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. com (tm) French History Napoleonic Era DATELINE 1799 General Bonaparte enters Paris to restore calm and unity 1804 Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor Napoleon I 1805-11 Naopleonic wars expand his Empire 1815 Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo 1830-1848 Reign of Louis Philippe 1852 Napoleon I's nephew crowned as Emperor Napoleon III Napoleon I The Revolution ends in 1799 when Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris and was crowned First Consul at the age of thirty. A brilliant politician and a military genius, he took the title of emperor Napoleon I in 1804. After establishing a powerful central administration and a strong code of law, he started numerous military campaigns which almost gave him the control of the entire European continent. First defeated in Russia in 1812 and then in Waterloo in 1815, he was replaced by Louis XVIII. |