Shortly after Napoleon became First Consul and then emperor, using the office to spread the revolution throughout Europe.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

In reality, the First Consul, Bonaparte, dominated his two colleagues and held supreme power, soon making himself Consul for life and eventually, in 1804, Emperor.

* Napoleon Bonaparte ( First Consul ), Jean-Jacques Cambacérès ( Second Consul ), Charles-François Lebrun ( Third Consul ), Consuls ( 12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804 )

* 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.

After Napoleon's successful coup d ' état in 1799, as First Consul he commissioned David to commemorate his daring crossing of the Alps.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was already First Consul of the French Republic ( Premier Consul de la République française ) for life, declared himself Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the Empire of the French ( Empire des Français ).

In 1799 he returned from Egypt and on 18 Brumaire ( 9 November ) overthrew the government, replacing it with the Consulate, in which he was First Consul.

* 1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.

His actions would later be mimicked by the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed " First Consul for life " in 1802.

By the autumn of 1800, the United States Navy and the Royal Navy, combined with a more conciliatory diplomatic stance by the government of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, had reduced the activity of the French privateers and warships.

* 1799: Napoleon staged a coup d ' état and became First Consul of France.

On 9 November 1799 ( 18 Brumaire ), Napoleon overthrew the French government, replacing it with the Consulate, in which he was First Consul.

** First Consul / Emperor Napoleon I ( First French Republic / First French Empire ) ** King D. João VI ( United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve ) ( 1792 – 1826 )

* August 2 – In a plebiscite, Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as the First Consul.

* May – The First Consul of France Citizen Bonaparte begins making preparations to invade England.

** Napoleon becomes First Consul.

A commission of four eminent jurists was appointed in 1800 ( chaired by Cambacérès, now Second Consul, and including Louis-Joseph Faure ), and sometimes by First Consul Napoleon himself.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

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.

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.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

Napoleon transformed the Italian principality of Elba, where he was imprisoned, into a miniature version of his First Empire, with most trappings of a sovereign monarchy, until his Cent Jours escape and reseizure of power in France convinced his opponents, reconvening the Vienna Congress in 1815, to revoke his gratuitous privileges and send him to die in exile on barren Saint Helena.

Hamburg was briefly annexed by Napoleon I to the First French Empire ( 1810 – 14 ).

The Consulate was replaced by the First Empire, established by Napoleon in 1804.

In 1804 Napoleon was titled Emperor by the senate, thus founding the First French Empire.

* 1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.

Lazio comprised the short-lived Roman Republic, in which it became a puppet state of the First French Republic under the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.

* 1797 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.

* 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy.

* 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

The Republic lost independence when Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Venice on 12 May 1797 during the First Coalition.

* April 12 – War of the First Coalition – Battle of Montenotte: Napoleon Bonaparte gains his first victory as an army commander.

** War of the First Coalition – Battle of Lodi: General Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrian rearguard in forcing a crossing of the bridge over the River Adda in Italy.

In 1805, the First French Empire, under Napoleon Bonaparte, was the dominant military land power on the European continent, while the British Royal Navy controlled the seas.

Bonaparte, the main architect of victory in the last years of the First Coalition, had gone to campaign in Egypt.

The following year brought a prestigious commission, when Ingres was one of five artists selected ( along with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Robert Lefèvre, Charles Meynier, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist ) to paint full-length portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul.

As it is unlikely that Napoleon granted the artists a sitting, Ingres ' meticulously painted portrait of Bonaparte, First Consul appears to be modelled on an image of Napoleon painted by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1802.

* Bonaparte, First Consul

Louis XVIII attempted to strike up a correspondence with Napoleon Bonaparte ( now First Consul of France ) in 1800.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a co-conspirator in the coup, and became head of the government as the First Consul.

Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of the Republic, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The French First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, first made truce proposals to British foreign secretary Lord Grenville as early as 1799.

However, Joseph Bonaparte did not immediately agree with their terms, presumably needing to consult with the First Consul on the matter.