Napoleonic Code
A civil code that became a model for half the world
The French Civil Code, in force from March 1804, enshrined the gains of the Revolution: equality before the law, civil marriage and the security of property. It was imposed across the conquered lands and became the model for civil law in Europe, Latin America and far beyond.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 21 years earlier
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 3 years later
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 8 years later
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 8 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 24 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 6 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — same year
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 1 year later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 11 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 13 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 15 years later
Americas
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — 13 years earlier
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 1 year earlier
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 6 years later
- 1812–1815 War of 1812 — 8 years later
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 13 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 55)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 35)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 34)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 21)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 5)
- Immanuel Kant (aged 80)
- James Watt (aged 68)
- George III (aged 66)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 61)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (aged 59)