Kentucky Gazette

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France

Event Date

1769 1821

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Chronological account of the principal events in the life of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: 1769 August 15, born at Ajaccio in Corsica. 1779 March--, placed at the Military school at Brienne. 1793 An officer of artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed general of brigade. 1794 Oct. 4, commands the conventional troops, and slaughters the Parisians. 1796 Appointed to the command of the Army of Italy. May 11, Battle of Lodi. Aug. 4, Battle of Castiglione. Nov. 16. Battle of Arcola. 1797 Feb. 4. Surrender of Mantua. March 23, Trieste surrenders. April 18, Preliminaries with Austria, signed at Leoben. May 16, French take possession of Venice. Oct. 7, Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria. 1798 May 20, sails for Egypt. July 21, Battle of the Pyramids. Oct. 24, Insurrection at Cairo. 1799 May 21, Siege of Acre raised. Aug. 23, sails from Egypt for France. Oct. 7, lands at Frejus. Nov. 9. dissolves the conventional government. Nov. 10, declared first consul. 1800 Feb. 12, Peace made with Chouans. May 14, crosses Mount St Bernard. June 16, battle of Marengo. July 28, preliminaries with Austria, signed at Paris. Dec. 3, Battle of Hohenlinden. Dec. 24, explosion of the Infernal Machine. 1801 Feb. 9, Treaty of Luneville with Austria. Oct 8. preliminaries with England. 1802 Jan. 25. Cisalpine republic seized. March 27, Definitive treaty with England. May 15, legion of honor instituted. Aug. 2, declared consul for life. Aug. 21, changes the Swiss form of government. 1803 May 18, English declaration of war. June 3, Hanover overrun. 1804 Feb. -, Moreau arrested. March 20, Duc d'Enghien shot. April 6, Pichegru murdered in prison. May 18, declared Emperor. Nov. 19, crowned by the Pope. 1805 Feb. -, writes to the king of England. April 11, Treaty of St. Petersburg between England, Russia, Austria and Sweden. May 26. declared king of Italy. Sept. 24, heads his army against Austria. Oct. 20, Mack's army surrenders at Ulm. Nov. 13. French enter Vienna. Dec. 2. Battle of Austerlitz. Dec. 14, Treaty of Vienna with Prussia. Dec.26, Treaty of Petersburg with Austria. 1806 March 30, Joseph Bonaparte made King of Naples. June 3 Louis made king of Holland. July 20, Jewish Sanhedrim. July 27 confederation of the Rhine. Sept. 24, marches against Prussia. Oct. 14, battle of Auerstadt or Jena. Oct 27, enters Berlin. Nov. 19, Hamburg taken, Berlin decree. 1807 Feb 3, battle of Eylau against Russia. June 14, Battle of Friedland. July 7, Treaty of Tilsit with Russia. 1808 July 7, Joseph Bonaparte made king of Spain. July 20, surrender of Dupont's army at Baylen. June 29, Joseph Bonaparte evacuates Madrid. Aug. 21, Battle of Vimiera. Sept. 27, Conferences at Erfurth. Nov 5, Bonaparte arrives at Vittoria. Dec. 4, surrender of Madrid to Bonaparte. 1809 Jan. 16, Battle of Corunna. Jan 22, returns to Paris. April 6, War declared by Austria. April 13 heads his army against Austria. May 10, French enter Vienna. May 22, battle of Essling or Asperne. July 6, battle of Wagram. Oct. 14. Treaty of Vienna with Austria. Dec. 13, Lucien Bonaparte arrives in England. Bonaparte's marriage with Josephine dissolved. 1810 March 11, marries Maria Louisa daughter of Francis II. Emperor of Austria. July 9, Holland and the Hanse Towns annexed to the French Empire by a decree of Napoleon. Aug. 21, Bernadotte elected crown Prince of Sweden. Dec. 21, decree for restraining the liberty of the Press. 1811 Jan. 1. Homburg annexed to the French Empire. April 20, the Empress delivered of a son styled King of Rome. Sep 2. present at an engagement between a French flotilla and an English cruiser. 1812 Jan. 22. Swedish Pomerania seized by Bonaparte. May 2, he heads a vast army against Russia. June 11, arrives at Koningsberg. June 28, enters Vilna. Aug. 18, Smolensko taken. Sept 7, Battle of Moskwa at Borodino. Sept. 14, French, under Napoleon, enter Moscow which is burnt. Oct. 22, French evacuate Moscow. Nov. 9. arrives at Smolensko. Dec, 5, quits the army in the snows. Dec. 18, arrives at Paris. 1813 April -, heads the army on the Elbe. May 1, battle of Lutzen against Russia and Prussia. May 20, battle of Bautzen. June 4, armistice agreed on. June 21, battle of Vittoria in Spain. Aug 17, hostilities recommence. Austria declared against Bonaparte. Aug: 28, battle of Dresden-Moreau killed. Sept. 7, English enter France. Sept. 18, evacuates Dresden. Oct. 18, Battle of Leipzig.- Bonaparte defeated. Nov. 15, Revolution in Holland. Dec. 1, Declaration of the Allies at Frankfort. 1814 Jan. 4. Allies cross the Rhine. March 30, Battle of Montmartre before Paris. April 11, Bonaparte abdicated the Throne. May 8, arrives at Elba. 1815 March 1, sail from Elba for France. March 20, arrives at Paris and re-assumes the Throne. April 25, is declared an Out-law by the Sovereigns of Europe, then assembled at Vienna. April-, calls a new House of Peers, and Chamber of Representatives of the French People --Champ de Mars. June 16, defeats the Prussians. June 11, loses his army at Waterloo, near Mount St. Jean. June 21, abdicates the Throne a second time. 1815 July 22 surrenders himself to an English ship of war, off Rochefort-Arrives at Torbay. Aug. 7, sails for St. Helena, where he arrived Oct. 16, 1815. 1821 May 5, died, of a cancer in the breast.