Napoleons Rise and Fall Timeline

By Elian Senica

  • Coup D’état

    Coup D’état
    After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804.

  • Concordat

    Concordat
    The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905.

  • Napoleonic Code

    Napoleonic Code
    The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.