Chronological Account of the principal Events in the Life of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

1769, August 15, born at Ajaccio, in Corsica.---1779, March ---, placed at the Military School at Brienne.--1793, an officer of artillery at the Siege of Toulon, and appointed General of Brigade.--1794, Oct. 4, commands the Conventional troops, and slaughters the Parisians.--1796, appointed to the command of the Army of Italy. May 11, Bat. of Lodi. Aug. 3, Bat. of Castiglione. Nov. 16, Bat. of Arcola.---1797. Feb. 4, Surrender of Mantua. March 23, Trieste surrenders. April 18, Preliminaries with Austria, signed at Leoben. May 16, French take possession of Venice. Oct. 17, Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria.---1798, May 20, sails for Egypt. July 21, Battle of the Pyramids. Oct. 24, Insurrection at Cairo.---1799, May 21, Siege of Acre raised. Aug. 23, sails from Egypt for France. Oct. 7, lands at Frejus. Nov. 9, dissolves the Conventional Government. Nov. 10, declared First Consul.---1800, Feb. 12, Peace made with the Chouans. May 14, crosses Mount St. Bernard. June 16, Bat. of Marengo. July 28, Preliminaries with Austria, signed at Paris. Dec. 3, Bat. of Hohenlinden. Dec. 24, Explosion of the Infernal Machine.---1801, Feb. 9, Treaty of Luneville with Austria. Oct. 8, Preliminaries with England.---1802, Jan. 25, Cisalpine Republic seized. March 27, Definitive Treaty with England. May 15, Legion of Honour instituted. Aug. 2, declared Consul for Life. Aug. 21, changes the Swiss form of Government.---1803, May 18, English Declaration of War. June 3, Hanover overrun.---1804, Fe.. ---, Moreau arrested. March 20, Duc d'Enghien shot. April 6, Pichegru murdered in prison. May 18. declared Emperor. Nov. 19, crowned by the Pope.--1805, Feb. ---, writes to the King of England. April 11, Treaty of St. Petersburgh, between England, Russia, Austria, and Sweden. May 26, declared King of Italy. Sept. 24, heads his Army against Austria. Oct. 20, Mack's Army surrenders at Ulm. Nov. 13, French enter Vienna. Dec. 2, Bat. of Austerlitz. Dec. 15, Treaty of Vienna, with Prussia. Dec. 26, Treaty of Presburgh, with Austria.---1806, March 30, Joseph Buonaparté made King of Naples. June 3, Louis made King of Holland. July 20, Jewish Sanhedrim. July 27, Confederation of the Rhine. Sept. 24, marches against Prussia. Oct. 14, Bat. of Auerstadt or Jena. Oct. 27, enters Berlin. Nov. 19, Hamburgh taken; Berlin Decree.--1807, Feb. 3, Bat. of Eylau against Russia. June 14, Bat. of Friedland. July 7, Treaty of Tilsit with Russia.---1808, July 7, Joseph Buonaparté made King of Spain. July 20, surrender of Dupont's Army at Baylen. June 29, Joseph Buonaparté evacuates Madrid. August 21, Bat. of Vimiera. Sept. 27, Conferences at Erfurth. Nov. 5, Buonaparté arrives at Vittoria. Dec. 4, Surrender of Madrid to Buonaparté.---1809, Jan. 16, Bat. of Corunna. Jan. 22, returns to Paris. April 6, War declared by Austria. April 13, heads his Army against Austria. May 10, French enter Vienna. May 22, Bat. of Essling or Asperne. July 6, Bat. of Wagram. Oct. 14, Treaty of Vienna with Austria. Dec. 13, Lucien Buonaparté arrives in England. Dec. 16, Buonaparte's marriage with Josephine dissolved.---1810, March 11, marries Maria Louisa, daughter of Francis II. Emp. of Austria. July 9, Holland and the Hanse Towns annexed to the French Empire, by Decree of Napoleon. Aug. 21, Bernadotte elected Crown Prince of Sweden. Dec. 21, Decree for restraining the Liberty of the Press. 1811, Jan. 1, Hamburgh annexed to the French Empire. April 20, the Empress delivered of a son, styled King of Rome. Sept. 2, present at an engagement between a French flot lla and an English cruiser.---1812, Jan. 22, Swedish Pomeramia seized by Buonaparté. May 2, he heads a vast Army against Russia. June 11, arrives at Konigsberg. June 28, enters Wilna. Aug. 18, Smolensko taken. Sept. 7. Bat. of Moskwa or Borodino. Sept. 14, French, under Napoleon, enter Moscow, which is burnt. Oct. 22, French evacuate Moscow. Nov. 9, arrives at Smolensko. Dec. 5, quits the Army in the snows. Dec. 18, arrives at Paris.---1813, April -, heads the Army on the Elbe. May 1, Bat. of Lutzen against Russia and Prussia. May 20, Bat. of Bautzen. June 4, armistice agreed on. June 21, Bat. of Vittoria in Spain. Aug. 17, Hostilities re-commence. Austria declared against Buonaparté. Aug. 28, Bat. of Dresden---Moreau killed. Sept. 7, English enter France. Sept. 28, evacuates Dresden. Oct. 18, Bat. of Leipsic.--Buonaparté defeated. Nov. 15, Revolution in Holland. Dec. 1, Declaration of the Allies at Frankfort.---1814, Jan. 4, Allies cross the Rhine. March 30, Bat. of Montmartre, before Paris. April 11, Buonaparté abdicated the Throne. May 8, arrives at Elba.---1815, March 1, sails from Elba for France. March 20, arrives at Paris, and re-assumes the Throne. April 25, is declared an Out-law by the Sovereigns of Europe, then assembled at Vienna. April ---, calls a New House of Peers, and Chamber of Representatives of the French people---Champ de Mai. June 16, defeats the Prussians. June 18, loses his Army at Waterloo, or Mount St. Jean. June 21, abdicates the Throne a second time. July 22, surrenders himself to an' English ship of war, off Rochefort---Arrives at Torbay, Aug. 7, sails for St. Helena, where he arrived October 17th, 1815.

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