Napoleon crowned Emperor
1804 · Event
Napoleon places the crown on his own head in Notre-Dame; founds the First French Empire.
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- Treaty of Verdun (843)
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- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)