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Napoleon III

President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France (1808–1873)

18 dated entries naming Napoleon III, drawn from 11 separate years between 1836 CE and 1879 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1836October 30 – Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in Francesource
  • 1848December 10 – Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected first president of the French Second Republic.source
  • 1848December 20 – President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte takes his oath of office in front of the French National Assembly.source
  • 1851December 2 – In what amounts to a coup d'etat, President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte of France dissolves the French National Assembly, and declares a new constitution to extend his term. A year later he declares himself as Emperor Napoleon III, ending the Second Republic.source
  • 1852December 2 – Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.source
  • 1852January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.source
  • 1852October 16 – After nearly five years' imprisonment in France, former Algerian Emir Abdelkader El Djezairi is released by orders of then-president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.source
  • 1855April 16 – Emperor of the French Napoleon III, with Empress Eugénie, begins a 6-day state visit to Britain.source
  • 1855April 18 – The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, requested by Napoleon III for the Exposition Universelle (opening May 15), first appears.source
  • 1858January 14 – Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it.source
  • 1858March 13 – Felice Orsini is executed by guillotine for the attempted assassination of Napoleon III of France.source
  • 1859June 24 – Austro-Sardinian War – Battle of Solferino: The Kingdom of Sardinia and the armies of Napoleon III of France defeat Franz Joseph I of Austria in northern Italy; the battle inspires Henri Dunant to found the Red Cross.source
  • 1860Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and Empress Eugénie visit Algiers and stay at the Casbah of Algiers.source
  • 1867March 23 – William III of the Netherlands accepts an offer of 5,000,000 guilders from Napoleon III for the sale of Luxembourg, leading to the Luxembourg Crisis.source
  • 1870September 2 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan, France.source
  • 1870September 4 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. Empress Eugénie flees to England with her son.source
  • 1879June 1 – Anglo-Zulu War: Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France, son of Napoléon III, is killed in a skirmish with Zulus while attached to the British Army.source
  • 1879June 1 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)source

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