Clarendon Code. 1661-5. Suppressed religious dissent in England. Five Mile Act.

Code Napoleon. 1804. Napoleonic Code.

Code of Hammurabi. 18C BC. Written legal code.

Common Law. Based on precedents derived from reason rather than a code of statutes. Originally English.

Cornwallis Code. 1793. For civil servants in India. No private trade. No Indians in important posts.

Coronado, Francisco de. 1510-54. Spanish explorer. Grand Canyon, 1540.

Corpus Juris Civilis. Developed 529-35. Roman legal code. Influenced European legal systems.

Deuteronomy. 5th Book of Bible. Includes 10 Commandments and other laws. Law code found c622BC in Temple of Jerusalem.

Draco. Author of written law code, Athens, 621BC. Death was penalty for petty crimes. Later repealed.

Dresden Codex. Pre-Columbian Mayan manuscript.

Ethelbert. 552-616. King of Kent 560-. First Christian Anglo-Saxon king. first extant A-S law code.

Euric. Visigoth king 466-484. First Visigoth law code.

Franco de Colonia. 13C. Systemized musical notation.

Ghirlandaio, Dominico del. 1449-1494. Florentine painter. Frescoes. Birth of the Virgin 1485-90.

Hywell the Good. -950. Welsh king 910-. Law code.

Kansas. Kansa, Osage, Pawnee, Wichita. 1541 Coronado explores. 1803 US acquires in Louisiana Purchase. 1861 34th state.

Leo VI. 866-912. Byzantine Emperor. Compiled Basilica legal code.

Liutprand. Powerful Lombard King, 712-44. Law code.

Melfi, Constitution of. 1231. Administrative law code of Sicily. Basis of later law codes.

Miranda, Francisco de. 1750-1816. Venezuelan rebel. Dictator 1811-12.

Morse, Samuel. 1791-1872. US inventor of electric telegraph 1835, code 1838.

Napoleon I, Bonaparte. 1769-1821. French general. Emperor of France by coup d’etat 1804-14. Disastrous Moscow campaign 1812. Defeated at Waterloo 1815. Exiled to St. Helena. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Code. Hundred Days.

Napoleonic Code. 1804-. French laws standardized. Personal liberty, equality, justice, divorce, marriage, property rights. Still in use.

Nicodemus. Jewish elder. Helped bury Jesus.

Pravda. 1021. Russian law code.

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