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Coup d'etat
On November 10, 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte carried out a coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire that ended the Directory, the last form of government of the French Revolution, and he became the First Consul. -
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Napoleonic Period
The First French Empire, also known as the Empire or Napoleonic France, was the government established by Napoleon Bonaparte following the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804. -
Napoleon becomes first consul of France
Bonaparte instituted several important reforms, including the centralization of departmental administration, higher education, a new tax code, a central bank, new laws, and a system of roads and sewers. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation
The coronation was a sacred ceremony held to legitimize Napoleon's reign and marked the birth of the first French empire (1804-1814; 1815) and established the imperial Bonaparte dynasty. The coronation took place with the significant assistance of Pope Pius VII -
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Empire
The Napoleonic Empire was an imperial state created by the French soldier Napoleon Bonaparte, who in 1804 had himself crowned Emperor of the French. That coronation led to war with several European states, especially Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia, who wanted to prevent French expansion. -
The battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, pitted a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I against the combined Russian-Austrian forces of Russian Tsar Alexander I and Austrian Emperor Francis I on December 2, 1805. in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, as the First French Empire definitively crushed the Third Coalition after almost nine hours of difficult combat. -
Russian campain
It was a turning point in the course of the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the French and Allied invasion forces to less than twenty percent of their initial capacity. The role of this episode in Russian culture can be seen in Tolstoy's work War and Peace, and in the identification that the Soviet Union made between it and Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 to December 5 of that same year. -
Waterloo battle
On June 18, 1815, the French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the British and Prussian armies in the War of Waterloo. The defeat ended the 23-year war between France and the European allied states.