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1800 CE
1800 CE: First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte survives an assassination attempt, when an 'infernal machine' explodes and kills eight people.
1803 CE: Georges Cadoudal and seven other royalists land in Normandy, intending to kill or capture Napoleon Bonaparte.
1804 CE: After interrogation, one of the conspirators of the Cadoudal Affair, Dr. Querelle, gives up the plot.
1804 CE: Georges Cadoudal is arrested in Paris after a dramatic carriage chase.
1804 CE: The Duke of Enghien, last member of the illustrious House of Condé, is kidnapped from his estate in Baden by French soldiers.
1804 CE: The Duke of Enghien is executed after a sham trial; the controversial killing stains the reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1804 CE: General Jean-Charles Pichegru, a conspirator of the Cadoudal Affair, is found strangled to death in his prison cell.
1804 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French.
1804 CE: Georges Cadoudal and eleven of his collaborators are guillotined in Paris for conspiring against the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.