Short answers, pulled from the story.
Historians debate whether Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie was born in Les Trois-Îlets or Soufrière on the 23rd of June 1763. The church registry for Martinique records her baptism by Emmanuel Capuchin but omits her birth location entirely.
Napoleon Bonaparte married Madame de Beauharnais on the 9th of March 1796 after meeting her in 1795. They reconciled following a bomb explosion outside their carriage on the 24th of December 1800 during the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise.
Pope Pius VII officiated the coronation ceremony at Notre-Dame de Paris on the 2nd of December 1804. He placed the crown upon Joséphine's head after Napoleon crowned himself.
By 1814 she possessed approximately 250 rose varieties before her death. André Dupont inspired Joséphine to collect all known roses by ordering warship commanders to search seized vessels for plants.
On the 29th of May 1814, Joséphine died of pneumonia in Rueil-Malmaison shortly after walking with Emperor Alexander I of Russia. Her daughter Hortense is interred near her in the church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul.