# Timeline of the Napoleonic era

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Family
Wives
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Marie Louise
Children
Charles Léon
Alexandre Walewski
Napoleon II
Parents
Carlo Maria Buonaparte
Letizia Ramolino
Brothers
Joseph
Lucien
Louis
Jérôme
Sisters
Caroline
Pauline
Elisa
Life and career
Timeline
First French Empire
Client states
Coup of 18 Brumaire
Consulate
Assassination attempts
Constitutions
1799
1802
1804
1815
Napoleonic Wars
Coronation
Sale of Louisiana
Planned invasion of the United Kingdom
Holland
Mesures usuelles
Looting of art
Tactics
Weaponry and warfare
1st abdication
1st exile
Route Napoléon
2nd abdication
Death
mask
Battles and wars
French Revolutionary Wars
War of the First Coalition
French Revolution
Siege of Toulon
13 Vendémiaire
Italian Campaign of 1796-1797
Montenotte Campaign
Battle of Lodi
Battle of Castiglione
Battle of Bassano
Battle of Arcole
Battle of Rivoli
Siege of Mantua
Fall of Venice
French campaign in Egypt and Syria
Battle of the Pyramids
Battle of Mount Tabor
Siege of Acre
Battle of Aboukir
War of the Second Coalition
Marengo campaign
Battle of Marengo
Napoleonic Wars
War of the Third Coalition
Ulm Campaign
Battle of Ulm
Battle of Austerlitz
War of the Fourth Coalition
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
Greater Poland Uprising
Battle of Eylau
Battle of Friedland
Peninsular War
Battle of Somosierra
War of the Fifth Coalition
Battle of Eckmühl
Battle of Aspern-Essling
Battle of Wagram
French invasion of Russia
Battle of Smolensk
Battle of Borodino
Battle of the Berezina
War of the Sixth Coalition
German campaign of 1813
Battle of Lützen
Battle of Bautzen
Battle of Dresden
Battle of Leipzig
Campaign of France
Battle of La Rothière
Six Days' Campaign
Battle of Vauchamps
Battle of Montereau
Battle of Laon
Battle of Reims
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube
Hundred Days
Waterloo campaign
Battle of Ligny
Battle of Waterloo
Views
Catholic Church
Concordat of 1801
Tiara
Jewish people
Grand Sanhedrin
Infamous Decree
Protestants
Organic Articles
Slavery
Law of 20 May 1802
Saint-Domingue expedition
Homes and honours
Equestrian statue
Palace of Fontainebleau
Les Invalides
Longwood House
Maison Bonaparte
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker
Milan
Warsaw monument
Legacy
Egyptology
Rosetta Stone
Mémoires sur l'Égypte
Description de l'Égypte
Institut d'Égypte
Bank of France
French Prefecture System
Legion of Honour
Napoleonic Code
Coinage
Public works
Pont d'Iéna
Simplon Pass
Arc de Triomphe
Column of the Grande Armée
Rue de la Victoire
Cultural depictions
Propaganda
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
Valentin Vodnik
Pan Tadeusz
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Napoleon complex
"Red Napoleon" term
German Romanticism
Bonapartism
"China is a sleeping giant" quote
Tomb
Retour des cendres
Penis
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## Early years
### 1769

* August 15: Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, Corsica

### 1785

* October 28: Napoleon graduates from Ecole Militaire with the rank of second lieutenant in the artillery.
* November 3: Stationed in Valence

### 1793

* December 22: For his brilliant tactical command (although a subordinate officer, he was widely credited for the victory) at an internal French Siege of Toulon, Napoleon receives the new rank of brigadier general

### 1794

* August 9–20: Napoleon is imprisoned under suspicion of being a Jacobin and a supporter of Robespierre.

### 1795

* October: Royalist 13 Vendémiaire rising put down by Napoleon. Barras helps Napoleon win promotion to Commander of the Interior
* October 15: At the home of Paul Barras, a Directory member, Napoleon meets Rose de Beauharnais (Joséphine)
* 2 November: The French Directory (in French: "le Directoire") was established

### 1796

* March 2: Napoleon is given command of the French army in Italy
* March 11: Italian campaign against Austria begins
* May 10: Napoleon wins the Battle of Lodi
* November 17: Napoleon wins the Battle of Arcole

### 1797

* January 14: Napoleon wins the Battle of Rivoli
* October 17: Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria
* December 5: Napoleon returns to Paris as a hero

### 1798

* May 19: Napoleon begins his Egyptian campaign with an army of 38,000
* July 21: Wins Battle of the Pyramids against Mamelukes in Egypt
* July 24: Fall of Cairo
* August 3: Under the command of Admiral Nelson, the British fleet destroys the French navy in the Battle of the Nile. Napoleon's army is cut off from supplies and communication

## Napoleonic era
### 1799

* August 23: Receiving news of turmoil in France, Napoleon relinquishes command in Egypt to Kléber and returns to Paris, a so-called Coup d’état
* November 9–10: Coup of 18 Brumaire Napoleon overthrows the Directory
* December 12: Napoleon elected First Consul of the Consulate

### 1800

* June 14: Battle of Marengo
* December 24: Napoleon escapes an assassination attempt

### 1801

* February 9: Treaty with Austria signed at Lunéville, Treaty of Lunéville
* July 8: Battle of Algeciras
* July 15: Concordat of 1801

### 1802

* March 25: Treaty of Amiens
* May 1: Napoleon restructures the French educational system
* May 19: Légion d'honneur established
* August 2: New constitution adopted, plebiscite confirms Napoleon as First Consul for life

### 1803

* May 3: Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.
* May 18: Britain declares war on France
* May 26: France invades Hanover

### 1804

* March 21: Introduction of the Civil Code (also known as Napoleon Code)
* May 18: Napoleon proclaimed Emperor of the French by the Senate
* December 2: Napoleon crowns himself emperor, in the company of the Pope

### 1805

* October 19: Battle of Ulm
* October 21: Battle of Trafalgar; Admiral Lord Nelson killed
* October 30: Battle of Caldiero
* December 2: Battle of Austerlitz

### 1806

* March 30: Napoleon names his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples, and appoints other family members to various other posts
* July 12: Confederation of the Rhine established with Napoleon as Protector. Initially had 16 member states, later others were added, including kingdoms of Saxony and Westphalia
* August 6: Holy Roman Empire abolished
* September 15: Prussia joins Britain and Russia against Napoleon
* October 14: Battle of Jena and Battle of Auerstadt
* November 21: The Berlin Decree (1806), which initiated the Continental System was issued

### 1807

* February 8: Battle of Eylau
* June 14: Battle of Friedland
* June 25: Treaty of Tilsit signed between Russia and France
* October 27: Treaty of Fontainebleau (1807) secretly agreed between Napoleon and Spain to partition Portugal

### 1808

* March 17: Imperial University established
* May 2: Spanish people rise up against France. Often referred to as Dos de Mayo Uprising
* May 3: Napoleon's soldiers retaliate for uprising by brutally executing Spanish citizens (famously depicted in Goya's The Third of May 1808)
* July 7: Joseph crowned King of Spain after Portugal revolts against the Continental System/blockade Napoleon had put in place. Napoleon collected five armies to advance into Portugal and 'bullied' the Spanish royal family into resigning
* Peninsular War
* July 16–19: Battle of Bailén

### 1809

* April 19: Battle of Raszyn
* May 22: Battle of Aspern-Essling; first defeat of Napoleon in 10 years
* July 5–6: Battle of Wagram; success for Napoleon, Austria loses territory and must enforce the Continental System
* July 27-28: Battle of Talavera
* October 14: Treaty of Schönbrunn signed
* December 14: Public announcement of Napoleon's divorce from Joséphine

### 1810

* March 11: Napoleon marries Marie Louise of Austria by proxy in Vienna
* April 1: Napoleon officially marries Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma in Paris

### 1811

* March 20: Napoleon II, Napoleon's son born, styled as the King of Rome

### 1812

* July 22: Battle of Salamanca
* August 4–6: Battle of Smolensk
* September 1: Moscow evacuated
* September 7: Battle of Borodino
* September 14: Napoleon arrives in Moscow to find the city abandoned and set alight by the inhabitants; retreating in the midst of a frigid winter, the army suffers great losses
* October 19: Beginning of the Great Retreat from Moscow
* October 24: Battle of Maloyaroslavets
* November: Crossing of the River Berezina
* December: Grande Armée expelled from Russia

### 1813

* August 31: Battle of San Marcial
* September 6: Battle of Dennewitz
* September 16: Battle of the Göhrde
* September 28: Battle of Altenburg
* October 3: Battle of Wartenburg
* October 7: Battle of the Bidassoa
* October 14: Battle of Liebertwolkwitz
* October 16–19: Battle of Leipzig
* October 30–31: Battle of Hanau
* November 10: Battle of Nivelle
* October 31: End of the Siege of Pamplona
* December 7: Battle of Bornhöved
* December 9–13: Battles of the Nive
* December 10: Battle of Sehested

### 1814

* February 10–14: Six Days Campaign
* February 15: Battle of Garris
* February 27: Battle of Orthez
* April 10: Battle of Toulouse
* March 30–31: Battle of Paris
* April 4: Napoleon abdicates his rule and Louis XVIII, a Bourbon, is restored to the French throne
* April 11: Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814) Napoleon agrees to exile in Elba, the allies agree to pay his family a pension
* April 14: Battle of Bayonne
* May 4: Napoleon is exiled to Elba; his wife and son take refuge in Vienna

### 1815

* February 26: Napoleon escapes from Elba
* March 20: Napoleon arrives in Paris
    Beginning of the Hundred Days
* June 16: Battle of Ligny
* June 18: Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of Waterloo
* June 28: Second restoration of Louis XVIII
* October 16: Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena
* November 20: Treaty of Paris (1815)

### 1821

* May 5: Napoleon dies