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Napoleon is born in Corsica -
Napoleon joins the French military, becoming an artillery officer. -
The French Revolution begins, and Napoleon sides and fights with the revolutionaries. -
First Napoleon is promoted to brigadier general, then a new constitution in France places executive power in a five- member directory. -
Napoleon marries Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie ( The widow of General Alexandre de Beauharnais). -
With this coup d’etat, Napoleon finishes with the Directory and raises him to the head of the consulate. -
After the coup d’etat, he gets the love of the people and he doesn’t stop until he becomes emperor. -
After divorcing Joséphine ( who did not have any children) Napoleon marries Marie-Louise. She is the doughter of the Emperor of Austria. On 1811, Marie-Louise bears him a son, the future duke von Reichstadt. -
In this time the Napoleonic empire has many territories, which territories include France, the Netherlands and nothern Italy, but their authority also extens to the vassal and allied states. -
Napoleon dies in Santa Elena (exiled).