Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • Birth Date

    Napoleon was born Auguest 15, 1769 in Corsica to parents of noble Genoese ancestry.

  • entering military school

    At the age of 9 he entered a French military school. While he was an average student in most subjects he was extremely good at mathematics. At 16 he graduated and became an artillery officer in the French army.

  • becomes Commander in Chief

    Upon graduation from Ecole Militaire, Napoleon is given a commission.

  • becomes Brigadier General

    He became an officer in the French artillery and a master war tactician.Standing at 5 foot 6 ,he used the French Revolution as his opportunity to get power. Then Napoleon was promoted because of his victory over the British.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    He was 20 years old at the time and the lieutenant of the artillery, posted on garrison duty

  • coup d’état

    Upon returning from Egypt, Napoleon took advantage of the political turmoil in France plaguing the Directory. Napoleon was able to overthrow the Directory in a bloodless coup d'etat. He became First Consul at this time.

  • concordat signed

    This was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII,national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic.

  • sale of Louisiana to United States

    Napoleon in 1800, hoping to re-establish an empire in North America, regained ownership of Louisiana. The dream of a new empire failed and Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana to the United States.

  • proclaimed Emperor Napoleon I

    Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old crowns himself emperor.

  • vote for consulship 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.

  • continental blockade

    This is a naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British government.It ended on 11 April 1814 economic damage to Great Britain, the blockade was largely ineffective.

  • Napoleon’s son born

    Napolean the second was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. he was born on 20 March, at 9:20

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815. After his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, Napoleon retreated to Paris where he was forced to renounce his throne in April 1814. The European powers exiled him to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

  • escapes from Elba

    He managed to sneak past his guards and past a British ship, and return to France. People began to rally around him soon after as the returned emporor returns.

  • defeated at Waterloo

    He gets defeated at the hands of the Duke of Wellington.

  • arrives at St. Helena

    After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was sent into exile for a second time, this time to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Where he later died.

  • date of death

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