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1763 CE: Joséphine de Beauharnais is born on a sugar cane plantation in the French colony of Martinique.
1779 CE: Marie-Rose Tascher (the future Joséphine Bonaparte) marries her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais in Paris.
1794 CE: Joséphine de Beauharnais is imprisoned during the Reign of Terror.
1794 CE: Alexandre de Beauharnais is guillotined.
1796 CE: Napoleon and Joséphine are married in a civil ceremony in Paris.
1804 CE: Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Joséphine are coronated in a sacred ceremony in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.
1810 CE: The annulment of Napoleon and Joséphine's marriage is confirmed in a divorce ceremony.
1814 CE: Joséphine de Beauharnais dies at the Château de Malmaison, age 50.