Chronology of the wars of the Revolution and the Empire

Under Constituent the 1789-1791

1790

  • August 18th: first gathering counter-revolutionary with the camp of Jalès in Vivarais

1791

  • February 28th: conspiracy of the “knights of the dagger”
  • July 6th: the emperor of Austria Léopold II invites the sovereigns to act in concert against the Revolution
  • August 5th: “Declaration of peace in the world” of the Constituent
  • August 27th: Declaration of Pillnitz, warning statement of the powers to the French Republic

Under the Legislative one (1791 - 1792)

1791

1792

Under Convention of Gironde (1792 - 1793)

1792

1793

Under mountain Convention (1793 - 1794)

1793

1794

  • January 16th: Marseilles renamed City-without-Name
  • January 17th: Column S infernal of the Turreau general in the Vendée
  • March 27th: dismissal of the revolutionary army
  • May 29th: Dining Jourdan victorious with takes the command of the Army of Sambre-and-Meuse
  • June 1st: creation of the School of Mars replacing the old Military academy
  • June 2nd: battle naval with broad of Ushant, episode of the Avenger
  • June 21st: Paoli offers the Corsica to the king of Great Britain
  • June 25th: in Saint-Domingue Toussaint-Louverture joins itself the Republic
  • June 26th: victory of Fleurus against the Austrians
  • July 8th: catch of Brussels

Under Convention thermidorienne (1794 - 1795)

1795

Under the Directory

Under the first Directory (October 1795 - September 1797)

1796

1797

Under the second Directory (September 1797 - brumaire year VIII)

1797

1798

1799

Under the Consulate (1799-1804)

1800

  • January 24th: Kléber sign with El Arich a convention of evacuation of Egypt with the Turks
  • March 18th: victory of Héliopolis against the Turks
  • June 14th: victory of Marengo - assassination of Kléber in Egypt, replaced by the general Menou
  • December 3rd: victory of Hohenlinden (Moreau)
  • December: the Tsar Paul Ier organizes a Ligue of the neutrals with the Baltic States

1801

1802

1803

  • April 26th: the French threats the United Kingdom answers by a demanding ultimatum Malta and the evacuation of the Holland and Suisse
  • 16 - May 17th: rupture with the United Kingdom, which refuses to evacuate Malta and declares the Embargo on the French boats - Bonaparte projects to unload in the United Kingdom starting from the Camp of Boulogne where the Large army (150 000 h.) is concentrated

1804

  • févr. - March: arrest of the chiefs of the royalist plot (Pichegru, brothers Polignac, Moreau, Cadoudal the March 9th)
  • March 15th: the Duke of Enghien, grandson of prince de Condé, is removed
  • March 21st: execution of the duke of Enghien on order of Bonaparte

Under the Empire (1804-1815)

1804

  • May 19th: nomination of the marshals of Empire
  • June 24th: execution of the chiefs of the royalist plot, of which Cadoudal

1805

1806

  • March: Joseph Bonaparte king de Naples
  • May-June: the Batavian Republic becomes Royaume of Holland whose Louis Bonaparte becomes the king
  • May 16th: the United Kingdom declares the blockade of the French coasts
  • July: Napoleon creates the Confederation of the Rhine (capital: Frankfurt), of which it is Protecteur - secret agreement Russia/Prussia
  • August 1st: disappearance of the Holy roman Empire Romain Germanique creates in 962 with François II gives up under emperor of Germany and becomes François Ier hereditary emperor of Austria
  • September 21st: institution of the " guards of honneur"
  • October: ultimatum of Frederic-Guillaume of Prussia requiring of Napoleon to evacuate Germany to the Rhine involves the rupture
  • October 14th: victories of Iéna and Auerstaedt
  • October 27th: Napoleon enters to Berlin
  • November 24th: Decree of Berlin declaring the British Isles in a state of blockade

1807

  • February: the British make a show of force in front of Constantinople
  • February 8th. : Battle of Eylau
  • June 14th: victory of Friedland
  • July 8th: Franco-Russian treaty of Tilsit - alliance with the (Russia, dismemberment of Prussia with kingdom of Westphalia entrusted to Jerome Bonaparte, Grand-Duché of Warsaw, Royaume of Saxony which enters Conf. from the Rhine
  • September: the British attack Copenhagen
  • November 11th. : the British declare good catch any ship not having to pay its customs duties in a British port
  • Nov.: Junot enters to Lisbon, Portugal refusing to close its ports with the British
  • December 17th. : Napoleon decides by the Décret of Milan British Isles in a state of blockade on sea as on ground

1808

1809

1810

  • févr. : the tsar Alexandre 1st threat the France in the event of restoration of the Poland; involve the Franco-Russian rupture

1812

1813

  • February 28th: treaty of alliance between Frederic-Guillaume of Prussia with the tsar
  • March 17th: Frederic-Guillaume launches a Call to the people announcing the war against France
  • May: victories of Lutzen and Bautzen
  • 16 - October 18th: battles of the nations of Leipzig - loss of Germany
  • November 8th: after its victory of Vitoria in Spain, Wellington invades France
  • November 9th: Bases of Frankfurt - the Allies decide to preserve at France its integrity
  • December 8th: Napoleon returns to Ferdinand its crown of Spain
  • December 21st January 1st: three allied armies pass the Rhine
  • December 29th: the legislative Body condemns the continuation of the war and the suppression of political freedoms

1814

Under the 1st Restoration

1814

1815

During the Hundred Days

1815

Under the second Restoration

1815

  • June 22nd: Napoleon abdicates second once in favor of his son
  • July 3rd: the French Army capitulates, the British and the Prussians occupy Paris - Napoleon thinks of leaving to the the United States but a British squadron blocks the coast
  • July 8th: return of Louis XVIII
  • July 15th: Napoleon, having requested asylum from the British, embarks on the ship Bellérophon towards Sainte-Hélène. He dies there the May 5th 1821.
  • November 20th: second treaty of Paris, France loses the Duché of Savoy and must maintain an occupying army.

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