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9 January 1800 – The municipalities lose their right to appoint police commissioners. – 17 January 1800 – An order abolishes sixty out of the seventy-three Parisian political newspapers. The creation of new titles is banned. – 18 January 1800 – The Banque de France is created. Vendeans surrender to General Brune. – 21 January 1800 – Royalist demonstrations on the occasion of the death anniversary of Louis XVI. – 25 January 1800 – Creation of a reserve army of 60,000 men, placed under the command of the First Consul.
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 February 1800 – Ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides honoring the memory of George Washington. – 13 February 1800 – Publication of the statutes of the Banque de France (Bank of France). – 14 February 1800 – The Chouan chief Georges Cadoudal lays down his arms. – 15 February 1800 – The journalists lose the right to print anything related to land and sea movements. – 17 February 1800 – A new administrative organization of France is adopted. – 18 February 1800 – The Constitution of the year VIII is adopted by plebiscite: 3,011,007 yes, 1,562 no. – 19 February 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sets up house at the Palais des Tuileries. – 20 February 1800 – The Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII) requests Bonaparte in writing to leave him his place.
2 March 1800 – Appointment of the prefects of ninety-eight departments. – 3 March 1800 – Closing of the list of emigrants. – 8 March 1800 – Creation of the police prefecture of Paris. – 14 March 1800 – At Venice, cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII. – 18 March 1800 – Law on the new organization of courts.
5 April 1800 – Governmental authorization becomes necessary for staging a play in the theatre. – 21 April 1800 – André Masséna enters Genoa with his army. – 27 April 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte orders Charles Augereau to bring the Batavian government to book.
6 May 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Paris: it is the beginning of the second campaign in Italy. – 9 May 1800 – Bonaparte reaches Geneva. – 14 May 1800 – The French army approaches the slopes of Mount Saint-Bernard. – 20 May 1800 – Bonaparte crosses Saint-Bernard . – 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 May 1800 – Battle of La Chiusella. – 30 May 1800 – Joachim Murat captures Novara.
2nd June 1800 – Entry in Milan. – 3rd June 1800 – Reinstatement of the Cisalpine Republic. – 4 June 1800 – Masséna must capitulate in Genoa. – 9 June 1800 – Battle of Montebello. – 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 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 June 1800 – The French army enters Turin. – 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.
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July 1800 – Return of Napoleon Bonaparte to
Paris. – 22
July 1800 – Bonaparte writes to Masséna:
To set an example, loot and burn the first village
of Piedmont which will revolt
. – 26
July 1800 – Traders and individual people once
again become free to be idle on Sundays.
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 August 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte visits Jean-Jacques Rousseau's room in Ermenonville, near Paris.
5 September 1800 – Malta falls into the hands of the English. – 7 September 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte sends a demurrer to the Count of Provence. – 23 September 1800 – Bonaparte lays the foundation stone of the monument for Desaix and Kléber. – 27 September 1800 – A Ministry of the Treasury is appointed, by a split of the Ministry of Finance. – 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 .
1st October 1800 – The third Treaty of San Ildefonso is secretly concluded between Spain and France, by which Spain returns Louisiana to France. – 3 October 1800 – Metge, the author of a pamphlet who was inciting people for assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte, is arrested. – 10 October 1800 – The sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi is arrested at the Opera while he was getting ready to assassinate Bonaparte. – 20 October 1800 – Forty-eight thousand people's names are struck off the emigrants’ list.
5 November 1800 – Monsignor Giuseppe Spina, the Pope's representative, reaches Paris in order to negotiate the Concordat. – 8 November 1800 – Chevalier, a chemist suspected of making an infernal machine, is arrested.
3 December 1800 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau crushes the Austrians at Hohenlinden. – 24 December 1800 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes unscathed from an attack on rue Saint-Nicaise . There are 22 dead and 56 injured. – 25 December 1800 – Moreau signs the armistice of Steyr, near Vienna, with the Archduke Charles.