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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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