May 5: Meeting of the States-General 

June 17: National Assembly declared 

June 20: Tennis Court Oath 

July 9: National Constituent Assembly declared 

July 11: Necker dismissed 

July 14: Storming of the Bastille 

August 4: Surrender of feudal rights 

August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 

October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution 

July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI 

July -- : Growing power of the clubs (including: Cordeliers, Jacobin Club) 

July -- : Reorganisation of Paris 

September: Fall of Necker 

April 2: Death of Mirabeau 

June 20-25: Flight to Varennes of the royal family 

July 17: Champ-de-Mars massacre 

September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly 

October 1: Legislative Assembly meets 

August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II) 

February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia 

April 20: French declare war against Austria 

August 10: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody 

September 2-7: The September Massacres 

September 20: Battle of Valmy 

September 21: National Convention meets; Abolition of the monarchy 

December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention 

1793     

January 21: Execution of Louis XVI 

February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain 

March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée 

April -- : Power centered in the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security 

June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies 

July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat 

August 23: Levy of entire male population 

September 17: Passing of the Law of Maximum Général: a comprehensive program of wage and price controls 

October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette 

October 31: Execution of Girondists 

November 10: Abolition of the worship of god: Cult of Reason 

December -- : Retreat of the allies across the Rhine 

January 19 : English land in Corsica 

February 4 : Abolition of slavery in colonies 

March 24 : Execution of the Hébertists 

April 6 : Execution of the Dantonists 

June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being 

June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to the Revolutionary Tribunal) 

June 26 : Battle of Fleurus (1794) (French victory in Belgium) 

July 27 : Fall of Maximilien Robespierre (9 Thermidor) 

December 24 : Repeal of maximum 

March 5 : Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war) 

April 1 : Bread riots in Paris 

June 8 : Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII) 

August 22 : Constitution of 1795 

October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot" 

October 26 : Convention dissolved; Directory begins 

March 5 : War against the Holy Roman Empire 

March 9 Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine 

May 10 Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy) 

July Siege of Mantua 

April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben 

July 8 : Cisalpine Republic established 

September 4 : Coup d'Etat at Paris (republicans over reactionaries) 

October 17 : Treaty of Campo Formio 

February -- : Roman Republic proclaimed 

April -- : Helvetian Republic proclaimed 

July 21 : Battle of the Pyramids 

August 1 : Battle of the Nile 

December 24 : Alliance between Russia and Britain 

June 17-19 : Battle of the Trebia (Suvorov defeats French) 

August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt 

October 22 : Russians withdraw from coalition 

November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of Brumaire (18 Brumaire): end of the Directory 

December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII: Dictatorship of Napoleon established under the Consulate  

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1804 - Napoleon's Empire

18 May : Proclamation of the French Empire, and the declaration of Napoleon as the Emperor.

2 December: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French Empire in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

1805 - War all throughout

9 August: Third Coalition is formed. Austria joins British and Russian Alliance to fight France.

21 October: Battle of Trafalgar marks another French naval defeat at the hands of the British under the command of Nelson.

2 December: Napoleon defeats Russian and Austrian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz.

26 December: Napoleon signs the Treaty of Pressburg (Bratislava today) with Austria.

1806 - The French occupy Europe

30 March: Napoleon appoints his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, king of Naples.

May-June: Creation of Kingdom of Holland with Louis Bonaparte as king.

12 July: Napoleon establishes the Confederation of the Rhine, ending the Holy Roman Empire (est. Charlemagne in 800).

July: Formation of Fourth Coalition led by Prussia, Russia, and Britain.

14 October: Napoleon, after having taken command of the Grande Armee in Germany, defeats Prussia at the Battles of Jena-Auerstadt.

21 November: Continental System inaugurated by Berlin Decrees. The Continental System was Napoleon's plan to stop all shipping of
British goods into Europe.

18 December: Napoleon enters Warsaw, setting the stage for the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.

1807

14 June: Napoleon defeats the Russians at the Battle of Friedland.

7-9 July: Treaty of Tilsit between France, Russia, and Prussia. The Treaty required Russia and Prussia to abide by the Continental System.

22 July: Napoleon creates the Grand Duchy of Warsaw (Poland), to be overseen by France.

30 November: With the help of Spain, Napoleon begins the French occupation of Portugal under the command of General Junot,
which marks the beginning of the Peninular War.

1808

2 May: Revolt in Madrid against Murat's troops marks beginning of Spanish revolt against French rule, which were immortalized
in Goya's set of paintings 'The Disasters of War.'

7 July: Joseph Bonaparte crowned king of Spain; Murat and Caroline Bonaparte become king and queen of Naples.

30 July: Joseph evacuates Madrid after growing resistance to France's occupation.

1809 6 April: Fifth Coalition formed by Britain, Austria, and rebel Spain, after Austria declares a 'War of Liberation' against the Napoleonic Empire.

5-6 July: Napoleon defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Wagram.

14 October: Treaty of Schonbrunn between France and Austria, in which Austria lost some of its northern land, which was added
to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.

15 December: Napoleon divorces Josephine because she does not beget him a male heir.

1810

17 February: Rome annexed to French Empire

1 April: Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.

1 July: Holland annexed to France.

13 December: North German territories annexed to French Empire.

31 December: Tsar Alexander I breaks with Continental System because Britain was a major importer of Russian grain.

1811

January-December: Preparations for Russian Campaign

20 March: Birth of Napoleon II, referred to as the king of Rome.

1812

30 May: Sixth Coalition formed by Russia and Sweden with support from Britain and rebel Spain; Napoleon takes command of the
Grande Armee in East Prussia and Poland.

24-25 June: The Grande Armee crosses the Niemen River, beginning the Russian campaign.

7 September: Battle of Borodino in Russia. Napoleon defeated the Russians making important territorial gains.

14 September: Napoleon's Grand Armee enters Moscow to find the city abandoned and set aflame by the inhabitants; retreating in the
midst of a frigid winter, the army suffers devastating losses.

19 October: French begin retreat from Moscow.

1813

16 March: Prussia declares war on France, leading to two battles of Prusso-Russian forces against French forces, namely the Battle of
Lutzen and Bautzen, both in May of 1813.

21 June: Wellington, leader of Spanish forces, defeats French forces under the command of Joseph Bonaparte at Vitoria.

16-19 October: Battle of Leipzig: also known as the 'Battle of the Nations;' Austrian, Prussian, Russian, Swedish, and Bohemian forces defeat Napoleon's Grande Armee in this town in Saxony.

1814

January-March: Campaign of France. Allied army enters France.

9 March: Treaty of Chaumont-the four powers that defeated Napoleon (Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia) all agreed to ally for 20 years, promising to fight together to stop France if it ever got too powerful again.

12 March: Wellington's Allied Army enters Bordeaux.

2-3 April: The Senate and the Legislative Body proclaim the deposition of Napoleon.

6 April: Napoleon abdicates in favour of his son, and, according to the Treaty of Fontainebleau, agrees to go into exile on the island of
Elba, where he will receive a stipend of 2 million francs a year and he could keep the title Emperor.

11 April: Napoleon abdicates unconditionally.

1 May: Treaty of Paris-Louis XVIII proclaimed king of France, and France reverts to her 1792 borders.

4 May: Napoleon begins his exile on Elba, his wife and son take refuge in Vienna.

September: Congress of Vienna begins to redefine Europe's borders.

1815 

1 March: Napoleon lands in Southern France, near Cannes, after setting sail from Elba a few days earlier.

20 March: Napoleon arrives in Paris and takes control; Louis XVIII flees, marking the beginning of the Hundred Days campaign.

18 June: Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British and Prussians, led by Wellington.

22 June: Napoleon's second abdication.

16 October: Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena, an island in the remote South Atlantic, in which escape would be virtually impossible.

20 November: Second Treaty of Paris signed, whose provisions are essentially the same as the first.