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Battle of Toulon
Happened in the Mediterranean off the coast of Toulon, France. The battle was between the British and the Franco-Spanish. -
Napoleon is born
He was born in Corsica, France. -
Start of the French Revolution
The storming of the Bastille happened because Parisians wanted the gunpowder and weapons that were supposedly were being held inside. -
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Reign of Terror
It is period of violence that happen after the French Revolution. Started from the rival political groups, the Girondins and the Jacobins. -
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Egyptian Campaign
Went on an expidition to Egypt hoping to disrupt trade between Britain and India. It failed so he tried to keep it from the people of France by keeping a network of spies. -
18 Brumaire Coup
It brought Napoleon to power as First Consul of France. It also ended the French Revolution. -
First Consul for Life Plebiscite
The French strongly supported him in the vote, but he still held absolute power. -
Napoleonic Code
It embodied the Enlightment priciples like equality of all citizens and religious toleration. -
Napoleons Coronation
The coronation happend in Paris, and during the ceremony Napoleon took the crown from the pope's hand and placed it on his own head. -
Battle of Trafalgar
Was fought between the Royal Navy and the French and Spanish navies. -
Battle of Austerlitz
This is one of Napoleon's greatest victories where the French Empire crushed the Third Coalition. -
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Continental System
Napoleon waged economic warfare which blocked off European ports to British goods, and in return the British set up its own blockade to Europen ports. -
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Peninsular War
Military conflict between France and the allied forces of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal for the Iberian Peninsula. -
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Invasion of Russia
Happened when Napoleon's army crossed the Neman River in attempt to defeat the Russian army. -
Retreat from Moscow
It turned into a desperate battle for survival beacuse the Russians attacked and fewer than 20,000 soldiers survived. -
Battle of Leipzig
Armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against Napoleons's army. -
Exlie to Elba
He abdicated from power then some victors exlied him and put Louis XVIII as king of France. -
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Hundred Days
The period between Napoleon's return from exile and the second restoration of Louis XVIII. -
Battle of Waterloo
The French armies under the control of Napoleon defeated the armies of the Seventh Coalition. -
Exile to St Helena
In first two months of exile he lived in a pavilion then into Longwood House. -
Death
He died while on St Helena in the Longwood House he was in.
