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1802 June 25: Definitive treaty between France and the Ottoman Porte. 1802 September 11: Piedmont united to France.

1803 March 14: Hostilities renewed between Great Britain and France.

1803 May 18: War declared by Great Britain against France.

1803 June 17: Great Britain declared war against the republic of Batavia. 1803 August 1: A treaty ratified between Great Britain and Sweden.

1804 December 12: Spain declared war against Great Britain. 1805 January 24: War declared against Spain by Great Britain.

1805 April 8: The Treaty of Petersburg entered into for a third coalition against France, England and Russia being the contracting parties.

1805 August 9: The Emperor of Austria acceded to the treaty of Petersburg. 1805 August 31: An alliance, offensive and defensive, entered into at Beekaskog, between Great Britain and Sweden.

1805 September 8: Third Coalition against France, the parties being Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Sweden, and Naples.

1805 September 21: A treaty of neutrality signed between France and Naples. 1805 December 26: Peace of Presburg between France and Austria, by which the ancient states of Venice were ceded to Italy; the principality of Eichstett, part of the bishopric of Passau, the city of Augsburg, the Tyrol, all the possessions of Austria in Suabia, in Brisgau, and Ortenau, were transferred to the elector of Bavaria and the duke of Würtemberg, who, as well as the duke of Baden, were then created kings by Napoleon; the independence of the Helvetic republic was also stipulated for.

1806 April 7: War between Great Britain and Prussia.

1806 July 12: The Germanic Confederation of the Rhine formed under the auspices of Napoleon.

1806 July 20: Peace of Paris between France and Russia, which Alexander subsequently refused to ratify.

1806 August 1: The treaty of the 12th July notified to the Diet at Ratisbon, when German princes seceded from the Germanic empire, and placed themselves under the protection of Napoleon.

1806 October 6: The Fourth Coalition formed against France, by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Saxony.

1806 November 21: The Berlin Decree, issued by Bonaparte after the battle of Jena, declaring the British islands in a state of blockade, and interdicting the whole world from any communication with them.

1806 November 28: War declared against France by Russia.

1806 December 11: A treaty of peace and alliance signed at Cosen, between Napoleon and the elector of Saxony, who then assumed the title of king.

1806 December 17: War declared against Russia by Turkey.

1806 December 31: A treaty of commerce entered into between Great Britain and the United States of America, which the latter state afterwards refused to ratify.

1807 July 2: The President of the United States ordered all British ships to evacuate the ports of America, in consequence of the capture of the Chesapeake by an English ship of war.

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1807 July 7: Peace of Tilsit concluded between France and Russia, when Napoleon restored to the Prussian monarch one-half of his territories, and Russia recognized the Confederation of the Rhine, and the elevation of Napoleon's three brothers, Joseph, Louis, and Jerome, to the thrones of Naples, Holland, and Westphalia; this treaty was ratified on the 19th. 1807 August 16: A Danish declaration published against Great Britain. 1807 October 8: The Prince Regent of Portugal ordered all his ports to be shut against the British, which order was speedily revoked, and on the French approaching Lisbon, he embarked, on Nov. 27, for the Brazils.

1807 October 31: A treaty of alliance entered into between France and Denmark. 1807 November 1: Russia declared war against England.

1807 November 10: A treaty ratified at Paris between France and Holland, whereby Flushing was ceded to the French.

1807 December 17: Milan Decree issued by Napoleon; England declared in a state of blockade.

1808 February 8: Treaty of peace between Great Britain and Sweden.

1808 February 18: A declaration issued by Austria, breaking off all connexion with England.

1808 February 29: Denmark declared war against Sweden.

1808 March 30: A treaty of alliance and subsidy entered into between England and Sicily, whereby the latter was to be garrisoned by 10,000 British troops, and to receive an annual subsidy of 300,0001.

1808 May 1: The Regent of Portugal declared war against France.

1808 May 5: Treaty of Bayonne, whereby Charles IV. ceded all his titles to Spain and its dependencies to Napoleon, expressly resigning to him the right of transmitting the crown to whomsoever he should think fitting. 1808 May On the festival of St. Ferdinand, insurrections broke out in several parts of Spain; at Cadiz in particular.

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1808 June 6 War commenced between the Spanish insurgents and France. 1808 June 16 Insurrection of the Portuguese at Oporto, which spread so rapidly as to occasion the evacuation of the northern provinces by the French troops.

1808 June 25: A Spanish proclamation of peace with England, and Sweden, her ally, published at Oviedo.

1808 August 30: The Convention of Cintra signed, the French agreeing to evacuate Portugal.

1808 November 5: The Convention of Berlin entered into, whereby Napoleon

remitted to Prussia the sum due on the war-debt, and withdrew his troops from many of the fortresses in order to reinforce his armies in Spain.

1809 January 5: Peace ratified between Great Britain and the Ottoman Porte. 1809 January 14: A treaty of alliance ratified between England and the Spanish

insurgents.

1809 April 6 War declared against the French by the Austrians.

1809 April 9: The Fifth Coalition against France by Great Britain and Austria. 1809 May 3: Russia declared war against Austria.

1809 July 25: Armistice between Sweden and Norway.

1809 September 17: A treaty of peace signed between Russia and Sweden. 1809 October 14: Peace of Vienna, between France and Austria; Austria ceding to France the Tyrol, Dalmatia, and other territories, which were shortly afterwards declared to be united to France under the title of the Illyrian provinces, and engaging to adhere to the prohibitory system adopted towards England by France and Russia.

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1810 January 6: Peace of Paris, between France and Sweden, whereby Swedish Pomerania and the island of Rugen were given up to the Swedes, who agreed to adopt the French prohibitory system against Great Britain. 1810 February 19 Treaties of alliance and commerce signed between Great Britain and the Brazils.

1810 April 13: Sweden interdicts all commerce with England. .

1810 April 19: The South American provinces of Caraccas, &c., form a federative government, under the title of the Federation of Venezuela.

1810 May 1: All French and English vessels prohibited from entering the ports of the United States.

1810 May 29: The Dey of Algiers declared war against France.

1810 July 9 Holland incorporated with France on the abdication of Louis Bonaparte.

1810 November 19: Sweden declared war against Great Britain.

1812 March 14: Treaty of alliance signed at Paris between France and Austria. 1812 March 24: Treaty of alliance, signed at St. Petersburg, between Bernadotte, Prince Royal of Sweden, and the Emperor Alexander; the former agreeing to join in the campaign against France, in return for which Sweden was to receive Norway.

1812 April 1: The Berlin Decree revoked as far as respected America.

1812 May 28: Preliminaries of peace ratified at Bucharest between Russia and Turkey, it being stipulated that the Pruth should form the boundary of these empires.

1812 June 18: The United States of America declare war against Great Britain. 1812 June 22: Napoleon having assembled an immense army in Western Prussia, declared war against Russia.

1812 July 6: A treaty of peace between Great Britain and Sweden ratified at Orebo.

-1812 July 20: Treaty signed between the Emperor Alexander and the Regency of Cadiz, in the name of Ferdinand the Seventh of Spain.

1812 August 1: Treaty of peace and union ratified at St. Petersburg between Great Britain and Russia, renewing their ancient relations of friendship and commerce.

1813 January 25: Concordat at Fontainebleau, between Napoleon and Pius VIL 1813 March 1: The Sixth Coalition entered into between Russia and Prussia against France, the treaty being ratified at Kalisch.

1813 March 3: The Treaty of Stockholm entered into between England and Sweden.

1813 April 1: France declared war against Prussia.

1813 June 14: A Treaty of Alliance concluded between Great Britain, Russia,

and Prussia.

1813 July 8: The Convention of Peterswalden took place between Great Britain and Russia.

1813 July 10: A reciprocal treaty of alliance and guarantee entered into between France and Denmark, ratified at Copenhagen.

1813 September 3: War declared by Denmark against Sweden.

1813 September 9: A triple Treaty of Alliance ratified at Töplitz between Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

1813 October 3: A preliminary treaty of alliance signed at Töplitz between Austria and Great Britain.

1813 December 8 Treaty of Valençay, between Napoleon and Ferdinand the Seventh of Spain, whereby the latter was put in full possession of that kingdom, on agreeing to maintain its integrity.

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1814 January 14: Treaty of Kiel, between Great Britain, Sweden, and Denmark. Norway ceded to Sweden.

1814 February 5: The Cortes of Spain renounce the treaty ratified at Valençay. 1814 February 5: Congress of Chatillon between the four great powers allied against France, at which Caulaincourt attended on the part of France. The Congress broke up on the 19th of March.

1814 March 1: Treaty of Chaumont between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia.

1814 April 11: The Treaty of Paris ratified on the part of Napoleon and the Allies, by which Napoleon renounced his sovereignty over France, &c., stipulating that the island of Elba should be his domain and residence for life, with a suitable provision for himself and Maria Louisa, who was to have vested in her the duchies of Parma and Placentia ; the same to descend to her son.

1814 April 23: A convention signed at Paris between the Count d'Artois on the

one part, and the Allied Powers on the other, stipulating that all hostilities should cease by land and sea; that the confederated armies should evacuate the French territory, leaving its boundaries the same as they were on the 1st of January, 1792.

1814 May 30: Peace of Paris ratified between France and the Allied Powers, in a supplemental article of which Louis XVIII. stipulated that he would exert his endeavours with the continental powers to ensure the abolition of the slave trade, in conjunction with Great Britain.

1814 July 20: A treaty of peace signed between France and Spain at Paris, confirming the stipulations of previous treaties which had existed on the 1st of January, 1792.

1814 July 26

Norway and Sweden commence hostilities. Norway opposing her separation from Denmark, but eventually submitting in the following August.

1814 August 13: Convention between Great Britain and the Sovereign Prince of the Low Countries respecting the Dutch colonies.

1814 September 28: A convention ratified at Vienna, whereby Saxony was placed under the control of Prussia.

1814 December 24: Peace of Ghent between Great Britain and the United States

of America.