 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon creates in northern Italy the Cisalpine Republic, formed from occupied territores including the papal states of Bologna and Ferrara | |
| |
|
| 1796 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers | |
| |
|
| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice | |
| |
|
| 1797 |
| | | In Venice Napoleon deposes the last of the doges and sets up a provisional democracy | |
| |
|
| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France | |
| |
|
| 1797 |
| | | By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule | |
| |
|
| 1798 |
| | | Napoleon, with distinguished scientists in his fleet, sails to invade Egypt | |
| |
|
| 1798 |
| | | Napoleon's campaign in Egypt begins well with the Battle of the Pyramids, a victory over an Egyptian army | |
| |
|
| 1798 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows | |
| |
|
| 1798 |
| | | Disaster strikes the French in Egypt when Nelson finds their fleet in Aboukir Bay and destroys it in the Battle of the Nile | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |