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| 1803 |
| | | In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon sends an ill-judged message to royalist opponents when he orders the seizure and execution of the young duke of Enghien | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon has himself proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Beethoven changes the dedication of his third symphony on hearing that his hero, Napoleon, has made himself an emperor | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French in a magnificent ceremony in Notre Dame | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon has himself crowned king of Italy in the cathedral in Milan | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and then defeats an Austrian and Russian army at Austerlitz | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Francis II formally brings to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, to keep it from the clutches of Napoleon | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon announces that Holland is to be a kingdom, with his 28-year-old brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon merges the majority of the German states into a Confederation of the Rhine with himself as its protector | |
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