Napoleonic Timeline of 1769-1788
1769
15 August 1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio (Corsica), in the Casa Buonaparte – the ancestral home of the Bonaparte family – from Carlo Maria (Charles-Marie) Buonaparte and Letizia (Laetitia) Ramolino.
1771
21 July 1771 – He was baptized at the Ajaccio Cathedral by his great-uncle, Archdeacon Lucien; his godfather was the prosecutor Laurent Giubeca, his godmother his aunt Gertruda Paravicini.
19 August 1771 – The Corsica High Council officialy recognized the Bonapartes' nobility.
1778
15 December 1778 – First trip to mainland France, with his father and his elder brother Joseph Bonaparte.
30 December 1778 – He arrived at Autun, Burgundy.
1779
1st January 1779 – Napoleon Bonaparte was admitted to the Collège d'Autun [46.94913, 4.29723].
15 May 1779 – He joined the Military School of Brienne [48.38897, 4.52821] , southern Champagne, one of twelve middle schools in France designated to prepare 600 children of poor nobility for a career in arms.
1784
21 June 1784 ‒ Napoleon received a visit from his father, the only one since having left Corsica.
17 October 1784 – Napoleon left the Military School of Brienne for the French capital, accompanied by four fellow students and their Principal, Father Berton.
19 October 1784 – The young men, who had embarked in Troyes on a water coach, disembarked at the port of Saint-Paul and discovered Paris.
22 October 1784 – Napoleon entered the Royal Military School of Champ-de-Mars [48.85253, 2.30342], in Paris.
1785
24 February 1785 – Napoleon's father Charles-Marie Bonaparte died of cancer in Montpellier, southern France.
28 October 1785 – Napoleon Bonaparte got his Second-Lieutenant's diploma. His first assignment was with the artillery regiment of La Fère, in the garrison at Valence, a city upon the Rhône river.
1786
12 August 1786 – Departure to Lyon, with his battalion. Some days later, he offered the local Academy a dissertation on the following topic: What are the feelings which should be recommended the most in order to make men happy?
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30 August 1786 – Return to Valence.
1st September 1786 – A first leave break enabled Napoleon to return to Corsica, via Aix [nowadays Aix-en-Provence] where he met his uncle Joseph Fesch and his younger brother Lucien Bonaparte.
15 September 1786 – Arrival at Ajaccio.
1787
21 April 1787 – Another leave for family reasons.
12 September 1787 – He left Corsica to Paris.
22 November 1787 – Napoleon Bonaparte had his first sexual experience with a prostitute at the Palais-Royal in Paris.
1st December 1787 – His leave was extended for a six month period.
1788
1st January 1788 – Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Ajaccio.
1st June 1788 – He joined his regiment at Auxonne , a small town southeast Dijon, Burgundy.
