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9 January 1799 – Creation of a camel regiment. – 11 January 1799 – Joachim Murat gets the order to take hold of a village and kill all the men that he will not be able to capture. – 15 January 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte once again urges Poussielgue to find funds. – 18 January 1799 – He orders General Verdier to execute the Sheik of a village under the pretext of having hidden Mamelukes and canons.
10 February 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte and 13,000 men leave Cairo for Syria. – 25 February 1799 – Entry in Gaza.
3 March 1799 – Arrival in front of Jaffa. – 7 March 1799 – Capture of Jaffa followed by two days of looting and massacres. Execution of the 4,000 men of the garrison. – 9 March 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte writes to the sheiks of Jerusalem to ask them to choose between peace and war. – 11 March 1799 – Bonaparte's visit to the plague victims of Jaffa . – 12 March 1799 – French Directory declares war to Austria. – 19 March 1799 – Beginning of the siege of Acre.
16 April 1799 – Battle of Mount Tabor, near the eponymous mountain in Galilea, main battle exploit of the Egyptian campaign. – 21 April 1799 – Joséphine de Beauharnais acquires Malmaison .
17 May 1799 – Lifting of the siege of Acre... – 24 May 1799 –. ..and return to Jaffa. – 26 May 1799 – Paul-François de Barras demands the return of Napoleon Bonaparte. – 27 May 1799 – Second visit to the plague victims. – 28 May 1799 – Bonaparte orders Jean-Baptiste Kléber to get the harvest burnt, the villages looted and the cattle requisitioned.
14 June 1799 – Return to Cairo. – 19 June 1799 – General Charles Dugua receives the order to shoot down all the Moghrebins, Mekkins, etc., who had held arms against the French.
20 July 1799 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord resigns. – 25 July 1799 – Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir).
17 August 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte declares to the Divan of Cairo that he is leaving for a tour in the Delta. – 22 August 1799 – He informs General Menou that he is leaving that very night for France.
1st October 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte lands in Ajaccio , Corsica. – 6 October 1799 – He leaves Ajaccio. – 9 October 1799 – He lands in Saint-Raphaël. – 16 October 1799 – Arrival at Paris. – 17 October 1799 – Reception by the Directory. – 23 October 1799 – Meeting with Jean Victor Marie Moreau and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès. Beginning of the preparations of the coup d'État. Lucien Bonaparte is elected to the presidency of the Council of Five Hundred.
1st November 1799 – Decisive interview with Sieyès, at Lucien's place. – 7 November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte has dinner with Talleyrand. – 8 November 1799 – Cambacérès has Bonaparte to dinner. – 9 November 1799 – Coup d'État of the 18 Brumaire. – 10 November 1799 – At Saint-Cloud, grenadiers under the command of Joachim Murat march into the Orangerie and disperse the Council of Five Hundred . A group of members of the Council enacts that there is no Directory any longer. Sixty-one deputies of the Council deposed of their mandate. An executive Consular Commission, made up of Bonaparte, Sieyès and Roger-Ducos, is named. Bonaparte's proclamation to the country. – 11 November 1799 – First meeting of the three consuls. – 13 November 1799 – Repeal of the law allowing taking hostages among the family of emigrant and the erstwhile nobles. – 15 November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte settles in at the Palais du Petit Luxembourg. – 16 November 1799 – The Minister of the Police gets the play Les Mariniers de Saint-Cloud removed from the programme. – 19 November 1799 – The Minister of the Police decides that he will no longer tolerate anything in shows which could divide people's minds. – 20 November 1799 – The Treasury has only 167,000 Francs left in cash. – 22 November 1799 – Talleyrand becomes the Minister of External Affairs once again. – 28 November 1799 – Creation of the Consular guard. – 29 November 1799 – The deportation of sworn priests is cancelled.
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December 1799 – Songs on the events related to the Brumaire
and harmful with respect to the national representation are banned. –
2
December 1799 – A raid dispatches three hundred prostitute
to the prison or the hospital. – 4
December 1799 – Pierre Daunou, a former moderate conventional,
is given the charge of drawing up a draft constitution. –
5
December 1799 – Organization of a Tolerance festival
in the former church Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. – 12
December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte gets Daunou's
draft constitution read to him, and gets it adopted immediately. –
14
December 1799 – Signing of an armistice with the Vendeens.
– 15
December 1799 – The Constitution of the year VIII is
proclaimed. – 18
December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte asks Talleyrand
to impose tax on the dealers of Genoa. – 22
December 1799 – Installation of the Council of State.
Sieyès receives a domain worth 480,000 Francs, by way of a national
reward. – 24
December 1799 – Bonaparte becomes the first consul .
– 25
December 1799 – Bonaparte proclaims his intention of
rendering the Republic dear to its citizens, respectable to
foreigners, formidable to enemies
. – 27
December 1799 – Installation of the Senate. –
28
December 1799 – Amnesty is granted to the Vendeen insurgents
who will surrender their arms within ten days. Opening of churches on
Sundays is authorized. Oath is no longer demanded of clergymen. –
30
December 1799 – An order is given to render funeral
honours to Pope Pius VI,
who died four months earlier (August 29th, 1799) in Valence, Drôme.