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2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

  • 2nd December 2020
  • Tagged as: Beethoven, Empire, France, French Empire, French Revolution, Napoleon, Pope

On the 2nd December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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18th June 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte defeated at the Battle of Waterloo

  • 18th June 2020
  • Tagged as: Britain, France, Napoleon, Paris, Prussia

On the 18th June 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.

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22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

  • 22nd February 2020
  • Tagged as: Alcohol, Britain, Fishguard, France, Invasion, Napoleon, Wales, War, War of the First Coalition

The last invasion of Britain by a hostile foreign force began when French troops under the command of the Irish-American Colonel William Tate landed near the Welsh town of Fishguard.

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10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

  • 10th December 2019
  • Tagged as: Equator, France, French Revolution, Metric, Napoleon, Science, Standardisation, Technology

It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to town.

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22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

  • 22nd August 2019
  • Tagged as: Caribbean, Empire, France, French Empire, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Hispaniola, Napoleon, Saint-Domingue, Slavery

Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian Revolution.

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20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

  • 20th July 2019
  • Tagged as: Engineering, France, Napoleon, Science, Technology

Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.

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19th July 1799: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone reported in Egypt

  • 19th July 2019
  • Tagged as: Archaeology, Egypt, England, France, Language, Napoleon

On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.

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24th June 1812: Napoleon begins his failed invasion of Russia

  • 24th June 2019
  • Tagged as: 1812, Alexander I, Moscow, Napoleon, Poland, Russia, Warsaw

Napoleon’s Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of 1812.

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9th June 1815: The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed

  • 9th June 2019
  • Tagged as: Austria, Britain, Europe, First World War, France, Metternich, Napoleon, Prussia, Russia, Vienna, Waterloo

The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna was signed on the 9th June 1815, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

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26th February 1815: Napoleon escapes from exile on Elba

  • 26th February 2019
  • Tagged as: France, French Empire, French Revolution, Napoleon, Vienna

On the 26th February 1815, Napoléon Bonaparte escaped exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba and sailed to the French mainland.

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