1769 CE: Following the French victory at the Battle of Ponte Novu, Corsica is annexed by France.

1769 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Ajaccio, Corsica.

1779 CE: At the age of 10, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his education in Brienne, northern France. Here, he learns French and excels in mathematics.

1784 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is admitted into the École Militaire, where he trains to become an artillery officer.

1790 CE: The National Assembly passes a decree making Corsica a department of France; Corsican hero Pasquale Paoli is invited back from exile after 22 years.

1792 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is elected lieutenant colonel of the Corsican National Guard; weeks later, he suppresses an Easter Sunday uprising in Ajaccio.

1793 CE: Napoleon publishes his pro-Jacobin pamphlet Le Souper de Beaucaire, gaining the notice of Jacobin leader Augustin Robespierre.

1793 CE: After falling out with Corsican politician Pasquale Paoli, the Bonaparte family flees Corsica, landing in Toulon 2 days later.

1793 CE: Siege of Toulon.

1793 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is promoted to brigadier-general following the Siege of Toulon; he is just 24 years old.

1794 CE: Following the Thermidorian Reaction, Napoleon Bonaparte is arrested in connection to the Robespierres; he is eventually released.

1795 CE: During the French Revolution, the royalist revolt of 13 Vendemiaire is crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

1796 CE: General Bonaparte closes the Pantheon Club.

1796 CE: Napoleon leaves Paris to take command of the Army of Italy.

1796 CE: General Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the Army of Italy.

1796 CE - 1797 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign.

1798 CE: The French fleet carrying Napoleon Bonaparte and the Armée d'Orient sets out for Egypt.

1799 CE: The French unsuccessfully lay siege to Acre, and are forced to retreat; Napoleon Bonaparte's Syrian campaign is ended.

1799 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Egypt for France, abandoning his army in Alexandria.

1799 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte takes control of the government in the Coup of 18 Brumaire; both the Directory and the French Revolution are ended.

1800 CE: First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte narrowly defeats an Austrian army at the Battle of Marengo.

1801 CE: The Siege of Alexandria results in a French defeat and an inglorious end to Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt and Syria.

1804 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French.

1804 CE: Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Joséphine are coronated in a sacred ceremony in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.

1807 CE: Emperor Napoleon I of France and Tsar Alexander I of Russia meet on a raft in the Niemen River to discuss terms of peace.

1809 CE: The French suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Talavera.

1810 CE: Emperor Napoleon I is married to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

1812 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte takes up residence in the Kremlin and then destroys it when he leaves.

1812 CE: Napoleon's Grande Armée clashes with the Kutuzov's Russian army at the Battle of Borodino.

1812 CE: Napoleon heads to Paris, gives control of the Grande Armée to Joachim Murat; the disastrous Russian campaign is over.

1813 CE: Napoleon suffers a decisive defeat at the Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations.

1814 CE: First abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte leading to his exile in Elba.

1814 CE: Napoleon abdicates, goes into exile on the island of Elba.

1814 CE: Napoleon leaves Fontainebleau for his exile on the island of Elba.

1814 CE - 1815 CE: Duration of Napoleon's first exile on Elba.

1814 CE: Joséphine de Beauharnais dies at the Château de Malmaison, age 50.

1815 CE: Napoleon lands in southern France with his staff and 1,000 soldiers.

1815 CE: The great powers of Europe declare Napoleon an outlaw; the War of the Seventh Coalition begins.

1815 CE: Napoleon enters Paris and begins his second reign; the official start of the Hundred Days period.

1815 CE: The Battle of Waterloo is fought in Belgium; Napoleon is decisively defeated by the forces of Wellington and Blücher.

1815 CE: Napoleon abdicates his imperial throne for the second time.

1815 CE: King Louis XVIII is restored to the French throne; end of both the Hundred Days period and the Napoleonic Era.

1815 CE: At Rochefort, Napoleon surrenders to British Captain Frederick Maitland of the HMS Bellerophon.

1815 CE - 1821 CE: Duration of Napoleon's second and final exile on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic.

1821 CE: Death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of St. Helena, aged 51.