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Birth of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was born to Carlo Bonaparte and Letzia Romolino in Ajaccio, Corsica -
French Revolution Starts
Estates General Meeting commenced, which led to the Tennis Court Oath and the French Revolution -
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Reign of Terror
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Battle of Toulon
The naval Battle of Toulon or Battle of Cape Sicié took place on 22 February 1744 in the Mediterranean off the coast of Toulon, France. A combined Franco-Spanish fleet fought off Britain's Mediterranean fleet -
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Egyptian Campaign
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18 Brumaire Coup
The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France -
First Consul for Life
The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804 -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code ‒ or Code Napoléon (the official name being the Code civil des Français) ‒ is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified -
Napoleon's Coronation
The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French, which took place on Sunday December 2, 1804 (11 Frimaire, Year XIII according to the French Republican Calendar), at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, has been said to mark "the instantiation of modern empire", representing a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda".[1 -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. -
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Continental System
The Continental System or Continental Blockade (known in French as Blocus continental) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Peninsula War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was a military conflict between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire,[a] the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Invasion of Russia
Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace.[7] The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. -
Napoleon Retreats from Moscow
Sitting in the ashes of a ruined city with no foreseeable prospect of Russian capitulation, idle troops and supplies diminished by use and Russian operations of attrition, Napoleon had little choice but to withdraw his army from Moscow. -
Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations was fought 16–19 October 1813 by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden led by the Russian Tsar Alexander I and prince Schwarzenberg against the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, at Leipzig, Saxony -
Napoleon's Exile to Elba
On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba -
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Hundred Days
The Hundred Days,[a]sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought thirteen kilometres south of Brussels between the French, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Allied armies commanded by the Duke of Wellington from Britain and General Blücher from Prussia. -
Napoleon's Exile to Helena
The European powers exiled Napoleon to St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean -
Death of Napoleon
Napoleon dies of stomach cancer as a British prisoner on St. Helena
