5564–5575 AM · 1804 CE — 1815 CE · world history
Napoleon
A Corsican general becomes emperor, redraws Europe and loses at Waterloo.
Napoleon takes from the revolution an army and the principle of equality before the law. His Civil Code still governs France and underlies the law of dozens of countries. Wherever he went he dismantled the old order, opening ghetto gates in Italy and Germany. Russia destroyed his army in 1812, Waterloo his rule.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents of the period: the Civil Code, decrees, memoirs — the Civil Code (1804), the decrees opening the ghettos, the memoirs of contemporaries
Scholarship
- studies in European history — the redrawing of Europe, the campaign of 1812, Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna
Basis: documents and evidence.
People and places
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi · Rabbi Nachman of Breslov · Rabbi Ishmael ha-Kohen of Modena · Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov