Napoleonic Code
1804 · Event
Comprehensive civil code promulgated under Napoleon; basis of civil law in much of continental Europe and beyond.
On these timelines: Master, France, Napoleonic Wars
Around 1804
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)