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1807 CE: French General Jean-Andoche Junot leads 25,000 troops toward Portugal, sparking the Peninsular War.
1807 CE: The secret Treaty of Foutainebleau is signed between France and Spain, in which it is agreed to occupy and partition Portugal.
1807 CE: The Portuguese royal family evacuates Lisbon as the French army approaches. They will set up a government in exile in Brazil.
1807 CE: Junot occupies Lisbon.
1808 CE: 30,000 French troops under Marshal Moncey crosses into Spain, occupies key border towns.
1808 CE: The Mutiny of Aranjuez. Manuel de Godoy is harassed by an angry mob and nearly lynched; Prince Ferdinand is proclaimed king of Spain.
1808 CE: Dos de Mayo uprisings in Madrid.
1808 CE: King Ferdinand VII of Spain is forced to abdicate, is imprisoned.
1808 CE: Joseph Bonaparte is coronated as King of Spain.
1808 CE: First Siege of Zaragoza.
1808 CE: A Spanish army defeats a French force at the Battle of Bailén, France's first major land defeat since the start of the Napoleonic Wars.
1808 CE: Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats Junot's Army of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
1808 CE: Napoleon enters Madrid.
1808 CE - 1809 CE: The Second Siege of Zaragoza results in 64,000 deaths.
1809 CE: The Battle of Corunna results in a successful British evacuation from Iberia, although Sir John Moore is killed.
1809 CE: Sir Arthur Wellesley wins the Battle of Talavera, is ennobled as Viscount Wellington.
1809 CE: Wellington orders the construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras, a defensive position.
1810 CE - 1812 CE: Siege of Cádiz by French troops; results in a Spanish victory.
1810 CE: Battle of Bussaco results in an Anglo-Portuguese victory over a French army.
1811 CE: The indecisive and bloody Battle of Albuera is fought between French and Anglo-Portuguese troops.
1812 CE: The Siege of Badajoz results in an Anglo-Portuguese victory; Wellington's troops pillage the city for three days before order is restored.
1812 CE: Wellington beats Marshal Marmont at the Battle of Salamanca.
1813 CE: A French army under King Joseph and Marshal Jourdan is defeated by Wellington's Allied army at the Battle of Vitoria.
1813 CE: Abdication of Joseph Bonaparte; Ferdinand VII is restored as King of Spain.
1814 CE: First abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte leading to his exile in Elba.
1814 CE: Wellington and Soult clash at the Battle of Toulouse.
1814 CE: Battle of Bayonne results in an Allied victory.
1814 CE: French Marshals Soult and Suchet sign a convention with Wellington; end of the Peninsular War.