Chronology of the French
Second Empire
1852
POLITICAL/DIPLOMATIC/MILITARY
| Installation of Louis Napoleon as president following coup d'état of 2 December 1851 (1/1) | |
| New constitution signed, published in Moniteur (14-15/1) | |
| Confiscation of Orleans property in France (22-23/1) | |
| Electoral regime decreed (2/2) | |
| Elections to Corps Législatif (29/2-1/3) | |
| Oath of allegiance to Louis Napoleon prescribed (8/3) | |
| Billault named president of Corps Législatif (22/3) | |
| Powers of prefects increased (24/3) | |
| End of martial law and of the period of dictatorship (27/3) | |
| Legislative session begins (29/3) | |
| Michelet and other professors dismissed for refusing oath (Mar.; others resign, 1015) | |
| Charlemagne affair in French dispute with Turkey over the Holy Places (Apr.) | |
| First deportations to a new penal colony at Cayenne (Apr.) | |
| Protocol of London, settling the succession in the Elbe Duchies (8/5) | |
| Plot to assassinate Louis Napoleon (Reine Blanche) revealed (1/6) | |
| Legislative session ends (28/6) | |
| Law regulating election and organization of conseils généraux (7/7) | |
| Amnesty of Thiers and of others exiled following coup d'état (8/8; proclaimed during first celebration of fête de l'Empereur in 39 years, 15/8) | |
| Louis Napoleon tours central and southern France (14/9-16/10); speech at Bordeaux (9/ 10) | |
| London conference on the Greek throne (20/10-20/11) | |
| Senate submits proposal for restoration of the Empire to a plebiscite (7/11) | |
| Plebiscite approves restoration of the Empire (21-22/11); extraordinary legislative session (25/11-3/12) | |
| Troplong succeeds King Jérôme (resigned) as president of the Senate (Nov.) | |
| Second Empire proclaimed; Louis Napoleon becomes Napoleon III (1-2/12) | |
| Sénatus-consulte modifying the constitution in an imperial sense (25/12) |
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Publication information:
Book title: Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870.
Contributors: William E. Echard - Editor.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 1985.
Page number: 711.
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