I have attempted to create from a large variety of sources, a comprehensive Historical Time Line of the Napoleonic Era. That being said, it would be the work of a lifetime to include every single event that occurred over this period of time, so it can not be 100% complete. Many of the events have associated details that are linked as Posts that allow for discussion on each one of the events.
Historical Timeline for Napoleon Bonaparte
| DATE | EVENT | LINKS |
|---|---|---|
| 1769 Aug 15 | Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Ajaccio, Corsica | Details |
| 1779 May 15 | Napoleon enters the Brienne military school at the age of 9 | Details |
| 1784 Oct 17 | Napoleon completes his studies at Brienne and enters the Ecole Royale Militaire in Paris | |
| 1785 Oct 28 | Napoleon graduates in one year from a 2 year program with the rank of second lieutenant in the Artillery | Details |
| 1785 Nov 03 | Napoleon is stationed in Valence | |
| 1786 Sep 15 | Napoleon receives a leave of absence from the military and returns to Corsica. Throughout the next 7 years Napoleon makes a number of trips back to Corsica with a final result that him and his family are forced to flee for the last time on Jun 11, 1793. | Details |
| 1788 Jun | Bonaparte meets with his regiment in Auxonne. | |
| 1789 Jul 14 | The storming of the Bastille signifies the beginning of the French Revolution | |
| 1791 Feb 12 | Napoleon rejoins the 'La Fere' (newly designated the '1st') Artillery Regiment at Auxonne | |
| 1791 Jun | Napoleon promoted to 1st lieutenant and re-assigned to 4th (former 'Grenoble') Artillery Regiment at Valence | |
| 1791 Jul | French army officers required to take oath to new Constitution. Napoleon did, many Royalist officers did not | |
| 1792 Apr 20 | France declares war on Austria thus beginning the War of the First Coalition | Details |
| 1792 Aug 10 | Napoleon witnesses the storming of the Tuileries | Details |
| 1793 Jun 11 | A quarrel with Paoli, the mayor of Corsica, starts and the Bonapartes are forced to leave the island | |
| 1793 Dec 22 | Napoleon successfully defeats the British at Toulon and is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General | Details |
| 1794 Aug 09 | Napoleon Imprisoned. With the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in the coup d'état of 9 Thermidor on 27 July 1794, those associated with him were subjected to a witch hunt-like series of attacks from the Thermidorian Reaction. This included Napoleon, whose relationship with Augustin led to his imprisonment in the Chateau d'Antibes for being a Jacobin. He was cleared two weeks later | |
| 1795 Jun 13 | Napoleon is promoted to General of the army de l'Ouest and immediately goes on leave | |
| 1795 Sep 15 | Napoleon is struck off the list of generals employed by the Committee of Public Safety. Period of financial difficulty | |
| 1795 Oct 05 | The whiff of grapeshot. After being asked by Paul Francois Barras, a Directory member, he plays a part in the suppression of the Royalist insurrection against the Convention | Details |
| 1795 Oct 15 | At the home of Paul Francois Barras, Napoleon meets Rose de Beauharnais (Josephine) | Details |
| 1796 Oct 26 | Barras helps Napoleon win promotion to Commander of the Army of the Interior | |
| 1796 Mar 09 | Napoleon and Josephine are married | |
| 1796 Mar 11 | After Napoleon is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy and only two days after being married, he leaves for Italy (First Italian Campaign) | Details |
| 1796 April | Napoleon scores a string of victories (Battles of Dego, Mondovi, Montenotte) and an armistice of Cherasco which sees Piedmont exiting the war. One Piedmontese officer would later complain: "They sent a young madman who attacks right, left, and from the rear. It's an intolerable way of making war." | |
| 1796 May 10 | Battle of Lodi (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1796 Jul 04 | Siege of Mantua begins | |
| 1796 Aug 05 | Battle of Castiglione (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1796 Sep 04 | Battle of Rovereto (French victory under Napoleon. The action was fought during the second relief of the Siege of Mantua) | |
| 1796 Sep 08 | Battle of Bassano (French victory in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces led by Count Dagobert von Wurmser. The Austrians abandoned their artillery and baggage, losing supplies, cannons, and battle standards to the French. This engagement occurred during the second Austrian relief attempt of the Siege of Mantua) | |
| 1796 Nov 15-17 | Battle of Arcole (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1797 Jan 14-15 | Battle of Rivoli (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1797 Feb 02 | Siege of Mantua concluded with the Austrians capitulating after four failed relief attempts) | |
| 1797 Apr 17 | The Treaty of Leoben (also known as the Peace of Leoben) was signed | |
| 1797 Oct 17 | The Treaty of Campo-Formio is signed with Austria thus ending the War of the First Coalition | Details |
| 1797 Dec 05 | Napoleon returns to Paris as a hero | Details |
| 1798 May 19 | Napoleon sets sail for Egypt for the beginning of the Egyptian Campaign | Details |
| 1798 Jun 11 | Napoleon captures Malta enroute to Egypt | |
| 1798 Jul 02 | Napoleon lands in Egypt and occupies Alexandria | |
| 1798 Jul 21 | Battle of the Pyramids against Mamelukes (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1798 Jul 24 | Napoleon captures Cairo | |
| 1798 Aug 01 | Admiral Lord Nelson destroys the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, the Battle of the Nile | Details |
| 1799 Mar 07 | Napoleon begins his campaign in Syria by taking Jaffa. Approx 4000 prisoners were executed | Details |
| 1799 Mar 17 | Continuing the campaign in Syria, the siege of Saint John d'Acre begins | Details |
| 1799 Apr 16 | Battle of Mount Tabor; Turkish army attempting to relieve Acre is defeated | |
| 1799 May 21 | After the last failed assault on Acre on May 10, Bonaparte decides to lift the siege and return to Cairo | |
| 1799 Jun 22 | Britain became the last nation to join the Second Coalition against France. Before her signature were those of Austria, Russia, Turkey, the Vatican, Portugal and Naples | Details |
| 1799 Jul 25 | Battle of Aboukir (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1799 Aug 22 | Napoleon leaves Egypt for Paris to address political upheaval in France | |
| 1799 Oct 16 | Bonaparte arrives in Paris | |
| 1799 Nov 9-10 | Napoleon participates in a coup d'Etat (18 Brumaire) that overthrows the Directory and establishes the Consulate with Napoleon as First Consul | Details |
| 1800 Feb 13 | The Bank of France is created by Napoleon. | Details |
| 1800 May 20 | Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Army of the Reserve across the Alps (Saint Bernard pass) to begin the Second Italian Campaign | Details |
| 1800 Jun 14 | Battle of Marengo (French victory by Napoleon in Italy) | Details |
| 1800 Dec 03 | Battle of Hohenlinden (French victory by General Moreau in Germany) | Details |
| 1800 Dec 24 | Napoleon and Josephine escape an assassination attempt (The Infernal Machine) | Details |
| 1801 Feb 09 | Treaty of Lunéville signed with Austria thus ending the War of the Second Coalition except for British involvement | Details |
| 1801 Mar 24 | Tsar Paul I of Russia is killed and his son Alexander I ascends the throne | |
| 1801 Jul 15 | The Concordat is signed with the Pope. | Details |
| 1802 Mar 25 | Treaty of Amiens is signed with England thus ending the War of the Second Coalition | Details |
| 1802 May 01 | Napoleon begins restructuring of the French educational system | Details |
| 1802 May 19 | The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) is established by Napoleon | Details |
| 1802 Aug 02 | Napoleon made First Consul for life as a result of his success in ending the War of the Second Coalition | Details |
| 1803 May 03 | Louisiana is sold to the United States (Louisiana Purchase) | Details |
| 1803 May 18 | The War of the Third Coalition began when Great Britain declared war against France believing that Napoleon was violating the Treaty of Amiens. The Swedish and the Russians joined the British in declaring War against France via the Treaty of St. Petersburg in Apr 1805. For the first year the war was fought almost exclusively at sea | |
| 1804 Mar 21 | The Duc d'Enghien is tried and executed as reprisal against an attempted royalist coup (Cadoudal-Pichegru conspiracy) | Details |
| 1804 Mar 21 | The Napoleonic Code enters into force | Details |
| 1804 May 18 | Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the Senate | |
| 1804 Dec 02 | Napoleon's coronation takes place at the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris | Details |
| 1805 May 26 | Napoleon is crowned King of Italy | Details |
| 1805 Aug 09 | Austria joins War of the Third Coalition | Details |
| 1805 Oct 08 | Battle of Wertingen (French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes mauled a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant (FML) Franz Auffenberg. This was the opening battle of the Ulm Campaign) | |
| 1805 Oct 14 | Battle of Elchingen (French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon I of France while other formations fled to the east. Soon afterward, the Austrians trapped in Ulm surrendered and the French mopped up most of the remaining Austrians forces) | |
| 1805 Oct 16-19 | Battle of Ulm (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1805 Oct 21 | Battle of Trafalgar (The Franco-Spanish fleet is destroyed by Admiral Lord Nelson) | Details |
| 1805 Oct 30 | Battle of Caldiero (French victory with the French Armée d'Italie (Army of Italy) under Marshal André Masséna against an Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria) | |
| 1805 Dec 02 | Battle of Austerlitz (French victory under Napoleon, perhaps his greatest victory) | Details |
| 1805 Dec 26 | Treaty of Presbourg is signed ending the War of the Third Coalition and dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire | Details |
| 1806 Feb 18 | The Arc de Triumphe is commissioned to commemorate the victory at Austerlitz. Design work begins in 1806 | Details |
| 1806 Mar 30 | Napoleon's brother Joseph is made King of Naples | |
| 1806 Jun 5 | Napoleon's brother Louis is made King of Holland. | Details |
| 1806 Jul 12 | Confederation of the Rhine is established under French protection | Details |
| 1806 Oct 06 | War of the Fourth Coalition begins (Russia, Prussia, Britain, and Sweden) | Details |
| 1806 Oct 14 | Battle of Auerstadt (French victory under Marshal Davout) | Details |
| 1806 Oct 14 | Battle of Jena (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1806 Oct 27 | Napoleon enters Berlin | |
| 1806 Nov 21 | Napoleon declares the Continental Blockade (also known as the Continental System) via the Berlin Decree | Details |
| 1807 Feb 07-08 | Battle of Eylau (Stalemate/Slight French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1807 Jun 14 | Battle of Friedland (French victory under Napoleon). | Details |
| 1807 Jul 07-09 | The Treaties of Tilsit are signed between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia (Jul 07) and with Frederick William III, King of Prussia (Jul 09). This ended the War of the Fourth Coalition. Meeting of Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I on a raft in the Niemen River | Details |
| 1807 Jul 22 | The Grand Duchy of Warsaw is created. Established by the Treaties of Tilsit in 1807 after the Poles had helped Napoleon defeat Prussia, it consisted originally of the major portion of the central Polish provinces that Prussia had taken in the 1790s. For Napoleon's second war against Russia (1812), the Duchy of Warsaw supplied nearly 98,000 men, but Napoleon's defeat in Russia also sealed the fortunes of the duchy. In 1813 the Russians assumed control of it. Later the Congress of Vienna divided it into three parts: the Grand Duchy of Poznan; the free Republic of Kraków; and the Congress Kingdom of Poland, which was joined to Russia by making the Russian emperor its king. | |
| 1807 Aug 16 | Napoleon's brother Jerome is made King of Westphalia | Details |
| 1807 Sep 07 | Preemptive British attack Copenhagen destroying the Danish fleet | Details |
| 1807 Oct 27 | Treaty of Fontainebleu; France and Spain agree to attack Portugal thus beginning what is known as the Peninsular War | Details |
| 1807 Nov 30 | Marshal Junot occupies Lisbon | |
| 1808 Feb 20 | Marshal Murat is appointed as Napoleon's lieutenant-general in Spain. | |
| 1808 May 02 | An uprising in Madrid against the French presence occurs which is quelled by Marshal Murat. Charles IV of Spain abdicates. | |
| 1808 Jun 06 | Joseph is made King of Spain and Murat replaces him as King of Naples | |
| 1808 Jul 14 | Battle of Medina de Rioseco (defeat of the only Spanish army capable of threatening the French advance into Old Castile. General Joaquín Blake's Army of Galicia, under joint command with General Cuesta, was routed by Marshal Bessières of France after a badly-coordinated but determined assault on the French corps north of Valladolid) | |
| 1808 Jul 16-19 | Battle of Bailén (Spanish victory over French forces led by General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang) | Details |
| 1808 Aug 17 | Battle of Roliça (an Anglo-Portuguese army under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeated an outnumbered French army under General Henri Delaborde, near the village of Roliça in Portugal. The French retired in good order. It was the first battle fought by the British army during the Peninsular War | |
| 1808 Aug 21 | Battle of Vimeiro (Wellesley defeated the French under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot in Portugal) | |
| 1808 Nov 10 | Battle of Burgos, also known as Battle of Gamonal during the Peninsular War. A powerful French army under Marshal Bessières overwhelmed and destroyed the outnumbered Spanish under General Belveder, opening central Spain to invasion. | |
| 1808 Nov 30 | Battle of Somosierra (French army under Napoleon forced a passage through the Sierra de Guadarrama shielding Madrid) | |
| 1808 Dec 4 | Madrid surrenders before Napoleon | |
| 1809 Jan 16 | Battle of Corunna (French victory under Soult in the Peninsular War) | Details |
| 1809 Mar 28 | Battle of Medellín (French victory under Marshal Victor against the Spanish under General Don Gregorio Garcia de la Cuesta. The battle marked the first major effort by the French to occupy Southern Spain, a feat mostly completed with the victory at the Battle of Ocana later in the year) | |
| 1809 Apr 08 | War of the Fifth Coalition begins as Austria attacks Bavaria | Details |
| 1809 Apr 20 | Battle of Abensberg (French victory under Napoleon) | |
| 1809 Apr 21-22 | Battle of Eckmehl (French victory under Napoleon) was the turning point of the War of the Fifth Coalition. Napoleon had been unprepared for the start of hostilities on 10 April 1809, by the Austrians under the Archduke Charles of Austria and for the first time since assuming the French Imperial Crown had been forced to cede the strategic initiative to an opponent. Thanks to the dogged defense waged by the III Corps, commanded by Marshal Davout, and the Bavarian VII Corps, commanded by Marshal Lefebvre, Napoleon was able to defeat the principal Austrian army and wrest the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war | |
| 1809 May 21-22 | Battle of Aspern-Essling (Austrian victory over Napoleon) | Details |
| 1809 May 23 | Battle of Alcañiz (Spanish force defeats French force under General Suchet in Spain) | |
| 1809 Jun 14 | Battle of Raab (French victory under Prince Eugène de Beauharnais. The victory prevented Archduke John of Austria from bringing any significant force to the Battle of Wagram, while Prince Eugène de Beauharnaiss force was able to link up with Napoleon at Vienna in time to fight at Wagram. Napoleon referred to the battle as "a granddaughter of Marengo and Friedland," as it fell on the anniversary of those two battles) | |
| 1809 Jul 05-06 | Battle at Wagram (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1809 Oct 14 | Treaty of Schonbrunn is signed ending the War of the Fifth Coalition. Austria ceded Salzburg to Bavaria, West Galicia to the Duchy of Warsaw, Tarnopol district to Russian Empire and Trieste and Croatia south of the Sava River to France (see Illyrian provinces). Austria recognized Napoleon's previous conquests from other nations as well as recognizing Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain. Austria also paid to France a large indemnity and the Austrian army was reduced to 150,000 men - a promise not fulfilled. | |
| 1809 Oct 18 | Battle of Tamames (French defeat in Spain. It was a sharp reversal suffered by part of Marshal Michel Ney's French army under Major-General Jean Marchand in the Peninsular War. The French, advancing out of Salamanca, were met and defeated in battle by a Spanish army) | |
| 1809 Nov 19 | Battle of Ocaña (Marshal Soult and King Joseph Bonaparte defeat the Spanish army, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War. General Juan Carlos de Aréizaga's Spanish army of 51,000 lost nearly 19,000 killed, wounded, prisoners and deserters, mostly due to the French use of their cavalry | |
| 1809 Nov 26 | Battle of Alba de Tormes (French victory under General Marchand in Spain) | |
| 1809 Dec 15 | Napoleon divorces Josephine | Details |
| 1810 Apr 02 | Napoleon and Marie-Louise are married | Details |
| 1810 Sep 27 | Battle of Bussaco (An Anglo-Portuguese force under Wellington defeats French forces under Massena in the Peninsular War) | |
| 1811 Mar 05 | Battle of Barrosa was an unsuccessful French attack on a larger Anglo-Spanish force attempting to lift the siege of Cádiz, Spain during the Peninsular War. During the battle, a single British division defeated two French divisions and captured a regimental eagle. | |
| 1811 Mar 20 | Marie-Louise bears Napoleon a son, who is given the title 'King of Rome' | Details |
| 1811 May 03-06 | Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (Wellington checks an attempt by Marshal Massena to relieve the besieged city of Almeida) | |
| 1811 May 16 | Battle of Albuera (Indecisive battle of the Peninsular War) | |
| 1812 Apr 06 | Battle of Badajoz (16 March - 6 April 1812) an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington, besieged Badajoz, Spain and forced the surrender of the French garrison | |
| 1812 Jun 24 | Napoleon crosses the Niemen River for the beginning of the Russian Campaign | Details |
| 1812 Jul 22 | Battle of Salamanca (Wellington defeats Marshal Marmount in Spain) | |
| 1812 Aug 16-18 | Battle of Smolensk (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1812 Aug 18 | Battle of Valutino (French victory - between Marshal Ney's corps, about 30,000 strong, and a strong rear-guard of General Barclay de Tolly's army of about 40,000, commanded by the General himself. The Russians were strongly posted in marshy ground, protected by a small stream. The French, attacking resolutely, carried the Russian position in the face of enormous natural difficulties) | |
| 1812 Sep 07 | Battle of Borodino (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1812 Sep 14 | Napoleon enters Moscow | Details |
| 1812 Oct 19 | Napoleon leaves Moscow | |
| 1812 Nov 26-29 | Battle of Berezina (Napoleon manages to extract his force across the river fighting a rear-guard action) | Details |
| 1812 Dec 18 | Napoleon returns to Paris | Details |
| 1813 Mar 16 | Prussia declares war on France beginning the War of the Sixth Coalition | Details |
| 1813 May 02 | Battle of Lutzen French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1813 May 20-21 | Battle of Bautzen (French push back combined Russian/Prussian force) | Details |
| 1813 Jun 21 | Battle of Vitoria (Wellington leading the allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish army broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, leading to eventual victory in the Peninsular War.) | |
| 1813 Jul 29 | Congress of Prague takes place | |
| 1813 Aug 12 | Austria declares war on France | |
| 1813 Aug 26-27 | Battle of Dresden (French victory under Napoleon) | |
| 1813 Oct 16-19 | Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations (Combined Allies forces defeat Napoleon) | Details |
| 1813 Oct 30-31 | Battle of Hanau (French victory under Napoleon) | Details |
| 1814 Jan 29 | Battle at Brienne (French victory under Napoleon) | |
| 1814 Feb 01 | Battle of La Rothière (French defeat under napoleon. Attacked by a large Prussian force, the French managed to hold until they could retreat under cover of darkness. La Rothière was Napoleon's first defeat on French soil) | |
| 1814 Feb 10 | Battle of Champaubert (French victory under Napoleon) - Six Days Campaign | Details |
| 1814 Feb 11 | Battle of Montmirail (French victory under Napoleon) - Six Days Campaign | |
| 1814 Feb 12 | Battle of Château-Thierry (French victory under Napoleon) - Six Days Campaign | |
| 1814 Feb 14 | Battle of Vauchamps (French victory under Napoleon) - Six Days Campaign | |
| 1814 Feb 18 | Battle of Montereau (French victory under Napoleon) | |
| 1814 Feb 27 | Battle of Orthez (The Anglo-Portuguese army under Wellington defeat a French army led by Marshal Nicolas Soult in southern France near the end of the Peninsular War.) | |
| 1814 Mar 07 | Battle of Craonne (French victory under Napoleon) | |
| 1814 Mar 20-21 | Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (Napoleon withdrew his French army after confused fighting) | |
| 1814 Mar 30-31 | Allies enter Paris | Details |
| 1814 Apr 06 | Napoleon's unconditional abdication takes place thus ending the War of the Sixth Coalition | Details |
| 1814 Apr 10 | Battle of Toulouse (Wellington defeats Marshal Soult) | Details |
| 1814 May 04 | Napoleon sets sail for the island of Elba. | Details |
| 1814 May 29 | Josephine dies from pneumonia | |
| 1814 Jun 30 | Treaty of Paris is signed between France and the Coalition | Details |
| 1814 Nov 01 | Congress of Vienna assembles to redraw the map of Europe. | Details |
| 1815 Feb 26 | Napoleon leaves Elba | Details |
| 1815 Mar 01 | Napoleon lands in France near Antibes | |
| 1815 Mar 13 | The powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Napoleon Bonaparte an outlaw and form the Seventh Coalition | Details |
| 1815 Mar 14 | Marshal Ney, who had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, joined him with 6,000 men. | |
| 1815 Mar 15 | After he had received word of Napoleon's escape, Joachim Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and the King of Naples, declared war on Austria in a bid to save his crown. | |
| 1815 Mar 17 | The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end Napoleon Bonaparte's rule. | |
| 1815 Mar 20 | Napoleon arrives in Paris (beginning of The Hundred Days) and Louis XVIII flees | Details |
| 1815 Apr 09 | The high point for the Neapolitans as Murat attempted to force a crossing of the River Po. However, he is defeated at the Battle of Occhiobello and for the remainder of the war, the Neapolitans would be in full retreat. | |
| 1815 May 03 | General Bianchi's Austrian I Corps decisively defeated Murat at the Battle of Tolentino. | |
| 1815 May 20 | The Neapolitans signed the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians after Murat had fled to Corsica and his generals had sued for peace. | |
| 1815 May 23 | Ferdinand IV was restored to the Neapolitan throne. | |
| 1815 Jun 15 | French Army of the North crossed the frontier into the United Netherlands (in modern day Belgium). | |
| 1815 Jun 16 | Battle of Ligny (French victory under Napoleon , sadly his last) | Details |
| 1815 Jun 16 | Battle of Quatre Bras (A costly draw between the Anglo-Dutch force and the French Marshal Ney) | Details |
| 1815 Jun 18-19 | Battle of Wavre (French victory under Marshal Grouchy, alas too little too late) | Details |
| 1815 Jun 18 | Battle of Waterloo (Allied forces defeat Napoleon , enough said ...sigh) | Details |
| 1815 Jun 22 | Napoleon abdicates for the second time. | Details |
| 1815 Jun 29 | Napoleon leaves Paris for the west of France. | |
| 1815 Jul 07 | Graf von Zieten's Prussian I Corps entered Paris. | |
| 1815 Jul 08 | Louis XVIII was restored to the French throne — The end of the One Hundred Days. | |
| 1815 Jul 15 | Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain Maitland of HMS Bellerophon. | |
| 1815 Oct 13 | Joachim Murat is executed in Pizzo after he had landed there five days earlier hoping to regain his kingdom. | |
| 1815 Oct 16 | Napoleon arrives on the island of Saint Helena | Details |
| 1815 Nov 20 | Treaty of Paris signed. | |
| 1821 May 5 | Napoleon dies | Details |
| 1840 Dec 15 | Napoleon's remains are returned to France and interred at Les Invalides | Details |
