Napoleon Bonaparte Timeline

By Joe Beard

  • Napoleon is born

  • Napoleon enters cadet school at Brienne-le-Château.

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Napoleon promoted to Brigadier General.

  • Napoleon becomes Commander in Chief

  • coup d’état

  • concordat signed

    This gave some power back to the church

  • vote for consulship for life

  • sale of Louisiana to United State

  • proclaimed Emperor Napoleon I

  • continental blockade

  • Napoleon’s son born

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Napoleon escapes from Elba

  • defeated at Waterloo

  • Napolan arrives at St. Helena

  • Napoleon dies