Napoleon Bonaparte
1769–1821 · Person
Corsican-born general, First Consul, and Emperor of the French; transformed Europe through war and the Napoleonic Code; died on Saint Helena.
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- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
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- US Constitution (1787)
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