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STEAMPUNK HISTORY |
 1804 A new coalition forms against France. Napoleon gathers troops at Boulogne and prepares to invade England by sea.
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 1804 Napoleon’s tunnel under the English Channel reaches its goal.
French troops pour out and Napoleon marches on London. The working-classes rise in sympathy.
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 1805 Napoleon abandons invasion plans after Nelson destroys the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon marches against the coalition and crushes the Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz.
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1805 Napoleon’s conquest is interrupted when a new coalition of powers declares war on France. He returns to Europe and defeats the Prussians. |
| 1806 Napoleon defeats the Prussians at Jena. When Russia makes peace, Napoleon’s empire appears invincible. |
1806 British general Arthur Wellesley puts down working-class revolt and floods the cross-Channel tunnel. Napoleon defeats the Austrians and Russians.
1807 The remaining French troops in England surrender at Aylesham. Britain continues the war against Napoleon.
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| 1808 Rebellion against Napoleon in Spain. General Murat leads the French forces there; a British Expeditionary force under Arthur Wellesley heads the resistance. |
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1809 Thomas Cooper builds the first steam locomotive.
1810 Holland rebels against the Napoleonic Empire. Britain sends a supporting force, which Napoleon annihilates at the Battle of Épernay. |
1812 Napoleon marches his Grande Armée into Russia. His troops are decimated by cold, hunger and disease.
1814 Driven back and defeated by a general coalition, Napoleon abdicates. In Britain, the industrial revolution continues apace. Stephenson builds the first steam locomotive.
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| 1815 Napoleon escapes from imprisonment on the Isle of Elba, resumes command of France, but leads his army to defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His second abdication is final. The Congress of Vienna stabilises Europe in the interests of conservatism. |
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| 1815 Napoleon escapes from imprisonment on the Isle of Elba, resumes command of France, but leads his army to defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His second abdication is final. The Congress of Vienna stabilises Europe in the interests of conservatism. |
1815 onward. France begins to industrialise. |
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1818 Napoleon defeats a Pan-German coalition at Liegnitz. |
| 1819 Labour unrest in Manchester is put down by gunfire at the massacre of ‘Peterloo’. |
1819 Armand de Quesnoy develops rifling for gun barrels. |
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1820 onward. Prussia begins to industrialise. The introduction of explosive shells on the battlefield.
 1824 Prussia and Russia rise against Napoleon while he engages in an attempt to conquer Turkey. The Grande Armée suffers a major defeat at Magdeburg.
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| 1825 onward. France and Belgium begin to industrialise. |
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| 1830 ‘Moderate’ revolution and the establishing of constitutional monarchies in France and Belgium. |
1830 onward. Russia and Austria begin to industrialise. The first motorised gun and mobile ironclads appear. |
| 1837 Queen Victoria ascends to the British throne. |
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1838 Napoleon is old and ailing. Marshal Jeanjean suffers defeat at the Battle of Bratislava, but repels an attempted invasion of France.
1839 King George IV ascends to the British throne.
1840 onward. Annual famines across Europe as the effects of war and massive industrial pollution ruin agricultural production. The British Empire has virtually ceased to exist while the country has concentrated all its efforts on the struggle with France. Only a few ports and rump territories remain.
1842 Napoleon I dies and general exhaustion among the combatants leads to the Peace of Brussels. Napoleon II aspires to a place among the crowned heads of Europe and forswears revolutionary ideas.
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Jacobins and the Committee of Public Safety take power.
