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Napoleon is born
Napoleon was born in Corsica France. He was the second child. -
Start of the French Revolution
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the morning of 14 July 1789. Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille. -
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Battle Of Toulon
The battle of toulon was an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion in the southern French city of Toulon.It is also called the Fall of Toulon. -
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Egyptian Campaign
The French Campaign in Egypt was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Orient. The result was the French conquest of Egypt and end of Mameluke rule. -
18 Brumaire Coup
The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and, in the view of most historians, ended the French Revolution. The coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
First Consul for Life
The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804.During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, had established himself as the head of a more conservative, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself head of state. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars .The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. Resulted in the Treaty of Pressburg -
Continental System
The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Invasion of Russia
Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace.[9] The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. -
Retreat from Moscow
Napoleon, in his invasion of Russia in 1812, marched into Moscow with his army largely intact and retreated only because the citizens of Moscow burned three-fourths of the city, depriving the army of food and supplies. The harsh Russian winter then devastated the army as it retreated. -
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Battle of Leipzig
The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden, led by Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. The battle was the culmination of the 1813 German campaign and involved nearly 600,000 soldiers, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I. -
Exile to Elba
In 1814, Napoleon’s broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When he was rejected, he was sent to Elba. In March 1815, he escaped his island and returned to Paris, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title, Napoleon I, in a period known as the Hundred Days. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.Three armies were involved in the battle. A Prussian army under Blücher. a multinational army under Wellington;and Blücher.Napoleon's Armée du Nord; -
Exile to St.Helea
In 1815, the British Royal Navy controlled the Atlantic, making escape from St Helena impossible. Deciding that was not enough, the British put Napoleon under armed guard, stripped him of most of his friends and placed him a lonely, windswept house named Longwood. -
Napoleons Death
In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly. He reconciled with the Catholic Church. He died on 5 May 1821, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father Ange Vignali. His last words were, "France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine" ,which means"France, army, head of the army, Joséphine".
