Napoleon Bonaparte's Timeline

  • Birth

    He was born on the Isle of Corsica
  • General in French Army

    Led to many victories
  • French State

    Napoleon became head of the French State, and establishes a consulate.
  • Concordat was signed

    National reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics
  • First consul for life

    Attacked others for land
  • First consul for life

    Attacked others for land
  • Napoleonic Code

    Privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified
  • Emperor of the French

    His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense.
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war.
  • Continental system

    In the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce.
  • Campaign of Russia

    Liberate Poland from Russia
  • Officer in French Artillary

    Later became emperor
  • Elba

    He is banished
  • Congress of Vienna

    Was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic wars.
  • Battle of Waterloo

    He reorganized his armies and defeated Austria
  • St. Helena

    Europeans didn’t want Napoleon to make a possible return
  • Death

    Napoleon had stomach cancer.