Napoleon

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  • Becomes officer in French artillery

    he became a master war tactician

  • Becomes a general in gthe French army

    Became commander and chief and used it to get a majority of his power

  • Birth of Napoleon

    Napoleon was born Auguest 15, 1769 in Corsica to parents of noble Genoese ancestry and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France
  • Period: to

    Birth to Death

  • Napoleon becomes head of the French state, establishes the consulate

    A new constitution approved by the French people replced the Directory with a three member Consulate.

  • First Consul For Life

    Dec 1, 1799 he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor.

  • Concordat signed

    When the Concordat was signed it allowed the Catholics reliogious freedom

  • The Napoleonic Code

    The Napolenonic allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified.

  • Emperor of the French

    Crowned himself emporor of the French

  • Continental System

    Nov 21, 1806 Shut out Britain from Europe

  • Campaign to Russia

    reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major change in European politics

  • Elba

    First place he was sent to

  • Waterloo

    His final defeat as emporor

  • Congress of Vienna

    To make peace and to the system of monarchy

  • Trafalgar

    The French were severely defeated by Britain

  • St. Helena

    Final Place he we sent to

  • Death of Napoleon

    A British ship took Napoleon to the island of Saint Helena, far away in the south Atlantic, where he remained a prisoner until his death on 5 May 1821