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Battle of Toulon
The battle of Toulon took place on the 22 Februay 1744. This batte happen in the Mediterranean see off the coast of Toulon. It was a battle between a combin Franco-Spnaish fleet that fought off Britian. -
Birth of Napoleon
Naploen was born in Ajaccio, France on August 15 1769 -
Start of the French Revoultuion
The French Revoultion begin at the Estate-General meeting on May 5th 1789. Estate-General was a genral assembly represting the French estates of th realm. -
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The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror also known as Terror, was a peroid of Violence that accured after the French Revoultion. This was a conflict between two politations Girondins and the Jacobins. -
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Egyptian Campaign
This was Napoleons campaign. The objective of the campaign was to protect French trade, undermine Bratain access to India and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. -
18 Brumaire Coup
The Coup of Brumaire brough Napoleon to power as the first consul of France. Most historians belive that this ened the French Revoultion. -
First Consul for Life Plebisictie
The Consul was the goverment of France from the fall of the Brumarie coup -
Napoleonic Code
This code was established in 1804 under Napoleon. The official name for the code is the code civil des Francais. The code forbade privileges bases on birth, allowed freedom of religion and specified that goverment jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Napoleons Coronation
This is the date Napoleon is crowned king. He mainly does this to gain prestige in international royalsit and Catholic milieux and to lay the foundation for a dynasty. -
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 Nabies, in which Napoleon's forces where completely destroyed with zero British casualtys. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The battle of Austerlitz is also known as the Battle of the 3 Emperors. It was one of Napoleol's greateast victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. -
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Continental System
This was a large-scale embargo against British trade to try to cripple their economy. It hurt France more than it did Britian because of all of the land Britian owned. -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a military conflict between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portuga for control of the Iderian Peninsula during the Napolenic Wars. -
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Invasion of Russia
Napoleon's Grande Army of over 600,000 soldiers marched across Russia to get to Moscow and capture it, but their plan of capturing towns on the way to Moscow to loot food and shelter failed. The Russians burnt down the towns and crops so that the amry could not use the resorces to their advantage, which lead to almost all of the soldiers dieing or fleeing. The army was only 27,000 soldiers when they reach Moscow. -
Retreat from Moscow
Napoleon arived in Moscow inteding to find supplies but instead found almost the entire population evecuated, and the Russian armry retreated. -
Battle of Leipzig
This was a battle between Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against Napoleon's army. This was one of Napoleon's first major loss that was exposed to the public. -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon is Exiled to an island of Elba, but later escapes around 1815. -
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Hundred Days
This markes the period between Napoleon's return from exile and the second restoration of king Louis XVIII. -
Battle of Waterloo
The battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's army defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglos-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combinded with a Prussian army under command of Gebhard von Blucher. -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon is exiled to the remote island St. Helena, were he will spend the last 6 years of his life. -
Death
He died on May 5 1821 on the island St. Helena.
