Ephemeris - January

1st January

1. 1807 : First meeting of Napoleon and Maria Walewska.
2. 1809 : Entry into force of the civil code throughout the kingdom of Naples.
3. 1811 : The Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code enter into application.
4. 1812 : Entry into force of the Civil Code in the Illyrian Provinces.
5. 1814 : The Count of Provence publishes a proclamation inviting the French to make the best reception to their invaders.

2 January

1. 1812 : Napoleon visits the sugar beet factory of Delessert.
2. 1814 : Sending special commissioners in the departments.

3 January

1. 1809 : Napoleon entrusts Soult the pursuit of the British army.
2. 1814 : Entry allies in Montbeliard.

4 January

1. 1798 : Bonaparte is received at the Institute.
2. 1803 : Thirty-one Senators are provided with senatorary for life.
3. 1805 : A naval agreement is signed between France and Spain. It puts Spanish fleet at the disposal of France.
4. 1814 : Creation of free corps by decree.

5 January

1. 1814 : Caulaincourt is sent to negotiate with the Allies.

6 January

1. 1810 : An alliance is concluded between France and Sweden.

7 January

1. 1806 : Napoleon requires that Pope Pius VII closes all ports of the Papal States to English ships.
2. 1807 : Blockade of all ports of France and French colonies by the British fleet.

8 January

1. 1807 : Capitulation of the city of Breslau.

9 January

1. 1808 : A new French army, the third in three months, enters in Spain, under the command of Moncey.
2. 1812 : Capture of Valencia by Suchet.

10 January

1. 1808 : General Miollis is ordered to occupy Rome.

11 January

1. 1814 : Betrayal of Murat.

12 January

1. 1798 : Bonaparte describes to the Directory a plan to invade England.

13 January

1. 1807 : Evacuation of Poland by the Russians.

14 January

1. 1797 : Victory of Rivoli.
2. 1814 : Evacuation of Nancy by Marshal Ney.

15 January

1. 1801 : Signing of the armistice of Treviso, between the French and Austrian armies in Italy.

16 January

1. 1797 : Battle of La Favorita.
2. 1809 : Battle of Corunna. Evacuation of Spain by the English army.

17 January

1. 1814 : Prince Eugene is ordered to evacuate Italy and reinforce the army of Lyons but does not obey. Declaration of war from Denmark to France.

18 January

1. 1800 : Creation of the Banque de France.

19 January

1. 1813 : Meeting of Napoleon and the Pope at Fontainebleau.

20 January

1. 1800 : The royalist leaders of the right bank of the Loire disarm.

21 January

1. 1814 : Napoleon orders the return of Pope Pius VII in Italy.

22 January

1. 1808 : Napoleon offers to Metternich, Austrian ambassador in France, that his country has its portion in the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire projected by France and Russia.
2. 1809 : Second entry of Joseph Bonaparte in Madrid.

23 January

1. 1803 : Reorganization of the Institute and deletion of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, colonized by Ideologues of the opposition.
2. 1806 : Death of William Pitt, British prime minister.

24 January

1. 1814 : Appointment of Joseph Bonaparte as Lieutenant General Emperor and Marie Louise as Regent.

25 January

1. 1802 : Bonaparte's election as President of the Italian Republic.
2. 1813 : Signing of a new concordat.
3. 1814 : Fall of Lleida, French last place in Spain. Napoleon joins the army. He will never see again his wife and son.

26 January

1. 1812 : Catalonia is united to France.

27 January

1. 1814 : Napoleon defeats the vanguard of Blücher in Saint-Dizier.

28 January

1. 1810 : Capture of Granada by Sebastiani.

29 January

1. 1814 : Victory upon Blücher for the young french soldiers, called "Marie-Louise", at Brienne.

30 January

1. 1801 : Execution of Ceracchi and his accomplices in the daggers' plot, Arena, Dermerville and Topino Lebrun.
2. 1805 : Creation of the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor.

31 January

1. 1809 : Joseph Fesch becomes archbishop of Paris.