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9 January 1799 – Creation of a camel regiment. – 11 January 1799 – Joachim Murat gets the order to take hold of a village and kill all the men that he will not be able to capture. – 15 January 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte once again urges Poussielgue to find funds. – 18 January 1799 – He orders General Verdier to execute the Sheik of a village under the pretext of having hidden Mamelukes and canons.
10 February 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte and 13,000 men leave Cairo for Syria. – 25 February 1799 – Entry in Gaza.
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March 1799 – Arrival in front of Jaffa. –
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March 1799 – Capture of Jaffa followed by two days of
looting and massacres. Execution of the 4,000 men of the garrison. –
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March 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte writes to the sheiks
of Jerusalem to ask them to choose between peace and war. –
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March 1799 – Bonaparte's visit to the plague victims
of Jaffa
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April 1799 – Battle
of Mount Tabor, near the eponymous mountain
17 May 1799 – Lifting of the siege of Acre... – 24 May 1799 –. ..and return to Jaffa. – 26 May 1799 – Paul-François de Barras demands the return of Napoleon Bonaparte. – 27 May 1799 – Second visit to the plague victims. – 28 May 1799 – Bonaparte orders Jean-Baptiste Kléber to get the harvest burnt, the villages looted and the cattle requisitioned.
14 June 1799 – Return to Cairo. – 19 June 1799 – General Charles Dugua receives the order to shoot down all the Moghrebins, Mekkins, etc., who had held arms against the French.
20 July 1799 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord resigns. – 25 July 1799 – Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir).
17 August 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte declares to the Divan of Cairo that he is leaving for a tour in the Delta. – 22 August 1799 – He informs General Menou that he is leaving that very night for France.
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October
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte lands in Ajaccio
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November 1799 – Decisive interview with Sieyès,
at Lucien's place.
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November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte has dinner with Talleyrand.
– 8
November 1799 – Cambacérès
has Bonaparte to dinner. – 9
November 1799 – Coup d'État of the 18
Brumaire. – 10
November 1799 – At Saint-Cloud, grenadiers under the
command of Joachim Murat march
into the Orangerie and disperse the Council of Five Hundred
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December 1799 – Songs on the events related to the Brumaire
and harmful with respect to the national representation are banned. –
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December 1799 – A raid dispatches three hundred prostitute
to the prison or the hospital. – 4
December 1799 – Pierre Daunou, a former moderate conventional,
is given the charge of drawing up a draft constitution. –
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December 1799 – Organization of a Tolerance festival
in the former church Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. – 12
December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte gets Daunou's
draft constitution read to him, and gets it adopted immediately. –
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December 1799 – Signing of an armistice with the Vendeens.
– 15
December 1799 – The Constitution of the year VIII is
proclaimed. – 18
December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte asks Talleyrand
to impose tax on the dealers of Genoa. – 22
December 1799 – Installation of the Council of State.
Sieyès receives a domain worth 480,000 Francs, by way of a national
reward. – 24
December 1799 – Bonaparte becomes the first consul dear to its citizens, respectable to
foreigners, formidable to enemies
. – 27
December 1799 – Installation of the Senate. –
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December 1799 – Amnesty is granted to the Vendeen insurgents
who will surrender their arms within ten days. Opening of churches on
Sundays is authorized. Oath is no longer demanded of clergymen. –
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December 1799 – An order is given to render funeral
honours to Pope Pius VI,
who died four months earlier (August 29th, 1799) in Valence, Drôme.