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9 janvier 1800" >9 January 1800 – The municipalities lose their right to appoint police commissioners. – 17 janvier 1800" >17 January 1800 – An order abolishes sixty out of the seventy-three Parisian political newspapers. The creation of new titles is banned. – 18 janvier 1800" >18 January 1800 – The Banque de France is created. Vendeans surrender to General Brune. – 21 janvier 1800" >21 January 1800 – Royalist demonstrations on the occasion of the death anniversary of Louis XVI. – 25 janvier 1800" >25 January 1800 – Creation of a reserve army of 60,000 men, placed under the command of the First Consul.
7 février 1800" >7 February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte praises George Washington, who died two months ago. For ten days, all the flags of the Republic will display black crepes. – 9 février 1800" >9 February 1800 – Ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides honoring the memory of George Washington. – 13 février 1800" >13 February 1800 – Publication of the statutes of the Banque de France (Bank of France). – 14 février 1800" >14 February 1800 – The Chouan chief Georges Cadoudal lays down his arms. – 15 février 1800" >15 February 1800 – The journalists lose the right to print anything related to land and sea movements. – 17 février 1800" >17 February 1800 – A new administrative organization of France is adopted. – 18 février 1800" >18 February 1800 – The Constitution of the year VIII is adopted by plebiscite: 3,011,007 yes, 1,562 no. – 19 février 1800" >19 February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sets up house at the Palais des Tuileries. – 20 février 1800" >20 February 1800 – The Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII) requests Bonaparte in writing to leave him his place.
2 mars 1800" >2 March 1800 – Appointment of the prefects of ninety-eight departments. – 3 mars 1800" >3 March 1800 – Closing of the list of emigrants. – 8 mars 1800" >8 March 1800 – Creation of the police prefecture of Paris. – 14 mars 1800" >14 March 1800 – At Venice, cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII. – 18 mars 1800" >18 March 1800 – Law on the new organization of courts.
5 avril 1800" >5 April 1800 – Governmental authorization becomes necessary for staging a play in the theatre. – 21 avril 1800" >21 April 1800 – André Masséna enters Genoa with his army. – 27 avril 1800" >27 April 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte orders Charles Augereau to bring the Batavian government to book.
6 mai 1800" >6 May 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Paris: it is the beginning of the second campaign in Italy. – 9 mai 1800" >9 May 1800 – Bonaparte reaches Geneva. – 14 mai 1800" >14 May 1800 – The French army approaches the slopes of Mount Saint-Bernard. – 20 mai 1800" >20 May 1800 – Bonaparte crosses Saint-Bernard . – 24 mai 1800" >24 May 1800 – From Aoste: in a letter to the Consuls, Bonaparte announces that he hopes to be back in Paris within fifteen days. – 26 mai 1800" >26 May 1800 – Battle of La Chiusella. – 30 mai 1800" >30 May 1800 – Joachim Murat captures Novara.
2 juin 1800" >2nd June 1800 – Entry in Milan. – 3 juin 1800" >3rd June 1800 – Reinstatement of the Cisalpine Republic. – 4 juin 1800" >4 June 1800 – Masséna must capitulate in Genoa. – 9 juin 1800" >9 June 1800 – Battle of Montebello. – 14 juin 1800" >14 June 1800 – Battle of Marengo; at the moment of victory Louis Charles Antoine Desaix is killed by a musket ball . The same day, in Egypt, Jean-Baptiste Kleber is assassinated. – 15 juin 1800" >15 June 1800 – In Alessandria, Italy, signing of a convention between the French and Austrian commands. The strongholds of Piedmont and Lombardia, the cities of Genoa, Savona and Urbino are handed over to the French; the Austrians retreat beyond the Oglio. – 21 juin 1800" >21 June 1800 – The French army enters Turin. – 23 juin 1800" >23 June 1800 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet occupies Genoa. Bonaparte orders the collection of a war contribution across the length and breadth of the Cisalpine Republic, to be paid by the well-known supporters of Austria.
2 juillet 1800" >2nd
July 1800 – Return of Napoleon Bonaparte to
Paris. – 22 juillet 1800" >22
July 1800 – Bonaparte writes to Masséna:
To set an example, loot and burn the first village
of Piedmont which will revolt
. – 26 juillet 1800" >26
July 1800 – Traders and individual people once
again become free to be idle on Sundays.
12 août 1800" >12 August 1800 – Setting in place of a commission in charge of drawing up the Civil Code; members are: Bigot de Préameneu, Tronchet, Portalis and Maleville. – 28 août 1800" >28 August 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte visits Jean-Jacques Rousseau's room in Ermenonville, near Paris.
5 septembre 1800" >5 September 1800 – Malta falls into the hands of the English. – 7 septembre 1800" >7 September 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sends a demurrer to the Count of Provence. – 23 septembre 1800" >23 September 1800 – Bonaparte lays the foundation stone of the monument for Desaix and Kléber. – 27 septembre 1800" >27 September 1800 – A Ministry of the Treasury is appointed, by a split of the Ministry of Finance. – 30 septembre 1800" >30 September 1800 – Signing of the Convention of Mortefontaine between France and the United States of America, which settles the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War .
1er octobre 1800" >1st October 1800 – The third Treaty of San Ildefonso is secretly concluded between Spain and France, by which Spain returns Louisiana to France. – 3 octobre 1800" >3 October 1800 – Metge, the author of a pamphlet who was inciting people for assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte, is arrested. – 10 octobre 1800" >10 October 1800 – The sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi is arrested at the Opera while he was getting ready to assassinate Bonaparte. – 20 octobre 1800" >20 October 1800 – Forty-eight thousand people's names are struck off the emigrants’ list.
5 novembre 1800" >5 November 1800 – Monsignor Giuseppe Spina, the Pope's representative, reaches Paris in order to negotiate the Concordat. – 8 novembre 1800" >8 November 1800 – Chevalier, a chemist suspected of making an infernal machine, is arrested.
3 décembre 1800" >3 December 1800 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau crushes the Austrians at Hohenlinden. – 24 décembre 1800" >24 December 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes unscathed from an attack on rue Saint-Nicaise . There are 22 dead and 56 injured. – 25 décembre 1800" >25 December 1800 – Moreau signs the armistice of Steyr, near Vienna, with the Archduke Charles.