1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and literature

4. Births

5. Deaths
    Full date unknown 

6. References

The following lists events that happened during 1865 in the French Empire.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

The flag was reformed.

Arts and literature

• 1 January - Hector Berlioz finishes his memoirs.

Births

• 20 January - Yvette Guilbert, singer and actress (died 1944)
• 9 June - Albéric Magnard, composer (died 1914)
• 1 October - Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (died 1935)
• 8 December - Jacques Hadamard, mathematician (died 1963)

Deaths

• 19 January - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosopher (born 1809)
• 16 February - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (born 1815)
• 13 April - Achille Valenciennes, zoologist (born 1794)
• 18 April - Léon Jean Marie Dufour, medical doctor and naturalist (born 1780)
• 30 March - Gustave de Beaumont, magistrate, prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (born 1802)
• 21 November - Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux, priest and missionary in Canada (born 1796)

Full date unknown

• Baron de César Bazancourt, military historian (born 1810)

References

• Sacco-Venzetti Trial
• SACCS
• Sac (cuisine)
• Saccular
• Saccular aneurysm
• Saccular nerve
• Saccule and utricle
• Sacculus
• Saccus endolymphaticus
• Saccus lacrimalis
• Saccus vaginalis
• SA-CD
• SACD
• Sac de billes
• SACD HD
• Sacd hd
• SACD playback hardware
• Sacecorbo
• Sacecorbo, Guadalajara
• Sacecorbo, Spain
• Saceda-Trasierra
• Saceda-Trasierra, Cuenca
• Saceda-Trasierra, Spain
• Sacedón
• Sacel