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Nappleon was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica, an island located off the coast of France in the Mediterranean Sea
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The Declaration of Independence is signed by the American Continental Congress in Philadelphia, setting an example that the French will follow 13 later. Napoleon is 7 years old.
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In May of 1779 at the age of 10 Napoleon started attending a military school in Brienne. On October 17, 1784 he left for a military school in Paris, France that he attended until he graduated a year later.
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Napoleon is 20 years old when an angry mob storms the Bastille, signalling the strat of the French Revolution. He is stationed in Valence, Drôme at the time.
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In the summer of 1792, Bonaparte journeyed to Paris, and on August 10 witnessed the storming of the Tuilleries Palace. The mob massacred the king's Swiss Guards and King Louis XVI was dethroned.
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King Louis XVI is Executed
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Following the England cutting of diplomatic ties with France due to their execution of the king, the Republic of France declared war on Holland and England, their ancient enemy.
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the reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution."
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The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793, to 28 July 1794) (the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar), also known simply as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." Estimates vary widely as to how many were killed, with numbers ranging from 1
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The Queen of France was beheaded during the Reign of Terror. Napoleon would later marry her neice, Marie-Louise.
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At the age of 24 Napoleon receives the new rank of brigadier general for his courage at an internal French battle at Toulon,
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With the death of Robespierre, the Reign of Terror ended.
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Robespierre was guillotined, face up, without trial in the Place de la Révolution. His death signed the end of the Reign of Terror.
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Napoleon was a Major-General in the French Army when he met Josephine de Beauharnais, a wealthy widow.
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At the age of 27, Napoleon marries Josephine.
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This made Bonaparte the most powerful person in France.
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To pay for their wars, Napoleon sells the Louisana Territories to the United States.
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The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription.
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Napoleon is declared emperor of France at the age of 35.
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The first French Empire became thedominant power of much of continental Europe during the early 19th century.
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Napoleon Divorces Josephine due to her infidelity and inability to produce an heir.
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The War of 1812 Begins.
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Senate proclaims end of the Empire; Napoleon's wife and son flee Paris.
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Following several allied victories, the war concluded after Napoleon's abdication in 1814.
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Napoleon was exiled to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast. He was given sovereignty over the island and allowed to retain his title of emperor.
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Beginning of the 100 days.
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This marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days).
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Napoleon is going down
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At the age of 46 Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,870 km from the west coast of Africa.
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Like a boss.
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The Treaty of paris was signed following the defeat and second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. Among other things, it secured a peace treaty between France and Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia.
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Napoleon dies in exile at the age of 52.
