Napoleonic era
French imperial age
The Napoleonic era spans roughly 1799 to 1815, when Napoleon Bonaparte dominated European politics—first as France's consul, then as emperor.
The period saw sweeping military campaigns, the spread of revolutionary ideals, and legal reforms like the Napoleonic Code.
It ended with Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and exile: The map of Europe was redrawn after the Napoleonic era.
- Thermidorian ReactionConservative backlash after Terror
- military geniusExceptional strategic commander
- AusterlitzDecisive Napoleonic victory site
- WaterlooCrushing, decisive defeat
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
guerrilla warfare · French Empire · imperial eagle · Congress of Vienna · Romanticism · propaganda art · neoclassicism · Elba · plebiscite · Legion of Honor · Josephine · Wellington · artillery · France · cavalry · cannon · campaign · glory
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- French HistoryFrench Revolution, Bastille, Reign of Terror, Charles de Gaulle, de Gaulle
- 1800s PoliticsBismarck, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lincoln, Queen Victoria
- Low Countries HistoryDutch Golden Age, Dutch Republic, William of Orange, Spanish Netherlands, Peace of Westphalia
- Napoleonic themesWaterloo
Napoleonic eraAncien Régime
Pre-1789 French system
Concert of Europe · Bourbon Restoration · Restoration · Victorian era · French Revolution