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Napoleon in later life
In 1796, Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais a stylish widow six years his senior who had two teenage children. -
Start or end of the 7 years war
The Seven Years' War was a global war fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783. -
Napoleon early life
Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleon Buonaparte on August 15, 1769, in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. He was the fourth of eleven children of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Romolino. His father, a member of a noble Italian family, remained on good terms with the French when they took over control of Corsica. -
Napoleon early life
Napoleon began his education at a boys' school in Ajaccio. Then, at age ten, he was allowed to enter French military schools for aristocrats and was sent in 1779, with his older brother Joseph, to the College of Autun in Burgundy. -
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House. -
Building of the Palace at Versailles
The Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682, under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789. -
Storming of the Bastille
This violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Women’s March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
The first Constitution of France
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
San Culotte attack the prisons
Mass killing of prisoners that took place in Paris from September 2 to September 6 in 1792—a major event of what is sometimes called the “First Terror” of the French Revolution. -
The murder of Marat
David was the leading French painter, as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. -
The Massacre in Lyon
When French Republican forces laid siege and captured the city of Lyon, which was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition. -
Napoleon as Emperor
Napoleon was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. -
Napoleon as Emperor
After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. -
Napoleon in later life
Napoleon was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer.
