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Birth of Napoleon
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Becomes officer in French artillery Officer
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Becomes a General in the French Army
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The Napoleonic Code is The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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Concordat signed and It sought national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France.
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First Consul for Life and established himself as the head of a more liberal, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself head of state.
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Napoleon becomes head of the French state, establishes the consulate
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Napoleon declare's himself emperor.
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Trafalgar and a Naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies.
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Continental System and paralyzed Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce.
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Campaign in Russia and Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St. Helena.
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Congress of Vienna and a conference of ambassadors of European states.
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Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from St. Helena.
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Congress of Vienna ends.
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The battle of Waterloo and the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Death of Napoleon