - Jean-François Rewbell, lawyer, diplomat and politician (born 1747)

^ "BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^ Dudley, William S., ed. (1985). The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Naval Historical Center. p. 34.
^ Haskell, Francis; Penny, Nicholas (1982). Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900. Yale University Press. p. 281.