Historical Timeline of Legal Codes By SarahsAndTay Period: 100 to Mar 18, 1900 Timline 120 Code of Hammurabi 1760 B.C. The first known system of written law. 230 The Ten Comandments B.C. These were moral rules about how people should behave toward one another. 450 Roman Law 450 B.C. These laws spread to Europe, Africa, and Asia. 533 Code of Justinian 533 A.D. Justinian I, ruler of the Bysantine Empire, shortened the Roman Law into the code of Justinian. Jan 1, 1066 Common Law 1066 A.D. Law based on court decisions rather than on legal code. Jan 1, 1804 The Napoleonic Code 1804 A.D. Napoleon updated the Justinian Code and called it the Napoleonic Code.
