Timeline
See also Timeline of the Napoleonic era
| Dates | Synopsis of key events |
|---|---|
| 26 February | Napoleon I slipped away from Elba. |
| 1 March | Napoleon I landed near Antibes. |
| 13 March | The powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Napoleon I an outlaw. |
| 14 March | Marshal Ney, who had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, joined him with 6,000 men. |
| 15 March | After he had received word of Napoleon's escape, Joachim Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and the King of Naples, declared war on Austria in a bid to save his crown. |
| 20 March | Napoleon I entered Paris – The start of the One Hundred Days. |
| 25 March | The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end Napoleon I's rule. |
| 9 April | The high point for the Neapolitans as Murat attempted to force a crossing of the River Po. However, he is defeated at the Battle of Occhiobello and for the remainder of the war, the Neapolitans would be in full retreat. |
| 3 May | General Bianchi's Austrian I Corps decisively defeated Murat at the Battle of Tolentino. |
| 20 May | The Neapolitans signed the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians after Murat had fled to Corsica and his generals had sued for peace. |
| 23 May | Ferdinand IV was restored to the Neapolitan throne. |
| 15 June | French Army of the North crossed the frontier into the United Netherlands (in modern day Belgium). |
| 16 June | Napoleon I beat Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Ligny. Simultaneously Marshal Ney and The Duke of Wellington fought the Battle of Quatre Bras at the end of which there was no clear victor. |
| 18 June | After the close, hard-fought Battle of Waterloo, the combined armies of Wellington and Blücher decisively defeated Napoleon I's French Army of the North. The concurrent Battle of Wavre continued until the next day when Marshal Grouchy won a hollow victory against General Johann von Thielmann. |
| 21 June | Napoleon I arrived back in Paris. |
| 22 June | Napoleon I abdicated in favour of his son Napoléon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte. |
| 29 June | Napoleon I left Paris for the west of France. |
| 7 July | Graf von Zieten's Prussian I Corps entered Paris. |
| 8 July | Louis XVIII was restored to the French throne – The end of the One Hundred Days. |
| 15 July | Napoleon I surrendered to Captain Maitland of HMS Bellerophon. |
| 13 October | Joachim Murat is executed in Pizzo after he had landed there five days earlier hoping to regain his kingdom. |
| 20 November | Treaty of Paris signed. |
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