1789–99
The French Revolution

9 November 1799
Napoleon seizes power

14 June 1800
Battle of Marengo

24 December 1800
Napoleon survives bomb plot

8 February 1801
Treaty of Lunéville

14 March 1801
British prime minister quits over Ireland

23 March 1801
Tsar Paul of Russia murdered

2 April 1801
Nelson sinks Danish fleet

15 July 1801
Concordat with the pope

14 September 1801
French forced out of Egypt

25 March 1802
Treaty of Amiens

2 August 1802
Napoleon made consul for life

23 July 1803
Irish rebellion crushed

21 March 1804
The Napoleonic Code

2 December 1804
Napoleon emperor of France

1 August 1805
Invasion of England abandoned

9 August 1805
The Third Coalition

21 October 1805
Battle of Trafalgar

2 December 1805
Battle of Austerlitz

1 April 1806
Joseph Bonaparte king of Naples

12 July 1806
Confederation of the Rhine

14 October 1806
Prussian defeat

21 November 1806
The Continental System

7 July 1807
Treaty of Tilsit

9 July 1807
Grand Duchy of Warsaw

1 December 1807
French seize Lisbon

1 August 1808
The Peninsular War

5 July 1809
Battle of Wagram

6 July 1809
The pope arrested

15 December 1809
Napoleon divorces Joséphine

31 December 1810
Russia breaks with Napoleon

11 May 1812
British prime minister assassinated

19 June 1812
Britain at war with US

24 June 1812
Invasion of Russia

12 August 1812
Wellington takes Madrid

12 September 1812
Napoleon takes Moscow

14 December 1812
Retreat from Russia

16 March 1813
Prussia joins war on France

19 October 1813
Battle of Nations

9 March 1814
Treaty of Chaumont

30 March 1814
Fall of Paris

6 April 1814
Napoleon exiled to Elba

1 November 1814
Congress of Vienna

20 March 1815
The Hundred Days

18 June 1815
Battle of Waterloo

17 October 1815
Napoleon in exile on St Helena

15 April 1821
Death of Napoleon

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