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Napoleonic Timeline of 1805

January 1805

1st January 1805 – Napoleon attended a mass in the chapel of the Tuileries. Then the Emperor received New Year wishes from the main bodies of the State, marshals, ministers, dignitaries and princes.

4 January 1805 – A Denis, supposedly a lawyer, was arrested, accused of holding about the most indecent cons S. M. the Emperor and have pushed up the fury advise a woman to take his own life.

5 January 1805 – Police report: We celebrated Kings in almost all families, the people and the workers were common in taverns.

6 January 1805 – Ball in the Opera Hall, organized by the marshals for Empress Josephine. It costed twenty thousand Francs to each of them.

7 January 1805 – At the Sstock Exchange: The cases were languishing, and the five percent appeared tilted downward, it appears no takers.

14 January 1805 – A statue of Napoleon 1 was inaugurated in the Chamber of Legislature.

17 January 1805 – Sixty thousand conscripts were raised.

19 January 1805 – Increase of the price of the bag determined by the coal merchants: it now will be worth 7 Francs instead of 6.25 Francs.

20 January 1805 – Those who had applied the new prices of coal were agreed as instigators and leaders of coalition. Cancellation of the increase.

21 January 1805 – Celebrating of the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI at the former Duke of Narbonne's; assistance in mourning, was large.

26 January 1805 – It was decided that the state seal would bear the effigy of the Emperor sat on his throne, the crown on the head. The other side would show the Imperial Eagle based on the lightning.

28 January 1805 – A novel by Jerome Pigott-Lebrun, containing licentious jokes about the ceremonies of the Christian religion was forbidden.

30 January 1805 – Creation of the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor.

February 1805

2nd February 1805 – Appointment of Forty-eight Grand Cordons of the Legion of Honor. Among them were the brothers of the Emperor, marshals, ministers (including Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord and Joseph Fouché), Cardinals Joseph Fesch (archbishop of Lyon), Etienne-Hubert de Cambacérès (Archbishop of Rouen) and Jean-Baptiste de Belloy  (archbishop of Paris).

4 February 1805 – A decree signed by Napoleon 1 established the numbering of houses per street. Even numbers would be on the right and odd numbers on the left, relative to the course of the river Seine.

22 February 1805 – It was ordered to the prefect of police to check the masquerades and to prevent people from running around the streets in ecclesiastical robes.

23 February 1805 – It was Fat-Beef day , continuing on 24 and 25.

March 1805

9 March 1805 – A press office was created. It had to monitor newspapers, plays, printing and library.

15 March 1805 – Napoleon 1 was given the title of King of Italy by the Italian Consulta meeting in Paris.

18 March  – Napoleon's sister Eliza got from him, in any property, the principality of Piombino.

26 March 1805 – A collection of four million Francs was made from the fund of Disabled persons, which was rich and is constantly making considerable savings. They would be used for construction of warships as well as improvements in ports.

28 March 1805 – From that day the permission of the diocesan bishops would be required to print or reprint of religious books. This permission would be reported verbatim and printed at the beginning of each copy.

30 March 1805 – Exhibition in the gallery of the Senate of the portrait of Napoleon 1 painted by Jacques-Louis David.

31 March 1805 – Departure of Napoleon for Italy.

April 1805

5 April 1805 – At Lyons, Napoleon's brothers-in-law, Bacciochi and Borghese, received the title of "Prince".

May 1805

15 May 1805 – Napoleon 1 arrived in Milan.

26 May 1805 – He is crowned King of Italy in the Cathedral of Milan .

June 1805

4 June 1805 – Annexation of Genoa  and Liguria to France.

7 June 1805 – The boundaries between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Italy were set by decree: the river Po to the mouth of the Ticino, then the Sesia to its mouth. Appointment of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, as Viceroy of Italy.

July 1805

11 July 1805 – Back to Fontainebleau.

14 July 1805 – Neither ceremony or event for the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

15 July 1805 – The Journal of Debates became Journal of the Empire, more consistent with the nature of our government, said the editor.

August 1805

2nd August 1805 – Departure of Napoleon 1 for the camp of Boulogne.

9 August 1805 – Accession of Austria to the Anglo-Russian pact.

27 August 1805 – The camp of Boulogne was lifted. One hundred and fifty thousand men set out from the Channel coast eastward to the Rhine.

September 1805

3rd September 1805 – Napoleon got back to St. Cloud. Publication by the Emperor of Austria of a manifesto hostile to France.

9 September 1805  – Restoration of Gregorian calendar by Senatus Consultum; it would take effect on 11 Nivose year XIV (1st January 1806).

10 September 1805 – The Austrians entered Bavaria.

16 September 1805 – The Ambassador of Austria published a paper stating that the troops of his sovereign will remain in this country.

21 September 1805 – Commitment to neutrality of the King of Naples in case of war between France and Austria.

23 September 1805 – Announcement at the Senate of break with Austria. The sixty thousand men of the class 1806 were called early.

24 September 1805 – Napoleon 1 began to head the army.

25 September 1805 – Passage of the river Rhine by French troops.

Le Rhin au niveau d'Obenheim
The Rhine at Obenheim

25 September 1805 – Financial panic in Paris.

28 September 1805 – Meeting of the Bavarian army and the French army. In Spain, Horatio Nelson took command of the English fleet blockading Cadiz.

October 1805

6 October 1805 – The Campaign in Germany began. The French army, reinforced by the Bavarians and the Netherlands, took the name of Grand Army (Grande Armée).

7 October 1805 – The river Danube was crossed.

8 October 1805 – French victory at Westingen.

9 October 1805 – New victory at Guntzburg.

10 October 1805 – French army entered Augsburg.

11 October 1805 – The French were in Munich.

12 October 1805 – Napoleon I harangued the second corps of the Grande-Armee on the Lech Bridge in Augsburg .

13 October 1805 – Rendition of Meiningen.

14 October 1805 – Battle of Elchingen, where Marshal Michel Ney distinguished himself.

Oberelchingen and its abbey
Aerial view of Oberelchingen and its abbey

15 October 1805 – Fights of Haag and Wasserburg.

16 October 1805 – Summation from Napoleon to Austrian General Mack: the city of Ulm had to surrender.

17 October 1805 – Surrender of Ulm.

18 October 1805 – Battle of Nordlingen. Forty flags were captured from the enemy and sent to the Senate.

20 October 1805 – In Ulm, procession of the Austrian prisoners before Napoleon 1.

21 October 1805 – Naval battle of Trafalgar.

28 October 1805 – A case of contributions or "extraordinary" was created; it was intended to receive war contributions paid by the defeated countries.

30 October 1805 – French army entered Salzburg.

November 1805

1st November 1805 – Fight of Lembach.

2nd November 1805 – Fort Passling was taken.

3rd November 1805 – Taking of Ebersberg.

4 November 1805 – Taking of Steyr.

5 November 1805 – Battle of Lovers and passage of the river Brenta.

6 November 1805 – Battle of Amstetten.

7 November 1805 – Coming in Innsbruck.

8 November 1805 – Fight of Marien-Zelle.

9 November 1805 – Taking of Scharnitz and Neustadt.

11 November 1805 – Fight of Diernstein.

12 November 1805 – Taking of Leoben.

13 November 1805 – The French entered Vienna. Schoenbrunn Palace [48.18483, 16.31225] became the residence of Napoleon 1:

Schoenbrunn Palace
Sch�nbrunn Palace. Photo by Floriane Grau

16 November 1805 – Surrender of the city of Pressburg [now Bratislava] to marshal Augereau.

18 November 1805 – Joachim Murat seized Brunn [today Brno].

28 November 1805 – The Emperor studied the plain that would become the battlefield of Austerlitz.

December 1805

2nd December 1805 – Battle of Austerlitz: fortieth victory of Napoleon for the first anniversary of his coronation.

4 December 1805 – Meeting between Napoleon 1 and the Emperor of Austria.

6 December 1805 – The armistice was signed.

26 December 1805 – Peace Treaty of Pressburg was signed; it was the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

28 December 1805 – Decision was taken by the General Council of the Department of Seine to establish a Place d'Austerlitz (Austerlitz Square) and to erect a statue of the Emperor.

30 December 1805 – Napoleon accepted the nickname The Great that had suggested the Tribunat.

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Sources

This page has as its main source the Napoleonic chronology established by Gérard Walter for his edition of The Memorial of Saint Helena, in the French classics series La Pléiade, published by the Éditions Gallimard, Paris.