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Becomes officer in French artillery
he became a master war tactician -
Becomes a general in gthe French army
Became commander and chief and used it to get a majority of his power -
Birth of Napoleon
Napoleon was born Auguest 15, 1769 in Corsica to parents of noble Genoese ancestry and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France -
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Birth to Death
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Napoleon becomes head of the French state, establishes the consulate
A new constitution approved by the French people replced the Directory with a three member Consulate. -
First Consul For Life
Dec 1, 1799 he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. -
Concordat signed
When the Concordat was signed it allowed the Catholics reliogious freedom -
The Napoleonic Code
The Napolenonic allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. -
Emperor of the French
Crowned himself emporor of the French -
Continental System
Nov 21, 1806 Shut out Britain from Europe -
Campaign to Russia
reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major change in European politics -
Elba
First place he was sent to -
Waterloo
His final defeat as emporor -
Congress of Vienna
To make peace and to the system of monarchy -
Trafalgar
The French were severely defeated by Britain -
St. Helena
Final Place he we sent to -
Death of Napoleon
A British ship took Napoleon to the island of Saint Helena, far away in the south Atlantic, where he remained a prisoner until his death on 5 May 1821