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The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
Argentina: The 1870 Civil Code secure legal majority for unmarried women and widows, though it confirms married women as minors. [85] Finland: Women allowed to study at the universities by dispensation (dispensation demand dropped in 1901). [86] United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1870; India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870
Les cinq codes (English: the five codes) was a set of legal codes established under Napoléon I between 1804 and 1810: Code civil (1804), the first and best known; Code de procédure civile (1806) Code de commerce (1807) Code d’instruction criminelle (1808) Code pénal (1810)
The earliest American women's rights lecturer, John Neal [24] [25] attacked coverture in speeches and public debates as early as 1823, [26] but most prominently in the 1840s, [27] asking "how long [women] shall be rendered by law incapable of acquiring, holding, or transmitting property, except under special conditions, like the slave?"
The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. [1]
May 3: Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. May 18: Britain declares war on France; May 26: France invades Hanover; 1804. March 21: Introduction of the Civil Code (also known as Napoleon Code) May 18: Napoleon proclaimed Emperor of the French by the Senate; December 2: Napoleon crowns himself emperor, in the company of the Pope; 1805
In 1804, Napoleon promulgated the Civil Code, a revised body of civil law, which also helped stabilize French society. The Civil Code affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men and established a merit-based society in which individuals advanced in education and employment because of talent rather than birth or social standing.
First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...