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1800
 
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Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon       
1800
 
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Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo       
Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte crossing Alps, 1801 (Château de Malmaison)


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1801
 
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Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII       
1801
 
  
Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations     
1801
 
    
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor       
1802
 
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Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison      
1802
 
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The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe      
1802
 
     
Josephine's daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, marries Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte        
1802
 
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The Constitution of the Year XII (the twelfth year of the French Revolutionary Calendar) makes Napoleon First Consul for life       
1803
 
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The peace of Amiens comes to an abrupt end when Britain declares war again on France