Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821

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1 Jul 1798
Napoleon takes Alexandria
21 Jul 1798
Napoleon victorious in Battle of the Pyramids
1 Aug 1798
Nelson defeats Napoleon in Battle of the Nile
Sep 1798
Turkey declares war on France
20 Mar 1799
French defeated by the Ottomans at the Siege of Acre
22 Aug 1799
Napoleon leaves Egypt for Paris in the wake of unrest between moderate and radical factions.
9 Nov 1799
A coup d'etat in Paris dissolves the Directory and sets up the Consulate
25 Dec 1799
The Constitution of the Year VIII grants sweeping powers to the first consul of the Consulate of France, Napoleon Bonaparte.
15 Jul 1801
Napoleon's Concordat with Pope
27 Mar 1802
Treaty of Amiens brings temporary peace during Napoleonic Wars
1803
Napoleon assembles army at Boulogne
May 1803
Britain declares war on France
21 Mar 1804
The Napoleonic Code
28 May 1804
Napoleon proclaims the Empire of France
Dec 1804
Spain declares war on Britain
2 Dec 1804
Coronation of Napoleon
May 1805
Napoleon crowned King of Italy
21 Oct 1805
Admiral Nelson defeats Franco at the Battle of Trafalgar
13 Nov 1805
Napoleon invades Vienna
2 Dec 1805
Napoleon's greatest victory at Battle of Austerlitz
26 Dec 1805
Austria signs the Treaty of Pressburg
Jul 1806
Confederation of the Rhine founded
7 Jul 1807
Napoleon and Russian emperor Alexander I sign the Treaties of Tilsit
Sep 1808
Napoleon meets with Alexander I of Russia
14 Oct 1809
Treaty of Schoenbrunn
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