* 1810 – Napoleon I annexes two departments of the Kingdom of Westphalia into the French Empire.

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire ; the names of those who died in battle are underlined.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

Abdülaziz cultivated good relations with the Second French Empire and the British.

The Second French Empire, his Western European model, had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian War by the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In 1794, the town was seized by French troops, becoming a part of the First French Empire.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

* French Empire mantel clock

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

Bonaparte believed that by establishing a permanent presence in Egypt ( nominally part of the neutral Ottoman Empire ) the French would obtain a staging point for future operations against British India, possibly in conjunction with the anglophobic Tippoo Sultan of Seringapatam, that might successfully drive the British out of the war.

Bayonne endured numerous sieges from Plantagenet times until the end of the First French Empire in 1814.

The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence.

The war between the British and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte stretched around the world and at its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250, 000 men.

An 1817 French Empire mantel clock depicting Minerva.

French Empire mantel clock ( 1822 ) depicting the nereid Galatea velificatio | velificans

* French Empire mantel clock

File: Clock Thomire Louvre OA9511. jpg | A French Empire mantel clock representing Mars and Venus, an allegory of the wedding of Napoleon I and the Archduchess Marie Louise.

* French Empire mantel clock

* French Empire mantel clock

One of the most common and valued types of mantel clocks are the French Empire-style timepieces.

* French Empire mantel clock

The ormolu technique was extensively used in the French Empire mantel clocks, reaching its peak during this period.

* French Empire mantel clock

Image: Clock Thomire Louvre OA9511. jpg | French Empire mantel clock

* French Empire mantel clock

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

Inside the White House, the Hardings had a great grandfather clock, a gold fish bowl, a French vase with pussy willows, neutral color rugs, and a grand piano.

During his expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana in 1671, Jean Richer found that a pendulum clock was minutes per day slower at Cayenne than at Paris.

The first person to discover that gravity varied over the Earth's surface was French scientist Jean Richer, who in 1671 was sent on an expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana by the French Académie des Sciences, assigned the task of making measurements with a pendulum clock.

In the 17th century, following the invention of the pendulum clock, French scientists found that clocks sent to French Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, ran slower than their exact counterparts in Paris.

John Blaski, postmaster and Mayor of the village Zarnowiec, residing here and thirty-six years old, and Idzi Baiorkiewicz, residing at his farm of two quarts at Zarnowiec and thirty-three years old, and declared that his Excellency, Joel Barlow, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Emperor of the French and King of Italy, died on the above day at 12 o ' clock at noon in the house No. 1 while journeying from Warsaw to Paris, at the age of fifty-six, son of unknown parents, and husband of her Excellency Mrs. Margaret nee Baldwin, residing in the American city of Ridgefield.

At seven o ’ clock the French infantrymen reached Neuville-sur-Escaut and were immediately ordered to seize the bridges across the Scheldt.

At eight o ’ clock, the Allies were surprised to discover the large French presence in the area.

Between Basel and Breisach, the old river bed carries hardly any water ; almost all water is diverted through the Grand Canal d ' Alsace on the French side, to ensure safe shipping and hydro power generation around the clock.

The first attack by Rommel's army was driven back however the other three were met with success and by six o ' clock they had successfully breached the French defenses.

The French ships came about at 5 o ' clock to aid the Spanish, a manoeuvre interpreted by some of the British commanders to be an attempt to double the British line and surround them.

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An individual time trial ( ITT ) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock ( in French: contre la montre – literally " against the watch ", in Italian: tappa a cronometro " stopwatch stage ").

* At Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, a surprise mid-winter attack is launched about three o ' clock on the morning of 11 February 1747 on Col. Arthur Noble's detachment of British troops from Massachusetts, by a French and Indian force under Nicholas Antoine Coulon de Villiers.