page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 1848–1869 – The Second Republic and the Second Empire
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 19th century / 1848–1869 – The Second Republic and the Second Empire
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: fête donnée à l'occasion de la visite des souverains étrangers pour l'exposition de 1867, le Tsar Alexandre II au bras de l'impératrice Eugénie et Napoléon III avec Guillaume Ier de Prusse et le sultan Abdulaziz)
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1848
  February 24 – 22-24 1848 French Revolution.
  22 February – Government bans banquets of the political opposition.
  23 February – Crowds demonstrate against Louis-Philippe's sike minister, Guizot. That evening soldiers fire on a crowd outside Guizot's residence, boulevard des Capucines, killing 52.
  24 February – Barricades appear in many neighborhoods. The government resigns, Louis-Philippe and his family flee into exile in England, and the Second Republic is proclaimed at the Hôtel de Ville.
  22–26 June – Armed uprising by the more radical republicans in the working-class neighborhoods of eastern Paris, suppressed by the army under General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. The city remains under martial law until 19 October.
  2 August – The first tourist excursion train to the beach at Dieppe leaves Paris. This begins the tradition of leaving Paris for summer holidays in August.
  20 December – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes the first elected president of the French Republic, and moves into the Élysée Palace.
  1849
  3 March – new cholera epidemic begins in the overcrowded center of the city. Between March and September, sixteen thousand deaths.
  8 May – First stone placed for first public housing for workers in Paris, the cité ouvrière on rue de Rochechouart.
  13 June – Armed uprising by radical republicans in the Saint-Martin district against the government of the Second Republic, led by Ledru-Rollin. It was suppressed by the army, causing eight deaths.
  3 July – Inauguration of the train line, operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg, opens between Paris and Strasbourg in eastern France.
  12 August – Inauguration of the train line between Paris and Lyon.
  International Peace Congress held.
  1850
  19 May – opening of Mazas prison. 
  1851
  5 June – Louis-Napoleon lays first stone for the new central market of Les Halles.
  2 December – Louis-Napoleon, not allowed by the Constitution to run for re-election, seizes power through a coup d'état and moves his residence to the Tuileries Palace. There is sporadic opposition in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and neighborhood of the temple, quickly subdued by the army.
  10 December – Decree of Louis-Napoleon to begin building the ceinture railroad line around the city, 38 kilometers long. The line was finished in 1870.
  1852
  26 March – A decree allows the government to more easily expropriate old buildings and the adjacent land in order to build new boulevards through the center of Paris.
  25 July – Work begins on a new wing to complete the Louvre.
  2 December – Louis-Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III.
  11 December – The opening of the Cirque Napoléon, later called the Cirque d'hiver, on the boulevard du Temple.
  Work begins on the Bois de Boulogne, completed in 1858.
  Aristide Boucicaut and the Videau brothers open Le Bon Marché, the first modern Paris department store. The store has twelve employees in 1852, and 1,788 in 1877.
  1853
  29 June – Napoleon III installs a huge map of Paris in his office at the Tuileries Palace and he and his new prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, begin planning the reconstruction of central Paris.
  21 November – A demonstration of the first tram line between the modern avenue de New York and the Cours-la-Reine. A line is later opened connecting Place de la Concorde with the pont de Sèvres.
  1854 
  Louis Vuitton opens a luggage shop on Rue Neuve des Capucines, and in 1858 introduces a line of flat-bottomed canvas trunks, convenient for stacking.
  15 November – Société française de photographie founded by a group of French scientists. Its first president was the chemist Henri Victor Regnault.
  2 April – The newspaper Le Figaro is revived under new management and begins publishing.
  1855
  22 February – Private omnibus companies consolidated into the Compagnie générale des omnibus to provide public transport throughout the city.
  26 March – The department store Les Galeries du Louvre opens.
  15 May – The Exposition Universelle (1855) opens between the Seine and the Champs-Élysées. By the time it closes on 15 November, it has attracted five million vis
caption: A fête given by Napoleon III at the Tuileries Palace (1867)
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