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Napoean Bonaparte is born on 15 August 1769
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Napolean became a captain of the military
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The Committee of public Safety made Napolean a brigadier general of the military
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Napolean becomes the commander of the French armies in Italy. There he won a series of battles he became famous for
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Napolean returns to France and is given command of and army to invade Britain, but Napolean suggests taking Egypt instead
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Napolean take part in the coup d'etat, overthrows the Directory, and sets up a new government, the consulate
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Napolean comes to an agreement with the pope, which recognizes Catholicism as the religion of a majority of the French people.
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Napolean was made consul for life
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Napolean crowns himself as Emperor Napolean I and creates the Civil Code
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Napolean died on 5 May 1821
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Under the Civil COde, that Napolean created, all citizens were equal and hee retained the concept of opening government careers to more people. But, liberty was replaced by despotism that grew increasingly arbitrary. He banned books and shut down the majority of France's newspapers and insisted that that all manuscripts be subjected to government scrutiny. Even the mail was opened and inspected by the police. Napolean mostly destroyed the goals of the revolution, but preserved some.
