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Napoleon is Born
On August 15th, 1769 the emporer of france was born to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. Naploen was the second surviving child of his parents. He was born in the town of Ajaccio, on the island Corsica in France. -
Start of French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political turmoil in France from 1789 to 1799. This insurgence was started on the first of May in 1789, because the Third Estate was locked out of the Estates General Meeting. This was the spark of a flame that tore through France in the years to come. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a time of violence that happened after the beginning of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, it was also a time of many executions, for those who were enemies of both the revolution and the opposing side. -
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Siege of Toulon
The Siege of Toulon was an early Republican victory over a rebellion in the Southern French city of Toulon. The rebellion was agianst the monarchy of France which ruled over the entire country. -
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The Egyptian Campaign
The Egyptian Campaign was Napoleon's campaign in the Orient, to allegedly protect Frances trade interests, diminish Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific activity in the area. -
18 Brumiare Coup D'Etat
The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. Many historians also view this as the end of the French Revolution. The coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
First Consul for Life Plebiscite
The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory, until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. The Consul for Life was a new title for Napoleon, he oversaw the centralisation of government, the creation of the Bank of France, the reinstatement of Roman Catholicism as the state religion and law reform with the Code Napoleon. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic code was the French civil code. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon's Coronation
The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French, which took place on December 2, 1804, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This was when Napoleon crowned himself as emporer of France, not king because the people of France did not want another king ruling them. -
Battle of Trafalgar
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Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleon's greatest successes, where the French Empire effectively ebolished the Third Coalition -
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Continental System
The continental system was the foreign policy of Napoleon's endeavor against Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a military struggle between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars time period. -
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Invasion of Russia
The French Invasion of Russia or the Patriotic War of 1812 began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's army crossed the Neman River, a river in Belarus and Lithuania on the border of Russia, in an attempt to vanquish the Russian army. -
Retreat from Moscow
The retreat from Moscow was when Napoleon left what remained of his army to return to Paris. Six days later, the army finally escaped Russia, having suffered a loss of more than 400,000 men during the disastrous invasion of Russia. -
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Battle of Leipzig
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Exile to Elba
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Hundred Days War
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Battle of Waterloo
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Exile to St. Helena
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Napoleon's Death
