The Confederation of the Rhine was a union of German states created by Napoleon in the summer of 1806, with himself as protector. It began with sixteen mostly southern and western states, among them Bavaria and Württemberg, which left the Holy Roman Empire and pledged to supply troops to France. Weeks later Francis II laid down the imperial crown, and the thousand-year-old empire ended. Most other German states, except Austria and Prussia, joined over the following years, and the confederation served as a buffer and a source of soldiers for Napoleonic campaigns. It fell apart after Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig in 1813, and its members shifted to the Allied side, prepared the ground for the later German Confederation.
Before and after
- from 1806 to 1807War of the Fourth Coalition
- from 8 February 1806 to 18 July 1806Invasion of Naples
- 20 May 1806Birth of John Stuart Mill
- from 5 June 1806 to 9 July 1810Kingdom of Holland
- from 1 August 1806 to 11 December 1813Founding of Confederation of the Rhine
- from 21 November 1806 to 11 April 1814Rise of Continental System
- 26 December 1806Battle of Pułtusk
- from 1807 to 1815Duchy of Warsaw
- from 1807 to 1814Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
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- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
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The era
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