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1804 CE, December 2

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804, at a lavish ceremony in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and then crowns his wife, Josephine, Empress of France. This act established the First French Empire and marked the culmination of his rise from a military general to the leader of France, a position he held from 1804 to 1814 and again briefly in 1815. More

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