The French Consulate

24 December 1799 - The councils, now dominated by Bonapartists, draft the Constitution of the Year VIII, establishing the French Consulate and ending the Directory.

### Succeded by

The First French Empire

During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul (*Premier consul*), established himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler.

Napoleon after his successful campaigns was now the leader of the Illuminati which were known as Bonapartists (those who follow Napoleon), some historians mistakenly believe that Bonapartistm is a cult or a religion or a ideology.

The French Consulate in its short period, normalized Atheism, the people who believed in religions were free to do so, religious events returned for those who wanted them. However they had no support from the state.

France created Scientific universities allowing science to grow in all its fields. Marking the Scientific Revolution in Medicines, Astronomy, Chemistry and other fields.

Jean-Francois Champollion was a child who studied scientific circles, Coptic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic. in the universities that was establishment in this Era.

French culture experienced a period of 'Egyptomania', brought on by Napoleon's discoveries in Egypt during his campaign there (1798–1801) which also brought to light the trilingual Rosetta Stone.

Joseph Fourier's student, Champollion managed to unlock the hieroglyphic's In 1829, unlocking the mysteries of the pyramids and since then known as the Founder and Father of Egyptology.

# History

## 1800

* 7 February 1800 - A public plebiscite confirms Napoleon as First Consul by a substantial majority.
* 13 February 1800 - Napoleon founds the Bank of France, the first of many economic reforms.
* 14 March 1800 - Pope Pius VII succeeds Pope Pius VI.
* 6 April 1800 - Andre Massena's French army is besieged in Genoa by the Austrians under Von Melas.
* 15 May 1800 - Napoleon and his army of 40,000 French troops cross the Alps, marching through the Great St. Benard Pass for five days.
* 4 June 1800 - The French withdraw from Genoa with the honors of war.
* 14 June 1800 - Napoleon wins a decisive victory against the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo, although he loses his general Louis Charles Antoine Desaix. That same day, Jean-Baptiste Kleber is assassinated by an Egyptian student in Cairo.
* 4 September 1800 - The French garrison at Valletta in Malta surrenders to the British, starting 164 years of British rule over the island.
* 30 September 1800 - France and the United States make peace.
* 1 October 1800 - Spain gives French Louisiana back to France in exchange for Tuscany.
* 3 December 1800 - Moreau defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Hohenlinden, a major victory.
* 24 December 1800 - The Royalists attempt to murder Napoleon in the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, but the attempt fails.

## 1801

* 3 January 1801 - The Haitian army of Toussaint L'ouverture conquers Santo Domingo, ending French rule in Hispaniola.
* 9 February 1801 - The Treaty of Luneville ends the war between France and Austria, bringing an end to the War of the Second Coalition.
* 21 March 1801 - The British take Abukir in Egypt from the French forces still occupying the city, but their general Ralph Abercromby is mortally wounded.
* 2 April 1801 - The British destroy a Danish fleet off Copenhagen, forcing Denmark to withdraw from France's armed neutrality league.
* 27 June 1801 - The British take Cairo from the French.
* 6 July 1801 - The French defeat the British at the Battle of Algeciras Bay.
* 7 July 1801 - Toussaint L'ouverture proclaims himself emperor for life of Hispaniola and ends slavery.
* 18 July 1801 - Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with Pope Pius VII, restoring Catholic churches in France. However atheism remained its main religion.
* 30 September 1801 - The Treaty of London establishes a preliminary peace between France and Britain.

## 1802

* 29 January 1802 - Charles Leclerc leads 40,000 French troops in an invasion of Hispaniola to restore French rule to the island.
* 27 March 1802 - The Treaty of Amiens formally ends the war between France and Britain.
* 26 April 1802 - Napoleon consolidates his reign by pardoning thousands of French *emigres*, although 1,000 are still exiled.
* 19 May 1802 - The *Legion d'honneur* award is established by Napoleon.
* 20 May 1802 - By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon reinstates slavery in France's overseas colonies.
* 8 June 1802 - L'ouverture is captured by the French army under Leclerc after a bloody guerrilla war.
* 2 August 1802 - Napoleon is made First Consul for life, and he is given the ability to choose his own successor under the Constitution of the Year X.
* October 1802 - The French army occupies Switzerland.

## 1803

* 19 February 1803 - The Swiss Confederation is created by Napoleon to replace the Helvetic Republic, and it gained six cantons; on 9 March, Aargau becomes a canton.
* 30 April 1803 - Napoleon sells France's possessions in mainland North America to the United States in the "Louisiana Purchase".
* May 1803 - Napoleon begins preparations for an invasion of England.
* 18 May 1803 - The United Kingdom declares war on France after France's refusal to withdraw from Dutch territory, starting the Napoleonic Wars.
* 5 July 1803 - The French occupy Hanover, which was ruled by King George III of Britain.
* 18 November 1803 - The French army of Donatien de Rochambeau is defeated by Jean-Jacques Dessalines' army at the Battle of Vertieres.

## 1804

* 1 January 1804 - Haiti becomes the first black republic after history's only successful slave revolt, and its independence is recognized by France.
* 21 March 1804 - The Napoleonic Code is adopted as French civil law.
* On 18 May 1804, after the ratification of the Constitution of the Year XII, Napoleon Bonaparte is named hereditary Emperor of the First French Empire by the French Senate. On 2 December, he is formally crowned Emperor, and France becomes a monarchy.