Questions and Answers
France under Napoleon Bonaparte reign - Dates
1.
In what year did Napoleon's officials begin drawing up a new land register to measure the value of land for tax?
1807
2.
When was the Treaty of Schonbrunn?
Oct 1809
3.
When was the First Treaty of Paris presented to Louis?
30 May 1814
4.
When did allied armies enter Paris?
April 1814
5.
What year was the new penal code?
1810
6.
When did the Tsar decide to opt out of the continental system?
December 1810
7.
What year was the Commercial Code for guidelines for trade and business?
1807
8.
When were provincial papers reduced from one per department?
1810
9.
When was the Cisalpine Republic created?
June 1797
10.
When did Napoleon leave paris to join the 300,000 troops preparing to enter the new kindgom of the Netherlands?
June 1815
11.
When did the Egyptian Campaign begin?
May 1798
12.
What year was Napoleon offered Consul for Life?
1802
13.
When was the import of sugar cane prohibited?
January 1813
14.
When did Napoleon land on the south coast of France having escaped Elba?
March 1815
15.
what year was the most extensive purge of administrative personnel?
1807
16.
When were the Chambers of Commerce established?
1802
17.
When was the Treaty of Campo Formio?
October 1797
18.
When was the Concordat between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII signed?
15 July 1801
19.
When was the Napoleonic nobility established?
March 1808
20.
When was the decree for 13 licensed papers?
January 1800
21.
What year was the Civil Code on standardising court practice?
1806
22.
In what year was the joint France-Spanish force created to take control of Portugal?
1807
23.
When was Sunday authorised as a day of rest?
July 1800
24.
When was the Ligurian Republic created?
June 1797
25.
When was the Treaty of Tolentine?
June 1796
26.
When were prefects created?
Feb 1800
27.
When did France declare war on Prussia?
April 1813
28.
What year was the Legion of Honour established?
1802
29.
When was Napoleon exiled to St Helena?
June 1815
30.
When did Napoleon begin his invasion of Russia?
June 1812
31.
When did Napoleon return to France after the Egyptian Campaign?
October 1799
32.
When Savary was a minister of police?
1810-1814
33.
When did Napoleon purge the Senate, the Tribunate and the Legislative Body?
January-March 1802
34.
When was the Treaty of Fontainebleau signed?
April 1814
35.
In what year was serfdom abolished in the Duchy of Warsaw?
1807
36.
What period was Fouche minister of police?
1800-1810
37.
When was the Civil Code renamed the Napoleonic Codes?
September 1807
38.
When was the Treaty of Chaumont signed?
March 1814
39.
When did the French-Spanish army take Lisbon?
December 1807
40.
When the Campaigns in Palestine and Syria took place?
February-June 1799
41.
When was the Law for new education system in France established?
May 1802
42.
When was the Civil Code established?
March 1804
43.
When were the Madrid Riots?
May 1808
44.
When did Napoleon retreat from Palestine?
May 1799
45.
When did Napoleon force the Pope to sign the Concordat of Fontainebleau?
January 1813
46.
When did the Tsar ally with Sweden against France?
March 1812
47.
When was the victory at Arcole?
15–17 November 1796
48.
When was the wagon assassination plot against Napoleon?
24 December 1800
49.
When was the victory at Rivoli?
January 1797
50.
When was Napoleon coronated an Emperor?
2 December 1804
51.
When was the second Peace of Paris signed?
November 1815
52.
When was the Battle of Alexandra fought?
21 March 1801
53.
When did Napoleon seize Jaffa?
March 1799
54.
When was the Constitution of Year VIII adopted?
24 December 1799
55.
When did France move back to the Christian calendar?
January 1806
56.
When did the Ottoman Empire declare war on the French?
September 1799
57.
When did Piedmont-Sardinia withdraw from the War of the First Coalition?
April 1796
58.
When was the Cour des Comptes established?
September 1807
59.
When was the Bank of France established?
January 1800
60.
When did the Prussians declare war on France?
March 1813
61.
When was the Civil Code on criminal procedure?
1808
62.
When did Napoleon imprison the Pope?
1809
63.
When was the new constitutional proclaimed by the Additional Act?
April 1815
64.
When was the Imperial University established?
May 1808
65.
When was Napoleon forced to leave Spain?
January 1809
66.
What year did Napoleon sell Louisiana to the USA?
1803
67.
When was the Tribunate abolished?
1810