Napoleonic Timeline of 1800

January 1800

9 January 1800 – The municipalities lost their right to appoint police commissioners.

17 January 1800 – An order abolished sixty out of the seventy-three Parisian political newspapers. Creation of new titles was banned.

18 January 1800 – The Banque de France was created. Vendéens surrendered to General Brune.

21 January 1800 – Royalist demonstrations on the occasion of the death anniversary of King Louis XVI.

25 January 1800 – Creation of a reserve army of 60,000 men, placed under the command of the First Consul.

February 1800

7 February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte praised George Washington , who had died two months ago. For ten days, all the flags of the Republic would display black crepes.

9 February 1800 – Ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides  in Paris, 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 laid down his arms.

15 February 1800 – The journalists lost the right to print anything related to land and sea movements.

17 February 1800 – A new administrative organization of France was adopted.

18 February 1800 – The Constitution of the year VIII was adopted by plebiscite: 3,011,007 yes, 1,562 no.

19 February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte set up house at the Palais des Tuileries .

20 February 1800 – The Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII) requested Bonaparte in writing to leave him his place.

March 1800

2 March 1800 – Appointment of the prefects of ninety-eight French departments.

3 March 1800 – Closing of the list of emigrants.

8 March 1800 – Creation of the police prefecture of Paris.

14 March 1800 – In Venice, cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti was elected Pope Pius VII.

18 March 1800 – Law on the new organization of courts.

April 1800

5 April 1800 – Governmental authorization became mandatory for staging a play in the theatre.

21 April 1800 – General André Masséna entered Genoa with his army.

27 April 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte ordered GeneralCharles Augereau to bring the Batavian government to book.

May 1800

6 May 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte left Paris: it was the beginning of the second campaign in Italy.

9 May 1800 – Bonaparte reached Geneva.

14 May 1800 – The French army approached the slopes of Mount Saint-Bernard.

The road leading to the Great St. Bernard Pass. Photo by Lionel A. Bouchon

20 May 1800 – Bonaparte crossed Saint-Bernard pass  .

24 May 1800 – From Aoste : in a letter to the Consuls, Bonaparte announced that he hoped to be back in Paris within fifteen days.

26 May 1800 – Battle of La Chiusella .

30 May 1800 – General Joachim Murat captured Novara .

June 1800

2nd June 1800 – Entry in Milan.

3rd June 1800 – Reinstatement of the Cisalpine Republic.

4 June 1800 – Masséna had to capitulate in Genoa.

9 June 1800 – Battle of Montebello.

14 June 1800 – Battle of Marengo; at the moment of victory Louis Charles Antoine Desaix was killed by a musket ball . The same day, in Egypt, General Jean-Baptiste Kleber was assassinated.

15 June 1800 – In Alessandria, Italy, a convention was signed between the French and Austrian commands. The strongholds of Piedmont and Lombardia, the cities of Genoa, Savona and Urbino were handed over to the French; the Austrians had to retreat beyond the Oglio river.

18 June 1800 – The city of Milan had a [Te Deum] sung in the cathedral  to celebrate the liberation of the Cisalpine Republic from the Austrian yoke; the First Consul was present..

20 June 1800> – Intrigues in Paris following rumors of a major defeat and the death of a great leader.

21 June 1800 – The French army entered Turin [Torino] .

23 June 1800 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet occupied Genoa. Bonaparte ordered 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.

July 1800

2nd July 1800 – Return of Napoleon Bonaparte to Paris.

22 July 1800 – Bonaparte wrote 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 became free to be idle on Sundays.

August 1800

12 August 1800 – Setting in place of a commission in charge of drawing up the Civil Code; members were: Bigot de Préameneu, Tronchet, Portalis and Maleville.

28 August 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte visited Jean-Jacques Rousseau's room in Ermenonville, near Paris.

September 1800

5 September 1800 – Malta fell into the hands of the English.

7 September 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sent a demurrer to the Count of Provence.

23 September 1800 – Bonaparte laid the first stone of the monument to Desaix and Kléber, Place des Victoires in Paris.

24 September 1800 – French Senator Clément de Ris was kidnapped; this episode, never really elucidated, would be used by famous novelist Honoré de Balzac in Une ténébreuse affaire.

27 September 1800 – A Ministry of the Treasury was appointed, by a split of the Ministry of Finance.

30 September 1800 – The Convention of Mortefontaine was signed in the eponymous castle  between France and the United States of America, which settled the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War .

October 1800

1st October 1800 – The third Treaty of San Ildefonso was secretly concluded between Spain and France, by which Spain returned Louisiana to France.

3 October 1800 – Bernard Metge, the author of a pamphlet who was inciting people for assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte, was arrested (or on October 4, according to the sources).

10 October 1800 – Sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi was arrested at the Opera while he was getting ready to assassinate Bonaparte.

20 October 1800 – Forty-eight thousand people's names were struck off the emigrants' list.

November 1800

5 November 1800 – Monsignor Giuseppe Spina , the Pope's representative, reached Paris in order to negotiate the Concordat.

8 November 1800 – Alexandre-Joachim Chevalier, a chemist suspected of making an "infernal machine", was arrested.

December 1800

3 December 1800 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau crushed the Austrians at Hohenlinden.

24 December 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped unscathed from an attack on rue Saint-Nicaise . There were 22 dead and 56 injured persons.

25 December 1800 – Moreau signed the armistice of Steyr, near Vienna, with the Archduke Charles.