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Napoleonic Europe

1789 CE – 1815 CE

From the French Revolution to Waterloo — a quarter-century that redrew Europe, as revolutionary and Napoleonic armies marched from Lisbon to Moscow.

1316 events · 1234 people

Key events

1. War of the First Coalition1792 CE
   1792–1797 set of battles between the French revolutionaries and the neighbouring monarchies
2. Battle of Valmy1792 CE
   The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The battle took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. Generals François Kellermann and Charles Dumouriez stopped the advance near the northern village of Valmy in Champagne-Ardenne.
3. 10 August insurrection1792 CE
   insurrection and its outcome in French Revolution
4. War in the Vendée1793 CE
   1793–1796 set of battles between the French revolutionaries and the royalists
5. Kościuszko Uprising1794 CE
   1794 failed rebellion against the second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
6. coup of 18 Brumaire1799 CE
   1799 coup in Revolutionary France that brought Napoleon to power
7. Battle of Marengo1800 CE
   The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Near the end of the day, the French overcame General Michael von Melas's surprise attack, drove the Austrians out of Italy and consolidated Bonaparte's political position in Paris as First Consul of France in the wake of his coup d'état the previous November.
8. Battle of Copenhagen1801 CE
   The Battle of Copenhagen, also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a smaller force of the Dano-Norwegian Navy anchored near Copenhagen on 2 April 1801. The battle came about over British fears that the powerful Danish fleet would ally with France, and a breakdown in diplomatic communications on both sides.
9. Treaty of Lunéville1801 CE
   1801 Treaty during the War of the Second Coalition
10. Battle of Trafalgar1805 CE
    The Battle of Trafalgar was a fleet action which took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French and Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, the French and Spanish navies planned to take control of the English Channel and provide the French invasion army with safe passage to Britain. The allied fleet, under the command of French Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in southern Spain on 18 October 1805. It encountered a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson in the Atlantic Ocean along the southwest coast of Spain off Cape Trafalgar.
11. War of the Third Coalition1805 CE
    1805–1806 conflict during the Napoleonic Wars
12. Peace of Pressburg1805 CE
    1805 peace treaty closing the war of the third coalition

Notable people

• Napoleon1769 CE – 1821 CE
• Genghis Khan1162 CE – 1227 CE
• Francisco Goya1746 CE – 1828 CE
• Diego Velázquez1599 CE – 1660 CE
• John Quincy Adams1767 CE – 1848 CE
• Catherine II of Russia1729 CE – 1796 CE
• Maximilien Robespierre1758 CE – 1794 CE
• Louis XVI of France1754 CE – 1793 CE
• Alexander I of Russia1777 CE – 1825 CE
• George III of Great Britain1738 CE – 1820 CE
• Carl von Clausewitz1780 CE – 1831 CE
• Horatio Nelson1758 CE – 1805 CE

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