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1804 BCE
Napoleon
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris, according to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. -
1793 BCE
Reign of terror
A ten-month period of oppression and execution,by Maximilien Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety to suppress any potential enemies of the radical Revolution. It ended with the fall of Robespierre. -
1789 BCE
French Revolution
a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France,carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon -
Fall of Bastillie
several thousand people laid siege to the bastille, it served as a armoury and a prison, it held few prisoners,the crowd gained access to the Bastille -
France declare war in austria, holland and england
European powers wanted to put down the French Revolution and restore the monarchy to power. These countries saw the revolution as a grave threat to their own monarchies. -
Constitution of 1795
This constitution was ratified by the National Convention, it brought governmental restructuring and established the Directory. -
Period: to 1797 BCE
Italy event
Napoleon Bonaparte,the event takes places in italy,where as the young and relatively unknown commander of a ragged and poorly supported army he managed to defeat a series of much larger Austrian and allied armies. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon rise to power and marked the end of the French Revolution, helped suppress uprisings by royalists that wanted to turn France into a monarchy. -
Battle of Austerlitz
Tsar Alexander I, Emperor Francis II, 73,000-85,000 men,the Battle of Austerlitz was fought in what is now the Czech Republic, with threats emerging from the Russia and Austria, Napoleon abandoned his ambitions to invade England during the summer of 1805, and turned to deal with these new adversaries. -
Russian Campaign
Czar Alexander, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon amassed a huge army and marched to Moscow, Napoleon had counted on billeting his troops in the city during the long Russian winter, but no shelter was left standing. -
German Campaign
Marshal Blucher, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal Oudinot, recovering from the disaster of the invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte frenetically rebuilt his army as the Sixth Coalition formed to remove him from power. -
congress of Vienna
Napoleon Bonaparte, was a lengthy conference between ambassadors from the major powers in Europe. -
Napoleon escaped from Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, landing in southern France and marching towards Paris, gathering an army around him as he went. -
Battle of Waterloo
This Battle was in Belgium, the battle puts an end to the tyrant rule of Napoleon as the emperor of france. The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, and Prussia organized their armies to defeat a French army under the control of Napoleon. -
Losing support at home
Napoleon turned to the battlefield where he faced the largest Coalition army yet. His forces were defeated, and he escaped to Fontainebleau. -
Louis XVI
was king of france when the french revolution began, he balked at the innovations of the declaration of the rights of man.
