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Events relating to napoleon bonaparte
Corsica is sold to France by the republic of Genoa
Napoleon Bonaparte is born a French citizen in Ajaccio, in Corsica, the son of a local lawyer
The 10-year-old Napoleon is admitted as a student in a military college at Brienne, near Troyes
Napoleon graduates from his military college and is commissioned in an artillery regiment
Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy
France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict
A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack
After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands
The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic
Napoleon is appointed commander of French republican forces besieging royalists, supported by an Anglo-Spanish fleet, in Toulon
Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour
Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay
Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic
Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France
France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five
The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December
The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic
The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794
In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice
After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice
Napoleon changes the spelling of his family name from Buonaparte to the more French-seeming Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results
Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice
In Venice Napoleon deposes the last of the doges and sets up a provisional democracy
