Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1804 – 1815

First French Empire

A state of 1804 – 1815 — 11 years in Europe. It replaced French First Republic, Ligurian Republic and Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen and followed Kingdom of Holland and French Consulate. It was replaced by Bourbon Restoration in France and Neutral Moresnet and followed by Republic of Genoa, Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands and Genoese Republic. The atlas records 84 things within it — wars and battles 43 · unrest and atrocity 1 · treaties 7 · people 31 · works and ideas 2. Its line of rulers holds 3 people, 1 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
11 years
1804 – 1815
Rulers
3
the Emperor of the French
Most ground
1.24 million km²
in 1811
Within it
84
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: First French Empire in 1811, its borders in gold among its neighbours
First French Empire in 1811, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.24 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Holland: 1806 – 1810French First Republic: 1792 – 1804Ligurian Republic: 1797 – 1805Bourbon Restoration in France: 1815 – 1830Republic of Genoa: 1005 – 1797Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands: 1813 – 1815First French Empire: 1804 – 1815

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

The line of Emperor of the French - the office this state names as its head of state.

Napoleon · 1804 – 1815 · left office alive180418061808181018121814
left alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Napoleon1804 – 181511 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1804 – 1815. Only 11 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

180918101811181218131814

1.06 million km² in 1809, 502,700 km² in 1814. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Imperial Coat of Arms of France (1804-1815)
    coat of arms, undatedImperial Coat of Arms of France (1804-1815) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan
  • Flag of France
    flag, from 1853Flag of France · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 189984 rows · 43 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 76 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood11 years

    stood longer than 18% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,237,500 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 86% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record3

    has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 11 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

French First Republic · Linked · 1792 – 1804French First RepublicAnglo-Spanish War · Linked · 1796 – 1808Anglo-Spanish WarLigurian Republic · Linked · 1797 – 1805Ligurian RepublicFrench Consulate · Linked · 1799 – 1804French ConsulateLinois's expedition to the Indian Ocean · Linked · 1803 – 1806Linois's expedition to the India…Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen · Linked · 1803 – 1810Duchy of Arenberg-MeppenFirst French Empire · 1804 – 1815First French EmpireBourbon Restoration in France · Linked · 1815 – 1830Bourbon Restoration in FranceGenoese Republic · Linked · 1814 – 1815Genoese RepublicNeutral Moresnet · Linked · 1816 – 1920Neutral MoresnetSovereign Principality of the United Netherlands · Linked · 1813 – 1815Sovereign Principality of the Un…180018501900
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q71084 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.