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Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation
Napoleon sends an ill-judged message to royalist opponents when he orders the seizure and execution of the young duke of Enghien
The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I
Napoleon has himself proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate
Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French in a magnificent ceremony in Notre Dame
Napoleon announces that Holland is to be a kingdom, with his 28-year-old brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne
Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years
To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports
Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe
Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain
Louis-Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, is born in Paris, the son of Napoleon's brother Louis and of Josephine's daughter Hortense
French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac shows that when gases combine they do so in simple ratios by volume (later known as his Law of Combining Volumes)
Napoleon, in response to his excommunication, has pope Pius VII arrested and kept in captivity in northern Italy and then France
French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics
Napoleon arranges to have his marriage to Josephine annulled so that he can marry the daughter of an emperor
Napoleon marries the Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor Francis I
A French marshal, Jean Bernadotte, is offered the position of crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne
Marie Louise gives birth to a boy, Napoleon's longed-for heir, to be known as the King of Rome
French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds
Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, the Russian tsar Alexander I, with an army of more than 600,000 men
The French author Stendhal serves in the French army during the invasion of Russia
Napoleon arrives back in Paris ahead of the remains of his army, after losing half a million men in the Russian campaign
The king of Prussia, Frederick William III, changes sides and declares war on France
In a treaty with Russia and Prussia at Reichenbach, Austria agrees to declare war on France
