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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       
1805
 
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Napoleon has himself crowned king of Italy in the cathedral in Milan      
1806
 
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The Carbonari, an Italian group of revolutionaries, make their first appearance in Naples in opposition to French rule      
1806
 
   
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years      
Ingres Monsieur de Norvins (detail) 1812
National Gallery, London

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1808
 
    
Napoleon gives the throne of Naples, vacated by his brother Joseph, to Joachim Murat       
1809
 
     
Napoleon annexes the Papal States and is excommunicated by the pope, Pius VII        
1809
 
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Napoleon, in response to his excommunication, has pope Pius VII arrested and kept in captivity in northern Italy and then France       
1811
 
    
Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes a hypothesis, about the number of molecules in gases, that becomes known as Avogadro's Law       
1814
 
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Napoleon goes into exile on the island of Elba, which he immediately treats as a miniature state in need of improvement       
Napoleon on Elba, 19th-century print
Mary Evans Picture Library

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