Napoleonbike

The Napoleonic Era

By PHJune2

  • Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte

    Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte
    *When Napoleon came out of his mother, Letizia Ramolino in Ajaccio, Corsica.
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    Early Years

    The early years of Napleon Bonaparte

  • Napoleon Graduates

    *Graduates from Ecole Militaire with the rank of second lieutenant in the artillery.

  • Stationed in Valence

    *Napoleon was stationed in Valence

  • The Battle at Toulon

    The Battle at Toulon
    *Napoleon was promoted to Brigadier General for his courage at the Battle of Toulon

  • Napoleon is imprisoned under suspicion

  • Napoleon is released from imprisonment

  • Royalist 13 Vendémiaire rising put down by Napoleon.

  • Napoleon meets Rose de Beauharnais (Josephine)

  • Napoleon is given command of the French army in Italy

  • Italian campaign against Austria begins

  • Napoleon wins the Battle of Lodi

    Napoleon wins the Battle of Lodi

  • Napoleon wins the Battle of Arcole

  • Napoleon wins the Battle of Rivoli

  • Treaty of Campo-Formio with Austria.

  • Napoleon returns to Paris as a hero

  • Napoleon begins his Egyptian campaign

  • Wins Battle of the Pyramids

  • Fall of Cairo

  • British fleet destroys the French navy

  • Coup of Brumaire - Napoleon overthrows the Directory

    Coup of Brumaire - Napoleon overthrows the Directory

  • Napoleon relinquishes command in Egypt and returns to Paris

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    The Napoleonic Era

    The Era in which Napoleon rules as Emperor

  • Napoleon elected First Consul of the Directory

  • Battle of Marengo

  • Napoleon escapes an assassination attempt

  • Treaty with Austria signed at Lunéville: Treaty of Lunéville

  • Battle of Algeciras

    Battle of Algeciras

  • Concordant of 1801

  • Treaty of Amiens

  • Napoleon restructures French educational system

  • Legion of Honour established

  • New constitution adopted, plebiscite confirms Napoleon as First Consul for life

  • Introduction of the Civil Code

  • Napoleon proclaimed Emperor

  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor

    Napoleon crowns himself Emperor

  • Battle of Ulm

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Caldiero

  • Battle of Austerlitz

    Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleon names his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, king of Naples

  • Confederation of the Rhine, Napoleon as ‘protector’

  • Prussia joins Britain and Russia against Napoleon

  • Battle of Jena

    Battle of Jena

  • Battle of Auerstadt

  • The Berlin Decree - initiated the Continental System was issued

  • Battle of Eylau

    Battle of Eylau

  • Battle of Friedland

    Battle of Friedland

  • Treaty of Tilsit

  • Napoleon and Spain divide Portugal through a secret treaty

  • Imperial University established

  • Dos de Mayo Uprising

  • Joseph crowned King of Spain

  • Peninsular War

    Peninsular War

  • Battle of Raszyn

    Battle of Raszyn

  • Battle of Aspern-Essling

  • Battle of Wagram Commences

    Battle of Wagram Commences

  • Battle of Wagram Ends

  • Treaty of Schönbrunn

  • Napoleon's son born - Reffered as "King of Rome"

    Napoleon's son born - Reffered as "King of Rome"

  • Battle of Smolensk Commences

    Battle of Smolensk Commences

  • Battle of Smolensk Ends

  • Moscow evacuated

  • Battle of Borodino

    Battle of Borodino

  • 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

    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.

  • Beginning of the Great Retreat

  • Battle of Maloyaroslavets

  • Crossing of the River Berezina

  • Grande Armée expelled from Russia

  • Battle of Luneburg

  • Battle of Sehestedt

  • Six Days Campaign Commences

  • Six Days Campaign Ends

  • Battle of Paris Commences

  • Battle of Paris Ends

  • Napoleon abdicates his rule and Louis XVIII, a Bourbon, is restored to the French throne

  • Treaty of Fontainebleau

  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

  • Napoleon escapes from Elba

  • Napoleon arrives in Paris

  • Napoleon I entered Paris - One Hundred Days Begin

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    Hundred Days

  • The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end Napoleon I's rule

  • Defeated at the Battle of Occhiobello (Descr. for more info)

    The high point for the Neapolitans as Murat attempted to force a crossing of the River Po. However, he is defeated at the Battle of Occhiobello and for the remainder of the war, the Neapolitans would be in full retreat

  • General Bianchi's Austrian I Corps decisively defeated Murat at the Battle of Tolentino

  • The Neapolitans signed the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians after Murat had fled to Corsica and his generals had sued for peace

  • Ferdinand IV was restored to the Neapolitan throne

  • French Army of the North crossed the frontier into the United Netherlands

  • Napoleon I beat Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Ligny (Descr. for more info)

    Simultaneously Marshal Ney and The Duke of Wellington fought the Battle of Quatre Bras at the end of which there was no clear victor

  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

  • Napoleon I arrived back in Paris

  • Napoleon I abdicated in favour of his son Napoléon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte

  • Napoleon I left Paris for the west of France

  • Graf von Zieten's Prussian I Corps entered Paris

  • Louis XVIII was restored to the French throne – The end of the One Hundred Days

  • Napoleon I surrendered to Captain Maitland of HMS Bellerophon

  • Joachim Murat is executed in Pizzo after he had landed there five days earlier hoping to regain his kingdom

  • Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena

    Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena

  • Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena

  • Treaty of Paris signed