Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte

By claudia gudiel

  • Birth

    Birth
    Napoleon was born in Ajaccio. His father was Carlo Bounaparte and his mother was Maria Leticia Ramolino.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    He married Barras's mistress, Josefina de Beauharnais. She was the first wife of Napoleón Bonaparte and therefore, Empress of France. On the part of her daughter Hortensia, she was the grandmother of Napoleon III and on the part of her son, great-grandmother of the most recent kings and queens of Sweden and Denmark.

  • Expedition

    Expedition
    In 1798 he proposed to undertake an expedition to colonize Egypt.

  • Putsch

    Putsch
    He gave a coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire that ended the Directory, the last form of government of the French Revolution.

  • Appointment

    Appointment
    He became the first consul (Premier Consul) of the Republic.
    Bonaparte wrote the Constitution of Year VIII, assuring his election as First Consul. This made him the most powerful person in France, a power that would be increased in the Constitution of Year X, when he managed to be named First Consul for life.

  • Appointment

    Appointment
    He was proclaimed as king of Italy and the territory is called the Kingdom of Italy. Napoleon's stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais, will be his viceroy.

  • Coronation

    Coronation
    He was proclaimed as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français) by the French Senate. The pope demanded Napoleon to be crowned emperor to marry his wife Josephine by the church.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    After allying again with Austria, Napoleon married María Luisa de Habsburgo-Lorena , daughter of the Austrian monarch, Francisco I of Austria , belonging to the house of Habsburgo , once repudiated Josefinaby not being able to give you an heir.

  • Defeat

    Defeat
    The Battle of Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813), also called the "Battle of the Nations," was the largest armed confrontation of all the Napoleonic Wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • Abdication

    Abdication
    He was forced to abdicate.

  • Defeat

    Defeat
    He returned to France and to power during the period called the Hundred Days and was defeated forever in waterloo.

  • Exile

    Exile
    He was banished by the British on the island of Saint Helena, the island is located more than 1800 kilometers away from the western coast of Angola, in Africa.

  • Death

    Death
    He died in Longwood, Saint Helena. He didn't die of stomach cancer caused by an old ulcer, but was thoroughly poisoned, slowly, with arsenic.