Grand Duchy of Berg

State · 1806–1827 CE · at its largest around 1814 CE

A Napoleonic client state in the Rhineland centred on Düsseldorf, given first to Joachim Murat, which passed to Prussia after Napoleon's fall.

On its lands while it lasted

Free City of Frankfurt (1372–1866 CE): Capital of Confederation of the Rhine (1809–1813), German Confederation (1815–1863).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 CE – 1832 CE): German poet, playwright, novelist and scientist who lived in Weimar from 1775. Author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Napoleon (1769 CE – 1821 CE): Corsican-born general who seized power in France in 1799 and crowned himself Emperor in 1804. He conquered much of Europe before his defeat in 1815 and died in exile on Saint Helena.
Victor Hugo (1802 CE – 1885 CE): French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement, author of Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862), who spent nearly twenty years in exile as an opponent of Napoleon III.
Alexandre Dumas (1802 CE – 1870 CE): French novelist and playwright of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, among the most widely read French writers. The grandson of an enslaved woman, he wrote with a workshop of collaborators and travelled from Russia to Garibaldi's Sicily.
Düsseldorf (c. 1806 CE): Capital of Grand Duchy of Berg (1806–1813).
Würzburg (c. 1806 CE): Capital of Grand Duchy of Würzburg (1806–1814).
Weimar (c. 1806 CE): Capital of Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1806–1870).
Bad Arolsen (c. 1806 CE): Capital of Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1806–1870).
Waldeck (c. 1806 CE): Capital of Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1806–1870).
Battle of Waterloo (1815 CE): On 18 June 1815 Wellington's Anglo-allied army and Blücher's Prussians defeated Napoleon near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, ending the Napoleonic Wars.
Wiesbaden (c. 1816 CE): Capital of Duchy of Nassau (1816–1865).
The Raft of the Medusa (c. 1819 CE): Théodore Géricault's huge painting of the survivors of a French navy shipwreck, adrift and dying on a makeshift raft, turned a national scandal into an icon of Romanticism. It hangs in the Louvre.
Meiningen (c. 1820 CE): Capital of Saxe-Meiningen (1820–1870).
Louis Pasteur (1822 CE – 1895 CE): French chemist and microbiologist in Paris who developed pasteurisation, supported germ theory and created vaccines against anthrax and rabies.