1856 in France

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	Other events of 1856; History of France • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1856 in France.

Incumbents

30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.

4 January - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (born 1788)
6 January - Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, musician and composer (born 1789)
29 February - Auguste Chapdelaine, Christian missionary to China (born 1814)
March - Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (born 1810)
27 April - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (born 1806)
3 May - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (born 1803)
12 May - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (born 1786)
13 May - Jean Zuléma Amussat, surgeon (born 1796)
14 May - Théodore Guérin (Saint Theodora), missionary (born 1798)

8 October - Théodore Chassériau, painter (born 1819)
12 October - Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, botanist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1786)
4 November - Hippolyte Delaroche, painter (born 1797)
9 November - Étienne Cabet, philosopher and utopian socialist (born 1788)
25 December - Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan (born 1800)