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Napoleonic Timeline: 1769-1788

Chronology of the Napoleonic era [1769...] [1789...] [1794...] [1796] [1797] [1798] [1799] [1800] [1801] [1802] [1803] [1804] [1805] [1806] [1807] [1808] [1809] [1810] [1811] [1812] [1813] [1814] [1815] [1816...] [1840]
Bonaparte at Brienne
Bonaparte at Brienne
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1769

15 August 1769 – Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte at Ajaccio  Ajaccio (Corsica), in the Casa Buonaparte  – the ancestral home of the Bonaparte family  Napoleon's birthplace in Ajaccio, by L.A. Daligé de Fontenay  – from Carlo Maria (Charles-Marie) Buonaparte and Letizia (Laetitia) Ramolino.

1771

21 July 1771 – Baptism at  Inside the Ajaccio Cathedral the Ajaccio Cathedral  The Ajaccio Cathedral.

19 August 1771 – The Corsica High Council officialy recognizes the Bonapartes' nobility.

1778

15 December 1778 – First trip to mainland France, with his father and his elder brother Joseph Bonaparte. – 30 December 1778 – Arrival at Autun, Burgundy.

1779

1st January 1779 – Napoleon Bonaparte is admitted to the Collège d'Autun...

15 May 1779 – ...then at the Military School of Brienne   Military School of Brienne, north-central France .

1784

17 October 1784 – Napoleon leaves the Military School. – 19 October 1784 – First trip to Paris with school friends. – 22 October 1784 – Entry of Napoleon to the Royal Military School of Champ-de-Mars   Military School of Paris.

1785

24 February 1785 – Napoleon's father Charles-Marie Bonaparte dies of cancer in Montpellier, southern France.

28 October 1785 – Napoleon Bonaparte gets his Second-Lieutenant's diploma. His first assignment is with the artillery regiment of La Fère, in the garrison at Valence, a city upon the Rhône river.

1786

12 August 1786 – Departure to Lyon, with his battalion. Some days later, he offers the local Academy a dissertation on the following topic: What are the feelings which should be recommended the most in order to make men happy?. – 30 August 1786 – Return to Valence.

01 September 1786 – A first leave break enables Napoleon to return to Corsica, via Aix (Provence) where he meets his uncle Joseph Fesch and his younger brother Lucien Bonaparte . – 15 September 1786 – Arrival at Ajaccio.

1787

21 April 1787 – Another leave for family reasons.

12 September 1787 – He leaves Corsica to Paris.

22 November 1787 – Napoleon Bonaparte has his first sexual experience with a prostitute at the Palais-Royal in Paris.

1st December 1787 – His leave is extended for a six month period.

1788

1st January 1788 – Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Ajaccio.

1st June 1788 – He joins his regiment at Auxonne, a small town southeast Dijon, Burgundy.