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| 1803 |
| | | Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation | |
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| 1804 |
| | | The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon sends an ill-judged message to royalist opponents when he orders the seizure and execution of the young duke of Enghien | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon has himself proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French in a magnificent ceremony in Notre Dame | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Francis II formally brings to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, to keep it from the clutches of Napoleon | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon announces that Holland is to be a kingdom, with his 28-year-old brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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| 1806 |
| | | French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years | |
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| 1807 |
| | | To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports | |
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