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| 1768 |
| | | Corsica is sold to France by the republic of Genoa | |
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| 1769 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte is born a French citizen in Ajaccio, in Corsica, the son of a local lawyer | |
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| 1779 |
| | | The 10-year-old Napoleon is admitted as a student in a military college at Brienne, near Troyes | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Napoleon graduates from his military college and is commissioned in an artillery regiment | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy | |
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| 1792 |
| | | France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay | |
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