Second French Empire
1852–1870 · Event
Napoleon III's authoritarian-then-liberal empire; ends in catastrophe at Sedan in 1870.
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More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
Around 1852
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)