Louis-Napoleon's Coup
December 2, 1851
On the anniversary of Austerlitz, Louis-Napoleon - president of the Second Republic - dissolved the Assembly and called out the army. A year later he crowned himself Napoleon III. Victor Hugo called him "Napoleon le Petit" and went into exile. The Second Empire lasted until 1870 and the army of a better Prussian general.
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Also in 1851 (3 other events on record)
- Great Exhibition Opens · Europe · Culture
- Moby-Dick Published · North America · Culture
- Singer Sewing Machine · North America · Technology
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.