Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

#* Napoléon ( II ) François Joseph Charles Bonaparte ( 1811 – 1832 ) Napoléon II, son of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty

#*** Joseph Lucien Charles Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1824 – 1865 )

#*** Lucien Louis Joseph Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1828 – 1895 )

#** Joseph Lucien Bonaparte ( 1806 – 1807 )

#** Napoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 )

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

#* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), called Plon-Plon married Princess Marie Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

#**** Jérôme Xavier Marie Joseph Victor Bonaparte ( born 1957 )

#** Napoléon Louis Joseph Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1864 – 1932 ) Russian general

The drive for independence from Spain was precipitated by usurpation of the Spanish throne by Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte.

The spark was Napoleon's invasion of Spain, after which he deposed King Ferdinand VII and, in July 1808, placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne.

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.

On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.

The Duke of Wellington fought Napoleon's forces in the Peninsular War, with Joseph Bonaparte ruling as Napoleon's surrogate king at Madrid.

Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, was made King of Spain after Charles IV abdicated.

* 1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.

* 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.

* 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner ( later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation ).

* 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.

* 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples ( d. 1844 )

* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

* Joseph von Hazzi ( 1768 – 1845 ): Bavarian Privy Councillor

* 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist ( d. 1812 )

* Lo speziale ( The Apothecary ) by Joseph Haydn ( 1768 )

* 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

* 1768 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter ( d. 1839 )

Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768 – 1771 by Joseph Pickford.

* 1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician ( d. 1830 )

* July 28 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain ( b. 1768 )

* July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( b. 1768 )

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Image: Corte maison n ° 1 Place du Poilu. jpg | House of birth of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 )

The Fourier series is named in honour of Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), who made important contributions to the study of trigonometric series, after preliminary investigations by Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, and Daniel Bernoulli.

Joseph was born Giuseppe Buonaparte in 1768 to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies and brother to Napoleon I of France.

* Joseph Sydney Yorke ( 1768 – 1831 ), British admiral

Fourier (; ) most commonly refers to Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist, or the mathematics, physics, and engineering terms named in his honor for his work on the concepts underlying them:

* Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist

File: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768. jpg | An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768