NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

'They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?"'—Isa. xiv.16.

A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.

1769. Aug. 15. Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the Town Clerk, Charles, born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He was sent at an early age to the Military School at Brienne, in France. Returned to Ajaccio in 1790. Easter Monday, 1792, he excited the people against the priests, and was driven from his native country, and went to Marseilles. -An Officer of Artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed General of Brigade.

1793.

1794. Oct. 4.-Commands the Conventional troops

and defeats the Parisians.

1796.

-Appointed to the command of the

army of Italy.

May 10.-Battle of Lodi.

Aug. 3.-Battle of Castiglione.

Nov. 16.-Battle of Arcola.

1797. Feb. 2.-Surrender of Mantua. Mar. 23.-Trieste surrenders.

April 18.-Preliminaries with Austria signed at Leoben.

May 16.-French take possession of Venice. 17.-Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria.

1798. May 20.-Bonaparte sails for Egypt. July 21.-Battle of Embabe, or of the Pyramids.

Oct. 24.-Insurrection at Cairo.

1799. May 21.-Seige of Acre raised.

Aug. 23.-Sailed from Egypt for France.
Oct. 7.-Lands at Frejus.

Nov. 9.-Dissolves the Directoral Govern

ment.

10. Declared First Consul.

1800. Feb. 15.-Peace with the Chouans. May 15.-Bonaparte crosses Mount St Bernard.

June 16.-Battle of Marengo.

-Preliminaries with Austria sign

ed at Paris.

Dec. 3.-Battle of Hohenlinden.

1800. Dec. 24.-Explosion of the Infernal Ma

1801.

chine.

Feb. 9.-Treaty of Luneville with Austria.
Oct. 8.-Preliminaries with England.

1802. Jan. 26.-The Cisalpine Republic placed under Bonaparte.

Mar. 27.-Definitive Treaty with England.
May 15.-Legion of Honor instituted.
Aug. 2.-Declared Consul for Life.

1803. March

-Proposals made by Bonaparte to
Louis XVIII. then at War-

saw,

to abdicate the throne of France. Offer rejected by the French King.

May 18.-English Declaration of War.

July

-Declaration of all the Princes of

the Bourbon family, approv

ing of Louis XVIII.'s refusal to abdicate.

1804. February-Moreau arrested.

March 20.-Duc D'Enghien shot.

April

8.-Pichegru murdered in prison.

May 18.-Bonaparte made Emperor.
19.-Crowned by the Pope.

Nov.

1805. February -Writes a Pacific Letter to the

King of England.

April 11.-Treaty of Petersburgh between

England, Russia, Austria and
Sweden.

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1805. May 26.-Bonaparte declared King of

Italy,

Sept. 24.-Bonaparte heads his army
against Austria.

Oct. 20.-Mack's army surrenders at Ulm,
Nov. 13.-French enter Vienna.

Dec. 2.-Battle of Austerlitz.

15.-Treaty of Vienna with Prussia. 26.-Treaty of Petersburg with Austria.

-Murder of Captain Wright in

prison.

July 26.-Convocation of the Jews,

27.-Confederation of the Rhine pub

lished.

Sept. 24,-Bonaparte

Prussia.

Oct. 14.-Battle of Jena.

marches against

27.-Bonaparte enters Berlin.

Nov. 19.-Berlin Decree.

1807. Feb.

May

8.-Battle of Eylau.

2.-Massacre of the French at Madrid by order of Murat.

-Royal family of Spain kidnapped at Bayonne by Bonaparte.

1807. June 14.-Battle of Friedland.

July 7-Treaty of Tilsit.

Sept.

-Entry of the French troops into
Spain as friends and allies.

1808. July 7.-Joseph Bonaparte declared King

of Spain.

Sept. 20.-Conferences at Erfurth.

Nov. 5.-Bonaparte arrives at Vittoria.
Dec. 4.-Surrender of Madrid.

1809. Jan. 22.-Bonaparte returns to Paris.
April 6.-War declared by Austria.
13.-Bonaparte heads his army against

Austria.

May 10.-French enter Vienna.

22.-Battle of Esling, or Asperen.

July 6.-Battle of Wagram.

Oct. 14.-Treaty of Vienna.

Dec. 13.-Lucien Bonaparte arrives in

England.

16.-Bonaparte's marriage with Josephine dissolved.

1810. Mar. 11.-Bonaparte marries Maria Lou

isa, daughter of Francis II.

July 9.-Holland and Hanse Towns annexed to France.

Aug. 21.-Bernadotte elected Crown Prince of Sweden.

1811. Jan. 1.-Hamburgh annexed to the Em

pire.