Second Empire Proclaimed
December 2, 1852
A year to the day after his coup, Louis-Napoleon had himself proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III by plebiscite. A Bonaparte was back on a French throne, and the constitutional forms of the Second Republic were tidied away. The new regime would last eighteen years - spent in building boulevards, fighting small wars, and, finally, losing a big one.
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Also in 1852 (3 other events on record)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Published · North America · Culture
- Second Anglo-Burmese War · Southeast Asia · War
- Douglass's Fourth of July · North America · Culture
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.