On November 17, 1858, Emperor Napoleon III annexed Clipperton as part of the French colony of Tahiti.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

On 9 November 1799 ( 18 Brumaire of the Year VIII ) Napoleon Bonaparte staged the coup of 18 Brumaire which installed the Consulate.

In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, Carlyle set out how he saw history as having turned on the decisions of " heroes ", giving detailed analysis of the influence of several such men ( including Muhammad, Shakespeare, Luther, Rousseau, and Napoleon ).

On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

On 14 October Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, marched through Germany and defeated the Russians on 14 June 1807 at Friedland.

On 12 June 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with a Grande Armée of nearly 700, 000 troops.

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.

On May 20, 1802, Napoleon signed a law to maintain slavery where it had not yet disappeared, namely Martinique, Tobago, and Saint Lucia.

On August 6, 1806, pressed both by Napoleon and by several German princes ( including some Electors ), the last Holy Roman emperor, Emperor Francis II, by edict dissolved the Empire.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

On March 11, 1803, Napoleon began preparing to invade Britain.

* 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( near Vienna ), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

On March 2, 2005, Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders ' first round draft pick.

On 24 September 1853, under orders from Napoleon III, Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia and Port-de-France ( Nouméa ) was founded 25 June 1854.

On July 31, 1870, the French Emperor Napoleon III ordered an invasion across the Saar River to seize Saarbrücken.

On 2 April 1852 the parliamentary seat for Senegal was abolished by Napoleon III.

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

On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

On March 13, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw ; four days later the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150, 000 men each into the field to end his rule.

On 28 July 1870 Napoleon III left Paris for Metz and assumed command of the newly titled Army of the Rhine, some 202, 448 strong and expected to grow as the French mobilization progressed.

On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russian army in Moravia at Austerlitz ( usually considered his greatest victory ).

On arriving at Paris three days after Waterloo, Napoleon still clung to the hope of a concerted national resistance ; but the temper of the legislative chambers, and of the public generally, did not favour his view.

On 15 July, Napoleon surrendered himself to the British squadron at Rochefort.

On Leclerc's return, he accepted Bonaparte's offer of Pauline's hand in marriage and they married in 1797, having one child, and occupying the Château de Montgobert.

On Bonaparte's return from the Egyptian expedition in 1798, he made Leclerc a général de division and sent him to the armée du Rhin under Moreau.

On the morning of June 18, 1815 the inn became Napoleon Bonaparte's headquarters for the Battle of Waterloo.

On November 23, 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte's Marshal Lannes won the Battle of Tudela in the Peninsular War.

On 4 May 1809, in the midst of Peninsular War and Napoleon Bonaparte's occupation of Spain, Power was elected by the five, local cabildos ( town councils ) to represent Puerto Rico in the Junta Suprema Central y Gubernativa del Reino ( Supreme Central and Governing Board of the Kingdom ).

On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On the morning of Stanley's return, however, her strength left her.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

On contraction, these alternately pass the blood to a single ventricle which pumps it both into both the systemic vessels ( which service the body at large ) as well as the pulmonic vessels ( which return to the lungs for oxygenation ).

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

On his return he was appointed secretary to the Congregation of the Propaganda.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

On their return from Rome in 856, Æthelwulf was deposed by his son Æthelbald.

On his return, he stopped by Kairouan in Ifriqiya, where he met Abu Imran al-Fasi, a native of Fes and a jurist and scholar of the Sunni Maliki school.

On his return from a business trip to Yemen, he was informed that in his absence Muhammad had openly declared his prophethood.

On his return from a business trip from Yemen, he was informed by friends that in his absence Muhammad had declared himself the Messenger of God, and proclaimed a new religion.

On his return, he found its kingdom in anarchy.

On his return to Hungary, Archbishop Robert of Esztergom took his kingdom under interdict and excommunicated the king's major dignitaries because Andrew insisted on the employment of Jews and Muslims in his administration.

On the surface, Young and Duke collected of lunar samples for return to Earth, while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited in the Command / Service Module above to perform observations.

On the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the Service Module.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

On Sunday January 7, it was announced that Randy Johnson would return to the Diamondbacks on a two year contract, pending a physical.

On his return to Copenhagen in 1950, Bohr began working with Ben Roy Mottelson to compare the theoretical work with experimental data.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

On his return flight to Dallas, Hunt conceived the idea of an entirely new league and decided to contact the others who had shown interest in purchasing the Cardinals.

On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Dürer opened his own workshop ( being married was a requirement for this ).

On his return to Nuremberg, Dürer worked on a number of grand projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a Sacra Conversazione, though neither was completed.

On his way down, Arnulf suffered a stroke, forcing him to call off his campaign and return to Bavaria.

On his return to Germany, he exercised very little further control in Italy for the rest of his life, although his agents in Rome did not prevent the accession of Pope Stephen VI in 896.