9 January 1800 – The municipalities lose their right to appoint police commissioners. – 17 January 1800 – An order abolishes sixty out of the seventy-three Parisian political newspapers. The creation of new titles is banned. – 18 January 1800 – The Banque de France is created. Vendeans surrender to General Brune. – 21 January 1800 – Royalist demonstrations on the occasion of the death anniversary of Louis XVI. – 25 January 1800 – Creation of a reserve army of 60,000 men, placed under the command of the First Consul.
7
February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte praises George
Washington, who died two months ago. For ten days, all the flags
of the Republic will display black crepes. – 9
February 1800 – Ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides
honoring the memory of George Washington. – 13
February 1800 – Publication of the statutes
of the Banque de France (Bank of France). –
14
February 1800 – The Chouan chief Georges
Cadoudal lays down his arms. – 15
February 1800 – The journalists lose the right
to print anything related to land and sea movements. –
17
February 1800 – A new administrative organization
of France is adopted. – 18
February 1800 – The Constitution of the year
VIII is adopted by plebiscite: 3,011,007 yes, 1,562 no. –
19
February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sets up house
at the Palais des Tuileries. – 20
February 1800 – The Count
of Provence (future Louis XVIII) requests Bonaparte in writing
to leave him his place.
2 March 1800 – Appointment of the prefects of ninety-eight departments. – 3 March 1800 – Closing of the list of emigrants. – 8 March 1800 – Creation of the police prefecture of Paris. – 14 March 1800 – At Venice, cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII. – 18 March 1800 – Law on the new organization of courts.
5 April 1800 – Governmental authorization becomes necessary for staging a play in the theatre. – 21 April 1800 – André Masséna enters Genoa with his army. – 27 April 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte orders Charles Augereau to bring the Batavian government to book.
6
May 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Paris:
it is the beginning of the second campaign in Italy. –
9
May 1800 – Bonaparte reaches Geneva. –
14
May 1800 – The French army approaches the slopes
of Mount Saint-Bernard. – 20
May 1800 – Bonaparte crosses Saint-Bernard
. – 24
May 1800 – From Aoste: in a letter to the Consuls,
Bonaparte announces that he hopes to be back in Paris within fifteen
days. – 26
May 1800 – Battle of La Chiusella. –
30
May 1800 – Joachim
Murat captures Novara.
2nd
June 1800 – Entry in Milan. – 3rd
June 1800 – Reinstatement of the Cisalpine Republic.
– 4
June 1800 – Masséna must capitulate in Genoa.
– 9
June 1800 – Battle
of Montebello. – 14
June 1800 – Battle
of Marengo; at the moment of victory Louis Charles Antoine
Desaix is killed by a musket ball
. The same day, in Egypt, Jean-Baptiste Kleber is assassinated.
– 15
June 1800 – In Alessandria, Italy, signing of
a convention between the French and Austrian commands. The strongholds
of Piedmont and Lombardia, the cities of Genoa, Savona and Urbino
are handed over to the French; the Austrians retreat beyond the
Oglio. – 21
June 1800 – The French army enters Turin. –
23
June 1800 – Louis-Gabriel
Suchet occupies Genoa. Bonaparte orders the collection of
a war contribution across the length and breadth of the Cisalpine
Republic, to be paid by the well-known supporters of Austria.
2nd July 1800 – Return of Napoleon Bonaparte to Paris. – 22 July 1800 – Bonaparte writes to Masséna: "To set an example, loot and burn the first village of Piedmont which will revolt". – 26 July 1800 – Traders and individual people once again become free to be idle on Sundays.
12 August 1800 – Setting in place of a commission in charge of drawing up the Civil Code; members are: Bigot de Préameneu, Tronchet, Portalis and Maleville. – 28 August 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte visits Jean-Jacques Rousseau's room in Ermenonville, near Paris.
5
September 1800 – Malta falls into the hands
of the English. – 7
September 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sends a
demurrer to the Count
of Provence. – 23
September 1800 – Bonaparte lays the foundation
stone of the monument for Desaix and Kléber. – 27
September 1800 – A Ministry of the Treasury
is appointed, by a split of the Ministry of Finance. –
30
September 1800 – Signing of the Convention of
Mortefontaine between France and the United States of America,
which settles the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War
.
1st October 1800 – The third Treaty of San Ildefonso is secretly concluded between Spain and France, by which Spain returns Louisiana to France. – 3 October 1800 – Metge, the author of a pamphlet who was inciting people for assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte, is arrested. – 10 October 1800 – The sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi is arrested at the Opera while he was getting ready to assassinate Bonaparte. – 20 October 1800 – Forty-eight thousand people's names are struck off the emigrants’ list.
5 November 1800 – Monsignor Giuseppe Spina, the Pope's representative, reaches Paris in order to negotiate the Concordat. – 8 November 1800 – Chevalier, a chemist suspected of making an infernal machine, is arrested.
3
December 1800 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau crushes
the Austrians at Hohenlinden. – 24
December 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes unscathed
from an attack on rue Saint-Nicaise
. There are 22 dead and 56 injured. – 25
December 1800 – Moreau signs the armistice of
Steyr, near Vienna, with the Archduke Charles.