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1804 | Napoleon, proclaimed emperor by Senate and Tribunate, is crowned in the presence of Pope Pius VII in Paris |
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1804 | Code Napoléon promulgated |
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1805 | Treaty of St. Petersburg by Britain and Russia against France, joined by Austria |
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1805 | Peace of Pressburg between Austria and France; Bavaria and Württemberg becomes kingdoms |
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1806 | Napoleon's Berlin Decree begins "Continental System" |
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1807 | Treaty of Tilsit between Napoleon, the Czar, and the King of Prussia |
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1807 | Napoleon ensures dictatorship by suppressing Tribunate |
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1807 | France invades Portugal: dethroned Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil |
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1807 | Commercial Law Code introduced in France |
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1809 | War between France and Austria |
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1809 | Peace of Schönbrunn |
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1810 | Napoleon annexes Holland, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg, and Lübeck |
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1813 | Prussia declares war on France |
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1813 | Austria declares war on France |
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1813 | French expelled from Holland; return of William of Orange |
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1814 | Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba |
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1814 | Louis XVIII enters Paris and takes up the throne as his hereditary right |
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1814 | Congress of Vienna opens |
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1815 | Napoleon leaves Elba; the "Hundred Days"; Napoleon abdicates again and is banished to St. Helena |
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1827 | By the Treaty of London the Allies agree to force a truce on the Sultan |
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1830 | Revolution in Paris |
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1830 | Charles X, King of France abdicates |
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1830 | Louis Philippe, King of the French, "the Citizen King" |
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1834 | Quadruple Alliance: Britain, France, Spain and Portugal |
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1844 | Treaty of Tangier ends French war in Morocco |
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1848 | Revolt in Paris; Louis Philippe abdicates, Louis Napoleon elected President of French Republic in December |
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1851 | Coup d'état of Louis Napoleon; plebiscite in France favours new constitution |
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1852 | New French constitution gives president monarchical powers, Louis Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor Napoleon III |
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1853 | Crimean War begins |
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1854 | Bourseul in France builds an experimental telephone |
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1854 | Britain and France conclude alliance with Turkey and declare war on Russia |
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1859 | Treaty of Alliance between Sardinia and France |
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1859 | France declares war on Austria, armistice followed by peace of Billafranca, formalised by Treaty of Zurich |
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1860 | Treaty of Turin cedes Nice and Savoy to France |
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1863 | French capture Mexico City and proclaim Archduke Maximilian of Austria emperor |
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1867 | Napoleon III withdraws his support from Maximilian in Mexico; Maximilian executed |
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1869 | Parliamentary system reintroduced in France |
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1870 | Franco-Prussian War begins |
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1870 | Bismarck's "Ems Telegram" |
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1870 | Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern accepts Span. throne but is forced to withdraw by the head of the House of Hohenzollern, King William I, following Fr. protest |
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1870 | Revolt in Paris and proclamation of the Third Republic |
