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55 matches to Napoleonic Code
Code Napoleon. 1804. Napoleonic Code.
Napoleon I, Bonaparte. 1769-1821. French general. Emperor of France by coup d’etat 1804-14. Disastrous Moscow campaign 1812. Defeated at Waterloo 1815. Exiled to St. Helena. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Code. Hundred Days.
Napoleonic Code. 1804-. French laws standardized. Personal liberty, equality, justice, divorce, marriage, property rights. Still in use.
Augereau, Pierre. 1757-1816. Marshal under the Napoleonic Empire.
Castiglione. 1796. Napoleonic victory kept Austria out of Italy.
Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.
Dresden, Battle. 1813. Last major Napoleonic victory in Germany.
French Revolutionary Wars. 1792-1802. France vs European powers who opposed Revolution. Napoleonic Wars. Coalition. Pillnitz.
Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.
Jena-Auerstadt, Battles. 1806. Napoleonic victories over Prussians led to fall of Berlin.
Napoleonic Wars. 1803-15. France conquers most of Europe until Waterloo. Paris Treaty. Wars of Coalition.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Pressburg, Treaty. 1805. Austria loses in Napoleonic Wars. Cedes land to France.
Schönbrunn, Peace. 1809. Austria lost land to France, Russia, Bavaria, Warsaw in Napoleonic Wars.
Alaric II. -507. King of Visigoths 484-, beaten by Clovis, 507. Law code 506 for Roman subjects.
Balboa, Vasco de. 1475-1519. Spanish. Crossed Panama to Pacific 1513. Beheaded.
Black Code. 1685. Louis XIV edict on treatment of slaves in French colonies.
Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.
Breviary of Alaric. 506. Visigoth law code.
Bushido. 12C- Samurai warrior code. Personal honour, loyalty.
Canon Law. Governs church and clergy. Codex Juris Canonici 1917. Vatican Councils.
Chivalry. 12-15C. International brotherhood of knights and their code of conduct.
Clarendon Code. 1661-5. Suppressed religious dissent in England. Five Mile Act.
Code of Hammurabi. 18C BC. Written legal code.
Common Law. Based on precedents derived from reason rather than a code of statutes. Originally English.